Dare is basically a delivery system for all the simplistic, vote-getting, propagandist version of anti-drug education. "Just say no" + "marijuana is as addictive (and harmful) as crack" + "make sure you tell on anyone you know uses illegal drugs, including your parents".
With their simple catch-phrase style, its easy for them to protect their positions, and expand into areas that don't have it now. "What, you don't think we should tell the kids to say no to drugs?" Its all about fear; get the kids to scared of drugs to try them, keep everyone around the kids too scared to use drugs because the kids are being told to rat everyone to the cops, and keep the parents and faculty who disagree with their policy scared to speak out. Bringing "soft on crime!" political shouts to PTA meetings near you!
I'm very unhappy about how my little sister is being educated. They've got DARE, they've got rules that say they have to use a school-supplied (4") binder, they have to haul 30 or 40 pounds of books and work home every day (the kids get hell if they leave their books in their lockers, even if they don't have homework), and all the standard control-freak elementary school rules as well. I can't even get her to conceptualize that not everything she gets told in school is automatically the perfect truth, and I really get annoyed when I hear about all the crap there.
OK, how bout one of those nifty stadium tricks with giant index cards for everyone? Surely there's enough space on a setup like that?
Or, find particularly amusingly badly written functions or calls or objects or whatever (I'm no C++ guru, I can barely kludge together a complicated struct) and use those for the shirts...
There's enough good games out now that the cost of a DC isn't wasted even if they stoped all releases tommorrow.
I bought mine less than two weeks ago, and I'm glad. There are several excellent games already out, and it cost less than half what a PS2 does. Next spring or summer, I'll probably get a PS2, since second gen games (which is when good ones start showing up) will be appearing, and any surprise hits from the pre-christmas releases will be back as $20 Greatest Hits versions.
And yet other people, like me, use them to put their own files on. Backing up my various writings and projects is nice and easy when I want to reinstall Win, and burning a cd beats the hell out of using super-expensive zip disks for filesharing...
Well, hands aren't something that tend to get casts. I never got a cast of any sort, the bone was just set. (not that it stayed very straight) Same sort of thing with a finger. (my pinky was splinted and taped to my index(? I'm not too big on finger names) for about a month when I broke it.
As other posters mentioned, its the nature of their business model. They lose money (or maybe break even) on hardware, their profits all come from liscensing costs, so they need to keep tight control of access to their apis.
How accurate is the hand geometry thing? I _have_ broken bones in my hand, and they didn't heal perfectly straight, so my hand is not shaped like it once was. Would it think I'm someone else?
True, some people would decide to go it alone. An individual may even succeed. But a group of people splitting up research efforts are more likely to accomplish the goal, and many other people would realise this.
The theory is that an object (or a body if you prefer) about the size of Mars hit the Earth, causing the moon to pop out. Things that big aren't asteroids.
OK, someone please tell me that movie wasn't obscenely predictable? Did the writers / producers feel that they'd come up with a train of thought that had never occured to anyone before. Still, at least the technology wasn't disgusting and spelled funny like Xistenze (or whatever the hell it was called)
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Dare is basically a delivery system for all the simplistic, vote-getting, propagandist version of anti-drug education. "Just say no" + "marijuana is as addictive (and harmful) as crack" + "make sure you tell on anyone you know uses illegal drugs, including your parents".
With their simple catch-phrase style, its easy for them to protect their positions, and expand into areas that don't have it now. "What, you don't think we should tell the kids to say no to drugs?" Its all about fear; get the kids to scared of drugs to try them, keep everyone around the kids too scared to use drugs because the kids are being told to rat everyone to the cops, and keep the parents and faculty who disagree with their policy scared to speak out. Bringing "soft on crime!" political shouts to PTA meetings near you!
I'm very unhappy about how my little sister is being educated. They've got DARE, they've got rules that say they have to use a school-supplied (4") binder, they have to haul 30 or 40 pounds of books and work home every day (the kids get hell if they leave their books in their lockers, even if they don't have homework), and all the standard control-freak elementary school rules as well. I can't even get her to conceptualize that not everything she gets told in school is automatically the perfect truth, and I really get annoyed when I hear about all the crap there.
Yep. And trying to fill up the high score charts on Crazy Taxi is frustrating/addictive -- in a good way...
OK, how bout one of those nifty stadium tricks with giant index cards for everyone? Surely there's enough space on a setup like that?
Or, find particularly amusingly badly written functions or calls or objects or whatever (I'm no C++ guru, I can barely kludge together a complicated struct) and use those for the shirts...
You do like at a sporting event: 5 large buddies willing to array themselves in a properly-ordered line.
I thought they wanted to eliminate both?
I go for the highly blasphemous Jesus dog-f***ing Christ! when I need a good multi-syllabic epithet...
I'll call it a PSX2 when someone tells me where the hell they found an X in PlayStation.
There's enough good games out now that the cost of a DC isn't wasted even if they stoped all releases tommorrow. I bought mine less than two weeks ago, and I'm glad. There are several excellent games already out, and it cost less than half what a PS2 does. Next spring or summer, I'll probably get a PS2, since second gen games (which is when good ones start showing up) will be appearing, and any surprise hits from the pre-christmas releases will be back as $20 Greatest Hits versions.
Yeah, EB gives refunds...
And yet other people, like me, use them to put their own files on. Backing up my various writings and projects is nice and easy when I want to reinstall Win, and burning a cd beats the hell out of using super-expensive zip disks for filesharing...
Well, hands aren't something that tend to get casts. I never got a cast of any sort, the bone was just set. (not that it stayed very straight) Same sort of thing with a finger. (my pinky was splinted and taped to my index(? I'm not too big on finger names) for about a month when I broke it.
As other posters mentioned, its the nature of their business model. They lose money (or maybe break even) on hardware, their profits all come from liscensing costs, so they need to keep tight control of access to their apis.
No, some corporate hack sells it for $2.50 a bottle...
I had the impression he was from China... still, I don't think he meant the news for gooks the way that Milkyman thinks he did...
Well, maybe his specific technique could be improved on, but the idea still seems valid...
How accurate is the hand geometry thing? I _have_ broken bones in my hand, and they didn't heal perfectly straight, so my hand is not shaped like it once was. Would it think I'm someone else?
c'mon people, didn't you see Demolition Man? You don't need to piss around with technological solutions, you just need to obtain the original eyes!
I think that that's a contradiction in terms. Not what I would call "handling" a tight corner...
I in fact know people who have completed minor transactions using Canadian Tire money. One of these also wanted to play poker with it...
mmmmmm... poutine...
True, some people would decide to go it alone. An individual may even succeed. But a group of people splitting up research efforts are more likely to accomplish the goal, and many other people would realise this.
I think anyone who's ever driven one of these, these, or these, would say Germany's pretty industrialised.
its "or" not ":"
The theory is that an object (or a body if you prefer) about the size of Mars hit the Earth, causing the moon to pop out. Things that big aren't asteroids.
OK, someone please tell me that movie wasn't obscenely predictable? Did the writers / producers feel that they'd come up with a train of thought that had never occured to anyone before. Still, at least the technology wasn't disgusting and spelled funny like Xistenze (or whatever the hell it was called)