Seeing as this is a thread on mugging, I think that my electric fence story is on topic.
When I was around 6, my uncles decided that it would be fun to give me a metal hook(like the kind used on tow chains), and tell me to go and put it on the little wire running around the field in the back. I did. Note: the hook prevents you from losing contact with the fence. The cramping muscles keep you from letting go of the hook. Nuff said.
No,acid and weed make people think they are thinking too much. If you've ever been sober in a room full of people toking it up, you would know this without a shadow of a doubt.
So after stamping out the local Ma and Pa stores with agressive pricing of these basic goods, they want to be absolved of the responsibility of providing them because they have a low margin.
The net result, if this is true, will simply be that another store/chain starts to provide the staples. It's not like the demand for potatoes and rice is going to drop.
I can hardly believe that I am posting this but...
Soundwave was the tape player. Shockwave was the giant ray gun.
I could never get an "official" Shockwave. However, Radio Shack sold a clone of him. I have that one in a box downstairs. His arm is broken at the joint, but he is in otherwise good condition.
for example the age at which responsibility is assumed in a person
"...canon and civil law proscribed certain ages for marriage (12 for girls, 14 for boys), the passage into adolescence (age 14) and the age of majority (21, often earlier in practice.)"
Quoted from here.
While certain rights were based on the age of majority(like knighthood and certain taxations), people were expected to assume resposibility much earlier than we do now.
The fact that a full education could be finished earlier in late mideval times has a lot to do with that there was a lot less to learn.
I believe that you missed the whole point of the article. The Classical method is not an attempt to cram all human knowledge into one skull. It is an attempt to teach the tools of learning, instead of just filling in information, not unlike the "teach a man to fish" proverb.
Last but not least, mideval times are not really known for beign a time of enlightenment.
Chronological snobbery will get you nowhere. A good idea is a good idea, regardless of the time or place it came from.
I think that the "socialization" issue has played itself out. There are too many homeschoolers hitting college better prepared for life and responsibility than their group educated peers to worry much about it. Besides, you can always use clubs and sports as group socialization anyway(boy scouts, karate club, dance, etc).
Not all homeschoolers are motivated by a desire to insulate their kids from reality. This, for example, is the basis of our homeschooling method, and it elucidates many of the aspects of the state sponsored education I want to avoid. It was written in 1947, but as far as I am concerned, it matches today quite well. Better, perhaps.
Finally, a voice of reason. People tend to act like TV is a must have. It's the same as the whole mess with people suing fast food joints. If fast food makes you fat, don't eat a whopper. If (insert media group here) is taking away your rights, don't buy from them.
Actually, Mother Teresa and her sisters did not suggest that any of the people that they helped convert. Their only requirement is that the person be in need.
"Simply put, we would posture ourselves as a target in a volatile context that we create, and weaken ourselves at the same time," DeBlois told a George Washington University audience last year.
"Simply put, we would posture ourselves as a target in a volatile context that we create, and weaken ourselves at the same time," Bruce DeBlois, the editor of Beyond the Paths of Heaven: The Emergence of Space Power Thought, told a George Washington University audience last year.
Given the relative difficulty of raising corn on land, wouldn't it make more sense to do some sort of floating kelp farms? Could kelp produce enough sugar to make this viable? Given the growth rate of some forms of kelp, I imagine that it could quickly outstrip land-based plants.
First, it is the foundational right of any society, because if I can deprive you of life, no other rights of yours matters. The right to vote means zip to a corpse. Our government used to be clear headed enough to understand this: "We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" Thus, it is enshrined on the foundational documents of this nation(the US).
"The only organisms which have an inherent right to live are human beings who can conceive of that right." So, since this right is based upon your ability to conceive of it, do you lose it when you lose the ability to do so? If a man were to, say, use a chemical to render a woman unable to conceive of their right to life(such as a date rape drug), and kills her, is it murder?
Further more, where did you get the idea that "human beings who can conceive of that right" actually have any such right? Why is this case outside of the majority rules? Where did you get the idea that thinking somehow exempts you from the rule of the mob?
"When it comes to cases like that, majority rules," What justification do you have for this that exempts you?
"the majority has decided that killing fetuses should not be prohibited" Well, if I look at this from a purely pragmatic point of view, then the fact that pro-lifers tend to have more kids(what with them not killing their offspring and all), the majority will naturally shift to pro-life. Simple as that.
"Apperently, you just don't get it. Both rape and murder come down to a single point: choice. Someone chooses to do something that you may find abhorrent (like raping someone unconnected to you, or killing a homeless person), but which doesn't affect you. Government shouldn't intervene, then. That person is making a choice about their own behavior. A choice that should be respected."
Hmm, does that sound right? The society in general has a responsibility to protect those unable to defend themselves. We even extend that to animals now, to a degree. A "choice" which infringes on the fundamental right to life is not worthy of respect.
Funny, I have a TI 99/4a dissassembled on my work bench. More scratchpad ram(fairly easy to add, since it doesn't fully decode that segment of memory). And I am working on an Z80- based ISA card which enables me to use a passive backplane to access old ISA expansion cards. Long live the TI!
I agree with the sickness of the baby killing. It was meaningless. In contrast, the scene with the little girl dying on the botanical ship had depth. That scene hit me. I felt for the victims, and the people forced to make the choice of running. The infant's death was just repulsing.
Actually, there is an argument now that coal and oil are formed in totally different ways. Coal is real fossil fuel, and oil is generated by underground bacteria. A biologist friend of mine was telling me this. I think it has to do with Gould's abiogenic theory, but I am not certain.
I know you can't read the article, but a little googling pulled up the fact that Rekall is a RAD Frontend to several DB's, such as MySQL and PostGreSQL.
My day job is doing small business database work in FileMaker. As much as I like using PostGreSQL(I am writing a Perl object framework around it right now), FileMaker rocks its world in terms of quickly building data systems. There is an amazing amount of money to be made designing custom database systems for small businesses.
However, I don't like the cult of personality that seems to insulate FileMaker developers and employees from the rest of the db world. As a whole, they tend to be very defensive about the product and blind to other possibilities. I would be thrilled to be able to offer a client an open source solution.
If Rekall is(or can evolve into) a replacement for FileMaker, I am all for it. It can't come fast enough.
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Seeing as this is a thread on mugging, I think that my electric fence story is on topic.
When I was around 6, my uncles decided that it would be fun to give me a metal hook(like the kind used on tow chains), and tell me to go and put it on the little wire running around the field in the back. I did. Note: the hook prevents you from losing contact with the fence. The cramping muscles keep you from letting go of the hook. Nuff said.
I just took my beer and went elsewhere. It was as good an excuse as any to leave.
No,acid and weed make people think they are thinking too much. If you've ever been sober in a room full of people toking it up, you would know this without a shadow of a doubt.
So after stamping out the local Ma and Pa stores with agressive pricing of these basic goods, they want to be absolved of the responsibility of providing them because they have a low margin.
The net result, if this is true, will simply be that another store/chain starts to provide the staples. It's not like the demand for potatoes and rice is going to drop.
I can hardly believe that I am posting this but...
Soundwave was the tape player. Shockwave was the giant ray gun.
I could never get an "official" Shockwave. However, Radio Shack sold a clone of him. I have that one in a box downstairs. His arm is broken at the joint, but he is in otherwise good condition.
Did you even read the rest of the blurb?
there's no reason to think they won't start leveraging it against anyone else trying to emulate their systems
So, I RTFL, and it was ambiguous, so I asked a question. And, as another responded already noted, it is not as clear cut as it seems.
The whole idea of chasing after a proprietary standard like .Net...
My old man used to tell me, before he left this sh*tty world, never chase standards or women. You'll get left behind every time.
Given the repeated mention of an LCD display, does this patent only affect laptops and handhelds?
for example the age at which responsibility is assumed in a person
"...canon and civil law proscribed certain ages for marriage (12 for girls, 14 for boys), the passage into adolescence (age 14) and the age of majority (21, often earlier in practice.)"
Quoted from here.
While certain rights were based on the age of majority(like knighthood and certain taxations), people were expected to assume resposibility much earlier than we do now.
The fact that a full education could be finished earlier in late mideval times has a lot to do with that there was a lot less to learn.
I believe that you missed the whole point of the article. The Classical method is not an attempt to cram all human knowledge into one skull. It is an attempt to teach the tools of learning, instead of just filling in information, not unlike the "teach a man to fish" proverb.
Last but not least, mideval times are not really known for beign a time of enlightenment.
Chronological snobbery will get you nowhere. A good idea is a good idea, regardless of the time or place it came from.
I think that the "socialization" issue has played itself out. There are too many homeschoolers hitting college better prepared for life and responsibility than their group educated peers to worry much about it. Besides, you can always use clubs and sports as group socialization anyway(boy scouts, karate club, dance, etc).
Not all homeschoolers are motivated by a desire to insulate their kids from reality. This, for example, is the basis of our homeschooling method, and it elucidates many of the aspects of the state sponsored education I want to avoid. It was written in 1947, but as far as I am concerned, it matches today quite well. Better, perhaps.
Finally, a voice of reason. People tend to act like TV is a must have. It's the same as the whole mess with people suing fast food joints. If fast food makes you fat, don't eat a whopper. If (insert media group here) is taking away your rights, don't buy from them.
Actually, Mother Teresa and her sisters did not suggest that any of the people that they helped convert. Their only requirement is that the person be in need.
"Simply put, we would posture ourselves as a target in a volatile context that we create, and weaken ourselves at the same time," DeBlois told a George Washington University audience last year.
"Simply put, we would posture ourselves as a target in a volatile context that we create, and weaken ourselves at the same time," Bruce DeBlois, the editor of Beyond the Paths of Heaven: The Emergence of Space Power Thought, told a George Washington University audience last year.
Now that's what I call good editing.
The processing could largely take place at sea. After all, that is where the heat and light is anyway, to encourage the bacteria to grow.
Well, I was apparently not the only one with this idea. Someone proposed essentially the same thing here.
Given the relative difficulty of raising corn on land, wouldn't it make more sense to do some sort of floating kelp farms? Could kelp produce enough sugar to make this viable? Given the growth rate of some forms of kelp, I imagine that it could quickly outstrip land-based plants.
For gui responsiveness, yes.
First, it is the foundational right of any society, because if I can deprive you of life, no other rights of yours matters. The right to vote means zip to a corpse. Our government used to be clear headed enough to understand this:
"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness"
Thus, it is enshrined on the foundational documents of this nation(the US).
"The only organisms which have an inherent right to live are human beings who can conceive of that right."
So, since this right is based upon your ability to conceive of it, do you lose it when you lose the ability to do so? If a man were to, say, use a chemical to render a woman unable to conceive of their right to life(such as a date rape drug), and kills her, is it murder?
Further more, where did you get the idea that "human beings who can conceive of that right" actually have any such right? Why is this case outside of the majority rules? Where did you get the idea that thinking somehow exempts you from the rule of the mob?
"When it comes to cases like that, majority rules,"
What justification do you have for this that exempts you?
"the majority has decided that killing fetuses should not be prohibited"
Well, if I look at this from a purely pragmatic point of view, then the fact that pro-lifers tend to have more kids(what with them not killing their offspring and all), the majority will naturally shift to pro-life. Simple as that.
"Apperently, you just don't get it. Both rape and murder come down to a single point: choice. Someone chooses to do something that you may find abhorrent (like raping someone unconnected to you, or killing a homeless person), but which doesn't affect you. Government shouldn't intervene, then. That person is making a choice about their own behavior. A choice that should be respected."
Hmm, does that sound right?
The society in general has a responsibility to protect those unable to defend themselves. We even extend that to animals now, to a degree.
A "choice" which infringes on the fundamental right to life is not worthy of respect.
Funny, I have a TI 99/4a dissassembled on my work bench. More scratchpad ram(fairly easy to add, since it doesn't fully decode that segment of memory). And I am working on an Z80- based ISA card which enables me to use a passive backplane to access old ISA expansion cards. Long live the TI!
I agree with the sickness of the baby killing. It was meaningless. In contrast, the scene with the little girl dying on the botanical ship had depth. That scene hit me. I felt for the victims, and the people forced to make the choice of running. The infant's death was just repulsing.
Actually, there is an argument now that coal and oil are formed in totally different ways. Coal is real fossil fuel, and oil is generated by underground bacteria. A biologist friend of mine was telling me this. I think it has to do with Gould's abiogenic theory, but I am not certain.
I know you can't read the article, but a little googling pulled up the fact that Rekall is a RAD Frontend to several DB's, such as MySQL and PostGreSQL.
My day job is doing small business database work in FileMaker. As much as I like using PostGreSQL(I am writing a Perl object framework around it right now), FileMaker rocks its world in terms of quickly building data systems. There is an amazing amount of money to be made designing custom database systems for small businesses.
However, I don't like the cult of personality that seems to insulate FileMaker developers and employees from the rest of the db world. As a whole, they tend to be very defensive about the product and blind to other possibilities. I would be thrilled to be able to offer a client an open source solution.
If Rekall is(or can evolve into) a replacement for FileMaker, I am all for it. It can't come fast enough.
Google for them. I found a lot of references.