You can tweet via text. Every cellphone that can text can therefore tweet, and the tweet will go through if your phone connects for a fraction of a second. Twitter is better than texting in this situation because 1 tweet can alert emergency personnel as well as your family and friends, which means each person doesn't have 50 people trying to call them, and being worried when they don't get an answer, and calling again, overloading the network so no one can call/text anyone back.
After the earthquake & tsunami last year I turned to twitter to ensure everyone I cared about over there was okay. They couldn't get phone calls and at times couldn't charge their phones so were leaving them off most of the time, but turning it on and sending a single tweet every few hours allowed everyone to know they were still okay.
Sure the replacement cartridges cost more... but you can always just buy a whole new printer, take the cartridges out of the box and leave the printer outside for some sucker that wants to buy the replacement cartridges to take. Or if the printer fucks up, just keep the new printer.
it's because they're smoking pot instead of studying, texting their weed connections during class instead of listening to the teacher, etc.
I'd like to see a study done on pot-smoking, homeschooled teens, who smoke weed but still spend a reasonable amount of time learning... though I imagine pot-smoking homeschooled teens (which are actually homeschooled and not just giving an excuse to drop out of school) are kind of rare.
Huh? Most drugs ARE poisons enough to be used as a weapon. The goal is to take just enough that it affects your body in the desired way, but not enough that you die. Sometimes people do that wrong and die of an "overdose."
Weed is not included in that "most drugs." In fact it would be easier to die from coffee than weed, not to mention how easy it is to die from cigarettes, alcohol, and all prescription drugs...
If the controller was not broken/worn down when you found it, leaving it broken/worn down is not 'leaving it as good as it was found'. If the house was not permeated with pot-smoke when you found it, leaving it permeated with pot smoke is not 'leaving it as good as it was found'. If everyone leaves everything as good as it was found, there will be no need for anyone to replace controllers or etc.
It's just like the people who because they like Wikileaks cannot even consider the possibility that Julian Assange may actually have f***ed a girl when she was sleeping to work around her refusal to consent to unprotected sex the night before, and that such an act would be rape.
I have no knowledge of this situation (if indeed this actually happened and is not just an exaggerated fiction) but I'm going to say that I believe it is impossible to have sex with someone without waking them unless they are drugged, despite what all that "sleeping girls" porn might tell you.
That's just because the weed was helping those things before. Why is it okay to become addicted to store-bought pills that help these things, but not weed? Especially when those pills can be more harmful to your body than the weed? It is simply because those pills are legal and weed is not.
People who don't own cats are far less likely to come in contact with their excrement.
Not necessarily true. People that own cats know the excrement is there and take appropriate precautions. People that don't own cats aren't going to be watching out for cat excrement in their yards and gardens.
It's not like welfare didn't exist before the economic crisis. It's not like people can't move if they are born in an unfortunate town. It's not like the internet allows jobs to be done in cities where there are no jobs available.
I was born in an ex-industrial town. I moved to where there are jobs (and no, I did not have any money when I set out). Most of the other people born there just stayed there and live off welfare. Some of the favorite passtimes in that city are shooting each other and robbing the few stores that venture to open there.
Perhaps if they were working, applying for jobs, or at least walking out of the city to get to a place where there are jobs to apply for (oh wait, while on welfare they get free bus passes they can use to travel to apply for jobs), they would not be seeing so much advertising.
I'm not jealous that the poor can share my cheap toys - I'm pissed that the poor are taking money I earned and spending it on toys instead of necessities.
doesn't care about the majority of my books and music. What they DO care about, they have their own copies of. Many things legally (because we obviously consider it worth the money and want the makers to make more good stuff), some things not.
Instead of having to clean out a house full of junk and trying to sell books and music that pretty much no one wants - so it ends up being shuffled between thrift stores or simply thrown away - when I die, my kids will just have to erase kindles and mp3 players. If there is something of mine they want but can't get from my stuff for some reason, it's sure to be pirateable.
You are wrong. Cat ownership == there is a cat involved. But cat ownership != cats.
Cat ownership is not linked to brain cancer after all. But the verdict is still out on if encountering cats and cat poop in ways other than cat ownership is linked to brain cancer.
For most people yes. You and I know how to use computers. The average person, on the hand, knows how to use Windows - and not even all versions. A drastic change in Windows means 90% of the average company has to be retrained to use the new version. The IT department, which may be content using Linux, has to learn to walk Joe in accounting through doing things... connecting his Windows 8 computer to the VPN, importing his email accounts in the new version of outlook, whatever the fuck. The programmers at the company have to learn to program things to work in the new version of Windows because the majority of people using it only know how to use Windows. Etc. etc.
The best thing to do is educate the students (that's what the school is there for, right?). Teach them proper security and privacy guidelines and why they are there. Kids will follow a rule if there is a valid reason for the rule and the kid knows the reason. (If there is no valid reason the rules are in place, then they don't need to be in place.) Then these kids will be safe not only on the school computers, but on their home computers, cellphones, ipads etc. etc. etc. If they break the rules then punish them for that. But don't treat them like rule breakers before they have even broken the rules, and don't hobble them by refusing to educate them.
I just ensure my computer can't install anything without my permission and use adequate malware protection, which is a good idea no matter what sites you are going to and no matter if ads "like this" are blocked.
I use to run a tracker, I know how much of their own money the people running it must pump into it; viewing the ads is a free way to put a little money back into something I use.
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And I'm willing to bet that those women are taking some prescription drug that knocks them out.
They come with enough for the average home user to use up before the heads clog.
You can tweet via text. Every cellphone that can text can therefore tweet, and the tweet will go through if your phone connects for a fraction of a second. Twitter is better than texting in this situation because 1 tweet can alert emergency personnel as well as your family and friends, which means each person doesn't have 50 people trying to call them, and being worried when they don't get an answer, and calling again, overloading the network so no one can call/text anyone back.
After the earthquake & tsunami last year I turned to twitter to ensure everyone I cared about over there was okay. They couldn't get phone calls and at times couldn't charge their phones so were leaving them off most of the time, but turning it on and sending a single tweet every few hours allowed everyone to know they were still okay.
people who just bought a KF1 a few days before
Amazon has a 30 day return period
$100? Inkjet printers cost $20 - $30.
.. but you can always just buy a whole new printer, take the cartridges out of the box and leave the printer outside for some sucker that wants to buy the replacement cartridges to take. Or if the printer fucks up, just keep the new printer.
Sure the replacement cartridges cost more.
it's because they're smoking pot instead of studying, texting their weed connections during class instead of listening to the teacher, etc.
I'd like to see a study done on pot-smoking, homeschooled teens, who smoke weed but still spend a reasonable amount of time learning... though I imagine pot-smoking homeschooled teens (which are actually homeschooled and not just giving an excuse to drop out of school) are kind of rare.
some parts of the population certainly have a harder time getting hold of it
I don't think that's true.
Huh? Most drugs ARE poisons enough to be used as a weapon. The goal is to take just enough that it affects your body in the desired way, but not enough that you die. Sometimes people do that wrong and die of an "overdose."
Weed is not included in that "most drugs." In fact it would be easier to die from coffee than weed, not to mention how easy it is to die from cigarettes, alcohol, and all prescription drugs...
If the controller was not broken/worn down when you found it, leaving it broken/worn down is not 'leaving it as good as it was found'. If the house was not permeated with pot-smoke when you found it, leaving it permeated with pot smoke is not 'leaving it as good as it was found'. If everyone leaves everything as good as it was found, there will be no need for anyone to replace controllers or etc.
It's just like the people who because they like Wikileaks cannot even consider the possibility that Julian Assange may actually have f***ed a girl when she was sleeping to work around her refusal to consent to unprotected sex the night before, and that such an act would be rape.
I have no knowledge of this situation (if indeed this actually happened and is not just an exaggerated fiction) but I'm going to say that I believe it is impossible to have sex with someone without waking them unless they are drugged, despite what all that "sleeping girls" porn might tell you.
Nausea, headaches, nightmares, lack of appetite, problems digesting food, anxiety, short-temperedness...
That's just because the weed was helping those things before. Why is it okay to become addicted to store-bought pills that help these things, but not weed? Especially when those pills can be more harmful to your body than the weed? It is simply because those pills are legal and weed is not.
Odds that his dad can figure out how to put in a harddrive are probably pretty low.
People who don't own cats are far less likely to come in contact with their excrement.
Not necessarily true. People that own cats know the excrement is there and take appropriate precautions. People that don't own cats aren't going to be watching out for cat excrement in their yards and gardens.
But you're going off my point now.
It's not like welfare didn't exist before the economic crisis. It's not like people can't move if they are born in an unfortunate town. It's not like the internet allows jobs to be done in cities where there are no jobs available.
I was born in an ex-industrial town. I moved to where there are jobs (and no, I did not have any money when I set out). Most of the other people born there just stayed there and live off welfare. Some of the favorite passtimes in that city are shooting each other and robbing the few stores that venture to open there.
Perhaps if they were working, applying for jobs, or at least walking out of the city to get to a place where there are jobs to apply for (oh wait, while on welfare they get free bus passes they can use to travel to apply for jobs), they would not be seeing so much advertising.
I'm not jealous that the poor can share my cheap toys - I'm pissed that the poor are taking money I earned and spending it on toys instead of necessities.
That only works if you're only comparing Americans to other Americans. If you compare them to the world, the average American has a low IQ.
doesn't care about the majority of my books and music. What they DO care about, they have their own copies of. Many things legally (because we obviously consider it worth the money and want the makers to make more good stuff), some things not.
Instead of having to clean out a house full of junk and trying to sell books and music that pretty much no one wants - so it ends up being shuffled between thrift stores or simply thrown away - when I die, my kids will just have to erase kindles and mp3 players. If there is something of mine they want but can't get from my stuff for some reason, it's sure to be pirateable.
Owns Microsoft products - Average American
So low IQ then.
I love how you're modded down for speaking the truth. People on welfare don't want something as old as an iPhone 1, though.
You are wrong. Cat ownership == there is a cat involved. But cat ownership != cats.
Cat ownership is not linked to brain cancer after all. But the verdict is still out on if encountering cats and cat poop in ways other than cat ownership is linked to brain cancer.
For most people yes. You and I know how to use computers. The average person, on the hand, knows how to use Windows - and not even all versions. A drastic change in Windows means 90% of the average company has to be retrained to use the new version. The IT department, which may be content using Linux, has to learn to walk Joe in accounting through doing things... connecting his Windows 8 computer to the VPN, importing his email accounts in the new version of outlook, whatever the fuck. The programmers at the company have to learn to program things to work in the new version of Windows because the majority of people using it only know how to use Windows. Etc. etc.
That doesn't work, hairless cats are actually quite popular. It even gives owners an excuse to put cute little sweaters on them.
Cat ownership != cats.
The best thing to do is educate the students (that's what the school is there for, right?). Teach them proper security and privacy guidelines and why they are there. Kids will follow a rule if there is a valid reason for the rule and the kid knows the reason. (If there is no valid reason the rules are in place, then they don't need to be in place.) Then these kids will be safe not only on the school computers, but on their home computers, cellphones, ipads etc. etc. etc. If they break the rules then punish them for that. But don't treat them like rule breakers before they have even broken the rules, and don't hobble them by refusing to educate them.
I just ensure my computer can't install anything without my permission and use adequate malware protection, which is a good idea no matter what sites you are going to and no matter if ads "like this" are blocked.
I use to run a tracker, I know how much of their own money the people running it must pump into it; viewing the ads is a free way to put a little money back into something I use.