Well if learning is your goal, your local public college is the place. the library is typically open past 1am, and unless you want to take books with you, is free to non-students.
Yup, that and parents who valued learning. If more parents valued learning over entertainment and availed themselves of the Public Library vs paying $50 monthly for Cable, $300ea for a tv in each room and $60ea for a VCr to go with, they could afford to bootstrap themselves from poverty to educated.
And no I'm not particularly motorvated, so I haven't gone as far as I could. BUT I've reached the goals I set for myself my senior year of HS and surpassed them. I'm a software engineer for the largest Employer in the US, I own a fully paid for new car, Cell phone, pager and home network. I didn't however realize that I was "born poor" till after I moved out, and the first year on my own, made more than my parents combined income.
Frugal living, careful planning and inventive meal management. I never went hungry. And yes, living at the "poverty line".
The digital divide isn't pertinent to this, there will always be dead tree books and learning.
And those who are "poor" and want to learn will manage to scrape study time at the Climate controlled Public library in order to expand their knowledge base, and the motivated will make their own way up.
The internet "as we know it" is not necessarily a good thing. Arpanet was around however before Gore entered congress in 1977. Therefore The great Goron didn't take the initiative to create anything. He may have championed commercializing it and bringing about the dot-boom/bomb fiasco, but taking initiative he didn't.
Ok, that was great, but I"m at work. I didn't want to download Gaim or trillian, just read about it. Therefore since I've clicked on those links previously, I felt no obligation to do so again.
Those "survey calls" are almost certainly a violation. Collect their information, and complain. Most states with a DNC pass part of the fine on to the person "violated".
Except, that the Witnesses can still knock on your door, or ring your bell. YOu can tell them to leave, To not come back, etc, but they can come by at 2am, One time. and as a religious group you can't have them arrested, or punished unless they come back.
They aren't making card counting illegal. They are simply stating that if you count(and win) they reserve the right to ask you to leave and not come back. simple enough really.
"We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any legal reason"
If you did in fact sub them, you were the copyright holder for the subs which were an integral part of the whole. Proving that might be difficult... but.
I would have to imagine that the signal would be frequency agile, and use a rotating encryption scheme as well as having default behaviour if signal drops, including re-authentication.
That's not what I'm saying at all, I'm saying that "Marriage" is a religious institution, and that "civil partnerships" with or without sexual rights and benefits are a matter for the state. If 4 guys and 3 women want to get together and raise their kids, and they don't abuse each other or the kids, pay their bills, and want the state to assist by enforcing right of inheritance, and death benefit, who am I to argue, but that isn't marriage. It's not my place to try to stop them or to encourage them, but Marriage is defined as a man(1) and a woman(1) being joined for life.
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The Religious right(me) doesn't have a problem with a civil recognition of "gay civil partnership" or other social arrangements polyandry, polygyny, polygamy. The problem comes with calling that civil contract marriage. Well thats my position anyhow.
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If Evolution is true, marriage (1 Man/1 Woman) is a result of natural selection and therefore is right and good.
If Creation is true marriage (1 Man/1 Woman) is from God and therefore is right and good. QED Marriage (1 Man/1 Woman) is right and good wherever we came from.
Actually, it says that the people of the book, Christians, Jews and Sabeans, are not infidels and only Allah can judge them. Perhaps you should read before blithering.
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Well if learning is your goal, your local public college is the place. the library is typically open past 1am, and unless you want to take books with you, is free to non-students.
Simple enough, trade friday night and saturday lunch for monday lunch. Monday is about as off-peak as you get for fast food, and so...
Yup, that and parents who valued learning. If more parents valued learning over entertainment and availed themselves of the Public Library vs paying $50 monthly for Cable, $300ea for a tv in each room and $60ea for a VCr to go with, they could afford to bootstrap themselves from poverty to educated.
And no I'm not particularly motorvated, so I haven't gone as far as I could.
BUT I've reached the goals I set for myself my senior year of HS and surpassed them. I'm a software engineer for the largest Employer in the US, I own a fully paid for new car, Cell phone, pager and home network. I didn't however realize that I was "born poor" till after I moved out, and the first year on my own, made more than my parents combined income.
Frugal living, careful planning and inventive meal management. I never went hungry. And yes, living at the "poverty line".
The digital divide isn't pertinent to this, there will always be dead tree books and learning.
And those who are "poor" and want to learn will manage to scrape study time at the Climate controlled Public library in order to expand their knowledge base, and the motivated will make their own way up.
Great, WIll they publish Open Courseware degrees too. That would be Great... Yeah.
I went to MIT and have my masters in CS, Mathematics, Physics, and Organic Chemistry.
WHOOHOOO!!!
The internet "as we know it" is not necessarily a good thing. Arpanet was around however before Gore entered congress in 1977. Therefore The great Goron didn't take the initiative to create anything. He may have championed commercializing it and bringing about the dot-boom/bomb fiasco, but taking initiative he didn't.
Or you could just set it to require Ctrl-Alt-Del when you are installing XP. Just like Nt 5.0, 5.1 asks if you want to enable that "security feature"
Ok, that was great, but I"m at work. I didn't want to download Gaim or trillian, just read about it. Therefore since I've clicked on those links previously, I felt no obligation to do so again.
Hey Genius. There was no FA to R. Would that there had been, Some of us would have known why we should care about this "issue"
Now I can chat with everyone again. Perhaps Instant Messaging will rise again...
Personally though the open ports don't make me too confident of the success of IMing in todays more suspicious world.
Those "survey calls" are almost certainly a violation. Collect their information, and complain. Most states with a DNC pass part of the fine on to the person "violated".
IF they can't pay the fine then seize their assets. Problem solved.
Except, that the Witnesses can still knock on your door, or ring your bell. YOu can tell them to leave, To not come back, etc, but they can come by at 2am, One time. and as a religious group you can't have them arrested, or punished unless they come back.
Are you talking about the fan video or Episode 1??
But I don't wear clothes when I sit on my smart sofa?
I was thinking that Orlando Bloom was pretty well on, however My Elrond scoffs joyfully at Mr Smith.
They aren't making card counting illegal. They are simply stating that if you count(and win) they reserve the right to ask you to leave and not come back. simple enough really.
"We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any legal reason"
If you did in fact sub them, you were the copyright holder for the subs which were an integral part of the whole. Proving that might be difficult... but.
Not dipping your wick is free, last I checked, and is scientifically the best birth control system.
I would have to imagine that the signal would be frequency agile, and use a rotating encryption scheme as well as having default behaviour if signal drops, including re-authentication.
Well, that depends on whether or not they are telling the truth about Linux.
That's not what I'm saying at all, I'm saying that "Marriage" is a religious institution, and that "civil partnerships" with or without sexual rights and benefits are a matter for the state. If 4 guys and 3 women want to get together and raise their kids, and they don't abuse each other or the kids, pay their bills, and want the state to assist by enforcing right of inheritance, and death benefit, who am I to argue, but that isn't marriage. It's not my place to try to stop them or to encourage them, but Marriage is defined as a man(1) and a woman(1) being joined for life.
The Religious right(me) doesn't have a problem with a civil recognition of "gay civil partnership" or other social arrangements polyandry, polygyny, polygamy. The problem comes with calling that civil contract marriage. Well thats my position anyhow.
If Evolution is true, marriage (1 Man/1 Woman) is a result of natural selection and therefore is right and good.
If Creation is true marriage (1 Man/1 Woman) is from God and therefore is right and good.
QED Marriage (1 Man/1 Woman) is right and good wherever we came from.
Actually, it says that the people of the book, Christians, Jews and Sabeans, are not infidels and only Allah can judge them. Perhaps you should read before blithering.