it also depends on the modular builder. i know two people who have bought modular homes recently and neither of them were impressive. my dad was one, and he had several doorways that didnt line up, electrical wiring not up to code, the roof pieces didnt line up at 4 different joints, the company had left out a multitidue of supplies they were supposed to provide to finish the house, among other things.
My dad designed the house based on one of their plans, and every time hed change something hed note it and fax everything to the builder....and it took him 3 months to get them to note all his changes...and some of them didnt even make it to the final build.
They were very helpful in *fixing* the problems, but when you're building a house like this, you should get it right the *first* time, not the second. For the record he bought his from Professional Building Systems.
My aunt's friend built one, and the kitchen wasn't level on any counter, doorways were misaligned, the roof leaked (and *not* in places where the finishing crew was working on it like at joints, but in the middle of the roof) and some of the electrical outlets weren't even well secured as they should be. I do not know the name of the company that made his home.
Builder is just as important as the finishing crew. If you're building a modular home, work with a company nearby that has done homes in your area that you can check out yourself, or talk with the owners about.
im watching it fine right now....mind you its taking several minutes to load, but its loading. if it stops ill do the typical....bookmark the url for viewing tomorrow.
mod this up, jackson isnt a first class director and just because the movies are popular doesnt mean that fact has to be looked over.
Yes, I enjoyed the movies, and yes, I'd go see "The Hobbit" if he made it. But I'll go anticipating bad attempts at comic relief, overdone lighting, and some really bad story re-writes and add-ins that aren't necessary, or if necessary...not entirely well done (according to the book or otherwise).
I'm sure it would still be enjoyable, the Lord of the Rings trilogy Jackson directed is great, but they aren't perfect films and to mod someone down because he points out that fact is a bit silly.
I guess it comes down to, what is the average file sharer's excuse other than "I want it, I want it now and I want it for free?" Most of the file sharing I have seen among other college students isn't obscure stuff, but top 40s type stuff. It's stuff that if you go to buy it online you can find a ton of bargains on. Not only that, but the "poor college student" excuse is bullshit. The most prolific abusers of file sharing I have seen were people that could afford to **buy** most of what they downloaded.
My cousin started college last year, and got his dad to buy him a new pc to take with him....he got an 80 or 100gb hard drive for file storage. Pirated files. He spend around a grand for a pc that he uses almost exclusively for file sharing of music and movies and games, more than he can ever play watch or listen to at any one time.
With the money he spent, he could have gotten a cheap dell for schoolwork (assuming he does much on it anyway) and spent the other 5 or 600 bucks on music and dvds that he *would* watch and could have legally.
If you penalize people for making more money you reduce the incentives to go to college, be successful, etc..
But....don't we charge higher taxes on people with more money....and don't people keep wanting to go to college and be successful anyway? I think i have a friend in college...with a job practically guaranteed next year when he gets out that's going to pay him even more...and over time he'll end up making more...and more...and i'm pretty sure he'll try to continue to get more and more money despite being in a higher tax bracket.
this is dead on; you don't need to convince the legislators that the way they're running things is wrong...most probably know it anyway, and obviously don't have too much concern for it.
the thing is, you have to convince the people that the legislators are doing such a terrible job that pretty well all of them need to be replaced....and how that can be accomplished is beyond me. The current legislators certainly aren't going to make it easy; and most people just don't know what's going on....or care to know.
Far too many people don't know anything about the constitution as it is...and while it may be boring to some, it's a short read that is supposed to be the basis of our government.
If you can't get them to read something short like the constitution and understand it...how the hell can you get them to read up on and understand most of the issues? I find it hard, everything is either spun to the left, or the right for that matter, so much that it's very difficult to calibrate a bullshit detector to help you know the truth.
thats the reason i bought the rio forge....well one of them. it was on sale, has an fm tuner, an fm recorder, and 256 of storage, and will take a 1gig sd card. the fm is ok, it works great on 3 or 4 nearby stations, and good enough on npr (just a little static) but any station that isnt within a good 50 or 60 miles is a station i cant hear on this; but i mostly listen to npr if im listening to radio so it doesnt bother me too much.
the cool thing is, that after meh rebate, i can get a 512 sd card and have more storage and features than the ipod shuffle for about $100. it can also play by album, playlist, genre, and artist; which is how i prefer to listen to music since i listen to alot of live stuff and like to hear the whole show at one time.
[i]But make no mistake, the current batch of wanna-be theocrats are betraying the high and noble ideals of the Founding Fathers.[/i]
I don't think, however, that it is at all a *conscience* effort to betray the constitution....because a good number of people; christians, liberals, atheists, and conservatives; have no idea what the constituion says.
As such, they wish laws and rules be based around their own personal beliefs because, like everyone else, they think their own believes are superior to the beliefs of people who don't share their beliefs!
My dad doesn't seem to care that our country tortures people....and i honestly don't think he *realizes* that the constitution forbids it. He's not alone in this: far too many americans are very ignorant when it comes to the document that is supposed to guide everything our government does. Most people probably could not name all 10 of the first amendments; and even if a surprising number could...i think it would be interesting to see the number of people that don't know they don't directly pick the president, but that the electorate college does.
my guess is they do it because at election time, people will vaguely remember that the politicians were trying to protect kids....but forgot that they wanted to trample over common sense and the constitution to do it.
i don't think too many places *anticipate* a slashdotting. id be interested to see their traffic for today in comparison to their traffic a month from now; i imagine the bandwidth used today will be equal to bandwidth for a number of days a month from now.
this was my problem in high school; and one of the reasons i haven't bothered to try college. I don't want to sit in classes for 6 hours a day to have answers on things i don't care about beaten into my head.
I'm almost 22; and have learned *far* more on my own about science, math, physics, ethics, history, literature, and a host of other things in the last 4 years than what I ever would have gotten out of college; and I have understood things that were only briefly passed over in HS; or if any time was spent on it; the time was spent, again, to pound an answer into my head; not with a passion to make someone want to understand any of it.
I've since become convinced that kids need a passion for something other than pop-culture garbage; and that school is the place they need to find out what they are passionate about.
I also have kids; a 3 year old girl and a son that's 18 months old and I'm also thinking of how to better prepare them for school, and life....how to best give them a passion for this one life they have so they can make the most of it. I wasted years in HS not learning things I should have learned; and I do not wish the same for them.
"why the hell does it take so much time and trouble to find out how many people voted and for who? banks count shit all the time, here, there, lots of numbers all around the place and everyone knows exactly where it goes. why can't we vote like that? just *clickity click* and you can go see your voting account online and know that your ONE vote went to the ONE person you gave it to...immediately."
i'd say quoting the first paragraph is better than a sensational headline and intro from a submitter with a bias that doesn't tell the truth about the article.
but it's slashdot and you aren't going to make everyone happy....which i guess is why the editors just post whatever they find in their inbox.
Getting back to the article, I do tend to agree with the general idea that we are becoming a fast food people who just gobble information without thinking of where the information came from and what it represents.
I'm not sure that we are becoming that kind of people....but rather that we already are. Look at the politicians we have in office, the decisions they make, and the laws they pass with little resistance or interest from the average American.
My dad was reading what he thought was a funny email to me, something about left-wingers wanting the guantanamo bay priosners charged with something or released, and a right-winger saying how bad those people were and would the liberals like to baby sit a gun-toting terrorist.
He stopped laughing when I asked how many cases he'd read about in the paper of those prisoners being charged and proven to be terrorists...when he realized he hadn't. He hadn't ever realized that the government that locked those people up is based around a constituiton that says *everyone* has rights to things like a fair trial.
And he's not the only one who has no idea what the fuck is happening in the world outside his pretty little town. And he's not the only one who probably doesn't really care that much.
the information should be free....but someone has to pay money to serve it to you and that costs them. some places use ads, some places require a fee, some may do a mix of both.
and/. doesn't run on magic, they have ads...and even an optional subscription service. i registered to post here....and so did you.
I read a book my mother once gave me; i have it at home, but I forget the author's name. The title of the book is "the collapse of evolution" where, and I'm sure this will shock a number of you, he writes about "facts" that "disprove" evolution.
Some of it is "scientific" arguments like the ones used about bombardier beetles (which, if you've read anything about them, and then read this book, you'd know he was wrong) and some are based on the Bible; where he argues that since the bible didn't say there was life elsewhere, and it *did* say (this is according to him, remember) that the universe would be destroyed when god was done with our earth; god wouldn't create life elsewhere that he would be destroying based on what happened on earth.
There are certainly christians who agree with him; I won't discuss it with my parents because I don't have the patience to deal with people quoting lies and misinformation with no interest in fact-checking.
Perhaps all christians don't feel that way, but some do, and I would imagine some people of other religions probably would feel the same way: that there *can't* be life on any rock but earth.
To rephrase "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" some people think that "absence of it's mention in the scripture, means it *is not*"
Slashdot Mirror
i anticipate a button on top...and a button on the bottom.
My dad designed the house based on one of their plans, and every time hed change something hed note it and fax everything to the builder....and it took him 3 months to get them to note all his changes...and some of them didnt even make it to the final build. They were very helpful in *fixing* the problems, but when you're building a house like this, you should get it right the *first* time, not the second. For the record he bought his from Professional Building Systems.
My aunt's friend built one, and the kitchen wasn't level on any counter, doorways were misaligned, the roof leaked (and *not* in places where the finishing crew was working on it like at joints, but in the middle of the roof) and some of the electrical outlets weren't even well secured as they should be. I do not know the name of the company that made his home.
Builder is just as important as the finishing crew. If you're building a modular home, work with a company nearby that has done homes in your area that you can check out yourself, or talk with the owners about.
im watching it fine right now....mind you its taking several minutes to load, but its loading. if it stops ill do the typical....bookmark the url for viewing tomorrow.
Yes, I enjoyed the movies, and yes, I'd go see "The Hobbit" if he made it. But I'll go anticipating bad attempts at comic relief, overdone lighting, and some really bad story re-writes and add-ins that aren't necessary, or if necessary...not entirely well done (according to the book or otherwise).
I'm sure it would still be enjoyable, the Lord of the Rings trilogy Jackson directed is great, but they aren't perfect films and to mod someone down because he points out that fact is a bit silly.
are we assumind the phone company tells you about it...or just changes their TOS without any kind of new agreement from you while you talk away?
and im just guessing, but i think most AIM users aren't reading the damn TOS and have no idea that this is happening.
My cousin started college last year, and got his dad to buy him a new pc to take with him....he got an 80 or 100gb hard drive for file storage. Pirated files. He spend around a grand for a pc that he uses almost exclusively for file sharing of music and movies and games, more than he can ever play watch or listen to at any one time.
With the money he spent, he could have gotten a cheap dell for schoolwork (assuming he does much on it anyway) and spent the other 5 or 600 bucks on music and dvds that he *would* watch and could have legally.
wanna bet none of it happens anytime soon?
But....don't we charge higher taxes on people with more money....and don't people keep wanting to go to college and be successful anyway? I think i have a friend in college...with a job practically guaranteed next year when he gets out that's going to pay him even more...and over time he'll end up making more...and more...and i'm pretty sure he'll try to continue to get more and more money despite being in a higher tax bracket.
the thing is, you have to convince the people that the legislators are doing such a terrible job that pretty well all of them need to be replaced....and how that can be accomplished is beyond me. The current legislators certainly aren't going to make it easy; and most people just don't know what's going on....or care to know.
Far too many people don't know anything about the constitution as it is...and while it may be boring to some, it's a short read that is supposed to be the basis of our government.
If you can't get them to read something short like the constitution and understand it...how the hell can you get them to read up on and understand most of the issues? I find it hard, everything is either spun to the left, or the right for that matter, so much that it's very difficult to calibrate a bullshit detector to help you know the truth.
the cool thing is, that after meh rebate, i can get a 512 sd card and have more storage and features than the ipod shuffle for about $100. it can also play by album, playlist, genre, and artist; which is how i prefer to listen to music since i listen to alot of live stuff and like to hear the whole show at one time.
I don't think, however, that it is at all a *conscience* effort to betray the constitution....because a good number of people; christians, liberals, atheists, and conservatives; have no idea what the constituion says.
As such, they wish laws and rules be based around their own personal beliefs because, like everyone else, they think their own believes are superior to the beliefs of people who don't share their beliefs!
My dad doesn't seem to care that our country tortures people....and i honestly don't think he *realizes* that the constitution forbids it. He's not alone in this: far too many americans are very ignorant when it comes to the document that is supposed to guide everything our government does. Most people probably could not name all 10 of the first amendments; and even if a surprising number could...i think it would be interesting to see the number of people that don't know they don't directly pick the president, but that the electorate college does.
my guess is they do it because at election time, people will vaguely remember that the politicians were trying to protect kids....but forgot that they wanted to trample over common sense and the constitution to do it.
i don't think too many places *anticipate* a slashdotting. id be interested to see their traffic for today in comparison to their traffic a month from now; i imagine the bandwidth used today will be equal to bandwidth for a number of days a month from now.
really...were getting tired of all you atkins people defending your "no bread" diet mmmkay? ;)
could we just keep it like last tuesday? last tuesday was quite comofrtable
what character set are you using on that last word? is it hebrew?
I'm almost 22; and have learned *far* more on my own about science, math, physics, ethics, history, literature, and a host of other things in the last 4 years than what I ever would have gotten out of college; and I have understood things that were only briefly passed over in HS; or if any time was spent on it; the time was spent, again, to pound an answer into my head; not with a passion to make someone want to understand any of it.
I've since become convinced that kids need a passion for something other than pop-culture garbage; and that school is the place they need to find out what they are passionate about.
I also have kids; a 3 year old girl and a son that's 18 months old and I'm also thinking of how to better prepare them for school, and life....how to best give them a passion for this one life they have so they can make the most of it. I wasted years in HS not learning things I should have learned; and I do not wish the same for them.
"why the hell does it take so much time and trouble to find out how many people voted and for who? banks count shit all the time, here, there, lots of numbers all around the place and everyone knows exactly where it goes. why can't we vote like that? just *clickity click* and you can go see your voting account online and know that your ONE vote went to the ONE person you gave it to...immediately."
if they couldn't chase corporate funding, i have a nagging feeling that they wouldn't be so interested in the political office in the first place.
but it's slashdot and you aren't going to make everyone happy....which i guess is why the editors just post whatever they find in their inbox.
I'm not sure that we are becoming that kind of people....but rather that we already are. Look at the politicians we have in office, the decisions they make, and the laws they pass with little resistance or interest from the average American.
My dad was reading what he thought was a funny email to me, something about left-wingers wanting the guantanamo bay priosners charged with something or released, and a right-winger saying how bad those people were and would the liberals like to baby sit a gun-toting terrorist.
He stopped laughing when I asked how many cases he'd read about in the paper of those prisoners being charged and proven to be terrorists...when he realized he hadn't. He hadn't ever realized that the government that locked those people up is based around a constituiton that says *everyone* has rights to things like a fair trial.
And he's not the only one who has no idea what the fuck is happening in the world outside his pretty little town. And he's not the only one who probably doesn't really care that much.
and /. doesn't run on magic, they have ads...and even an optional subscription service. i registered to post here....and so did you.
Some of it is "scientific" arguments like the ones used about bombardier beetles (which, if you've read anything about them, and then read this book, you'd know he was wrong) and some are based on the Bible; where he argues that since the bible didn't say there was life elsewhere, and it *did* say (this is according to him, remember) that the universe would be destroyed when god was done with our earth; god wouldn't create life elsewhere that he would be destroying based on what happened on earth.
There are certainly christians who agree with him; I won't discuss it with my parents because I don't have the patience to deal with people quoting lies and misinformation with no interest in fact-checking.
Perhaps all christians don't feel that way, but some do, and I would imagine some people of other religions probably would feel the same way: that there *can't* be life on any rock but earth.
To rephrase "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence" some people think that "absence of it's mention in the scripture, means it *is not*"
odds are it wasnt 3 or 4