I agree whole-heartedly. It was in 4th grade that my bad math habits set in, when I realized that all we had been doing all year was multiply things over and over, for hours every day, even though I could demonstrate perfect mastery of multiplication. I was on my own figuring out the basic ideas of more advanced math and feeling unjustifiable smug about my own smartness. The lessons I "learned" was that everyone was stupider than me, I could learn everything on my own without help, and hard work was pointless. These lessons somehow failed to serve me well later in life.
I think he must have gone to school somewhere closer to me (California). Very little in your post resembles what I remember from High School. Calculus was not offered at either of the high schools I attended. Nor was there any such thing as second year Chemistry or Physics (there was one level only of Chemistry, Biology, and Physics).
Math was taught in the following progression, each class lasted one year and there was no way to speed it up. You could slow it down by taking by flunking a class or by taking "Advanced Arithmetic" in Seventh Grade instead of starting pre-Algebra (which I did because I was refusing to do "pointless homework" and my grades were starting to suffer from zeros on homework, even though I consistently aced all math tests).
Kindergarden - no real math
1st Grade - Counting, concept of "tens-place" "hundred-place", etc
2nd Grade - Addition
3rd Grade - Subtraction
4th Grade - Multiplication
5th Grade - Simple Division
6th Grade - Long Division, fractions, Decimals, etc
7th Grade - Pre-Algebra
8th Grade - Algebra
9th Grade - Geometry
10th Grade - Trigonometry
11th Grade - Pre-Calculus
12th Grade - no math class required, unless you had flunked somewhere along the way
Graduating required 3 math classes be taken in High School (grades 9-12), it didn't really matter what math classes. As I mentioned above, I tracked over into "Advanced Arithmetic" in 7th grade, and in 8th grade I flunked pre-algebra (aced the tests but refused to do any homework), so I graduated high school never having taken even pre-calculus.
The main problem is this. There is nothing that I enjoy doing 40+ hours per week. And the really big problem is that even things I do enjoy doing, I hate doing to someone else's schedule. I really like building things with LEGO, for example, so should I go apply for a job at LEGOLAND (as if I would really get such a coveted job)? I bet I would hate it just as much as my current job, because I'm not always in the mood to build things with LEGO, starting at 8:00am and ending at 5:00pm (or whatever hours LEGOLAND builders work).
And that's the thing about jobs, someone else is relying on your output. So you need to adjust to their wants and needs. And that's the part that sucks.
Also, there is no way to "quit your job, live off social security..." Social Security only pays out when you reach retirement age (and you notice, most people do quit as soon as they are eligible for retirement benefits). Welfare is what you would get as a working age person, and unless you have dependent kids they cut you off after 5 years (cumulative for your lifetime) and leave you to starve to death.
I like how you deliberately conflated the to different actors here when you described intent. Well done!
For those of you who are confused as to why exactly the poster's argument isn't correct, Lori accidentally (maybe) caused Megan to intentionally do something. Lori and Megan have different values of intent/lack of intent.
And yes, anytime you argue from the definition of words (suicides are always intentional by definition - negligence is always accidental by definition) then that is exactly what a semantic quibble is.
That description both enlightened me and confused me more (as someone who has never used twitter and doesn't know how it works).
I get why MSN(or whatever IM) greetings are useful, they throw potential conversation topics up so you can ask your friends "How was your trip down to San Diego?" or "Are you still swamped at work with that project?" because you know what they've been up to recently by casually scanning the contact list whenever you happen to be on.
But I'm also more confused now, Twitter uses SMS messages, right? I wouldn't want my phone beeping at me all day and night demanding my attention everytime someone I know in Malaysia changes their status from "Feeling sick today" to "Feeling a bit better now"
How does "everyone lose" in that scenario? I think life would be much better for everyone if people gave up the sick dream of living like a king in a giant mansion full of wasteful luxury goods.
This insane greed to accumulate immense personal wealth is what drives our hell-hole jobs. After all, one doesn't become a multi-millionaire from their individual contributions. Making that amount of money requires being at the top of a large organization so you can skim off the labor of others. So whenever you get orders from your employer that you "must" work long hours, stay late, put in a massive effort, etc. remember that this is "necessary" so people at the top can "strive for the lifestyle they want". If the lifestyle they were striving for was unobtainable, they could relax and not have to push so hard for productivity. A definite win for the common wage/salary earner.
I think it would be a win for the mansion-owners themselves too (though they are unlikely to realize or admit it). I'm sure they still find themselves bored/angry/unhappy much of the time despite having lots of great stuff. Studies have shown that once you get out of poverty, getting more stuff doesn't really improve actual happiness much. I think you really are "better off to earn less", in any event everyone else is certainly better off without you pushing them for more.
But there is no "line" for your average Jose to wait in. The only legal option for a would-be fruit picker from Mexico (unless they have spouse, child, or parent already legally in the USA) is to just stay in their poor, corrupt country and forget about making a better life for themselves and their family.
You all do realize that "czar" is just the media's nickname for these positions, right?
The real title of all the "czars" is usually something along the lines of "Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of [government department] and Adjunct Liaison to [some other government department] for Matters of [some issue currently in the headlines]"
For me, that's the whole issue. When my ancestors arrived, they just showed up at Ellis Island, filled out some paperwork, and were let in. I'd like to see some poor Mexican migrant worker show up at the border crossing and ask for the form to legally enter the USA. I wonder how long it would take for the border agents to stop laughing.
For all those people who keep saying the illegals should just follow the proper procedure, you need to realized for your "average Jose" there is no process that would allow them to enter legally.
What channels are those? When I was seriously dating a foreigner, I looked into what it would take for her to legal immigrate to the US. Basically, I would have had to marry her. The only channels for legally immigrating to the US are 1)Have an immediate family member already here legally (parent, child, spouse, or soon-to-be-spouse) or 2)Be a full time employee of a large corporation (with a staff of lawyers) that wants you here (H1B, corporate transfers).
There is no visa category that would allow for tamale-selling entrepreneurs, farm helpers who move from field to field as work becomes available, or guys who hang out in the hardware store and offer to to help you move heavy furniture or fix up your garden.
I was thinking the same thing. My first reaction to quotation marks nowadays is to think the words are sarcastic or a euphemism or in some way not exactly true.
I think we need to come up with some different punctuation marks to distinguish quotes for not-quite-true and quotes that are actually, you know, quoting someone.
Seconded,
I'm 36 and I the only "childhood" disease left in my time was chicken pox. I never heard of anyone else getting any of the other diseases. I also remember there was a big line you had to go though before starting Kindergarten where they checked your vaccination records, and gave you a a shot of anything you were missing.
I remember that day all too well, as my medical records had been lost (ouch!), it was rather traumatic for me as a 5 year old.
Making ice, melting salt, and running pumps are methods for storing energy (like a battery) so when you are making too much power you can save up the excess and extract it later when you are producing too little power.
The poster wasn't suggesting that power companies become molten salt salesmen.
I'm no physicist, but my instincts as an electrical engineer tell me that the flux lines from the north poles would wedge themselves into the cracks between each of the pieces in an effort to close the loop. Probably this very dense flux would forcibly re-magnetize the edges of each iron piece so that the surface of the assembled sphere would be S in the middle of each piece and N all around the edges.
Any physicists want to chip in and confirm or debunk this?
Its still not a 'special' right though. If same-sex marriage became legal, everyone would gain the right to marry someone of the same sex.
Of course, straight people probably wouldn't want to actually exercise that right, but we would have it. It wouldn't be all that useful to us, but then neither is the right to marry opposite-sex people very useful to gays.
Saying gays want a 'special' right implies that only they will receive it, when in fact it would mean more freedom for everyone. Why would anyone oppose more freedom?
God sending his angel of death to kill every innocent first-born child of Egypt just because some Pharaoh was a dickhead;
Its worse than that, God forced the Pharaoh to be a dickhead. God "hardened his [the Pharaoh's] heart" so the Pharaoh would make the "wrong" decision (so much for free will) so God would have an excuse to show off his baby-killing powers. God directly tells Moses that this is what He is doing.
How did you get to the point of dating if you could break up over a seatbelt?
Er...considering that dating is the beginning most point of a relationship, where you start to learn if there are any issues that might make you incompatible (like say seatbelt issues) I don't get the question here. How do you "get to the point of dating" when dating is pretty much the first point in the spectrum?
I don't go to theaters much anymore, but I've promised myself that if I ever do see one of these commercials I'm going to loudly sing "Yo Ho! Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me!" which is both on-topic and as a public performance is a copyright violation in and of itself.
I wish that was true, but it isn't. Remember that atheist dad who went all the way to the Supreme Court over the "under God" part of the Pledge of Allegiance? When they found out he didn't have legal custody of the kid, they dropped the case since he had no standing to sue (since it wasn't "his" kid legally, he wasn't personally "harmed").
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I agree whole-heartedly. It was in 4th grade that my bad math habits set in, when I realized that all we had been doing all year was multiply things over and over, for hours every day, even though I could demonstrate perfect mastery of multiplication. I was on my own figuring out the basic ideas of more advanced math and feeling unjustifiable smug about my own smartness. The lessons I "learned" was that everyone was stupider than me, I could learn everything on my own without help, and hard work was pointless. These lessons somehow failed to serve me well later in life.
I think he must have gone to school somewhere closer to me (California). Very little in your post resembles what I remember from High School. Calculus was not offered at either of the high schools I attended. Nor was there any such thing as second year Chemistry or Physics (there was one level only of Chemistry, Biology, and Physics).
Math was taught in the following progression, each class lasted one year and there was no way to speed it up. You could slow it down by taking by flunking a class or by taking "Advanced Arithmetic" in Seventh Grade instead of starting pre-Algebra (which I did because I was refusing to do "pointless homework" and my grades were starting to suffer from zeros on homework, even though I consistently aced all math tests).
Kindergarden - no real math
1st Grade - Counting, concept of "tens-place" "hundred-place", etc
2nd Grade - Addition
3rd Grade - Subtraction
4th Grade - Multiplication
5th Grade - Simple Division
6th Grade - Long Division, fractions, Decimals, etc
7th Grade - Pre-Algebra
8th Grade - Algebra
9th Grade - Geometry
10th Grade - Trigonometry
11th Grade - Pre-Calculus
12th Grade - no math class required, unless you had flunked somewhere along the way
Graduating required 3 math classes be taken in High School (grades 9-12), it didn't really matter what math classes. As I mentioned above, I tracked over into "Advanced Arithmetic" in 7th grade, and in 8th grade I flunked pre-algebra (aced the tests but refused to do any homework), so I graduated high school never having taken even pre-calculus.
Personally, I'm still pissed that they call it "The Pound Sign"
It's a "Number Sign" dammit! and its nickname is "Hatch" (same as the asterisk's nickname is "Star").
A "Pound Sign" is the scripty L that brittish people use to denote money
I know, I'm over two decades late to fix this attrocity, but I've been complaining since they introduced voice menu things back in the mid-eighties.
The main problem is this. There is nothing that I enjoy doing 40+ hours per week. And the really big problem is that even things I do enjoy doing, I hate doing to someone else's schedule. I really like building things with LEGO, for example, so should I go apply for a job at LEGOLAND (as if I would really get such a coveted job)? I bet I would hate it just as much as my current job, because I'm not always in the mood to build things with LEGO, starting at 8:00am and ending at 5:00pm (or whatever hours LEGOLAND builders work).
And that's the thing about jobs, someone else is relying on your output. So you need to adjust to their wants and needs. And that's the part that sucks.
Also, there is no way to "quit your job, live off social security..." Social Security only pays out when you reach retirement age (and you notice, most people do quit as soon as they are eligible for retirement benefits). Welfare is what you would get as a working age person, and unless you have dependent kids they cut you off after 5 years (cumulative for your lifetime) and leave you to starve to death.
I like how you deliberately conflated the to different actors here when you described intent. Well done!
For those of you who are confused as to why exactly the poster's argument isn't correct, Lori accidentally (maybe) caused Megan to intentionally do something. Lori and Megan have different values of intent/lack of intent.
And yes, anytime you argue from the definition of words (suicides are always intentional by definition - negligence is always accidental by definition) then that is exactly what a semantic quibble is.
That description both enlightened me and confused me more (as someone who has never used twitter and doesn't know how it works).
I get why MSN(or whatever IM) greetings are useful, they throw potential conversation topics up so you can ask your friends "How was your trip down to San Diego?" or "Are you still swamped at work with that project?" because you know what they've been up to recently by casually scanning the contact list whenever you happen to be on.
But I'm also more confused now, Twitter uses SMS messages, right? I wouldn't want my phone beeping at me all day and night demanding my attention everytime someone I know in Malaysia changes their status from "Feeling sick today" to "Feeling a bit better now"
How does "everyone lose" in that scenario? I think life would be much better for everyone if people gave up the sick dream of living like a king in a giant mansion full of wasteful luxury goods.
This insane greed to accumulate immense personal wealth is what drives our hell-hole jobs. After all, one doesn't become a multi-millionaire from their individual contributions. Making that amount of money requires being at the top of a large organization so you can skim off the labor of others. So whenever you get orders from your employer that you "must" work long hours, stay late, put in a massive effort, etc. remember that this is "necessary" so people at the top can "strive for the lifestyle they want". If the lifestyle they were striving for was unobtainable, they could relax and not have to push so hard for productivity. A definite win for the common wage/salary earner.
I think it would be a win for the mansion-owners themselves too (though they are unlikely to realize or admit it). I'm sure they still find themselves bored/angry/unhappy much of the time despite having lots of great stuff. Studies have shown that once you get out of poverty, getting more stuff doesn't really improve actual happiness much. I think you really are "better off to earn less", in any event everyone else is certainly better off without you pushing them for more.
But there is no "line" for your average Jose to wait in. The only legal option for a would-be fruit picker from Mexico (unless they have spouse, child, or parent already legally in the USA) is to just stay in their poor, corrupt country and forget about making a better life for themselves and their family.
You all do realize that "czar" is just the media's nickname for these positions, right?
The real title of all the "czars" is usually something along the lines of "Deputy Assistant Undersecretary of [government department] and Adjunct Liaison to [some other government department] for Matters of [some issue currently in the headlines]"
For me, that's the whole issue. When my ancestors arrived, they just showed up at Ellis Island, filled out some paperwork, and were let in. I'd like to see some poor Mexican migrant worker show up at the border crossing and ask for the form to legally enter the USA. I wonder how long it would take for the border agents to stop laughing.
For all those people who keep saying the illegals should just follow the proper procedure, you need to realized for your "average Jose" there is no process that would allow them to enter legally.
What channels are those? When I was seriously dating a foreigner, I looked into what it would take for her to legal immigrate to the US. Basically, I would have had to marry her. The only channels for legally immigrating to the US are 1)Have an immediate family member already here legally (parent, child, spouse, or soon-to-be-spouse) or 2)Be a full time employee of a large corporation (with a staff of lawyers) that wants you here (H1B, corporate transfers).
There is no visa category that would allow for tamale-selling entrepreneurs, farm helpers who move from field to field as work becomes available, or guys who hang out in the hardware store and offer to to help you move heavy furniture or fix up your garden.
I was thinking the same thing. My first reaction to quotation marks nowadays is to think the words are sarcastic or a euphemism or in some way not exactly true.
I think we need to come up with some different punctuation marks to distinguish quotes for not-quite-true and quotes that are actually, you know, quoting someone.
Seconded,
I'm 36 and I the only "childhood" disease left in my time was chicken pox. I never heard of anyone else getting any of the other diseases. I also remember there was a big line you had to go though before starting Kindergarten where they checked your vaccination records, and gave you a a shot of anything you were missing.
I remember that day all too well, as my medical records had been lost (ouch!), it was rather traumatic for me as a 5 year old.
Ummm, I think you missed the point there.
Making ice, melting salt, and running pumps are methods for storing energy (like a battery) so when you are making too much power you can save up the excess and extract it later when you are producing too little power.
The poster wasn't suggesting that power companies become molten salt salesmen.
I'm no physicist, but my instincts as an electrical engineer tell me that the flux lines from the north poles would wedge themselves into the cracks between each of the pieces in an effort to close the loop. Probably this very dense flux would forcibly re-magnetize the edges of each iron piece so that the surface of the assembled sphere would be S in the middle of each piece and N all around the edges.
Any physicists want to chip in and confirm or debunk this?
What if the heads are perfectly normal sized and they just have ridiculously small bodies?
Its still not a 'special' right though. If same-sex marriage became legal, everyone would gain the right to marry someone of the same sex.
Of course, straight people probably wouldn't want to actually exercise that right, but we would have it. It wouldn't be all that useful to us, but then neither is the right to marry opposite-sex people very useful to gays.
Saying gays want a 'special' right implies that only they will receive it, when in fact it would mean more freedom for everyone. Why would anyone oppose more freedom?
Its worse than that, God forced the Pharaoh to be a dickhead. God "hardened his [the Pharaoh's] heart" so the Pharaoh would make the "wrong" decision (so much for free will) so God would have an excuse to show off his baby-killing powers. God directly tells Moses that this is what He is doing.
There are none, which is why I got bored of Second Life almost instantly and never went back after my first 2 times there.
Er...considering that dating is the beginning most point of a relationship, where you start to learn if there are any issues that might make you incompatible (like say seatbelt issues) I don't get the question here. How do you "get to the point of dating" when dating is pretty much the first point in the spectrum?
I don't go to theaters much anymore, but I've promised myself that if I ever do see one of these commercials I'm going to loudly sing "Yo Ho! Yo Ho! A pirate's life for me!" which is both on-topic and as a public performance is a copyright violation in and of itself.
Nobel Winner Says, "Internet Might Have Stopped Hitler From Being Effective"
Godwin says, "Hitler Stops the Internet From Being Effective"
Well crap, how does that work in Soviet Russia?
I wish that was true, but it isn't. Remember that atheist dad who went all the way to the Supreme Court over the "under God" part of the Pledge of Allegiance? When they found out he didn't have legal custody of the kid, they dropped the case since he had no standing to sue (since it wasn't "his" kid legally, he wasn't personally "harmed").
That wouldn't work, even with shades the sunlight would be too bright. Plus it would be too hot.
Obviously all life on the sun would have to be nocturnal.
I think they had to find Copernicus' tomb to look for the next clue to find the Holy Grail or the Illuminati or something like that.