I already had to worry about terrorists, killer bees, violent video games, and the War on Christmas, and now I have to worry about random supernovas in empty space.
:checks the sky for supernovas before walking outside:
Since this is a high-school class, I assume you're not expecting them to leave with something they can put on their resume. By the time they're in the job market, the software will have shifted yet again. Therefore, anything that illustrates the basic principles will do.
That said, it looks like you have a choice between Gimp and Photoshop, no real alternative to Flash 5, possible alternatives to MovieMaker, and as for Dreamweaver, the only advantage it has over hand-coded HTML + CSS is in saved time, and even then, only for people who already know HTML + CSS and can fix any problems that Dreamweaver creates.
Some areas of Alabama have among the nation's highest income to cost-of-living ratios. Huntsville has the nation's highest concentration of engineers and PhDs. Birmingham attracts surgeons and medical researchers from all over the world. They may be transplants, but they're here now, and they're unlikely to leave.
Sometimes the (conservative) politics and (evangelical) religion get me down, but the conservatism of the South doesn't necessarily mean Bush conservatism, and Southern Baptism is more often inherited than converted to. The vast majority of suburban Alabamians don't give a crap about gay marriage (for instance) one way or another.
The rural Dukes of Hazard wasteland you're probably thinking about can still be found, but only far away from population centers. On the other hand, a native of Greenwich Village would probably feel at home on the Southside of Birmingham as long as they didn't listen to talk radio.
I think it's a mistake for social liberals to consider abortion an unquestionably liberal thing to support. Unlike free speech, gay rights, so on and so forth, abortion is not necessarily victimless. It's not a question of whether you do or don't support individual freedom. It's a question of when a collection of cells becomes an individual. If someone wants to err on the side of not-murdering versus not-ruining-a-young-woman's-next-twenty-years, that shouldn't pigeonhole them them as authoritarians.
If you're implying that Backstreet Boys are popular because their fans pay for albums whereas the fans of more obscure bands do not, your reasoning is flawed. For one thing, as a band approaches obscurity, it would be increasingly difficult to find a p2p seed for their material. For another thing, taste tends to broaden with age, as do people's paychecks, making them more likely to turn to the more convenient amazon.com rather than lurking for hours in search of a seed for an early Bob Dylan album. Thirdly, label-constructed boy bands already dominated the airwaves before the advent of p2p.
It's more likely that the Backstreet Boys dominate the radio because if you want to make a lot of money with only one act or one station, your best bet is to appeal to large groups of people with homogenous tastes - not various groups of people with differing tastes.
In fact, leaving the low-bandwidth medium of radio to lowest common denominator acts and promoting more nuanced bands through the internet is probably the best way to do it from everyone's perspective. It's a waste of time for the labels to take on small bands, and it's a waste of time for the small bands to try to get signed to labels who aren't interested in them.
Otherwise no one would take the Democratic Party seriously. They'd be powerless. Impotent. Laughable. They could run a Nobel Peace prize winner against a guy who can't say "nuclear," and still lose. But by quashing Colbert's bid, they retain their power and dignity.
It'll never happen as long as the religious anti-any-science-that-my-holy-book-says-is-wrong crowd continues to hold any real weight in American politics.
And without that segment, what would there be to debate?
Our credulity is not surprising...
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...given the fact that we only use ten percent of our brains.:)
Self replies are lame, I know - but there's an important corollary to this trend: If fighting for privacy is doomed to be a losing battle, then you should instead be fighting for a society in which you have an unchallenged right to whatever political thought or harmless-but-embarrassing habit you think you need privacy for.
In short - a culture in which people who have done nothing wrong really don't have anything to hide.
Privacy is dead. The only way to keep the playing field level is to make sure everyone has access.
This is exactly the point made by a book by David Brin: The Transparent Society. As bugging gets cheaper and easier, maintaining current standards of privacy is going to become increasingly unrealistic. What we really should be doing, he argues, is enabling people to "spy" on their supposedly publicly accountable government.
It's not because he is for the liberals or because he is for the conservatives...it's because he is declaring a "side" as "winning".
It was a careless post, but only because I characterized government accountability as "liberal." Neoconservative methods are incompatible with liberal (in the classical sense) democracy. They are a team, and when they win, society loses.
Might be hard to believe, but a lot of conservatives aren't happy with the way things have been going throughout this administration.
I have to believe that most conservatives are happier with the corruption of the Bush administration than they would have been with electing a Democrat - or even another Republican - in 2004.
...and though it's a bit disorienting at first, I feel refreshed and rejuvenated.
I can't wait to get back to work on the Bush campaign and hopefully undo the terrible excesses of the Clinton administration, with its scandalous pardons, ATF thuggery, and Constitution-trampling Anti-Terrorist Omnibus Act.
I'm glad someone added the slashdotliberalwhining tag.
I can't tell you how much it bothers me when some whiny liberal drags out another tinfoil-hat theory about how "Big Business" is trying to manipulate public opinion by obfuscating facts, or how some (ooh!) big, scary police state is abusing its powers.
We're an established first-world country with a tradition of freedom, and it's not as if we're ever going to slip into fascism like the Germany or Italy of last century, or into a police state like modern China or Russia, or into a gilded age aristocracy like every country in the Americas except the United States and Canada.
So relax, whiny liberals. Such dangers are unheard of. If we seem to be slipping in any of those directions, just shut up and take it like a conservative - silently and complacently, without a doubt in your mind that no matter how badly things seem to be going, our superiors have things well in hand. Only losers whine about truth and decency. If you're a winner, you'll cheer for the winning side, no matter how repugnant its aims.
You'd think a vastly advanced alien civilization would produce better spaceship pilots - but it seems like everyone who has ever visited has crashed in some area too secluded for witnesses.
Perhaps their disproportionately bulbous guitar pick-shaped heads crumple atop their spindly bodies when they enter Earth's gravity well.
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You need a genetic sample [of Christ]
Acquire a Catholic who has just taken communion and induce him to vomit, thereby producing a viable sample of body and blood.
Who says science and faith aren't compatible?
As we get more people into atheism and computing, the demand for those same people grows.
Where is there a demand for both atheism and computing? I want to move there today, before Slashdotters drive the property prices up.
Now that all dairies use it, pasteurization doesn't give any dairy an advantage over any other. Clearly, pasteurization is dead.
The Macintosh started with a larger user base. Taking that into account, the percentage of increase is 25% larger for Linux than for OS X.
Take heart: Apple is actually killing Linux slightly less than it used to.
I already had to worry about terrorists, killer bees, violent video games, and the War on Christmas, and now I have to worry about random supernovas in empty space.
:checks the sky for supernovas before walking outside:
In light of this, should we be afraid of Service Pack 3 being designed to make Windows XP worse?
Since this is a high-school class, I assume you're not expecting them to leave with something they can put on their resume. By the time they're in the job market, the software will have shifted yet again. Therefore, anything that illustrates the basic principles will do.
That said, it looks like you have a choice between Gimp and Photoshop, no real alternative to Flash 5, possible alternatives to MovieMaker, and as for Dreamweaver, the only advantage it has over hand-coded HTML + CSS is in saved time, and even then, only for people who already know HTML + CSS and can fix any problems that Dreamweaver creates.
Some areas of Alabama have among the nation's highest income to cost-of-living ratios. Huntsville has the nation's highest concentration of engineers and PhDs. Birmingham attracts surgeons and medical researchers from all over the world. They may be transplants, but they're here now, and they're unlikely to leave.
Sometimes the (conservative) politics and (evangelical) religion get me down, but the conservatism of the South doesn't necessarily mean Bush conservatism, and Southern Baptism is more often inherited than converted to. The vast majority of suburban Alabamians don't give a crap about gay marriage (for instance) one way or another.
The rural Dukes of Hazard wasteland you're probably thinking about can still be found, but only far away from population centers. On the other hand, a native of Greenwich Village would probably feel at home on the Southside of Birmingham as long as they didn't listen to talk radio.
I think it's a mistake for social liberals to consider abortion an unquestionably liberal thing to support. Unlike free speech, gay rights, so on and so forth, abortion is not necessarily victimless. It's not a question of whether you do or don't support individual freedom. It's a question of when a collection of cells becomes an individual. If someone wants to err on the side of not-murdering versus not-ruining-a-young-woman's-next-twenty-years, that shouldn't pigeonhole them them as authoritarians.
As the CEO of a successful chain of churches, I can tell you that our televangelists are much more lucrative than our traditional ones.
There will always be a few however, who take exception at everything. there's no helping these individuals.
I'm one of those individuals, you insensitive clod!
If you're implying that Backstreet Boys are popular because their fans pay for albums whereas the fans of more obscure bands do not, your reasoning is flawed. For one thing, as a band approaches obscurity, it would be increasingly difficult to find a p2p seed for their material. For another thing, taste tends to broaden with age, as do people's paychecks, making them more likely to turn to the more convenient amazon.com rather than lurking for hours in search of a seed for an early Bob Dylan album. Thirdly, label-constructed boy bands already dominated the airwaves before the advent of p2p.
It's more likely that the Backstreet Boys dominate the radio because if you want to make a lot of money with only one act or one station, your best bet is to appeal to large groups of people with homogenous tastes - not various groups of people with differing tastes.
In fact, leaving the low-bandwidth medium of radio to lowest common denominator acts and promoting more nuanced bands through the internet is probably the best way to do it from everyone's perspective. It's a waste of time for the labels to take on small bands, and it's a waste of time for the small bands to try to get signed to labels who aren't interested in them.
The bill, if passed, would make online gambling punishable by up to 2 years in prison and $25k in fines.
Because without this measure, gambling fathers will put their families in incredible debt.
Otherwise no one would take the Democratic Party seriously. They'd be powerless. Impotent. Laughable. They could run a Nobel Peace prize winner against a guy who can't say "nuclear," and still lose. But by quashing Colbert's bid, they retain their power and dignity.
If you haven't done anything wrong, then you have nowhere to hide!
Whoops - I mean nothing. Nothing to hide.
It'll never happen as long as the religious anti-any-science-that-my-holy-book-says-is-wrong crowd continues to hold any real weight in American politics.
And without that segment, what would there be to debate?
...given the fact that we only use ten percent of our brains. :)
Self replies are lame, I know - but there's an important corollary to this trend: If fighting for privacy is doomed to be a losing battle, then you should instead be fighting for a society in which you have an unchallenged right to whatever political thought or harmless-but-embarrassing habit you think you need privacy for.
In short - a culture in which people who have done nothing wrong really don't have anything to hide.
Privacy is dead. The only way to keep the playing field level is to make sure everyone has access.
This is exactly the point made by a book by David Brin: The Transparent Society. As bugging gets cheaper and easier, maintaining current standards of privacy is going to become increasingly unrealistic. What we really should be doing, he argues, is enabling people to "spy" on their supposedly publicly accountable government.
It's not because he is for the liberals or because he is for the conservatives...it's because he is declaring a "side" as "winning".
It was a careless post, but only because I characterized government accountability as "liberal." Neoconservative methods are incompatible with liberal (in the classical sense) democracy. They are a team, and when they win, society loses.
Might be hard to believe, but a lot of conservatives aren't happy with the way things have been going throughout this administration.
I have to believe that most conservatives are happier with the corruption of the Bush administration than they would have been with electing a Democrat - or even another Republican - in 2004.
How about slashdotliberalwinning , to signify that we finally are?
...and though it's a bit disorienting at first, I feel refreshed and rejuvenated.
I can't wait to get back to work on the Bush campaign and hopefully undo the terrible excesses of the Clinton administration, with its scandalous pardons, ATF thuggery, and Constitution-trampling Anti-Terrorist Omnibus Act.
I'm glad someone added the slashdotliberalwhining tag.
I can't tell you how much it bothers me when some whiny liberal drags out another tinfoil-hat theory about how "Big Business" is trying to manipulate public opinion by obfuscating facts, or how some (ooh!) big, scary police state is abusing its powers.
We're an established first-world country with a tradition of freedom, and it's not as if we're ever going to slip into fascism like the Germany or Italy of last century, or into a police state like modern China or Russia, or into a gilded age aristocracy like every country in the Americas except the United States and Canada.
So relax, whiny liberals. Such dangers are unheard of. If we seem to be slipping in any of those directions, just shut up and take it like a conservative - silently and complacently, without a doubt in your mind that no matter how badly things seem to be going, our superiors have things well in hand. Only losers whine about truth and decency. If you're a winner, you'll cheer for the winning side, no matter how repugnant its aims.
You'd think a vastly advanced alien civilization would produce better spaceship pilots - but it seems like everyone who has ever visited has crashed in some area too secluded for witnesses.
Perhaps their disproportionately bulbous guitar pick-shaped heads crumple atop their spindly bodies when they enter Earth's gravity well.