As long as parking "against the flow of traffic" in front of my house costs me money, then yes, the police are parasites.
You've obviously solved all other crime in Atlanta if you're going through a college neighborhood and writing tons of tickets for a BS infraction that people do every day on these extremely narrow streets.
I think this is more there are no plans for a sequel. That doesn't mean he can't come back to it five years from now, if he needs to. Nobody would permanently trash an opportunity that big.
We're able to restrict driving priveliges. Not entirely effectively, but it's the same idea.
Want to smoke? Prove to me you know the health effects. Want to drink? Prove to me you can enjoy alcohol without getting trashed. Want to vote? Prove to me you know what's going on in the world.
Although I'd want an organization other than the DMV to do it, the driving tests they give are too easy for things this important. An organization that the government, preferably, does not control; in the same sense that the Fed is in charge of money.
And what keeps them from distributing smart IDs with your "rights"? If you've got the tools to hack that, nothing would have kept you from making a fake ID beforehand. Although this would cost a lot more than just lowering the ages in question...
Preface: sorry if I'm a little harsh. This is meant in good faith, and is not intended to be a personal attack. I am attempting to describe issues I have strong beliefs on/in.
I ask my son to see his report card, I don't take his word for it.
A wise choice. Nothing keeps him from forging it, though.
If he's supposed to be home at midnight, I stay up until he gets home, I don't take his word for it.
Kinda creepy... midnight's pretty early, too. Seriously, extend the deadline until 1AM and see what happens. Nothing out of the ordinary, I bet. He's going to have to handle staying out late when he leaves home, you might as well teach him how to do it.
I make him keep his bedroom door open when he has his girlfriend over to "do homework."
That's just stupid. If you want to make a kid hate you, that's the way to do it. Give up on trying to keep him from having sex; he's going to have it one way or another. A parent promoting abstinance is like nailing jello to the wall. Instead, make sure he (they) has (have) ready access to contraception.
I trust my son. I let him borrow my car. I trust him to watch his sister. I trust him to stay at home overnight by himself on occassion.
But if you think a 16 year old won't lie through his teeth to get out of trouble, you're insane. There is no question about this.
You'll trust him with someone else's life, but you won't trust him with his own? And when was the last time you saw someone telling "the truth" just because they were an "adult"? Your defense of your actions has nothing to do with the issue at hand; that is, is he mature enough to handle the responsibilities and freedoms of being an adult. Is he mature enough to use contraception, to do his homework, and to maintain his judgement in the face of peer pressure?
Those are skills you can't teach him; you have to let him learn for himself.
Your comments suggest to me that you're either a child yourself, or you've never raised a child yourself.
Have you ever heard of an "ad hominem" attack? It's called a logical fallacy for a reason.
Nothing personal, but if you "trust" your teenager to act like a responsible adult, you're probably making a mistake.
Trusting anyone is a mistake, but we have to if we want to live like normal people.
There's a reason that 18 is the age of majority, and not 15, 16, or even 17.
Oh really? Tell me why. I honestly want to know why the lightswitch of maturity magically flips when a human has been on this rock for eighteen orbits around a small, yellow sun. Although it is tangental, I suppose you also support the drinking age of 21, and will say that is there for a reason. You would be correct-- it's there becuase federal government funds don't go to states that have drinking ages lower than that. Don't you remember how the drinking age was 18 in most states when you were a kid? If a state feels like standing up for VOTING CITIZENS against the US theocracy, they could. However, the kind of need the money more.
If you quit parenting at 16 because you think you've done a good enough job so far, you're just begging for trouble.
Yes. But the pussification of America's youth is complete; we don't let them grow up for themselves. That recent story about UGA students having coupons for booze passed out to them -- oh noes, alcohol! Grow the fark up.
In summary -- we don't let our kids "grow up" any more. We somehow got the idea that we have to "help" them, when what they really need is to be left alone, and possibly guided. This tool is a symptom of the disease that is parenting in America. If your child can't handle being alone in a room with a girl at 16, what makes you think he'll be any different at 18? Because his prefrontal cortex will be 18% larger? He may be busy with school and activities, but real maturity doesn't come from a textbook, and you know it.
There are kids at 15 that are more mature than many kids at 18. The "magic light switch" at 18 and 21 makes no sense. If they want booze/cigarettes/"adult material," they can ask an older friend for them.
If, however, these rights were given based upon an impartial test... or when you turned 17, whichever came first... that would make a little more sense.
Then again, no child has any rights (or maturity) as long as they're living with their parents. I've seen it happen; one of my friends commutes to school from his parents' house, and he hasn't matured at all since high school. He hasn't been forced to grow up in the way that living on your own does.:(
That device (The Tracker Pro) looks like it could be useful in a Minority Report-style system; just attach the reflective dot to a glove.
If they were able to track multipule dots at once, then you would really have a great system, allowing zoom, rotation, etc, as in the movie. Unfortunately, they don't make huge transparent glass displays just yet.
I also hope that it's not as %)(&@&ing aggrivating as the "You have installed updates and need to reboot" dialog. Anyone have a crack for that particular POS?
Being an Atlanta driver, I somewhat agree... every time I'm in the HOV lane, I end up getting stuck behind some massive SUV going 50mph in a 75mph zone, when I really want to be going 90mph...
So the problem is either the SUVs or the people who drive them. Either way, we shouldn't be rewarding them for those gas-guzzling beasts anyway.
Agreed. Picard could show emotion when needed; I remember this one episode where he gets captured and tortured my a Romulan who keeps asking him how many lights there are... IMO that was some of the finest acting I've ever seen.
DS9... I like it, but I don't get home from work early enough to catch it, so I'm not a fan per se.
IMHO, the peak of the series was somewhere in TNG. From there... they beat it into the ground.
Just gimme back my TNG, and I'll be happy. The actors are willing, I'm sure; even LeVar would be willing to step to the other side of the camera (not that directing precludes you from acting in an episode).
I used to have it on two floppy disks, couldn't find it for years, and finally found it on AbandonWare. Hoorah!
If it was released for the DS, I'd certainly consider buying one. My last handheld thingy was a GameBoy Pocket, and I was rather tempted by the GameBoy Advance SP. It's only a matter of time before I give in.
Aero doesn't seem to be that bad - try it out, if you value those CPU cycles, just switch it off. Ctrl + Shift + F9, I think. The reason they're doing all the fun graphics, is because we have video cards that do all of this nowadays. The desktop is a collection of DirectX surfaces, and it's easy to tell it to squeeze/roll/fade windows as a result. I, for one, don't notice any significant performance drain due to Aero, but then again I'm not looking for one.
If they designed Vista correctly, they could have any number of graphical systems, and all it would take is to unload one and load in another. It's not really about bloat, it's more about code design. I have a feeling that MSFT's at least trying to use some good code design.
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To what are you referring to here?As long as parking "against the flow of traffic" in front of my house costs me money, then yes, the police are parasites.
You've obviously solved all other crime in Atlanta if you're going through a college neighborhood and writing tons of tickets for a BS infraction that people do every day on these extremely narrow streets.
And don't get me started on the speed laws...
Have a look at searches for facebook. I wouldn't call that "decline" in any sense of the word.
ONE MILLION DOLLARS!!!
I think this is more there are no plans for a sequel. That doesn't mean he can't come back to it five years from now, if he needs to. Nobody would permanently trash an opportunity that big.
Already done.
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Office 2007 has this as a built-in feature.
Glad to help. :)
We're able to restrict driving priveliges. Not entirely effectively, but it's the same idea.
Want to smoke? Prove to me you know the health effects.
Want to drink? Prove to me you can enjoy alcohol without getting trashed.
Want to vote? Prove to me you know what's going on in the world.
Although I'd want an organization other than the DMV to do it, the driving tests they give are too easy for things this important. An organization that the government, preferably, does not control; in the same sense that the Fed is in charge of money.
And what keeps them from distributing smart IDs with your "rights"? If you've got the tools to hack that, nothing would have kept you from making a fake ID beforehand. Although this would cost a lot more than just lowering the ages in question...
A wise choice. Nothing keeps him from forging it, though.
Kinda creepy... midnight's pretty early, too. Seriously, extend the deadline until 1AM and see what happens. Nothing out of the ordinary, I bet. He's going to have to handle staying out late when he leaves home, you might as well teach him how to do it.
That's just stupid. If you want to make a kid hate you, that's the way to do it. Give up on trying to keep him from having sex; he's going to have it one way or another. A parent promoting abstinance is like nailing jello to the wall. Instead, make sure he (they) has (have) ready access to contraception.
You'll trust him with someone else's life, but you won't trust him with his own? And when was the last time you saw someone telling "the truth" just because they were an "adult"? Your defense of your actions has nothing to do with the issue at hand; that is, is he mature enough to handle the responsibilities and freedoms of being an adult. Is he mature enough to use contraception, to do his homework, and to maintain his judgement in the face of peer pressure?
Those are skills you can't teach him; you have to let him learn for himself.
Have you ever heard of an "ad hominem" attack? It's called a logical fallacy for a reason.
Trusting anyone is a mistake, but we have to if we want to live like normal people.
Oh really? Tell me why. I honestly want to know why the lightswitch of maturity magically flips when a human has been on this rock for eighteen orbits around a small, yellow sun. Although it is tangental, I suppose you also support the drinking age of 21, and will say that is there for a reason. You would be correct-- it's there becuase federal government funds don't go to states that have drinking ages lower than that. Don't you remember how the drinking age was 18 in most states when you were a kid? If a state feels like standing up for VOTING CITIZENS against the US theocracy, they could. However, the kind of need the money more.
Yes. But the pussification of America's youth is complete; we don't let them grow up for themselves. That recent story about UGA students having coupons for booze passed out to them -- oh noes, alcohol! Grow the fark up.
In summary -- we don't let our kids "grow up" any more. We somehow got the idea that we have to "help" them, when what they really need is to be left alone, and possibly guided. This tool is a symptom of the disease that is parenting in America. If your child can't handle being alone in a room with a girl at 16, what makes you think he'll be any different at 18? Because his prefrontal cortex will be 18% larger? He may be busy with school and activities, but real maturity doesn't come from a textbook, and you know it.
There are kids at 15 that are more mature than many kids at 18. The "magic light switch" at 18 and 21 makes no sense. If they want booze/cigarettes/"adult material," they can ask an older friend for them.
:(
If, however, these rights were given based upon an impartial test... or when you turned 17, whichever came first... that would make a little more sense.
Then again, no child has any rights (or maturity) as long as they're living with their parents. I've seen it happen; one of my friends commutes to school from his parents' house, and he hasn't matured at all since high school. He hasn't been forced to grow up in the way that living on your own does.
That device (The Tracker Pro) looks like it could be useful in a Minority Report-style system; just attach the reflective dot to a glove.
If they were able to track multipule dots at once, then you would really have a great system, allowing zoom, rotation, etc, as in the movie. Unfortunately, they don't make huge transparent glass displays just yet.
I also hope that it's not as %)(&@&ing aggrivating as the "You have installed updates and need to reboot" dialog. Anyone have a crack for that particular POS?
Being an Atlanta driver, I somewhat agree... every time I'm in the HOV lane, I end up getting stuck behind some massive SUV going 50mph in a 75mph zone, when I really want to be going 90mph... So the problem is either the SUVs or the people who drive them. Either way, we shouldn't be rewarding them for those gas-guzzling beasts anyway.
Agreed. Picard could show emotion when needed; I remember this one episode where he gets captured and tortured my a Romulan who keeps asking him how many lights there are... IMO that was some of the finest acting I've ever seen. DS9... I like it, but I don't get home from work early enough to catch it, so I'm not a fan per se.
IMHO, the peak of the series was somewhere in TNG. From there... they beat it into the ground.
Just gimme back my TNG, and I'll be happy. The actors are willing, I'm sure; even LeVar would be willing to step to the other side of the camera (not that directing precludes you from acting in an episode).
You are completely correct, sir.
The only way I ever learned anything in high school was by being in the International Baccalaureate program.
They hit the pinnacle of that gametype with Indy's Desktop Adventures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_Jones_and_His _Desktop_Adventures
I used to have it on two floppy disks, couldn't find it for years, and finally found it on AbandonWare. Hoorah!
If it was released for the DS, I'd certainly consider buying one. My last handheld thingy was a GameBoy Pocket, and I was rather tempted by the GameBoy Advance SP. It's only a matter of time before I give in.
Since you posted that comic, I read userfriendly until I found it... http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20021110& mode=classic
^_^
I don't get up in the morning and go to the corner shop with my camera, but my phone I can quickly stuff down my bra...
:(
I don't have a similar fun-filled phone storage area
Women have all the fun.
Aero doesn't seem to be that bad - try it out, if you value those CPU cycles, just switch it off. Ctrl + Shift + F9, I think. The reason they're doing all the fun graphics, is because we have video cards that do all of this nowadays. The desktop is a collection of DirectX surfaces, and it's easy to tell it to squeeze/roll/fade windows as a result. I, for one, don't notice any significant performance drain due to Aero, but then again I'm not looking for one.
If they designed Vista correctly, they could have any number of graphical systems, and all it would take is to unload one and load in another. It's not really about bloat, it's more about code design. I have a feeling that MSFT's at least trying to use some good code design.
Working validation crack in 3, 2, 1...
Who really takes their digicam with them everywhere they go? I know I don't.
That sounds about right. ^_^