Do you think your son is stupid? Maybe if he's stupid this approach will work.
But if he's not stupid, he knows how to operate under your radar. He knows how to delete objectionable websites out of the browser history. He knows not to just get up and walk away from the computer with the porn website up.
Fact of the matter is, kids are smart. They know what you think is objectionable, they know why you think it's objectionable, and because they know this, they're going to go do it anyway. Fortunately, because they're smart, they're also probably smart enough to keep out of trouble (teens looking at porn on the internet never hurt them or anyone else), but if you think they're not doing what you've said they shouldn't do 'just because', you're fooling yourself.
Trust me. I spent 10 years exploiting the trust of my parents, teachers, etc. It's amazing what you can do when everyone assumes you're a 'good kid'.
However, in my house we practice this apparently rare thing called, 'mutual respect' whereby he doesn't do such things, and I don't invade his privacy.
Actually, in your house, you practice this thing called willful ignorance, where by not checking you let yourself believe he's not doing anything.
I used to be a kid, so I know the only way you can know what your kid is up to is to trust, but validate.
Ford is *NOT* claiming they own anyone's pictures. What Ford is objecting to is taking pictures of their cars, putting them in a calendar, and then marketing and selling a calendar of FORD cars.
It's a bit of a grey area, but I can't say I see Ford being outside the realm of reasonableness here.
30-50 years ago, if you went to college, chances are your parents were blue collar people who worked their asses off to save enough money to give you that opportunity, and you probably had to work your ass off to get more money and scholarships to make it. Yeah, there were a few kids of rich parents, but they were the minority.
Now we have a LOT more people in middle-class office jobs. They don't have to pull double-shifts to get their kids into college. And their kids don't have to work their asses off for it - they can just get financial aid and student loans, WITHOUT having to join the army for 6 years. Yeah, there are still kids out there who work their asses off to get into and through school, but they're in the minority.
30 years ago most kids who graduated college were thankful they didn't have grease under their fingernails when they came home from work like their parents did. Nowadays, more of the kids who graduate college are from families who never had to worry about anything. If your parents always had enough money, why wouldn't you?
I have a choice here whether to mod you down myself or post something and let others do it. I'm going to post.
The problem here is you.
If you work for the #2 company, that wants to be the #1 company, and they're going to compensate you the same whether the company is #1 or #2, QUIT!
Nobody has to slave for a company to make the stockholders more money. Get off your ass and get a job at the #1 company, that's probably #1 because it rewards their employees. Or start your own company.
Where are the promises that technology was supposed to reduce working hours and make our lives more pleasant?
They're here! Move to BFE Nebraska, get yourself a high speed internet connection, and work from home 20 hours a week. You'll make more than enough to cover your needs, and probably have a nifty TV and computer to boot. Glamorous? No, but not possible in 1950 either.
But even working full time, nobody is making you get up to your alarm clock at 6:30 every morning except you - because you're lazy. You have to wake up at 6:30 every morning because you want a job where somebody else guarantees you money every other friday, assigns you what to do every day, and keeps paying you as long as you don't fuck up too bad. THAT's why you get up at 6:30 in the morning.
I'd rather be a relatively poor slacker with time to myself to do what I want and to enjoy my family than a successful developer whose time is consumed with largely meaningless pursuits and whose life is filled with possessions.
You ever watching TV and they have those commercials for tech schools that teach auto repair? Sign up. Seriously. Work 9-5, make enough money to support the family and BBQ every weekend if you want to. Oh, and as a mechanic, you get paid by the job, so the better you are, the more money you get.
Nobody promised you something for nothing. The problem is that if you behave like all the other people who just want to show up for a paycheck, you'll be treated like all the other people who want to show up for a paycheck. You just get more 0's on your check for going to college.
This means that corn gets you negative amounts of fuel (you'll use more farming it than you'll get out of farming it), while switchgrass gets you fuel.
This is slashdot. What it REALLY means is that the article summary is wrong.
if they want to drink, they will whether I want them to or not.
Only if you suck as a parent. I didn't drink at all until I was 19, and not more than a couple times until I was 20 and living in Europe, because I knew my parents would have my ass if I got busted.
And that's not because I didn't have the opportunity - I spent high school around people who drank and did various drugs. I just personally declined.
So yeah, if you let your kids know that you don't think you can stop them from doing anything, you're right, they'll probably drink, smoke crack, whatever. But if you treat your kids like they are kids instead of like you want them to be your best friend, there's no reason you can't teach them that maybe drinking is something best done later, since you'll kick their ass if they don't believe you.
They guide some military decisions under some circumstances.
They have the ability to start a war of their own volition.
They have the ability to trample your civil rights.
Bush has proved both of these to be true.
Who the President is is important. It might not affect which health care bill gets proposed, but it can sway things like how many hundreds of billions of dollars we spend on wars. You'd be amazed how much health care you can get for a few hundred billion.
If you get in a fight with a martial artist, he'll punch/kick/throw/hold you.
If you get in a fight with a martial scientist, he'll write a paper about whether a punch/kick/throw or hold was most effective while you kick his ass.
The guy hadn't even tried to do a basic reality check.
What's his incentive?
There are two options. His fantasy is real, or his fantasy is not real. As long as he doesn't know his fantasy isn't real, it's real to him.
What if, for a few thousand dollars, you could believe you had a hot girlfriend who loved you, but the only catch is you have to trust that it's true? You or I may not like this idea, but there are many many people out there who would.
If you don't believe such people exist, just stop by a church on Sunday.
What a crappy search engine. When I search for something, I want the top 100 results to be 100 different porn sites! I can find two porn sites without help.
NIH still produces more value per taxpayer dollar than many other things (read: the military, many forms of welfare, the military, farm subsidies, and -- right -- the military)
If it were not for the money we spent on our military, our military AND NIH budget would just end up getting spent on the German/Russian/Chinese military (depending on when you had decided to stop funding the military).
Now, if you s/military/pointless wars/g you might have something.
I gave up for similar reasons. There are entire pages in each book that seem to be cribbed from previous books. It's annoying. It's an insult to the reader.
The universe created was a very good fantasy universe. The delivery (actual writing) stunk.
Do you really think the JAMA or NEJM is the appropriate resource for medical information for your average consumer? They're not. What is in there isn't written for that audience, nor should it be.
I think this is a non-story. There are people who are suspicious of to downright hostile towards immunizations. Those people are probably not that bright. So where do people who are not that bright and wouldn't be taken seriously by any mainstream media go to air their 'information'? YouTube. Where do people who share their opinions go to get video of the opinions they want? YouTube.
There's a reason the videos with poor information are rated higher. And it's simple. It's because only the idiots who believe it are watching videos about immunization on YouTube and rating them. People who are not idiots are not watching these videos at all.
There have always been dumb people. The only difference between the 'old days' and now is we've made communicating easy enough that even dumb people can do it, so you're now more likely to run into a dumb opinion or bad information. But smart people can continue to do the same things they've always done: Ignore it.
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For example, this work of art [wikipedia.org] is a fair use of the Campbell's Soup trademark.
But interestingly enough, the Museum of Modern art, where it is on permanent display, has a trademark license from Campell's to do so.
Do you think your son is stupid? Maybe if he's stupid this approach will work.
But if he's not stupid, he knows how to operate under your radar. He knows how to delete objectionable websites out of the browser history. He knows not to just get up and walk away from the computer with the porn website up.
Fact of the matter is, kids are smart. They know what you think is objectionable, they know why you think it's objectionable, and because they know this, they're going to go do it anyway. Fortunately, because they're smart, they're also probably smart enough to keep out of trouble (teens looking at porn on the internet never hurt them or anyone else), but if you think they're not doing what you've said they shouldn't do 'just because', you're fooling yourself.
Trust me. I spent 10 years exploiting the trust of my parents, teachers, etc. It's amazing what you can do when everyone assumes you're a 'good kid'.
Strange guy on the internet is somewhere above that guy that works the 7-11 on Tuesdays and Thursdays between noon and 5pm.
That guy definitely needs to be fired then - showing up 3 hours late and leaving 6 hours early.
However, in my house we practice this apparently rare thing called, 'mutual respect' whereby he doesn't do such things, and I don't invade his privacy.
Actually, in your house, you practice this thing called willful ignorance, where by not checking you let yourself believe he's not doing anything.
I used to be a kid, so I know the only way you can know what your kid is up to is to trust, but validate.
Ford is *NOT* claiming they own anyone's pictures. What Ford is objecting to is taking pictures of their cars, putting them in a calendar, and then marketing and selling a calendar of FORD cars.
It's a bit of a grey area, but I can't say I see Ford being outside the realm of reasonableness here.
It is one thing to broadcast things in the public view as part of the news etc.
It is another thing to market and sell a calendar of Ford cars.
Can you not see the difference there?
Hell, I expect to be put in charge! I'm just out of college! I know EVERYTHING!!!
Better be careful - there are some undergrads who still know more than you!
He did adjust for inflation, right?
30-50 years ago, if you went to college, chances are your parents were blue collar people who worked their asses off to save enough money to give you that opportunity, and you probably had to work your ass off to get more money and scholarships to make it. Yeah, there were a few kids of rich parents, but they were the minority.
Now we have a LOT more people in middle-class office jobs. They don't have to pull double-shifts to get their kids into college. And their kids don't have to work their asses off for it - they can just get financial aid and student loans, WITHOUT having to join the army for 6 years. Yeah, there are still kids out there who work their asses off to get into and through school, but they're in the minority.
30 years ago most kids who graduated college were thankful they didn't have grease under their fingernails when they came home from work like their parents did. Nowadays, more of the kids who graduate college are from families who never had to worry about anything. If your parents always had enough money, why wouldn't you?
I have a choice here whether to mod you down myself or post something and let others do it. I'm going to post.
The problem here is you.
If you work for the #2 company, that wants to be the #1 company, and they're going to compensate you the same whether the company is #1 or #2, QUIT!
Nobody has to slave for a company to make the stockholders more money. Get off your ass and get a job at the #1 company, that's probably #1 because it rewards their employees. Or start your own company.
Where are the promises that technology was supposed to reduce working hours and make our lives more pleasant?
They're here! Move to BFE Nebraska, get yourself a high speed internet connection, and work from home 20 hours a week. You'll make more than enough to cover your needs, and probably have a nifty TV and computer to boot. Glamorous? No, but not possible in 1950 either.
But even working full time, nobody is making you get up to your alarm clock at 6:30 every morning except you - because you're lazy. You have to wake up at 6:30 every morning because you want a job where somebody else guarantees you money every other friday, assigns you what to do every day, and keeps paying you as long as you don't fuck up too bad. THAT's why you get up at 6:30 in the morning.
I'd rather be a relatively poor slacker with time to myself to do what I want and to enjoy my family than a successful developer whose time is consumed with largely meaningless pursuits and whose life is filled with possessions.
You ever watching TV and they have those commercials for tech schools that teach auto repair? Sign up. Seriously. Work 9-5, make enough money to support the family and BBQ every weekend if you want to. Oh, and as a mechanic, you get paid by the job, so the better you are, the more money you get.
Nobody promised you something for nothing. The problem is that if you behave like all the other people who just want to show up for a paycheck, you'll be treated like all the other people who want to show up for a paycheck. You just get more 0's on your check for going to college.
This means that corn gets you negative amounts of fuel (you'll use more farming it than you'll get out of farming it), while switchgrass gets you fuel.
This is slashdot. What it REALLY means is that the article summary is wrong.
if they want to drink, they will whether I want them to or not.
Only if you suck as a parent. I didn't drink at all until I was 19, and not more than a couple times until I was 20 and living in Europe, because I knew my parents would have my ass if I got busted.
And that's not because I didn't have the opportunity - I spent high school around people who drank and did various drugs. I just personally declined.
So yeah, if you let your kids know that you don't think you can stop them from doing anything, you're right, they'll probably drink, smoke crack, whatever. But if you treat your kids like they are kids instead of like you want them to be your best friend, there's no reason you can't teach them that maybe drinking is something best done later, since you'll kick their ass if they don't believe you.
60% Old People, 20% Sick People, 15% Military (offense and defense), 4% other domestic concerns, 1% bridges in Alaska.
They guide some military decisions under some circumstances.
They have the ability to start a war of their own volition.
They have the ability to trample your civil rights.
Bush has proved both of these to be true.
Who the President is is important. It might not affect which health care bill gets proposed, but it can sway things like how many hundreds of billions of dollars we spend on wars. You'd be amazed how much health care you can get for a few hundred billion.
You can now buy uselessdomain00001.com for $34.99.
So they are DEFINITELY monetizing it, by charging more now that it has some traffic.
If you get in a fight with a martial artist, he'll punch/kick/throw/hold you.
If you get in a fight with a martial scientist, he'll write a paper about whether a punch/kick/throw or hold was most effective while you kick his ass.
The guy hadn't even tried to do a basic reality check.
What's his incentive?
There are two options. His fantasy is real, or his fantasy is not real. As long as he doesn't know his fantasy isn't real, it's real to him.
What if, for a few thousand dollars, you could believe you had a hot girlfriend who loved you, but the only catch is you have to trust that it's true? You or I may not like this idea, but there are many many people out there who would.
If you don't believe such people exist, just stop by a church on Sunday.
the top hundred results will be to porn sites.
What a crappy search engine. When I search for something, I want the top 100 results to be 100 different porn sites! I can find two porn sites without help.
I'll take the roof that doesn't drop cold water on me throughout the night.
Let me know when I can be master of a kingdom with a roof that doesn't leak.
I remember when chat, porn and printer drivers all had different phone numbers.
NIH still produces more value per taxpayer dollar than many other things (read: the military, many forms of welfare, the military, farm subsidies, and -- right -- the military)
If it were not for the money we spent on our military, our military AND NIH budget would just end up getting spent on the German/Russian/Chinese military (depending on when you had decided to stop funding the military).
Now, if you s/military/pointless wars/g you might have something.
I gave up for similar reasons. There are entire pages in each book that seem to be cribbed from previous books. It's annoying. It's an insult to the reader.
The universe created was a very good fantasy universe. The delivery (actual writing) stunk.
WoT would make a good movie/video game though.
Is a chat bot that can convince women that I'm a rich, handsome, funny, intelligent well-endowed international businessman who models part-time.
Then I can run the bot, play Crysis and just show up at the right place and time on Saturday night.
Bonus points if convinced women are attractive.
Do you really think the JAMA or NEJM is the appropriate resource for medical information for your average consumer? They're not. What is in there isn't written for that audience, nor should it be.
I think this is a non-story. There are people who are suspicious of to downright hostile towards immunizations. Those people are probably not that bright. So where do people who are not that bright and wouldn't be taken seriously by any mainstream media go to air their 'information'? YouTube. Where do people who share their opinions go to get video of the opinions they want? YouTube.
There's a reason the videos with poor information are rated higher. And it's simple. It's because only the idiots who believe it are watching videos about immunization on YouTube and rating them. People who are not idiots are not watching these videos at all.
There have always been dumb people. The only difference between the 'old days' and now is we've made communicating easy enough that even dumb people can do it, so you're now more likely to run into a dumb opinion or bad information. But smart people can continue to do the same things they've always done: Ignore it.
If a dumb kid were to decide to work towards being smarter, he wouldn't be a dumb kid anymore, would he?