But at least it would show it was purchased in the first place. This could be used to put together a better behavioural picture of what might be going on.
Again, not a solution to a problem, just another tool in figuring out if there is one.
Let me put it this way, I won't go home tonight, look at the tools in my shed and expect my car to fix itself. I'll take each tool and apply each one in such a manner that will allow me to see the bigger picture and repair it.
"Why don't we simply pre-emptively incarcerate all kids in padded cells?"
Seriously, what the fuck is it with these "all or nothing" attitudes?
They're children. They need to be treated as such, but always to a point. You can't wrap them up in a blanket of ignorance, but at the same time you can't give them free reign to run their own lives when they're barely into the double digit age bracket.
I have a buddy like that. He's in his mid 20's and unfortunately due to a lot of over mothering, the poor bastard missed out on a lot of the growing experiences we should all go through.
This isn't a replacement for good parenting, it's something that will let good parents be better parents.
Shitty parents will always be shitty parents. Giving them more tools to do their job won't change that.
... it is a replacement for educating children about good habits and nutrition. I'm not saying it's currently perfect in its execution, but if appropriately used this could be a very handy tool for the parents that want this control.
Maybe my view on this is slightly skewed because down here a lot of kids still take a packed lunch.
I'm looking at it this way; I have a fifteen year old sister who's going through that 'difficult kid' phase and isn't really eating all that well. She's basically wafer thin and refuses to eat a lot of stuff when she's around her mother and whenever I visit them I don't recall seeing her eat much at all. It's the kind of thing that leads to disorders.
If there was a system I could pre-pay meals for her and keep a track of them for my largely computer illiterate mother, I would. It would just be another tool to help us make sure we do our level best to help my sister turn out OK.
There are a lot of good reasons to keep track of a kids eating habits these days, despite the h4x0r paranoid among the slashdot crowd not being able to see them.
If you've got nothing to hide, may I see you naked?
No?
How about if I screen you every time you walk through my front door with something that allows me to see you essentially naked, no matter what you feel about that?
Forget asking nicely, get fucking naked, now. I need to make sure you're not carrying anything like a nail file, or a pen.
It conforms to the natural way your arm and wrist wants to lay while resting on a flat surface. There's a lot less stress placed on the joint and associated muscles which helps reduce any risk of RSI.
I was surprised myself, but these upright mice are relatively comfortable to use. I couldn't ever game with one, but we have several here in the office and they make a refreshing change, despite the very minor added weight of the device.
"They DO want people to watch their shows, right?"
No, they want people to watch the adverts that come with the show, buy the associated lunchboxes, CD singles, T-shirts and beer holding hats.
TV shows are really becoming vehicles for product launches. Just take a look at MTV and the Xbox unveiling.
Hell, maybe it's always been that way and I'm only now old enough to appreciate it. When I think back to some of the cartoons I would watch as a small child, they were obviously just 30 minute advertisments for a toy line, same thing we're seeing these days with Pokemon and whatever card collecting cartoon series is big this week.
And just before the series finale of "Lost" too;)
We're not even halfway through the first season screening down under, and I have a crack-like addiction to the series. It's shameful, I know, but some primal part of me really digs the idea of being stuck on an island with Maggie Grace
I was rather venemous about the proposals in various areas, but in my 'official' correspondance I couldn't have sounded sweeter and I encouraged others to do the same.
Swearing and moaning about an issue might impress your buddys, but when you're dealing with people that consider themselves the 'upper crust' of civilisation, you need to use some longer words and occasionally even a thesaurus. Important not to talk down to them either.
I'd hope that would all go unsaid, but I guess you can never be too careful;)
A while ago now there was talk of a forcing ISP's into a 'net filtering scheme.
I got vocal with my local members of parliment, then members outside of my area but within my state, then federal.
On my own, I don't know what difference it made, but logic came out and it got smacked down. Let's imagine there were a few thousand other people like me bothering them at every level, explaining as gently as possibly why it was an insane idea.
Make yourself heard as often and as loudly as possible. You will eventually wear the bastards down.
Look, it's a shame the show was canned, but does it bother anybody else how many people were prepared to dig very deeply to keep a television show running, when there are some issues out there they could actually put their money to and do some good?
When I came out of the first Lord Of The Rings screening, I actually heard a pack of hardcore nerdlingers arguing over the way some of the characters sat down to eat and how it wasn't portrayed in the film.
If you're that tied up that you cannot live with a story being adapted as best possible to suit the film media, please don't ever leave your house again. The rest of us cinema-goers don't want you there.
The story may not follow the book to the letter, but can't you see a little beyond that and maybe judge it on its own merits? For fucks sake...
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But at least it would show it was purchased in the first place. This could be used to put together a better behavioural picture of what might be going on.
Again, not a solution to a problem, just another tool in figuring out if there is one.
Let me put it this way, I won't go home tonight, look at the tools in my shed and expect my car to fix itself. I'll take each tool and apply each one in such a manner that will allow me to see the bigger picture and repair it.
See what I'm saying?
"Why don't we simply pre-emptively incarcerate all kids in padded cells?"
Seriously, what the fuck is it with these "all or nothing" attitudes?
They're children. They need to be treated as such, but always to a point.
You can't wrap them up in a blanket of ignorance, but at the same time you can't give them free reign to run their own lives when they're barely into the double digit age bracket.
I have a buddy like that. He's in his mid 20's and unfortunately due to a lot of over mothering, the poor bastard missed out on a lot of the growing experiences we should all go through.
This isn't a replacement for good parenting, it's something that will let good parents be better parents.
Shitty parents will always be shitty parents. Giving them more tools to do their job won't change that.
... it is a replacement for educating children about good habits and nutrition. I'm not saying it's currently perfect in its execution, but if appropriately used this could be a very handy tool for the parents that want this control.
Maybe my view on this is slightly skewed because down here a lot of kids still take a packed lunch.
I'm looking at it this way; I have a fifteen year old sister who's going through that 'difficult kid' phase and isn't really eating all that well. She's basically wafer thin and refuses to eat a lot of stuff when she's around her mother and whenever I visit them I don't recall seeing her eat much at all. It's the kind of thing that leads to disorders.
If there was a system I could pre-pay meals for her and keep a track of them for my largely computer illiterate mother, I would. It would just be another tool to help us make sure we do our level best to help my sister turn out OK.
There are a lot of good reasons to keep track of a kids eating habits these days, despite the h4x0r paranoid among the slashdot crowd not being able to see them.
12 year olds are entitled to many rights.
One of them shouldn't be hiding your lunchtime purchases with money given to you by your parents.
Where is the violation of rights here? The parents want to know their money is being spent in a wise manner.
I think the eunuchs will have this section of the job market cornered.
If you've got nothing to hide, may I see you naked?
No?
How about if I screen you every time you walk through my front door with something that allows me to see you essentially naked, no matter what you feel about that?
Forget asking nicely, get fucking naked, now. I need to make sure you're not carrying anything like a nail file, or a pen.
one should not look at pornography, because it can have an adverse effect on future relationships that you might have.
I thought we just shouldn't look at it for fear of making baby Jesus cry?
It conforms to the natural way your arm and wrist wants to lay while resting on a flat surface. There's a lot less stress placed on the joint and associated muscles which helps reduce any risk of RSI.
I was surprised myself, but these upright mice are relatively comfortable to use. I couldn't ever game with one, but we have several here in the office and they make a refreshing change, despite the very minor added weight of the device.
His mother?
No, some days I really can't help myself.
Look, I'll stop complaining about the delay in TV programming if you guys just promise to keep Dame Edna. We don't want "her" back.
"They DO want people to watch their shows, right?"
No, they want people to watch the adverts that come with the show, buy the associated lunchboxes, CD singles, T-shirts and beer holding hats.
TV shows are really becoming vehicles for product launches. Just take a look at MTV and the Xbox unveiling.
Hell, maybe it's always been that way and I'm only now old enough to appreciate it. When I think back to some of the cartoons I would watch as a small child, they were obviously just 30 minute advertisments for a toy line, same thing we're seeing these days with Pokemon and whatever card collecting cartoon series is big this week.
(Insert the "your mom" jokes below.)
You don't want to know what I insert into your mother.
And just before the series finale of "Lost" too ;)
We're not even halfway through the first season screening down under, and I have a crack-like addiction to the series. It's shameful, I know, but some primal part of me really digs the idea of being stuck on an island with Maggie Grace
Family First weren't the only ones pushing it, but they were the most vocal about it.
Oddly though, they did not respond to any of my emails or my phone calls. Clearly not in any great hurry to stand by their ideals.
Nice link, but almost three years old.
This was far more recent, about six months ago it raised its head again.
It got smacked down harder than Ike on Tina.
You make an excellent point.
;)
I was rather venemous about the proposals in various areas, but in my 'official' correspondance I couldn't have sounded sweeter and I encouraged others to do the same.
Swearing and moaning about an issue might impress your buddys, but when you're dealing with people that consider themselves the 'upper crust' of civilisation, you need to use some longer words and occasionally even a thesaurus. Important not to talk down to them either.
I'd hope that would all go unsaid, but I guess you can never be too careful
A while ago now there was talk of a forcing ISP's into a 'net filtering scheme.
I got vocal with my local members of parliment, then members outside of my area but within my state, then federal.
On my own, I don't know what difference it made, but logic came out and it got smacked down. Let's imagine there were a few thousand other people like me bothering them at every level, explaining as gently as possibly why it was an insane idea.
Make yourself heard as often and as loudly as possible. You will eventually wear the bastards down.
"in many cases hunting acts as part of the ecosystem, preventing animal overpopulation."
That must be why other nations not so obsessed with shooting shit are so overrun by wildlife.
Yes sir, I can't even get to my fridge in the morning without tripping over several feral Kangaroos that have found their way into my house.
.. I don't see Humorless Lad anywhere, he out washing his tights?
... not that I'm surprised by a Slashdot (or submitted article) being misleading, but there's not much to crow about here.
We're talking about a slightly more modern idea of the old player pianos. Stuff that matters indeed..
Look, it's a shame the show was canned, but does it bother anybody else how many people were prepared to dig very deeply to keep a television show running, when there are some issues out there they could actually put their money to and do some good?
...something with tits in it, if you can manage.
In that case, are we sure Lucas didn't have a directors hand in this?
When I came out of the first Lord Of The Rings screening, I actually heard a pack of hardcore nerdlingers arguing over the way some of the characters sat down to eat and how it wasn't portrayed in the film.
If you're that tied up that you cannot live with a story being adapted as best possible to suit the film media, please don't ever leave your house again. The rest of us cinema-goers don't want you there.
The story may not follow the book to the letter, but can't you see a little beyond that and maybe judge it on its own merits? For fucks sake...