I'll back this up for the University of Florida. Every dorm floor I was ever on or visited that had 'gang' bathrooms (rather than suite bathrooms, which are like regular house bathrooms) had both urinals and toilets. They did this since the dorms are co-ed by floor, that is, women on one floor and men on the next, and they just adjusted to fit the dorm population needs from year to year. My freshman year we put plants in our dorm urinals (except one, for visiting males), and used the flush handle to water the plants:)
If I had any modpoints left today I'd mod you interesting, because I found a lot of what you said (and the links) to be interesting (more reading later!). However, it seems like the majority of/. who are suggesting alternative/toilets/ that are 'smart' about urine seem to forget that half the population uses toilet paper when they urinate... how do these NoMix toilets handle all that toilet paper? Will they have a third setting for when there are OTHER substances involved than just urine or feces? (I'm thinking: women on their periods, people vomiting, etc.)
Are you tall? Do you have long arms? I'm a 5'6" female, and I can say I seriously have issues reaching most flow knobs I've seen without practically embracing the toilet as if it was my porcelian god. The house we currently rent is probably the worst, since its directly behind the toilet, and the toilet is situated between the bathtub and the vanity with very little clearance on either side.
I'm sure he hasn't since no one told him that at church. My mother had this argument with my grandfather one time over the differing versions of the Bible. My religious grandfather's explanation was that God would not allow corruption of his words. My mother retorted with the example of all the different English editions of the Bible that were available at the time. Apparently my grandfather countered with how the King James was the only true edition.
Whatever. I'm not going to listen to anyone literally interpreting biblical passages until its someone who knows ancient Hebrew and is working off as original copy as possible.
Unfortunately the decline of rationality has been a long and slippery slope. I think its only going to get worse, since it seems like we have entirely divorced ourselves of 'reality'. Sure, we have 'reality tv', but I would be hardpressed to accept that as 'reality'. We have spun ourselves until we're totally backwards.
Anyway, I agree with a lot of other commenters in the idea that at least its ID being taught in a faith classroom, rather than a science classroom. I understand your concern, though. I was brought up going to baptist church and sunday school and was very startled by how the other kids would swallow things hook, line, and sinker. Anything their Sunday School teacher told them was the literal truth. After a guest sermon was delivered in Sunday worship service that outlined how I should let Jesus do everything for me, including brush my teeth, I finally threw in the towel and walked out of church life forever. I had been constantly enraged (on the inside) by the idiocy, ignorance, and hippocracy around me (where I grew up, being churchy was trendy. Which church had the best youth group changed every few years, and everyone would switch from methodist to baptist to pentecostal, whatever. I can tell you I haven't missed it at all, and I enjoy having my faith as a personal thing - it allows me to exit 'groupthink' and enter 'what I think' instead.
If you are well entrenched at your current church (its the only one around, you've been going for 30 years, all of your neighbors go there, its important for your business, etc.) then I'd try to bring it up with someone, perhaps the education coordinator. My guess is you'll lose, though. You might want to start looking for a new place to worship, if regular group worship is important to you.
Since I agree with your inclusions which I/have/ read, I will use the rest of your list as a reading list for the next year. Is your list ordered? #s 3, 4, and 5 all have happy places on my shelves when I'm not loaning them out... Together I think they make a good assay into science fiction as social commentary.
As a girl who recently got married to her sweetheart she met via the internet, I wholeheartedly applaud and back up your observations.
I've never used a personals site, but my dating history is primarily men I met through the 'internet' - got to know, hung out with a few times, and decided to date. In all cases, I don't think either party was there just to look for romance, but rather for compatible people to be friends with. In the case of my husband, we met via an IRC channel devoted to a humor website - we both enjoyed the same sense of humor, which gave us a foundation to get to know one another even more.
I have a lot of friends that look for romance specifically, and they are still having terrible luck. I think people get so wrapped up in the idea of 'finding a girl/boyfriend' that they forget about looking for -friends-. It still boggles me that people will date people who they would never consider being -friends- with, just because that person is rich/attractive/whatever.
Oh, I know it said that in the summary. I tend to not put too much faith in the summaries when it comes to the finer points, though, you know? "Once it's been downloaded" could be "once the first packet has been downloaded" or "once your receipt has been downloaded" and not necessarily "once all of the data has been downloaded and verified". I should have been more clear:)
If they are going to enforce a 24 hour time period, I think you are right. The only decent thing to do would be to start the clock at viewing time, and for multiple reasons.
24 hours? Is that from the point of purchase, or the point of completed download? Because if the movie is of a quality worth paying for, that's a significant difference for a lot of users.
Besides, that's an awfully short period of usage. Why would anyone do that versus renting the movie? It would have to be very cheap. What about the ability to pause the movie, or watch it more than once? Is this going to be like those failed one-viewing DVDs that came out a while ago?
Between this and the other EMI vs. Apple posting recently on/., I have to wonder if EMI isn't mounting some sort of weird media FUD campaign against Apple. It's just weird that they would speak out on two topics near and dear to Apple's heart (price point of song downloads, usage of FairPlay for CDs) in this way.
What is wrong with a jeans and a T-shirt vrs not jeans and a polo shirt? What precisely is the difference there? Is Denim some horrid material not fit for public? Is the lack of a collar, two buttons and an overall thinner cotton weave a dire issue of productivity? To even have this argument is stupid.
Unfortunately, there is a historic difference between denim and non-denim clothing. It was something I had to learn from my grandmother, who is still completely flabbergasted that I consider jeans to be everyday clothing. For a very long time, denim was primarily the realm of the laborer and/or farmer because of its durability. Try taking a look at old photographs from cities in the US around the end of the 1800s. How much denim do you see? Who is wearing it? The term 'blue collar' came from this. Other workers, such as pharmacists, lawyers, doctors, officeworkers, etc. wore other fabrics. Wool was very popular, even in the middle of summer, because of its polished look. The rules on dress were much more strict then.
These preferences for non-denim pants and shirts with collars and buttons are holdovers from older generations. Unfortunately, we're stuck with them until all those people die off. Just be thankful that its no longer required for men to wear a suit and tie every day of work no matter the weather, or that women be required to wear skirts (since pants were unfeminine and scandalous!) when they were allowed to work.
I don't know why they don't do that. I mean, they would need to build studio facilities and hire recording engineers, too, among other things. Producing music isn't the flat cost that distributing it is. Even though Steve Said No, I still wouldn't be totally surprised if he doesn't change his mind down the road.
I only hope variable pricing means some artists will be cheaper. Cheaper is relative. I would prefer that cheaper to be relative to the current fixed price point of 0.99, rather than some future average pricepoint that is higher. You know? Most of the music I buy from iTunes is older stuff, like tracks I pirated back in my college days that have terrible compression, I can pay 0.99 for them now.. I also purchase some of the TV shows they offer.
Unfortunately, Steve has commented multiple times (here's one, an interview with the Rolling Stone) that they are not in the business of signing artists. He recognizes that music companies have an expertise in signing artists, in choosing the ones they think will do well versus the ones that will flop. Apple does not have that expertise. Granted, I think it they really wanted to, they would do it, but that might cause the wrath of Apple Corp (see other comments if you need background). Then again, he also used to dispute the coming of the video iPod....
From the linked article:
When is Apple going to start signing musicians - in effect, become a record label?
Well, it would be very easy for us to sign up a musician. It would be very hard for us to sign up a young musician that was successful. Because that's what the record companies do. Their value is in picking that 1 out of 5,000. We don't do that.
We think there's a lot of structural changes that are probably gonna happen in the record industry, though. We've talked to a large number of artists that really don't like their record company, and I was curious about that. And the general reason they don't like the record company is because they think they've been really successful, but they've only earned a little bit of money.
They feel they've been ripped off.
They feel. But then, again, the music companies aren't making a lot of money right now... so where's the money going? Is it inefficiency? Is somebody going to Argentina with suitcases full of hundred-dollar bills? What's going on?
And it turns out, after talking to a lot of people, this is my conclusion. A young artist gets signed, and they get a big advance -- a million dollars, or more. And the theory is that the record company will earn back that advance as the artist is successful.
Except that even though they're really good at picking, still, only one or two out of the ten that they pick is successful. And so, for most of the artists, they never earn back that advance -- so they're out that money. Well, who pays for the ones that are the losers?
I wonder if this means he's decided he wants to be involved in a cheap computing resource for the children. It seems like if he decides he wants to do something, it is going to be done- whether other people think its a good idea or not. He has been pretty successful with only a few failures but an overall impressive track record. Perhaps turning him down means that in a not-distant future, we'll see a resurgence of inexpensive education machines from Apple. I would welcome that much more than some vaporware from the MIT 'Media Lab', even if the project IS funded by RH and Google (among others)
Violating the new Amazon patent?
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This feels more like a book review than a games article, other than the fact its an advertisement for/gaming/ books. How much of this is paraphrased from the book's own descriptions? I originally thought this post would be more of a 'there are many books available, they all seem to be in this general thread and I think thats cool/lame/whatever' and/or information about other tabletop aides than a book review, which I am used to seeing as.. well.. book reviews.
I don't suppose you're behind the lengthy emails that have been showing up in my Spam folder on GMail, detailing learning how to win with women despite any sort of hurdles? That advertise a free book at the end, click here?
Oh no, I just decided that I felt left out on the personal attacks and decided to launch one of my own. I mean here I am being called an idiot and all sorts of other unfounded things, and I had yet to say anything about your personal character. That, and, technically, all I did was repeat what you had already said without the adjectives. Isn't that fun? Somehow, 'met' and 'working with' are oddly different meanings, perhaps you should have specified 'working with' in the first place, just like it might have helped the readability of your first post to be more specific.
Perhaps in the future when you believe you are speaking to someone with a difficulty in comprehension, you should be very sure to state what you mean with no ambiguities. You wouldn't want to be misunderstood.
Well, let me tell you, I am so very glad I was able to contribute to your viewpoint of women. With attitudes like that, its no wonder you act the way you do, or that you have suffered in your abilities to meet women.
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I'll back this up for the University of Florida. Every dorm floor I was ever on or visited that had 'gang' bathrooms (rather than suite bathrooms, which are like regular house bathrooms) had both urinals and toilets. They did this since the dorms are co-ed by floor, that is, women on one floor and men on the next, and they just adjusted to fit the dorm population needs from year to year. My freshman year we put plants in our dorm urinals (except one, for visiting males), and used the flush handle to water the plants :)
If I had any modpoints left today I'd mod you interesting, because I found a lot of what you said (and the links) to be interesting (more reading later!). However, it seems like the majority of /. who are suggesting alternative /toilets/ that are 'smart' about urine seem to forget that half the population uses toilet paper when they urinate... how do these NoMix toilets handle all that toilet paper? Will they have a third setting for when there are OTHER substances involved than just urine or feces? (I'm thinking: women on their periods, people vomiting, etc.)
Are you tall? Do you have long arms? I'm a 5'6" female, and I can say I seriously have issues reaching most flow knobs I've seen without practically embracing the toilet as if it was my porcelian god. The house we currently rent is probably the worst, since its directly behind the toilet, and the toilet is situated between the bathtub and the vanity with very little clearance on either side.
I'm sure he hasn't since no one told him that at church. My mother had this argument with my grandfather one time over the differing versions of the Bible. My religious grandfather's explanation was that God would not allow corruption of his words. My mother retorted with the example of all the different English editions of the Bible that were available at the time. Apparently my grandfather countered with how the King James was the only true edition.
Whatever. I'm not going to listen to anyone literally interpreting biblical passages until its someone who knows ancient Hebrew and is working off as original copy as possible.
Unfortunately the decline of rationality has been a long and slippery slope. I think its only going to get worse, since it seems like we have entirely divorced ourselves of 'reality'. Sure, we have 'reality tv', but I would be hardpressed to accept that as 'reality'. We have spun ourselves until we're totally backwards.
Anyway, I agree with a lot of other commenters in the idea that at least its ID being taught in a faith classroom, rather than a science classroom. I understand your concern, though. I was brought up going to baptist church and sunday school and was very startled by how the other kids would swallow things hook, line, and sinker. Anything their Sunday School teacher told them was the literal truth. After a guest sermon was delivered in Sunday worship service that outlined how I should let Jesus do everything for me, including brush my teeth, I finally threw in the towel and walked out of church life forever. I had been constantly enraged (on the inside) by the idiocy, ignorance, and hippocracy around me (where I grew up, being churchy was trendy. Which church had the best youth group changed every few years, and everyone would switch from methodist to baptist to pentecostal, whatever. I can tell you I haven't missed it at all, and I enjoy having my faith as a personal thing - it allows me to exit 'groupthink' and enter 'what I think' instead.
If you are well entrenched at your current church (its the only one around, you've been going for 30 years, all of your neighbors go there, its important for your business, etc.) then I'd try to bring it up with someone, perhaps the education coordinator. My guess is you'll lose, though. You might want to start looking for a new place to worship, if regular group worship is important to you.
No no no, you have it all wrong. One of the crazies at work explained to me that SATAN put those fossils there, in order to TEST OUR FAITH.
::shudder::
I actually found this rather disturbing, since I was talking to another person who was educated at a real university and holds an engineering degree.
I thought it was /. policy to always rate things 8/10?
::applause::
Since I agree with your inclusions which I /have/ read, I will use the rest of your list as a reading list for the next year. Is your list ordered? #s 3, 4, and 5 all have happy places on my shelves when I'm not loaning them out... Together I think they make a good assay into science fiction as social commentary.
As a girl who recently got married to her sweetheart she met via the internet, I wholeheartedly applaud and back up your observations.
I've never used a personals site, but my dating history is primarily men I met through the 'internet' - got to know, hung out with a few times, and decided to date. In all cases, I don't think either party was there just to look for romance, but rather for compatible people to be friends with. In the case of my husband, we met via an IRC channel devoted to a humor website - we both enjoyed the same sense of humor, which gave us a foundation to get to know one another even more.
I have a lot of friends that look for romance specifically, and they are still having terrible luck. I think people get so wrapped up in the idea of 'finding a girl/boyfriend' that they forget about looking for -friends-. It still boggles me that people will date people who they would never consider being -friends- with, just because that person is rich/attractive/whatever.
Oh, I know it said that in the summary. I tend to not put too much faith in the summaries when it comes to the finer points, though, you know? "Once it's been downloaded" could be "once the first packet has been downloaded" or "once your receipt has been downloaded" and not necessarily "once all of the data has been downloaded and verified". I should have been more clear :)
If they are going to enforce a 24 hour time period, I think you are right. The only decent thing to do would be to start the clock at viewing time, and for multiple reasons.
24 hours? Is that from the point of purchase, or the point of completed download? Because if the movie is of a quality worth paying for, that's a significant difference for a lot of users.
Besides, that's an awfully short period of usage. Why would anyone do that versus renting the movie? It would have to be very cheap. What about the ability to pause the movie, or watch it more than once? Is this going to be like those failed one-viewing DVDs that came out a while ago?
Between this and the other EMI vs. Apple posting recently on /., I have to wonder if EMI isn't mounting some sort of weird media FUD campaign against Apple. It's just weird that they would speak out on two topics near and dear to Apple's heart (price point of song downloads, usage of FairPlay for CDs) in this way.
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BTW, here is additional coverage of this story: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/11/18/apple_emi
A beam of glittering gold light came down on the keys, even though I had a roof over my head, and I heard this beautiful chorus of voices...
What is wrong with a jeans and a T-shirt vrs not jeans and a polo shirt? What precisely is the difference there? Is Denim some horrid material not fit for public? Is the lack of a collar, two buttons and an overall thinner cotton weave a dire issue of productivity? To even have this argument is stupid.
Unfortunately, there is a historic difference between denim and non-denim clothing. It was something I had to learn from my grandmother, who is still completely flabbergasted that I consider jeans to be everyday clothing. For a very long time, denim was primarily the realm of the laborer and/or farmer because of its durability. Try taking a look at old photographs from cities in the US around the end of the 1800s. How much denim do you see? Who is wearing it? The term 'blue collar' came from this. Other workers, such as pharmacists, lawyers, doctors, officeworkers, etc. wore other fabrics. Wool was very popular, even in the middle of summer, because of its polished look. The rules on dress were much more strict then.
These preferences for non-denim pants and shirts with collars and buttons are holdovers from older generations. Unfortunately, we're stuck with them until all those people die off. Just be thankful that its no longer required for men to wear a suit and tie every day of work no matter the weather, or that women be required to wear skirts (since pants were unfeminine and scandalous!) when they were allowed to work.
I don't know why they don't do that. I mean, they would need to build studio facilities and hire recording engineers, too, among other things. Producing music isn't the flat cost that distributing it is. Even though Steve Said No, I still wouldn't be totally surprised if he doesn't change his mind down the road.
I only hope variable pricing means some artists will be cheaper. Cheaper is relative. I would prefer that cheaper to be relative to the current fixed price point of 0.99, rather than some future average pricepoint that is higher. You know? Most of the music I buy from iTunes is older stuff, like tracks I pirated back in my college days that have terrible compression, I can pay 0.99 for them now.. I also purchase some of the TV shows they offer.
From the linked article:
I think it would be hard to call Quorn a 'synthesized meat'. It's actually made from fungus. It would be like calling a soy burger 'synthesized meat'.
I wonder if this means he's decided he wants to be involved in a cheap computing resource for the children. It seems like if he decides he wants to do something, it is going to be done- whether other people think its a good idea or not. He has been pretty successful with only a few failures but an overall impressive track record. Perhaps turning him down means that in a not-distant future, we'll see a resurgence of inexpensive education machines from Apple. I would welcome that much more than some vaporware from the MIT 'Media Lab', even if the project IS funded by RH and Google (among others)
This feels more like a book review than a games article, other than the fact its an advertisement for /gaming/ books. How much of this is paraphrased from the book's own descriptions? I originally thought this post would be more of a 'there are many books available, they all seem to be in this general thread and I think thats cool/lame/whatever' and/or information about other tabletop aides than a book review, which I am used to seeing as.. well.. book reviews.
I don't suppose you're behind the lengthy emails that have been showing up in my Spam folder on GMail, detailing learning how to win with women despite any sort of hurdles? That advertise a free book at the end, click here?
You feel a mild buzz... ?
Now I am left wondering the effect of eating space lichen, since many of its class brethren confer special effects... perhaps a mild chill?
Oh no, I just decided that I felt left out on the personal attacks and decided to launch one of my own. I mean here I am being called an idiot and all sorts of other unfounded things, and I had yet to say anything about your personal character. That, and, technically, all I did was repeat what you had already said without the adjectives. Isn't that fun? Somehow, 'met' and 'working with' are oddly different meanings, perhaps you should have specified 'working with' in the first place, just like it might have helped the readability of your first post to be more specific.
Perhaps in the future when you believe you are speaking to someone with a difficulty in comprehension, you should be very sure to state what you mean with no ambiguities. You wouldn't want to be misunderstood.
Well, let me tell you, I am so very glad I was able to contribute to your viewpoint of women. With attitudes like that, its no wonder you act the way you do, or that you have suffered in your abilities to meet women.