The thing that stood out from my gym class (aside from being made to do sommersaults with a neck fusion) was my gym instructor yelling at me for doing a 13 minute mile and telling me to do it again. No advice on technique. No training before the test. Just a test and grief over poor running performance.
It meant far more to my son that he beat me 5 points to 4 in a sparring match than it did when he came in "2nd" at the region martial arts championships.
I just hope your son doesn't confuse his training with any sort of combat application. No serious combat system uses points. Point taken, though (heh).
Every time I hear George W Bush mangle a word or a phrase (in other words, just about every time he opens his mouth), I have to carefully recall that my dislike of the man needs to be based upon his inability to be a president who benefits society, rather than his inability to speak the language. Incorrect use, even when quite common, is transparent only to the least competent members of society.
If it makes you feel better, that's an affectation - GW can speak, and he does it well when he thinks nobody's recording.
I'm sorry that your college sucks. I graduated in 1998 from a decent university, and the stuff they taught was the full strength CS stuff and covered most of an entry level MS degree (basically, the core courses) in addition to what you expect of undergrad stuff. I guess it helps that Dave Musser was my prog lang professor.
Of course, your bizarre assumption that all British Muslims are foreign-born immigrants rather reveals your own prejudices, doesn't it?
Or he's paying attention. A lot of Muslims are moving to the UK and other EU countries specifically so that they can outnumber the locals and change the law.
OK. To put it mildly, you're really scared of Islam.
No, he's shit scared of Sharia law, as well he could be. Sharia is the crazy uncle locked in Islam's attic - it's brutal and backwards and should be resisted at any cost.
Rent storage unit, rent a u-haul, put everything in said u-haul and the put everything in storage unit (optional: pay someone to help carry the heavy things). Temporary housing can be a hotel/motel at worst but other options exist, not perfect options but many do exist in any location especially when "closeness to work" is no longer a restriction.
Just to sabotage my own comment: in the 2001 meltdown, the Bay area was out of uhauls for the entire summer. During the peak of the boom, there was no housing available. I mean zero. My boss lived there then and he had a decent job, but slept in the park while he looked for housing.
Paranoid much? These are tech companies, not mining towns, and people can jump ship at a moment's notice. Also, squeezing people like that makes them dishonest, so it's not advisable even when you can get away with it.
I don't want to change any of that. All I want is to require that people born here must have a parent that's a citizen in order to be citizens. We can skirt the situation where 1st gens have a kid while still residents by allowing the natural-born status to be conferred retroactively if the parents become citizens before the kid turns 8 (or something) and the kid was born here in the first place.
Why should my son, a US citizen from birth (and a citizen of no other country) be barred from becoming president simply because of the location of his birth?
That issue isn't settled - Goldwater was born in a territory, but never elected. Basically, if your son is born to US citizens outside the country, he may or may not be eligible.
How many countries will refuse entry to a child born abroad while accompanied by parents? Mexico won't, and they're by far the largest case - not many chinese people sneak into the country while 8 1/2 months poregnant so they can have the child on US soil.
I'm actually surprised that you have to ask, even though you are an American. I thought you people were supposed to believe that "All men are born equal under God"
That's got nothing to do with it.
That people who can't immediately contribute to profit making are dirt and don't deserve a fair go?
Basically. If you want to show up in the country and live here, be prepared to demonstrate some useful skill. This ain't a charity.
What, like boogey men? I just don't see the situation you're describing.
Gang members and criminals, or haven't you been paying attention?
I see a bunch of selfish, paranoid Yanks, treating the rest of the world like shit.
So now exercising border control is treating the world like shit. Bite me.
And what about all of the other countries in the world? There'd need to be agreements with all of them.
What for? It isn't our problem. It's a nasty problem to be stateless, but this is by far a minority case.
If two parents from China have a baby in the US, since he was not born in China, then the Chinese government isn't required to give him Chinese citizenship
nope. This is only the case if both parents have settled here (unclear from the text of the bill I linked, but could be interpreted as getting a US naturalization). Even so, this isn't our problem - our job is to act in our interests and stay out of foreign affairs unless they intrude upon us (read: don't go around stirring shit up). Right now, we have a problem with largely unchecked mexican illegal aliens (they aren't immigrants - they don't even respect our laws), and I think requiring at least one parent to be a citizen as condition of the child being a citizen is a reasonable thing to expect.
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The thing that stood out from my gym class (aside from being made to do sommersaults with a neck fusion) was my gym instructor yelling at me for doing a 13 minute mile and telling me to do it again. No advice on technique. No training before the test. Just a test and grief over poor running performance.
It meant far more to my son that he beat me 5 points to 4 in a sparring match than it did when he came in "2nd" at the region martial arts championships.
I just hope your son doesn't confuse his training with any sort of combat application. No serious combat system uses points. Point taken, though (heh).
Or you could play soccer. Or golf or tennis or swimming ir track or gymnastics.
Every time I hear George W Bush mangle a word or a phrase (in other words, just about every time he opens his mouth), I have to carefully recall that my dislike of the man needs to be based upon his inability to be a president who benefits society, rather than his inability to speak the language. Incorrect use, even when quite common, is transparent only to the least competent members of society.
If it makes you feel better, that's an affectation - GW can speak, and he does it well when he thinks nobody's recording.
I'm sorry that your college sucks. I graduated in 1998 from a decent university, and the stuff they taught was the full strength CS stuff and covered most of an entry level MS degree (basically, the core courses) in addition to what you expect of undergrad stuff. I guess it helps that Dave Musser was my prog lang professor.
Don't kid yourself - Glocks are reliable under almost any level of abuse, but they aren't that accurate. Get a SOCOM .45 when you're ready to play :)
Of course, your bizarre assumption that all British Muslims are foreign-born immigrants rather reveals your own prejudices, doesn't it?
Or he's paying attention. A lot of Muslims are moving to the UK and other EU countries specifically so that they can outnumber the locals and change the law.
OK. To put it mildly, you're really scared of Islam.
No, he's shit scared of Sharia law, as well he could be. Sharia is the crazy uncle locked in Islam's attic - it's brutal and backwards and should be resisted at any cost.
The UN predicts several centimeters of raised sea-level over the coming century. That's what you're concerned about?
If the oceans warm much, the gulf stream might shut off. I suppose that's at least signifigant.
You'd get the same reaction if you said, "I think homosexuality is a conscious choice." Is it really?
But would anybody try to kill you?
What, do you actually think people will go get more abortions so they can harvest stem cells? Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds?
Rent storage unit, rent a u-haul, put everything in said u-haul and the put everything in storage unit (optional: pay someone to help carry the heavy things). Temporary housing can be a hotel/motel at worst but other options exist, not perfect options but many do exist in any location especially when "closeness to work" is no longer a restriction.
Just to sabotage my own comment: in the 2001 meltdown, the Bay area was out of uhauls for the entire summer. During the peak of the boom, there was no housing available. I mean zero. My boss lived there then and he had a decent job, but slept in the park while he looked for housing.
But yeah, what you said most of the time.
Paranoid much? These are tech companies, not mining towns, and people can jump ship at a moment's notice. Also, squeezing people like that makes them dishonest, so it's not advisable even when you can get away with it.
Except in the case of SCO, the train is heading for a compact car, and we're all rooting for the train.
Don't we always?
the completely absurd assertion in my post that "the fascist constituency [are] those that passionately care about rail transport".
To be honest, I've seen weirder stuff here that people actually believed.
:) It's slashdot - nobody has a sense of humor.
I've never seen a political party base its platform on the railroad time schedule
It's a Mussolini reference, you doof. And he didn't make the trains run on time either.
Hey, if you can make people believe Saddam planned 9/11, you can make them believe anything. I like this game - s'fun.
Ok, so are you proposing either a Constitutional Amendment or excluding such children from jurisdiction?
I'm saying that an ammendment is just fine. I don't get where that diplomatic immunity came from.
Smug, self-assured pricks with attitude
...is the basis of their appeal
I don't want to change any of that. All I want is to require that people born here must have a parent that's a citizen in order to be citizens. We can skirt the situation where 1st gens have a kid while still residents by allowing the natural-born status to be conferred retroactively if the parents become citizens before the kid turns 8 (or something) and the kid was born here in the first place.
Why should my son, a US citizen from birth (and a citizen of no other country) be barred from becoming president simply because of the location of his birth?
That issue isn't settled - Goldwater was born in a territory, but never elected. Basically, if your son is born to US citizens outside the country, he may or may not be eligible.
How many countries will refuse entry to a child born abroad while accompanied by parents? Mexico won't, and they're by far the largest case - not many chinese people sneak into the country while 8 1/2 months poregnant so they can have the child on US soil.
I'm actually surprised that you have to ask, even though you are an American. I thought you people were supposed to believe that "All men are born equal under God"
That's got nothing to do with it.
That people who can't immediately contribute to profit making are dirt and don't deserve a fair go?
Basically. If you want to show up in the country and live here, be prepared to demonstrate some useful skill. This ain't a charity.
What, like boogey men? I just don't see the situation you're describing.
Gang members and criminals, or haven't you been paying attention?
I see a bunch of selfish, paranoid Yanks, treating the rest of the world like shit.
So now exercising border control is treating the world like shit. Bite me.
And what about all of the other countries in the world? There'd need to be agreements with all of them.
What for? It isn't our problem. It's a nasty problem to be stateless, but this is by far a minority case.
If two parents from China have a baby in the US, since he was not born in China, then the Chinese government isn't required to give him Chinese citizenship
nope. This is only the case if both parents have settled here (unclear from the text of the bill I linked, but could be interpreted as getting a US naturalization). Even so, this isn't our problem - our job is to act in our interests and stay out of foreign affairs unless they intrude upon us (read: don't go around stirring shit up). Right now, we have a problem with largely unchecked mexican illegal aliens (they aren't immigrants - they don't even respect our laws), and I think requiring at least one parent to be a citizen as condition of the child being a citizen is a reasonable thing to expect.
Millions of Indians were used in the beta testing for Vista
I wonder if that's some sort of war crime.