Where exactly is this mythical "abstinence only" sex ed taking place? Maybe in a Catholic school? You can't blame it for teen pregnancy if it isn't being taught. Almost no program (at least in public schools) totally ignores birth control. (The most ambitious public school abstinence focused stuff i've seen is about 80/20 or 90/10 in practice.)
I do agree that maybe we ARE skittish about nudity and kids for all the wrong reasons, I mean these are our bodies we are talking about here. But I'm not sure I disagree with the idea of teaching abstinence, as it IS the most RESPONSIBLE decision. That being said, we shouldn't make condoms etc. impossible to find for the population of teens who aren't dissuaded from having sex (and there will always be at least a significant number of them). But let's not pretend that it is as/more responsbile than postponing sex until we are more capable of dealing with the consequences.
Oh some of the outsourcing jobs will go away, but some will stay. Just like in the US, it's not all or none of the jobs that move, it's "marginal" jobs.
It doesn't say anything about Bush's policy (pro or con) because Bush's policy has nothing to do with this. It is specifically about publicly funded stem cell research using fetus's for material. I don't know specifically what your wife does, but in this case the PERCEPTIONS about US policy may not be in line with reality.
If the computer get's infested with spyware and viruses, the first thing you have to do is to "disable" the System restore, so it doesn't try to "fix" your removal of the aforementioned parasites by putting them right back on. (Especially since you don't always know exactly when the infection occured.)
The system file checker is actually useful, but system restore is just crap!
We already do get lots of crops from "south of the border." If you knew anything about agriculture you'd know that. Hell, you'd know it if you read the label.:)
Let's assume that a product can be made equivalently at lower cost by outsourcing. Let's further assume that the prices don't fall. Thus the total quantity and price of shoes stays the same (not very likely, do you really think those shoes would cost as little as they do if they were produced in the US for example?). I'll grant you all of that because it's not important to the premise. Of course it's not good, at least in the short term, for the US workers who lost their jobs, but it does benefit the offshore workers who get the job, and the owners of Nike by the exact dollar amount lost by the workers, who all have to save or spend money, just like the laid off workers did.
The point is, there is no loss to the economy as a whole. Money has moved and the individual wellbeing of certain people has changed, but the aggregate has not. The aggregate only changes when assets are created/destroyed or when productivity changes.
I don't mean to trivialize the loss of a job, but it's not this movement of jobs that effects us as a whole, that is driven by our ability to be more productive and to accumulate the assets.
If anything the CEO has the opposite effect, since he is in a higher income tax class than the workers who would earn the equivalent amount of money. He probably owns a more expensive house (costing almost as much as the houses of those employees). Sales tax revenue would depend on how big a spender the CEO is (in terms of saving money versus spending) compared to the employees.
Yes, wages in IT have gone down a little, compared to the gogo days of the Y2K boom where there were comparatively few qualified tech people and lots of jobs. And IT wages are still much higher than a decade ago, so we only kept part of our huge raise, boo hoo.
But that statement doesn't hold for all wages, which have risen, even during our down times economically. You can't have it both ways regarding "execs" and the rich. It was just fine when they took (by far) the biggest hit (in terms of % change in income) from the economic downturn. But now their earnings are rising much faster than yours, its not ok?
CEO compensation has all sorts of problems associated with it, but don't even try to sell me that "CEO's are getting richer and everyone else is loosing ground pap". People have been selling it for the better part of a century, and history proves them wrong time and again.
Why does everyone think that "our generation was the first."
That statement, about living in an unprecidented time, to me is a huge indicator of the poster's own ignorance.
That's true, the "next big thing" is late, but thats not original to this day and age. If you really believe it is, just go and talk to the people who lived during the industrial revolution, or some steel workers or..... Of course what the "next big thing" is, is not obvious to those who just lost their jobs in a different field.
To address the actual point, most native american cultures didn't have the cultural concept of "owning" land like european settlers did. Their culture didn't regard land as property to be owned as we do today. So you can't say they stole it. Native americans pretty much operated under a system of "If you were on it first, it was yours to use until you leave."
This doesn't excuse the of the truly awful treatment native americans were given on many occasions, but you can't say that they "owned" all of present day north america and that the european settlers stole it from them.
Well that's true, if your software is really that much better than your competitor's. If not, then it's really just an expensive commodity cost, and you ARE better off open sourcing. For most of these productions, the "competitive advantage is your story and animators, not your software.
Parent DID say that heterosexualtiy was promoted on MTV. He said that the only thing they allow in MTV is sex, heterosexual, homosexual. That was his beef; he wasn't even picking on the homosexuals. Go back and read it again.
Hmmm good question. And I was looking forward to E17, being that E was the best and coolest in it's day (before GNOME and KDE were all the rage and *box/XFCE came to dominate the low end).
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Works fine on Safari, I don't think it's Mozilla specific, but rather that IE is the only one that renders it wrong. (with fewer features)
a 1.6 or 1.8 Ghz G5 versus what, a 1.4 Ghz G4. I would say that this is an improvement.
I do agree that maybe we ARE skittish about nudity and kids for all the wrong reasons, I mean these are our bodies we are talking about here. But I'm not sure I disagree with the idea of teaching abstinence, as it IS the most RESPONSIBLE decision. That being said, we shouldn't make condoms etc. impossible to find for the population of teens who aren't dissuaded from having sex (and there will always be at least a significant number of them). But let's not pretend that it is as/more responsbile than postponing sex until we are more capable of dealing with the consequences.
Sigh, i think you missed parent's point.
Oh some of the outsourcing jobs will go away, but some will stay. Just like in the US, it's not all or none of the jobs that move, it's "marginal" jobs.
What you could get for a quarter million in South Dakota!!
It doesn't say anything about Bush's policy (pro or con) because Bush's policy has nothing to do with this. It is specifically about publicly funded stem cell research using fetus's for material. I don't know specifically what your wife does, but in this case the PERCEPTIONS about US policy may not be in line with reality.
The system file checker is actually useful, but system restore is just crap!
We already do get lots of crops from "south of the border." If you knew anything about agriculture you'd know that. Hell, you'd know it if you read the label. :)
The point is, there is no loss to the economy as a whole. Money has moved and the individual wellbeing of certain people has changed, but the aggregate has not. The aggregate only changes when assets are created/destroyed or when productivity changes.
I don't mean to trivialize the loss of a job, but it's not this movement of jobs that effects us as a whole, that is driven by our ability to be more productive and to accumulate the assets.
If anything the CEO has the opposite effect, since he is in a higher income tax class than the workers who would earn the equivalent amount of money. He probably owns a more expensive house (costing almost as much as the houses of those employees). Sales tax revenue would depend on how big a spender the CEO is (in terms of saving money versus spending) compared to the employees.
But that statement doesn't hold for all wages, which have risen, even during our down times economically. You can't have it both ways regarding "execs" and the rich. It was just fine when they took (by far) the biggest hit (in terms of % change in income) from the economic downturn. But now their earnings are rising much faster than yours, its not ok?
CEO compensation has all sorts of problems associated with it, but don't even try to sell me that "CEO's are getting richer and everyone else is loosing ground pap". People have been selling it for the better part of a century, and history proves them wrong time and again.
Why does everyone think that "our generation was the first." That statement, about living in an unprecidented time, to me is a huge indicator of the poster's own ignorance.
That's true, the "next big thing" is late, but thats not original to this day and age. If you really believe it is, just go and talk to the people who lived during the industrial revolution, or some steel workers or..... Of course what the "next big thing" is, is not obvious to those who just lost their jobs in a different field.
To address the actual point, most native american cultures didn't have the cultural concept of "owning" land like european settlers did. Their culture didn't regard land as property to be owned as we do today. So you can't say they stole it. Native americans pretty much operated under a system of "If you were on it first, it was yours to use until you leave."
This doesn't excuse the of the truly awful treatment native americans were given on many occasions, but you can't say that they "owned" all of present day north america and that the european settlers stole it from them.
Yeah, cause the only reason to have a lighter or matches are if you are a chain smoker....
Yes, but economist's do it continuously and discreetly.
Well that's true, if your software is really that much better than your competitor's. If not, then it's really just an expensive commodity cost, and you ARE better off open sourcing. For most of these productions, the "competitive advantage is your story and animators, not your software.
Parent DID say that heterosexualtiy was promoted on MTV. He said that the only thing they allow in MTV is sex, heterosexual, homosexual. That was his beef; he wasn't even picking on the homosexuals. Go back and read it again.
There is a "Professional Workstation" now for $109 I think. Check the website.
Minix was cooked up be a teacher in order to teach his class. He was scratching an itch.
Hmmm good question. And I was looking forward to E17, being that E was the best and coolest in it's day (before GNOME and KDE were all the rage and *box/XFCE came to dominate the low end).
My level of understanding on this is pretty low, but what differentiates DRI from SHM and DGA?
I read that something similar used to be posted at the desk of one CIA humint handler during the 70s (relating to intelligence operations).
Nah... I believe that's gonna be the eventual name for the Mozilla Suite.