certain government agencies look very carefully at your credit rating when recruiting you)
They don't want people who are easily bribed or blackmailed. If a person has $15,000 in credit card debt and high-risk loans, then they are more easily wooed by foreign agents looking to buy info. Drug addicts would fall into a similar category.
It is also very common for businesses around a military base to give discounts to people with military IDs. This can frequently extend to police, firemen, and paramedics, too.
Programmers could only go to England, Australia, Hawaii and certain (nice) bases in the continental US. Operators could end up anywhere there was a computer, possibly in forward positions, definitely in the middle of the desert in Saudi Arabia.
From what I've seen many contractors don't have the luxury of this distinction. One job I interviewed for had more than one interviewer ask, "So, do you like to travel?" They also said things like, "Since you are a civilian, we can't force you to go, but you would be expected to go" in a way that made people who stayed home sound like communist weenies.
Without getting into the "what is smarts" questions, you can outperform many people if you put some work into it. The kid with the 140 IQ who is addicted to Everquest or thinks learning Klingon is a good way to spend his time will be crushed by the average kid who did his homework that night.
This is absolutely true. This also means that parents to actually manage to create some sort of Frankenstein monster of a kid but can't keep up with their childhood are going to end up with a very intelligent very misguided and very depressed teenager and adult.
I didn't drop out of high school because of the pleasure of being in a class with intellectual equals. Without my gifted classes I wouldn't have the drive to succeed in life.
Do you really and truly think that public school provides anything--anything at all--that is necessary to succeed in life?!? You are placing too much weight in the superindent's decision, as he is just running his bureaucracy into the ground like most schools in the country. If you percieve that you have failed in some way, you are probably looking for causation of any form, and the "gifted" classes being cut looks like a good scapegoat. Gifted classes really do create an awkward social strata in schools, not because of the subject matter, but because of the students, parents, and teachers themselves. If you need stimulation at school, there is always the debate club or something like that. Meanwhile, just enjoy doing the find-a-words in your new-found "English" class.
feed your children a naturally healthy and balanced diet, and it will automatically include the required items.
Not only that, a balanced diet will provide thousands of things (most of which are probably unknown) that the supplements never will. Science, it all its glory, is still in its infancy and is very myopic, especially with respect to nutritian and medicine.
You are very correct. I remember how condescending adults were when I was young, and I remember how it led me to distrust them and become very cynical, which is not good for a child. Adults who think kids can't see straight through their antics are fooling themselves.
I was constantly locked in deep thought. I finally stopped taking it because I got tired of thinking all the time.
Damn, another failed Deep Thought experiment! Will we ever know the answer to the ultimate question? What about the question to the ultimate answer? This is getting very frustrating, folks!
Thousands of parents will be rushing out and getting these supplemets, trying to "help" their unborn children.
The likely outcome is thousands of fucked up kids, who got that way due to a combination of rediculous supplements and rediculous parents.
Just looking at a drug store shelf reveals dozens upon dozens of one-ingredient supplements. Why not just go eat an egg, an apple, and a cup of tea and get them all in one meal? Not to mention that an egg, an apple, and a cup of tea cost pennies, while these supplements can cost anywhere from a nickle to a dollar per pill (times multiple pills).
The only reasonable way to use supplements is to say "damn, I have arthritis in my hands. For this one specific known problem, I suppose I can start taking glucosamine." Taking these supplements out of some sort of magical foresight is just dumb.
Finaly Fantasy would have been half the game it is if it weren't for the story. Gameplay and challenges are also important parts of a game.
Perhaps due to a luxury of huge budgets and big talent, Final Fantasy games tend, on average, to be very well-rounded: graphics, story, music, characters, etc. I say "on average", because I had a lot of trouble connecting with FF8's characters, for example, but the games are generally top-notch otherwise.
Final Fantasy X really bridged the movie and game industries, and the depth of its story rivaled even that of most novels. I could wish the story were a bit less linear, but what they made was so impressive that I soon didn't mind while playing.
It says that this project is the opposite of professional, competent and reliable. It says the software is built by a bunch of amateurs who think a fat, funny penguin is an appropriate logo for promoting their work and the values it represents. Linux is none of these things, but the logo aint helping anyone overcome that prejudice.
I've seen various renditions of the Linux penguin. So, why not a lean muscular confident penguin with a smart suit and cool sunglasses? If this is all business people care about, a fresh new modern stylish penguin is a trivial way to win them over.
If you would have been doing a historial report, he only way an encyclopedia would go out of date would be due to newly declassified material or new theories posited by historians. However, it is unlikely that a school report would need such granularity. A basic report on the Vietnam War could be just as well written in 1985 as in 2005, for example.
My motivation for home schooling would be that I disagree with the curriculum of public schools and the bureaucracy of standardized testing. However, I also worry about friends and socialization. This is probably a common dillema.
IMO, public schools do a terrible job of teaching history and literature, but they do a barely okay job at math and science. I also think the zero-tolerance rules at many schools create a very perverse and highly unnatural environment for socialization. However, home-schooling by conservative born-again submissive-women alcohol-is-hell-spawn Baptists, for example, would be no better. I can just hope I'm more competent than the state government and less bigoted than religious extremists.
To this end, a tangible off-line bound encyclopedia could be a good tool. A child can take a volume of an encyclopedia and just "soak in it." Flipping pages in a book can be a good discovery experience. Just googling for a topic can be less rewarding, because of the amount of time spent sorting through the chaff. As an adult, I can deal with this pretty well, but kids might have less intuition to know what is probably good information and what is bunk.
Some things are healthy for the body, some things are healthy for the mind, and what's good for the body is not necessarily good for the mind and vice-versa.
This is a fallacy, because body and mind are the same thing. The brain ain't exactly abstract.
Syndicate was so disturbing because the main point of the game was to control people through drugs and addictions. People who have no will of their own are very sad, indeed.
If you can't see the difference in the violence in let's say beating up hookers for money (GTA) and historical violence like saving private ryan, the passion, schindler's list, etc, you have a poor sense of perspective.
Depictions of historical violence are much more disturbing yet are much much more important for us to see, because it was real. As I get older, I become more and more suprised at the casualness of documentary series like Discovery Wings, because as nice as B-17s and P-51s were, most became flying graveyards for their crews. What are a tail-gunner's last thoughts as the airplane crumples around him and sinks into 2000 feet of ocean?
Historical violence is glossed over too much, and the more people understand it, the more we understand just how important avoiding war is.
I think the Catholic Priest series peaked with the release of Cradle Robber. However, Online might really take off if its rumoured better graphics and interactive features are for real. We'll just have to wait and see.
So parents whose children have the misfortune of needing expensive medical care must be even more wary.
Why? What does a cap on a malpractice payout have to do with a bum kid who has athsma or leukemia?
The fallacy in most people's attitude regarding health care is that they don't realize that medical care is a limited resource (limited supply of doctors, nurses, drugs, hospital rooms, etc.). Because of these limitations, doctors, also, need to find ways of simply staying in business on top of providing their services. Putting caps on malpractice payouts is a good thing.
Once a person is screwed up enough to require millions of dollars of treatment, then that's just a sad story and nothing--not even money at that point--will fix it. It's called life, even in the 21st century.
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certain government agencies look very carefully at your credit rating when recruiting you)
They don't want people who are easily bribed or blackmailed. If a person has $15,000 in credit card debt and high-risk loans, then they are more easily wooed by foreign agents looking to buy info. Drug addicts would fall into a similar category.
It is also very common for businesses around a military base to give discounts to people with military IDs. This can frequently extend to police, firemen, and paramedics, too.
Yet they got spanked by a much smaller force of tecnologically superior Americans.
15000 lb. fuel bombs and invisible night attack fighters tend to have that effect on people.
Programmers could only go to England, Australia, Hawaii and certain (nice) bases in the continental US. Operators could end up anywhere there was a computer, possibly in forward positions, definitely in the middle of the desert in Saudi Arabia.
From what I've seen many contractors don't have the luxury of this distinction. One job I interviewed for had more than one interviewer ask, "So, do you like to travel?" They also said things like, "Since you are a civilian, we can't force you to go, but you would be expected to go" in a way that made people who stayed home sound like communist weenies.
Without getting into the "what is smarts" questions, you can outperform many people if you put some work into it. The kid with the 140 IQ who is addicted to Everquest or thinks learning Klingon is a good way to spend his time will be crushed by the average kid who did his homework that night.
This is absolutely true. This also means that parents to actually manage to create some sort of Frankenstein monster of a kid but can't keep up with their childhood are going to end up with a very intelligent very misguided and very depressed teenager and adult.
I didn't drop out of high school because of the pleasure of being in a class with intellectual equals. Without my gifted classes I wouldn't have the drive to succeed in life.
Do you really and truly think that public school provides anything--anything at all--that is necessary to succeed in life?!? You are placing too much weight in the superindent's decision, as he is just running his bureaucracy into the ground like most schools in the country. If you percieve that you have failed in some way, you are probably looking for causation of any form, and the "gifted" classes being cut looks like a good scapegoat. Gifted classes really do create an awkward social strata in schools, not because of the subject matter, but because of the students, parents, and teachers themselves. If you need stimulation at school, there is always the debate club or something like that. Meanwhile, just enjoy doing the find-a-words in your new-found "English" class.
feed your children a naturally healthy and balanced diet, and it will automatically include the required items.
Not only that, a balanced diet will provide thousands of things (most of which are probably unknown) that the supplements never will. Science, it all its glory, is still in its infancy and is very myopic, especially with respect to nutritian and medicine.
Don't ever, EVER try to bullshit your kids
You are very correct. I remember how condescending adults were when I was young, and I remember how it led me to distrust them and become very cynical, which is not good for a child. Adults who think kids can't see straight through their antics are fooling themselves.
I was constantly locked in deep thought. I finally stopped taking it because I got tired of thinking all the time.
Damn, another failed Deep Thought experiment! Will we ever know the answer to the ultimate question? What about the question to the ultimate answer? This is getting very frustrating, folks!
Thousands of parents will be rushing out and getting these supplemets, trying to "help" their unborn children.
The likely outcome is thousands of fucked up kids, who got that way due to a combination of rediculous supplements and rediculous parents.
Just looking at a drug store shelf reveals dozens upon dozens of one-ingredient supplements. Why not just go eat an egg, an apple, and a cup of tea and get them all in one meal? Not to mention that an egg, an apple, and a cup of tea cost pennies, while these supplements can cost anywhere from a nickle to a dollar per pill (times multiple pills).
The only reasonable way to use supplements is to say "damn, I have arthritis in my hands. For this one specific known problem, I suppose I can start taking glucosamine." Taking these supplements out of some sort of magical foresight is just dumb.
I could argue that humans were essentially fish eaters, but I doubt things are always that simple.
Once we got stone weapons, I'd bet that we generally ate any kind of meat we could kill and drag back to our caves.
So, the lesson is to feed our kids good wholesome foods. God damn it, why didn't I think of that?!?
Ephedra in it's lesser/other form of Pseudoephedrine HCL makes a very good over-the-counter decongestant.
Finaly Fantasy would have been half the game it is if it weren't for the story. Gameplay and challenges are also important parts of a game.
Perhaps due to a luxury of huge budgets and big talent, Final Fantasy games tend, on average, to be very well-rounded: graphics, story, music, characters, etc. I say "on average", because I had a lot of trouble connecting with FF8's characters, for example, but the games are generally top-notch otherwise.
Final Fantasy X really bridged the movie and game industries, and the depth of its story rivaled even that of most novels. I could wish the story were a bit less linear, but what they made was so impressive that I soon didn't mind while playing.
You must not realize that Sun supports Java on Linux. .NET on Windows; Java on Linux. Oh, Java on Windows, too! .NET can kiss my ass.
It says that this project is the opposite of professional, competent and reliable. It says the software is built by a bunch of amateurs who think a fat, funny penguin is an appropriate logo for promoting their work and the values it represents. Linux is none of these things, but the logo aint helping anyone overcome that prejudice.
I've seen various renditions of the Linux penguin. So, why not a lean muscular confident penguin with a smart suit and cool sunglasses? If this is all business people care about, a fresh new modern stylish penguin is a trivial way to win them over.
If you would have been doing a historial report, he only way an encyclopedia would go out of date would be due to newly declassified material or new theories posited by historians. However, it is unlikely that a school report would need such granularity. A basic report on the Vietnam War could be just as well written in 1985 as in 2005, for example.
My motivation for home schooling would be that I disagree with the curriculum of public schools and the bureaucracy of standardized testing. However, I also worry about friends and socialization. This is probably a common dillema.
IMO, public schools do a terrible job of teaching history and literature, but they do a barely okay job at math and science. I also think the zero-tolerance rules at many schools create a very perverse and highly unnatural environment for socialization. However, home-schooling by conservative born-again submissive-women alcohol-is-hell-spawn Baptists, for example, would be no better. I can just hope I'm more competent than the state government and less bigoted than religious extremists.
To this end, a tangible off-line bound encyclopedia could be a good tool. A child can take a volume of an encyclopedia and just "soak in it." Flipping pages in a book can be a good discovery experience. Just googling for a topic can be less rewarding, because of the amount of time spent sorting through the chaff. As an adult, I can deal with this pretty well, but kids might have less intuition to know what is probably good information and what is bunk.
Some things are healthy for the body, some things are healthy for the mind, and what's good for the body is not necessarily good for the mind and vice-versa.
This is a fallacy, because body and mind are the same thing. The brain ain't exactly abstract.
The makers of Civet Coffee take "Damn, this stuff tastes like shit!" as a complement. Weird.
It wasn't the prostitute. Your 7-year-old nephews STDs simply went into remission.
Syndicate was so disturbing because the main point of the game was to control people through drugs and addictions. People who have no will of their own are very sad, indeed.
If you can't see the difference in the violence in let's say beating up hookers for money (GTA) and historical violence like saving private ryan, the passion, schindler's list, etc, you have a poor sense of perspective.
Depictions of historical violence are much more disturbing yet are much much more important for us to see, because it was real. As I get older, I become more and more suprised at the casualness of documentary series like Discovery Wings, because as nice as B-17s and P-51s were, most became flying graveyards for their crews. What are a tail-gunner's last thoughts as the airplane crumples around him and sinks into 2000 feet of ocean?
Historical violence is glossed over too much, and the more people understand it, the more we understand just how important avoiding war is.
Catholic Priest Online
I think the Catholic Priest series peaked with the release of Cradle Robber. However, Online might really take off if its rumoured better graphics and interactive features are for real. We'll just have to wait and see.
So parents whose children have the misfortune of needing expensive medical care must be even more wary.
Why? What does a cap on a malpractice payout have to do with a bum kid who has athsma or leukemia?
The fallacy in most people's attitude regarding health care is that they don't realize that medical care is a limited resource (limited supply of doctors, nurses, drugs, hospital rooms, etc.). Because of these limitations, doctors, also, need to find ways of simply staying in business on top of providing their services. Putting caps on malpractice payouts is a good thing.
Once a person is screwed up enough to require millions of dollars of treatment, then that's just a sad story and nothing--not even money at that point--will fix it. It's called life, even in the 21st century.