Eh, I think that Superman statuette on the shelf in his living room probably counts as 1/2 or 2/3 of the episodes. I can be seen in just about every one.
I know on occasion they'll drop a line or something, even when they're not directly talking about comics/heroes. If it's every episode they must be very very subtle.
>Superman is not a man. He is an alien from the planet Krypton. So >this is NOT "the first time a man flew without mechanical aid."
And hence my favorite Tarantino fanboyism, courtesy of Kill Bill Vol. 2:
It truly is a well thought out thesis and a stellar monologue, one of my favorite from the Kill Bill series. However I think it suits the Golden Age Superman better, perhaps even the Silver Age Superman.
Now-a-days they try to make the normal Clark Kent his true personality since that's how he was raised; he was raised on Earth, not on Krypton. In contrast, native Kryptons tend to be more logical and cold; they still love and show emotion but their behavior is seen as alien to humans (or at least Americans).
To complicate matters there's a third person, that of the "idiot Clark" which he uses as a defense mechanism around strangers or when he wants to diffuse people's speculations about his where-a-bouts while Superman was saving someone.
Screwed up and someone you liked died - turn time backwards.
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He has one weakness, to an element that might as well be called Unobtainium, but for story reasons keeps appearing in the hands of villains who don't possess FTL or even the means to detect it...they just get really freaking lucky and get some!
Well the "time" thing was only for the film. The TV series Smallville had a time travel episode, but it was device in the Fortress of Solitude that could only be used once. IE, he couldn't keep traveling to "yesterday" and use it again, which was the plot point because he travel in time resulted in his father dying.
But that's it. Perhaps in the Golden Age or the early Silver Age he had the ability, but I haven't heard of it in the comics.
As for K, yeh it was a little silly for decades. Something that was incredibly rare kept popping up, they tried to explain some of it away as it being synthetic with a short shelf life but that grew old.
Recently they upped the amount of K on Earth due to Super-Girl's re-arrival. Her ship was trapped in a large asteroid *filled* with the stuff, so metric tons of K fell to the earth for villains and governments to use.
Then how do you justify to Parent/Child B that they're getting suspended when Parent/Child A got a slap on the wrist
How do you justify to Parent A that their kid is being punished for nothing? Punishing kids who did absolutely nothing wrong is a great way to instill in them a lifelong hatred of authority.
If kids are abusing something, then punish them. If they're using something harmless, don't. Only a school administrator could find something so simple too complicated.
Jaywalking is relatively harmless, but if you get caught by a cop that cares you'll get punished.
Driving 30MpH in a 25MpH zone is arguably harmless, but some cops will pull you over and ticket you.
Using another employee's PC while when nobody is looking to quickly log onto the Internet can be relatively harmless, but good luck keeping your job if you get reported.
There are rules, they may seem foolish to you but they have their reasons. Break them and you get punished.
If you don't agree with them, try to have them changed via PTA meetings and such. Bring up awareness, debate, etc. And that's a good lesson to teach your kid that I truly endorse.
Student A prescribing meds to Student B is bad. It sounds like you need some bla-bla-bla, and the next thing you know the kid has a bad reaction.
Student C swaps prescription bottle contents with Student D because they want to enjoy it. And good luck "proving" it if the pills look similar enough.
Student E is taking capsules filled with what could be anything.
Without access to a lab 24/7 specialized in identifying contents A-Z and a major legal team to handle health-related issues, you're pretty much screwed.
So you say DON'T DO IT and assign the same punishment for all.
Zero tolerance is not an understandable policy. It's an excuse for unhooking the brain of those in authority, an excuse for punishing kids equally for bringing a loaded automatic rifle and a keychain-sized toy gun to school, and an excuse for rampant power trips.
I said in terms of medication. Nail clippers vs Switchblades vs Handguns are a different matter all together and I definitely don't agree with that.
I just made what I thought was an insightful post elsewhere, you may have to scroll down for it.
I understand the whole zero-tolerance policy of not bringing in any medication
Can you explain it to me then? The world is full of shades of gray. How are we doing children a favor by pretending it isn't? If you want kids to respect authority, it has to behave in a way that's respectable. It cannot be arbitrary and capricious.
Zero Tolerance is a pain in the but, believe me. Dealing with kids is one thing, but with the parents it's another.
No unauthorized medication in school means just that, no unauthorized medication.
Kids are using prescription and OTC drugs to get high, it's just a fact of high school life. I was young before it was a craze and it was already going on.
If you want your kids to have access to specific meds then give a note to the school admins and the nurse will keep it stocked for you and dispense it to the kid as necessary. Though you'll probably need to buy a bottle and give it to the nurse.
Otherwise you have kids giving kids medication that may give them a bad reaction, you have kids taking stuff to get high, you have kids TRADING with kids for medication to get high (happens A LOT), you have kids filling regular gel-tablets or bottles with street drugs, etc.
The situation is you have kids getting busted for stuff that they may or may not be using to get high. No matter what, the parent is going to come in and defend the kid with their life even if the kid was obviously just bored and taking pills.
Then how do you justify to Parent/Child B that they're getting suspended when Parent/Child A got a slap on the wrist. And god forbid there is an income/class/race difference between A and B, you'll get sued into oblivion, whether "A" had a good reason or not.
Just don't bring stuff into school, it's not a complicated rule to follow. Nurses are staffed for just these occasions. The kid has a head-ache or a stomach-ache or I need prescription X for condition Y. Nurse looks up the kid, sees what they're allowed, and watches them take the pill.
The one difference perhaps being emergency items life Inhalers and such.
How is snapping a picture of a student, with _no_ stolen laptop, following in line with their stated security policy?
The school has claimed that the laptop had been reported stolen, and that they therefore enabled the security feature in accordance with their policy.
How it is possible that the laptop could have been reported stolen when it clearly wasn't has never been explained.
Don't get me wrong, there are a million and one reasons why this school's administration is completely messed up. And even so it doesn't really excuse anything, but...
To play devil's advocate, it's possible that either someone reported the laptop as a prank or the wrong laptop got entered into the "missing" form by mistake.
Maybe something as innocent as the digits on a serial number got reversed somewhere along the lines, or maybe the kid's friend/enemy though it would get him called into the principal's office for not reporting it himself.
That does NOT excuse everything, but if true then it can at least explain why it happened at all.
There's some quote along the lines of "don't immediately blame on conspiracy tgat which can be easily explained by stupidity." However I think this school messed up on a multitude of levels.
School officials are notorious for being completely clueless about the law; it's amazing what you find in some of the case law.
You don't even have to look that far. A year ago there was a big story about a school that strip-searched a female student because another student claimed he got Advil from her . She was even suspended, even though no pills were found.
I understand the whole zero-tolerance policy of not bringing in any medication, but a flippin' strip search is uncalled for. They didn't even have law enforcement do it, one of the school admins had to do it.
WTF
What's scary is it had to go to the Supreme Court for them to say "ummm, that's illegal." They ruled on the matter in June 2009.
received full benefits (taking up most of that paycheck)
So your insurance cost you 15 hours per week. That seems potentially expensive, depending on how much you could earn spending that time doing something else.
His big thing is, it was coverage for his family under the Union.
I'm also reading between the lines a little (which I'm not great at), but it sounds like his wife is the bread winner and was out of work. A possible scenario is she was sick and needed the insurance. Besides, if "family" includes kids and they're young enough (or newborns) then health insurance is worth it's weight in platinum.
I'm single and for average coverage it cost $400 per month. No dental, no eye car, just run of the mill "you won't go broke if you get the flu" coverage.
Throw a family into the works I might've had to easily pay over $1,000 per month, maybe closer to $1,250.
Depending on when he took this job, that 15 hr/week might've been anywhere between $450 and $600 per month and the insurance might've been of higher caliber than what was available to him.
If the health insurance was a major factor, it might've balanced out.
I quit my job in Denver in 1999 and move to Toronto. I felt a huge weight lift from my shoulders: no longer was I trapped in my job, and no longer did I have to fear illness ruining my and my family's lives.
Yeh, because you already moved to Canada/rimshot
I kid. Personally I like Canada and consider moving there from time to time. What was the transition like?
Unfortunately that's a very big step for me since I only know a handful of people up there that I haven't seen in person in maybe 10 years. And if the worst should happen I have no "support net" if something went wrong, while in my knack of the woods I have some family members I can crash with if things really get bad such as long-term unemployment or poor health.
And while it's not a big a deal as moving somewhere overseas, moving to a new country has got to be a big deal.
Decent HDMI cables are about $3-5 USD. Decent RGB cables are at least twice as much and unlike HDMI, some of the more expensive RGB cables perform noticeably better.
I could see that, as RGB is analog and thus more subsceptible to various interference and such. Not as much as Monster would like you to think, but I can see it get putzed a little by an energy source or a really cruddy cable (cruddy, not average).
I'd prefer DVI + "something" for sound (RCA, coax, etc).
The ONLY thing I like about HDMI is that it's sound + HD video in only 1 cable. Once you have a handful of HD sources the TV stand starts to look like a rat's nest when it's using RGB.
However I don't like the friction method of HDMI for staying in there. I've NEVER had a problem with DVI, but the worst I've seen is that the pings get bent on the cable, meaning you only need another cable.
Between myself and a friend I've witnessed a couple of HDMI ports get trashed by either a bad HDMI end or the user not lining it up correctly 100% when attaching it.
Mark my words, Apple are renown for their PR-stunts.
By getting everyone upset, a simple thing like the obvious lack of Flash, which is severely needed for a proper Surfing Experience that the iPad is made for, this is nothing but a PR-STUNT, ingenious - I have to admit - because it'll make you and other RAVE on forever and critique iPad & Apple = Free publicity, and of course - shortly after iPad has been launched, Apple will timely announce that Flash is coming - after all, they have "listened" to their "audience".
I don't disagree on any of your points in particular. It seems like a Jobs thing to do.
But the iPhone has been out for how long now? And no Flash support on that.
In the end this thing looks like a jumbo-sized iPhone, perhaps with a slightly faster cpu/gpu setup.
I really don't get all the hype around this thing anyway. I like Apple products, but this thing is so flippin' boring yet customers and the media alike are chanting "iPad" like it was the second coming.
I had an issue with my Cadillac's throttle assembly 3 months after buying the car (new). It was a bad sensor.
At the time I didn't know what it was (throttle, fuel line, transmission, etc). I searched through the big forum where EVERYONE reports their CTS problems and I only found 1 guy with a similar (yet different) issue. There was no tech bulletin about it, no forum posts, etc. There were other common issues out there which I managed to avoid, but this one was my particular piece that was the issue.
In short: until the car's engine temp reached equilibrium, pressing the accelerator more than 1/2 way caused the engine to buck wildly. It was like I was alternating between flooring the gas pedal and taking my foot off every second. This made merging and and stop signs quite unsafe, and I was able to replicate it 100% of the time so long as the car was cooled down first.
I had to take it to the shop 3 flippin' times before they addressed it. The first few times they said "no problem, drive it until it's worse." I had to sit in the car with a tester and finally told him "xxxx it, just floor it." He flipped out and what the car did and called a tech from corporate to look at it.
So, it's possible he has an issue that's related to the Recall but not part of the same batch of issues. It's a long shot, but still possible.
2nd World? My iPhone worked better in the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya than here in San Francisco.
I live in a suburban area, and have 3G coverage just about wherever I go. The nearest "city" has to be over 15-20 miles away, with the major cities further off.
I think my speed tests average around 1.25-1.5 Megabit. Hardly stellar, but fast enough for my needs. Then again I don't know if it's worth the extra $30 per month...
However I've encountered a small number of dropped calls since I got the iPhone 6+ months ago. Not many, but definitely more than 1. I hear over-seas their cell coverage and speeds are ridiculously high. So maybe the 2nd world thing isn't too "off."
My only experience is Europe on a plain old 3G phone. I always had coverage, but couldn't use any data due to restrictions on the phone itself. I do recall getting a lot of Spam txt's though.
It ran for the next two seasons, allowing them to raise and lower shields, engage and disengage the cloak, fire drones, and have plenty of power to spare for everyday goings-on. I believe it was the episode with Rodney and his sister experimenting with parallel universes in season 3 which drained the ZPM.
For starters, I believe they claimed to be using some mini Naquada generators to keep the general city running. It was mentioned a few times in season 1 such as when there was an energy draining monster, and later they needed to make one give off an EMP.
As for the shield, I don't recall them using the left-over ZPM for that... they did use it to make a cloak but even they said that used very little power. Unless you mean the shield around the gate itself, at which point I don't recall if that was the ZPM or their generators.
You are correct, Rodney and his sister finished it off trying to send "Rod" back to his universe. However a few episodes later they managed to get a few.
It's a little unclear from the site if *everything* from SG1 and SGA are being sold off, or just select props that the writers don't envision ever using again? I wonder what this means for Stargate: Universe? I mean, in theory, they are still in contact with Star Gate Command, and at some point, they may get the Destiny Gate working again to travel back to Earth, so seems like you'd still need the SGC sets available. In any case, there's the Comm Stones, which give us glimpses of Earth again.
SGU hasn't been cancelled (yet) - I saw somewhere that SyFy renewed for a second season. So, I guess that must mean that they aren't selling *everything*?
Plus I believe there's at least one more Direct-To-DVD to be made.
You go and buy it and then put in on a shelf? Have people over and say look at that! It from the [insert show here] TV show!
After you dump the hundreds or thousands of dollars on that crap and you get tired of it, you'll stick it in a closet or on a shelf.
Take the money and invest it or save it. One day you will need it and the market for this shit isn't liquid - meaning, you won't be able to sell the thing to another sucker when you really have to.
People are so stupid with their money. No wonder we have these economic problems.
There's nothing wrong with a passion, so long as it's legal and you don't go over-board.
Some people buy art, golf clubs, performance parts for their car, PC equipment. Sure, if you let it go too far and buy more stuff than you can afford, it's an issue.
Some people really love the show; maybe they felt it played a part in their life, maybe they met a friend/spouse/etc due to a common point-of-interest, maybe they just enjoyed the show.
I'm not really into art or antiques, but that doesn't mean I shake my head when I hear someone bought a piece for their living room. So long as they don't put themselves in the financial hole, I say got for it.
I try to keep a nice entertainment system at home along with TV/devices/furniture/lighting/etc. I don't go overboard with it, but it's something I enjoy.
It sucks out on Long Island too! Hope they don't just focus on Manhattan. I mean it's ridiculous how bad AT&T service is in all facets. Sorely tempted to trade my beloved Iphone for a Nexus. I get so mad everytime I see what's his face from Old School talking about how fast their network is. Also so what if it's faster, you don't get any coverage anywhere! I mean really, I could have the fastest race car in the world, but if I can only drive it up and down my drive way it's pointless!
The Nexus One is a nice phone but I feel some of the UI features lack the polish/maturity of the iPhone. Specifically: multi-touch and the way it handles dropdown menus.
And while T-Mobile coverage isn't horrid by me, it is noticeably weaker than AT&T.
When I went to my nearest T-Mobile store to sign up for service for my N900 they seemed to have no qualms over activating my device despite the fact that it allowed me the freedom to install whatever software I felt like it on it.
Now, from the very frequent stories I see posted here related to the iPhone and Android, I have been gathering that the same does not hold true for those devices.
Even with AT&T, I had no real problems using unlocked devices on their network. Heck, they once even gave me an unlock code for my Blackberry since AT&T has agreement with RIM to do that if asked. They closest they came to a problem was when I was reporting a network outtage in my town, they prefer I report it with a known + locked phone so they could be sure it wasn't just my unlocked phone crashing lame, but I still had a 2+ year old AT&T phone lying around). I was the first to report, but the rest of the town started calling shortly after.
Likewise, a local T-Mobile store had NO problem setting up a friend's unlocked Nexus One with a new T-Mobile "Everything Plus" account (Plus means no contract and you save on the monthly fee). They actually thought it was cool.
The only problem I have with the iPhone is you're forced to get the "unlimited" data plan for $30 per month, and supposedly they pole their IMEI numbers from time to time to auto-bill people using an iPhone on an account without said plan. Most of my data goes through my wireless network so $30 per month is a little overkill.
I don't see much of an issue here. You're subsidizing the phone and getting it on the cheap, is it any wonder that there's a hefty penalty if you back out after the 2-week grace period?
After all, Nielsen reports ratings so that shows can sell more advertising. If the show you're watching doesn't have the same number of ads, then it's useless in terms of advertising sales as it's not apples to apples.
Nobody in advertising cares if 500,000,000 people watch a show if no ads were seen.
True, I can see where they're coming from. However I would imagine counting online views as a portion/percentage.
For example a typical show on Hulu has the same number of commercial breaks as the broadcast equivalent, but maybe 1/5 of the total commercials. IE, for every break there's usually a single 15-60 second commercial (averaging around 30 seconds a piece). So maybe count 5 Hulu viewings as 1 Nielson viewing.
Then you have paid online content... if an obscene number of viewers are paying iTunes for Show X then that should somehow be aggragated with ratings. After all, the network just received a chunk of change from those sales.
Isn't "terminal velocity" lower than the speed of sound?
Your terminal velocity depends on many factors...
- Angle of attack Free fall TV is slower than a controlled head-first dive, as in a controlled nose dive you're more aerodynamic. Go flat like a pancake and you'll fall slower than someone tumbling or someone taking a nose dive. Which is why I hate it when a HS student with only basic physics complains when a movie has 2 people skydiving and one guy being able to catch up to another after a while.
So if he has some sort of suit that will make him more aerodynamic that your average skydiver he can really hit some major speeds.
- Your current altitude The higher the altitude (especially over 10,000 ft), the thinner the air. The thinner the air, the less air resistance. The less air resistance, the higher the TV.
It should be mentioned that TV isn't instantaneous in free fall, if he surpasses TV due to falling from a higher altitude he'll gradually slow down to TV. So I imagine as he passes the 10,000 ft mark he'll being going faster than that altitude's TV for a short while.
Now how this all equates to breaking the sound barrier, I have no idea. As other posters said, at the extreme altitudes he's starting at his TV will be quite significant. However the speed of sound is also a lot less at those heights.
$5? When I can get it used for $1 or borrow from the library for free? $5 per book will definitely pay my way to the used book store. I'd say $2 or even $1, like music is about right. You get way, way less bits of data with a book than with a song.
Personally I'd rather get a used book for dirt cheap. Treated well book can last well beyond your lifetime, they don't need batteries or extension cords, and provide a tactile experience.
However some do favor the concept of digital books, and they have perfectly valid reasons. You can get the book right now instead of having to hunt it down. You can fit an entire building of books in a device the size of a single hardcover book, saving a fair amount of room/organization/cleaning/etc. Some local libraries aren't well stocked in the material you enjoy (or perhaps overall).
To me, the biggest pain is hunting down a book. Sometimes I have a craving to read something specific but none of the nearby towns' libraries carry it and sometimes none of the nearby bookstores even carry it. Meaning my choice is to either drive 1-2 hours each way, or wait for it to be delivered (which puts me past the weekend).
Even still I've only purchased 1 e-Book, and that was for an IT function that I needed that specific day.
They have to be careful. After all the android is open source and China certainly has the capability of making their own mobile phones. If they don't sell in China, China could just make its own Android, and use the economies of scale to export it to the West too. This threat is a bit like a Scotsman saying he won't sell his whiskey in Nashville
If China starts rolling out Android OS phones on their own, this won't hurt them directly.
Google isn't looking at making money hand over first through Nexus One sales.
They're looking at making Android OS a major player in the mobile device market, to replace Symbian and Windows Mobile and slow/stop the momentum of the iPhone OS.
Their big thing with rolling out the Nexus One is that they want to start setting a standard for what an Android phone should be: both in hardware and the configuration of the OS. Carriers and manufacturers are making short-sighted decisions with their Android configs in such a way that isn't making Google happy. They're making them hard / impossible to update the OS and varying configurations make apps run inconsistently.
Now if Chinese companies started making huge lines of horribly-configured Android phones then that would hurt Google, but would they really bother doing something financially unsound just to spite them a little all-the-while letting their presence in the mobile market increase?
Edge vs. 3G in my area doesn't seem to have a big speed impact. I live in a small town and although I have 3G coverage, it's not great and I think they've got some bandwidth problems.
When I try to toggle between Edge and 3G in my local area, the difference is decent. 1+ MB on 3G, vs 128 KB on Edge. A 10x difference.
I'm not a 3G hog but would like to use it, especially if I'm getting a Smart Phone like the Nexus One, Droid, iPhone, etc.
For me it's about a balance between price, coverage, and data coverage. Verizon scores well on the coverage but the price is a bit high.
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Eh, I think that Superman statuette on the shelf in his living room probably counts as 1/2 or 2/3 of the episodes. I can be seen in just about every one.
I know on occasion they'll drop a line or something, even when they're not directly talking about comics/heroes. If it's every episode they must be very very subtle.
>Superman is not a man. He is an alien from the planet Krypton. So
>this is NOT "the first time a man flew without mechanical aid."
And hence my favorite Tarantino fanboyism, courtesy of Kill Bill Vol. 2:
It truly is a well thought out thesis and a stellar monologue, one of my favorite from the Kill Bill series. However I think it suits the Golden Age Superman better, perhaps even the Silver Age Superman.
Now-a-days they try to make the normal Clark Kent his true personality since that's how he was raised; he was raised on Earth, not on Krypton. In contrast, native Kryptons tend to be more logical and cold; they still love and show emotion but their behavior is seen as alien to humans (or at least Americans).
To complicate matters there's a third person, that of the "idiot Clark" which he uses as a defense mechanism around strangers or when he wants to diffuse people's speculations about his where-a-bouts while Superman was saving someone.
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Screwed up and someone you liked died - turn time backwards.
He has one weakness, to an element that might as well be called Unobtainium, but for story reasons keeps appearing in the hands of villains who don't possess FTL or even the means to detect it...they just get really freaking lucky and get some!
Well the "time" thing was only for the film. The TV series Smallville had a time travel episode, but it was device in the Fortress of Solitude that could only be used once. IE, he couldn't keep traveling to "yesterday" and use it again, which was the plot point because he travel in time resulted in his father dying.
But that's it. Perhaps in the Golden Age or the early Silver Age he had the ability, but I haven't heard of it in the comics.
As for K, yeh it was a little silly for decades. Something that was incredibly rare kept popping up, they tried to explain some of it away as it being synthetic with a short shelf life but that grew old.
Recently they upped the amount of K on Earth due to Super-Girl's re-arrival. Her ship was trapped in a large asteroid *filled* with the stuff, so metric tons of K fell to the earth for villains and governments to use.
Then how do you justify to Parent/Child B that they're getting suspended when Parent/Child A got a slap on the wrist
How do you justify to Parent A that their kid is being punished for nothing? Punishing kids who did absolutely nothing wrong is a great way to instill in them a lifelong hatred of authority.
If kids are abusing something, then punish them. If they're using something harmless, don't. Only a school administrator could find something so simple too complicated.
Jaywalking is relatively harmless, but if you get caught by a cop that cares you'll get punished.
Driving 30MpH in a 25MpH zone is arguably harmless, but some cops will pull you over and ticket you.
Using another employee's PC while when nobody is looking to quickly log onto the Internet can be relatively harmless, but good luck keeping your job if you get reported.
There are rules, they may seem foolish to you but they have their reasons. Break them and you get punished.
If you don't agree with them, try to have them changed via PTA meetings and such. Bring up awareness, debate, etc. And that's a good lesson to teach your kid that I truly endorse.
Student A prescribing meds to Student B is bad. It sounds like you need some bla-bla-bla, and the next thing you know the kid has a bad reaction.
Student C swaps prescription bottle contents with Student D because they want to enjoy it. And good luck "proving" it if the pills look similar enough.
Student E is taking capsules filled with what could be anything.
Without access to a lab 24/7 specialized in identifying contents A-Z and a major legal team to handle health-related issues, you're pretty much screwed.
So you say DON'T DO IT and assign the same punishment for all.
Zero tolerance is not an understandable policy. It's an excuse for unhooking the brain of those in authority, an excuse for punishing kids equally for bringing a loaded automatic rifle and a keychain-sized toy gun to school, and an excuse for rampant power trips.
I said in terms of medication. Nail clippers vs Switchblades vs Handguns are a different matter all together and I definitely don't agree with that.
I just made what I thought was an insightful post elsewhere, you may have to scroll down for it.
I understand the whole zero-tolerance policy of not bringing in any medication
Can you explain it to me then? The world is full of shades of gray. How are we doing children a favor by pretending it isn't? If you want kids to respect authority, it has to behave in a way that's respectable. It cannot be arbitrary and capricious.
Zero Tolerance is a pain in the but, believe me. Dealing with kids is one thing, but with the parents it's another.
No unauthorized medication in school means just that, no unauthorized medication.
Kids are using prescription and OTC drugs to get high, it's just a fact of high school life. I was young before it was a craze and it was already going on.
If you want your kids to have access to specific meds then give a note to the school admins and the nurse will keep it stocked for you and dispense it to the kid as necessary. Though you'll probably need to buy a bottle and give it to the nurse.
Otherwise you have kids giving kids medication that may give them a bad reaction, you have kids taking stuff to get high, you have kids TRADING with kids for medication to get high (happens A LOT), you have kids filling regular gel-tablets or bottles with street drugs, etc.
The situation is you have kids getting busted for stuff that they may or may not be using to get high. No matter what, the parent is going to come in and defend the kid with their life even if the kid was obviously just bored and taking pills.
Then how do you justify to Parent/Child B that they're getting suspended when Parent/Child A got a slap on the wrist. And god forbid there is an income/class/race difference between A and B, you'll get sued into oblivion, whether "A" had a good reason or not.
Just don't bring stuff into school, it's not a complicated rule to follow. Nurses are staffed for just these occasions. The kid has a head-ache or a stomach-ache or I need prescription X for condition Y. Nurse looks up the kid, sees what they're allowed, and watches them take the pill.
The one difference perhaps being emergency items life Inhalers and such.
How is snapping a picture of a student, with _no_ stolen laptop, following in line with their stated security policy?
The school has claimed that the laptop had been reported stolen, and that they therefore enabled the security feature in accordance with their policy.
How it is possible that the laptop could have been reported stolen when it clearly wasn't has never been explained.
Don't get me wrong, there are a million and one reasons why this school's administration is completely messed up. And even so it doesn't really excuse anything, but...
To play devil's advocate, it's possible that either someone reported the laptop as a prank or the wrong laptop got entered into the "missing" form by mistake.
Maybe something as innocent as the digits on a serial number got reversed somewhere along the lines, or maybe the kid's friend/enemy though it would get him called into the principal's office for not reporting it himself.
That does NOT excuse everything, but if true then it can at least explain why it happened at all.
There's some quote along the lines of "don't immediately blame on conspiracy tgat which can be easily explained by stupidity." However I think this school messed up on a multitude of levels.
School officials are notorious for being completely clueless about the law; it's amazing what you find in some of the case law.
You don't even have to look that far. A year ago there was a big story about a school that strip-searched a female student because another student claimed he got Advil from her . She was even suspended, even though no pills were found.
I understand the whole zero-tolerance policy of not bringing in any medication, but a flippin' strip search is uncalled for. They didn't even have law enforcement do it, one of the school admins had to do it.
WTF
What's scary is it had to go to the Supreme Court for them to say "ummm, that's illegal." They ruled on the matter in June 2009.
received full benefits (taking up most of that paycheck)
So your insurance cost you 15 hours per week. That seems potentially expensive, depending on how much you could earn spending that time doing something else.
His big thing is, it was coverage for his family under the Union.
I'm also reading between the lines a little (which I'm not great at), but it sounds like his wife is the bread winner and was out of work. A possible scenario is she was sick and needed the insurance. Besides, if "family" includes kids and they're young enough (or newborns) then health insurance is worth it's weight in platinum.
I'm single and for average coverage it cost $400 per month. No dental, no eye car, just run of the mill "you won't go broke if you get the flu" coverage.
Throw a family into the works I might've had to easily pay over $1,000 per month, maybe closer to $1,250.
Depending on when he took this job, that 15 hr/week might've been anywhere between $450 and $600 per month and the insurance might've been of higher caliber than what was available to him.
If the health insurance was a major factor, it might've balanced out.
I quit my job in Denver in 1999 and move to Toronto. I felt a huge weight lift from my shoulders: no longer was I trapped in my job, and no longer did I have to fear illness ruining my and my family's lives.
Yeh, because you already moved to Canada /rimshot
I kid. Personally I like Canada and consider moving there from time to time. What was the transition like?
Unfortunately that's a very big step for me since I only know a handful of people up there that I haven't seen in person in maybe 10 years. And if the worst should happen I have no "support net" if something went wrong, while in my knack of the woods I have some family members I can crash with if things really get bad such as long-term unemployment or poor health.
And while it's not a big a deal as moving somewhere overseas, moving to a new country has got to be a big deal.
So how was the transition?
Decent HDMI cables are about $3-5 USD. Decent RGB cables are at least twice as much and unlike HDMI, some of the more expensive RGB cables perform noticeably better.
I could see that, as RGB is analog and thus more subsceptible to various interference and such. Not as much as Monster would like you to think, but I can see it get putzed a little by an energy source or a really cruddy cable (cruddy, not average).
I'd prefer DVI + "something" for sound (RCA, coax, etc).
The ONLY thing I like about HDMI is that it's sound + HD video in only 1 cable. Once you have a handful of HD sources the TV stand starts to look like a rat's nest when it's using RGB.
However I don't like the friction method of HDMI for staying in there. I've NEVER had a problem with DVI, but the worst I've seen is that the pings get bent on the cable, meaning you only need another cable.
Between myself and a friend I've witnessed a couple of HDMI ports get trashed by either a bad HDMI end or the user not lining it up correctly 100% when attaching it.
Unless I'm mistaken...
The biggest hardware advantage the Kindle has over the iLiad is the fact that the Kindle comes with a free data connection a-la Sprint.
I saw a lot of people, a lot, using their Kindles while commuting on to New York City for a 1-week class I was taking.
Combine that with Amazon's large one-stop library and it makes it a force to reckon with.
If not for those 2 items, I'd say the iLiad superiority might be a no-brainer.
Mark my words, Apple are renown for their PR-stunts.
By getting everyone upset, a simple thing like the obvious lack of Flash, which is severely needed for a proper Surfing Experience that the iPad is made for, this is nothing but a PR-STUNT, ingenious - I have to admit - because it'll make you and other RAVE on forever and critique iPad & Apple = Free publicity, and of course - shortly after iPad has been launched, Apple will timely announce that Flash is coming - after all, they have "listened" to their "audience".
I don't disagree on any of your points in particular. It seems like a Jobs thing to do.
But the iPhone has been out for how long now? And no Flash support on that.
In the end this thing looks like a jumbo-sized iPhone, perhaps with a slightly faster cpu/gpu setup.
I really don't get all the hype around this thing anyway. I like Apple products, but this thing is so flippin' boring yet customers and the media alike are chanting "iPad" like it was the second coming.
To play devil's advocate...
Woz's problem might be specific to his own car.
I had an issue with my Cadillac's throttle assembly 3 months after buying the car (new). It was a bad sensor.
At the time I didn't know what it was (throttle, fuel line, transmission, etc). I searched through the big forum where EVERYONE reports their CTS problems and I only found 1 guy with a similar (yet different) issue. There was no tech bulletin about it, no forum posts, etc. There were other common issues out there which I managed to avoid, but this one was my particular piece that was the issue.
In short: until the car's engine temp reached equilibrium, pressing the accelerator more than 1/2 way caused the engine to buck wildly. It was like I was alternating between flooring the gas pedal and taking my foot off every second. This made merging and and stop signs quite unsafe, and I was able to replicate it 100% of the time so long as the car was cooled down first.
I had to take it to the shop 3 flippin' times before they addressed it. The first few times they said "no problem, drive it until it's worse." I had to sit in the car with a tester and finally told him "xxxx it, just floor it." He flipped out and what the car did and called a tech from corporate to look at it.
So, it's possible he has an issue that's related to the Recall but not part of the same batch of issues. It's a long shot, but still possible.
2nd World? My iPhone worked better in the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya than here in San Francisco.
I live in a suburban area, and have 3G coverage just about wherever I go. The nearest "city" has to be over 15-20 miles away, with the major cities further off.
I think my speed tests average around 1.25-1.5 Megabit. Hardly stellar, but fast enough for my needs. Then again I don't know if it's worth the extra $30 per month...
However I've encountered a small number of dropped calls since I got the iPhone 6+ months ago. Not many, but definitely more than 1. I hear over-seas their cell coverage and speeds are ridiculously high. So maybe the 2nd world thing isn't too "off."
My only experience is Europe on a plain old 3G phone. I always had coverage, but couldn't use any data due to restrictions on the phone itself. I do recall getting a lot of Spam txt's though.
It ran for the next two seasons, allowing them to raise and lower shields, engage and disengage the cloak, fire drones, and have plenty of power to spare for everyday goings-on. I believe it was the episode with Rodney and his sister experimenting with parallel universes in season 3 which drained the ZPM.
For starters, I believe they claimed to be using some mini Naquada generators to keep the general city running. It was mentioned a few times in season 1 such as when there was an energy draining monster, and later they needed to make one give off an EMP.
As for the shield, I don't recall them using the left-over ZPM for that... they did use it to make a cloak but even they said that used very little power. Unless you mean the shield around the gate itself, at which point I don't recall if that was the ZPM or their generators.
You are correct, Rodney and his sister finished it off trying to send "Rod" back to his universe. However a few episodes later they managed to get a few.
It's a little unclear from the site if *everything* from SG1 and SGA are being sold off, or just select props that the writers don't envision ever using again? I wonder what this means for Stargate: Universe? I mean, in theory, they are still in contact with Star Gate Command, and at some point, they may get the Destiny Gate working again to travel back to Earth, so seems like you'd still need the SGC sets available. In any case, there's the Comm Stones, which give us glimpses of Earth again.
SGU hasn't been cancelled (yet) - I saw somewhere that SyFy renewed for a second season. So, I guess that must mean that they aren't selling *everything*?
Plus I believe there's at least one more Direct-To-DVD to be made.
You go and buy it and then put in on a shelf? Have people over and say look at that! It from the [insert show here] TV show!
After you dump the hundreds or thousands of dollars on that crap and you get tired of it, you'll stick it in a closet or on a shelf.
Take the money and invest it or save it. One day you will need it and the market for this shit isn't liquid - meaning, you won't be able to sell the thing to another sucker when you really have to.
People are so stupid with their money. No wonder we have these economic problems.
There's nothing wrong with a passion, so long as it's legal and you don't go over-board.
Some people buy art, golf clubs, performance parts for their car, PC equipment. Sure, if you let it go too far and buy more stuff than you can afford, it's an issue.
Some people really love the show; maybe they felt it played a part in their life, maybe they met a friend/spouse/etc due to a common point-of-interest, maybe they just enjoyed the show.
I'm not really into art or antiques, but that doesn't mean I shake my head when I hear someone bought a piece for their living room. So long as they don't put themselves in the financial hole, I say got for it.
I try to keep a nice entertainment system at home along with TV/devices/furniture/lighting/etc. I don't go overboard with it, but it's something I enjoy.
It sucks out on Long Island too! Hope they don't just focus on Manhattan. I mean it's ridiculous how bad AT&T service is in all facets. Sorely tempted to trade my beloved Iphone for a Nexus. I get so mad everytime I see what's his face from Old School talking about how fast their network is. Also so what if it's faster, you don't get any coverage anywhere! I mean really, I could have the fastest race car in the world, but if I can only drive it up and down my drive way it's pointless!
The Nexus One is a nice phone but I feel some of the UI features lack the polish/maturity of the iPhone. Specifically: multi-touch and the way it handles dropdown menus.
And while T-Mobile coverage isn't horrid by me, it is noticeably weaker than AT&T.
When I went to my nearest T-Mobile store to sign up for service for my N900 they seemed to have no qualms over activating my device despite the fact that it allowed me the freedom to install whatever software I felt like it on it.
Now, from the very frequent stories I see posted here related to the iPhone and Android, I have been gathering that the same does not hold true for those devices.
Even with AT&T, I had no real problems using unlocked devices on their network. Heck, they once even gave me an unlock code for my Blackberry since AT&T has agreement with RIM to do that if asked. They closest they came to a problem was when I was reporting a network outtage in my town, they prefer I report it with a known + locked phone so they could be sure it wasn't just my unlocked phone crashing lame, but I still had a 2+ year old AT&T phone lying around). I was the first to report, but the rest of the town started calling shortly after.
Likewise, a local T-Mobile store had NO problem setting up a friend's unlocked Nexus One with a new T-Mobile "Everything Plus" account (Plus means no contract and you save on the monthly fee). They actually thought it was cool.
The only problem I have with the iPhone is you're forced to get the "unlimited" data plan for $30 per month, and supposedly they pole their IMEI numbers from time to time to auto-bill people using an iPhone on an account without said plan. Most of my data goes through my wireless network so $30 per month is a little overkill.
I don't see much of an issue here. You're subsidizing the phone and getting it on the cheap, is it any wonder that there's a hefty penalty if you back out after the 2-week grace period?
After all, Nielsen reports ratings so that shows can sell more advertising. If the show you're watching doesn't have the same number of ads, then it's useless in terms of advertising sales as it's not apples to apples.
Nobody in advertising cares if 500,000,000 people watch a show if no ads were seen.
True, I can see where they're coming from. However I would imagine counting online views as a portion/percentage.
For example a typical show on Hulu has the same number of commercial breaks as the broadcast equivalent, but maybe 1/5 of the total commercials. IE, for every break there's usually a single 15-60 second commercial (averaging around 30 seconds a piece). So maybe count 5 Hulu viewings as 1 Nielson viewing.
Then you have paid online content... if an obscene number of viewers are paying iTunes for Show X then that should somehow be aggragated with ratings. After all, the network just received a chunk of change from those sales.
Isn't "terminal velocity" lower than the speed of sound?
Your terminal velocity depends on many factors...
- Angle of attack
Free fall TV is slower than a controlled head-first dive, as in a controlled nose dive you're more aerodynamic. Go flat like a pancake and you'll fall slower than someone tumbling or someone taking a nose dive. Which is why I hate it when a HS student with only basic physics complains when a movie has 2 people skydiving and one guy being able to catch up to another after a while.
So if he has some sort of suit that will make him more aerodynamic that your average skydiver he can really hit some major speeds.
- Your current altitude
The higher the altitude (especially over 10,000 ft), the thinner the air. The thinner the air, the less air resistance. The less air resistance, the higher the TV.
It should be mentioned that TV isn't instantaneous in free fall, if he surpasses TV due to falling from a higher altitude he'll gradually slow down to TV. So I imagine as he passes the 10,000 ft mark he'll being going faster than that altitude's TV for a short while.
Now how this all equates to breaking the sound barrier, I have no idea. As other posters said, at the extreme altitudes he's starting at his TV will be quite significant. However the speed of sound is also a lot less at those heights.
$5? When I can get it used for $1 or borrow from the library for free? $5 per book will definitely pay my way to the used book store. I'd say $2 or even $1, like music is about right. You get way, way less bits of data with a book than with a song.
Personally I'd rather get a used book for dirt cheap. Treated well book can last well beyond your lifetime, they don't need batteries or extension cords, and provide a tactile experience.
However some do favor the concept of digital books, and they have perfectly valid reasons. You can get the book right now instead of having to hunt it down. You can fit an entire building of books in a device the size of a single hardcover book, saving a fair amount of room/organization/cleaning/etc. Some local libraries aren't well stocked in the material you enjoy (or perhaps overall).
To me, the biggest pain is hunting down a book. Sometimes I have a craving to read something specific but none of the nearby towns' libraries carry it and sometimes none of the nearby bookstores even carry it. Meaning my choice is to either drive 1-2 hours each way, or wait for it to be delivered (which puts me past the weekend).
Even still I've only purchased 1 e-Book, and that was for an IT function that I needed that specific day.
They have to be careful. After all the android is open source and China certainly has the capability of making their own mobile phones. If they don't sell in China, China could just make its own Android, and use the economies of scale to export it to the West too. This threat is a bit like a Scotsman saying he won't sell his whiskey in Nashville
If China starts rolling out Android OS phones on their own, this won't hurt them directly.
Google isn't looking at making money hand over first through Nexus One sales.
They're looking at making Android OS a major player in the mobile device market, to replace Symbian and Windows Mobile and slow/stop the momentum of the iPhone OS.
Their big thing with rolling out the Nexus One is that they want to start setting a standard for what an Android phone should be: both in hardware and the configuration of the OS. Carriers and manufacturers are making short-sighted decisions with their Android configs in such a way that isn't making Google happy. They're making them hard / impossible to update the OS and varying configurations make apps run inconsistently.
Now if Chinese companies started making huge lines of horribly-configured Android phones then that would hurt Google, but would they really bother doing something financially unsound just to spite them a little all-the-while letting their presence in the mobile market increase?
Edge vs. 3G in my area doesn't seem to have a big speed impact. I live in a small town and although I have 3G coverage, it's not great and I think they've got some bandwidth problems.
When I try to toggle between Edge and 3G in my local area, the difference is decent. 1+ MB on 3G, vs 128 KB on Edge. A 10x difference.
I'm not a 3G hog but would like to use it, especially if I'm getting a Smart Phone like the Nexus One, Droid, iPhone, etc.
For me it's about a balance between price, coverage, and data coverage. Verizon scores well on the coverage but the price is a bit high.