In Illinois, if you get caught driving drunk you will spend at least the night in jail
Well, let's not use Illinois as an example. In Illinois you can get fined thousands of dollars and made to do community service for shooting at a nuisance goose with a BB gun.
There were no days before the Earth was formed. When the Earth first formed, the Earth turned much faster than it currently does. Even at the time of the Jurassic, the Earth day was about an hour shorter by our current measurements. Tidal friction is slowing us down.
If you read it literally, the Bible says that the Earth is older than the stars. I don't read that part literally though. I believe God explained the origins of the universe in terms that Moses would understand.
Unfortunately, Bible detractors contend that if any one part of the Bible is figurative, then no part of it can be taken literally (because everyone knows that a book cannot contain both literal meaning and figurative analogies.) That is one of the primary reasons that creationists stick so hard to the guns of a literal 6,000 year old Earth.
But they are probably right, it was probably ice from the beverage the giant face dropped when he heard the dismaying news that NASA "proved" he was just a natural rock formation.
I would think the ID explanation of life on Mars would most likely be the same as most scientists: "There isn't any."
Even if there was, nothing in the Bible says there is no life anywhere else. Jesus once said something to the affect of "I have other sheep which are not of this fold." As Jesus was a carpenter, I think we are not meant to take that literally. Most would say that refers to the Gentiles. But who knows for sure?
I have had problems with Non-HP branded cartridges as well, but I am tempted to blame HP for that as well. I had some RhinoTek cartridges, and when I put in the black cartridge, my printer responded with "please insert black ink cartridge". I examined every nook and cranny of the cartridge (which said it worked with my model) and found it to be exactly the same as the empty HP cartridge I had just pulled out. But it just wouldn't work in my printer. I guess it is either a problem with the cartridge or with the printer. Since I have a conspiratorial theory of life, I blame HP for recognizing and refusing to use a third party ink cartridge.
I was once in that situation. It was for a project to explore writing longhand, and we actually had to use a real fountain pen. I saw no reason to complain that I couldn't use a ballpoint. In fact, I thought it was kind of neat that we should do something unconventional like that.
We have no details (as usual) but make leaps to conclusions (as usual) regarding the circumstances. Perhaps the assignment was "Use IE to find information on X". Then Firefox could only be used to attain the end of the project, not the means.
It is good to question authority, but once you have questioned, should you automatically disobey? What if the answers to your questioning are reasonable? Do you assume they are trying to pull the wool over your eyes, or can you just take their answer at face value?
But real photography geeks use dSLRs,...
But do you trust anyone enough to get you the dSLR you want and with the correct lenses?
If so, give them my name, I'm looking for a good wide angle for my Canon EOS 30D.
I am not looking for much for Christmas. Mostly, I am just glad to get my power back after 7 days without.
I agree with you. I absolutely will not go into debt for the holidays, therefore I am constrained to living within my means, which means that I can only afford to buy for others out of the excess between what I make and what it takes for me to survive. So I am trying to keep it under $500 this year. For everybody.
The most I ever spent on a Christmas Present was one year when I got a good Christmas bonus, and I bought a 52" DLP, for the whole family, all 6 of us.
What I really hate is all these ads on TV about giving a Mobile Phone as a Christmas gift. A gift with a contract.
Cell phones. The gift that keeps on taking.
Wow, you have a 1979 Ford Granada still running? I had one back in 1989 and it was already fit for the landfill. It sheered off two brand new factory specced bolts on the alternator mount before I finally learned to use baling wire to the frame to take some of the tension off. Or I could loosen the belt tension very slightly and listen to the cacophony of the belt slipping. What a pile of crap. I also had to put in a new muffler, replace the shocks etc, etc.
The 1980 Ford Fairmont I traded it for was only slightly better in terms of maintenance.
I had some trouble with foreign cars too. My '90 Supra Turbo gave up it's head gasket in about 97. Apparently, that was a common malady. I had to replace a muffler in my '88 MR-2 after only eight years. But I never had a spot of trouble with my '96 Camry, my '96 SC-400, my '98 Supra Turbo or my '01 ES-300.
I don't even want to get into what my 20 year old British car costs me.
I know people at work that play during the day. People at our Operations Center in Dallas spend most of their day playing. They actually get pissed when they get interrupted and have to attend to a backup or reboot a server.
Meanwhile, I'm putting 60+ hour weeks actually working. I think I must have missed a memo or something.
Perhaps their legal team thoroughly researched all the voicemail patents out there, and decided to give Apple/AT&T the thumbs up as their technology was sufficiently differentiated from the patented technology, and the differences would be bloody obvious in any court in the U.S. except for perhaps in East Texas.
When I moved about five years back, I selected AT&T as my long distance provider as I had had no particular problems with them in the past. I talked to a nice representative who sold me a 7 cent per minute plan with no monthly fee and a long distance plan for $4 a month with reduced rates of 18 cents a minute so my wife could call South Korea. Lo and behold, the first bill is for over $400. I called AT&T and they explained that there was not plan on the account so they defaulted to standard rates. I told them that their representative had sold me a plan. They said that the plan that I had been sold was not available in my area. I told them too bad, that is what I was sold, and they said, yes, too bad for you. They are not responsible if their employee who they pay and train sold me a plan that was not available in my area. That is MY problem. I told them that I would pay them only what I owed them according to the plan I had been sold. They told me that would be fine and but if I did not pay the remainder of the balance within 30 days that they would cancel my account and refer it to collections. They refused to take responsibility for their error and the best they could finally offer me was to discount the bill to what WAS available in my area, which was something like 15 cents a minute for a couple dollars monthly fee, and the rate to Korea was about 35 cents.
My father worked for AT&T Bell Labs and then Lucent for 35+ years (and was ultimately also screwed by them as well). I will never do business with them again.
Pay phones here in Canada are up to $1 a call now, I remember when an unlimited call to the local area could be had for a nickel. I think it is 35 cents now.
Of course, according to song lyrics and Hollywood, a pay phone only costs a dime.
I didn't realize that teachers gave grades. I always thought that you earned your grades based on the work performed. Every class that I went through always had a published scale. If you got so many points you got the corresponding grade.
Way to read too much into the word "gave". Of course, they published a scale, and of course you were given a grade based mostly on the work performed. However, not all classes are math. Classes in the Sciences, Languages, History, Performing Arts, Athletics, heck, the vast majority of the curriculum are subject to subjective interpretation of your work. The particular classes which I would receive Bs in were typically ones in which interpretation of literature or texts were involved. Ironically, I received As in all of these classes in University, and was asked by one of my professors to consider switching to an English major.
This kind of attitude, whether it is yours or not, is prevalent in today's kids. There are so many candidates that come in for interviews that have this sense of entitlement. I think that there should be come more B's and C's given out when the work reflects it, not the grade inflation that we see now.
There is undoubtedly a sense of entitlement among today's youth. Most kids in my neighborhood, including my stepson believe that it is a requirement for their parent to give them a car when they turn 16. I think that theft of other people's property is also linked to a sense of entitlement. But my original thought I was trying to expound was that kids shouldn't be surprised when their parents complain that they get Cs. Most kids respond "But C is average!". To which I have 2 responses. One, C is actually below average according to the marks actually given and 2) do you know what the "average" family earns, and what you can buy on that?
It's going to suck for those lower income parents having to shell out $200 when their kid loses the laptop or it is stolen. Or is the school going to absorb that cost? The article didn't make it clear, other than that they would disable it.
In my state (Oklahoma), or at least in my County, public schools are funded out of property taxes. This is fairly common. What is somewhat progressive, I think, is that a portion of property taxes also goes to support your closest vocational school, technical school, or junior college. Depending on income, some people can go through these schools and get an associates degree for free. My sister, who had been delivering pizzas, got an associates in CAD for next to nothing, and is now working at much higher pay in a professional environment with health care benefits and Paid Time Off.
A C is supposed to be what is expected of the average student, but when I was in school, if you got a C, you were thought of as a below average student. I think relatively few people ever actually got Cs. There were a few straight A people (of which I was not one because there was always one teacher a year who would give me a B), then there were probably 70% of the population which got As and Bs, and then there were your 10 or 20% that got D's and Fs, which dragged the average grade down to a C, but very few people actually received a C as an actual grade.
In my high school in Oklahoma (which I am sure most people will also consider third world), they actually instituted a new grading scale to try to move more people into the C range for some unknown reason. Their scale was 94-100 was an A, 85 to 93 was a B, 70 to 85 was a C, 63 to 70 was a D and everything else was an F.
I've often wondered about the traditional grading system anyway. Where is E? Did the school board flunk kindergarten?
If I wanted to do something about decreases in freedom of speech, I wouldn't even know where to start.
Start by sending a letter to your local congresscritters. If they don't care about your privacy, then vote someone in who does. If there is no one to vote in that cares about your privacy, then get involved in politics. It's not as hard as it sounds. Unless you are in a really large city, there are probably empty board seats on the city council in which you could probably run unopposed.
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In Illinois, if you get caught driving drunk you will spend at least the night in jail
Well, let's not use Illinois as an example. In Illinois you can get fined thousands of dollars and made to do community service for shooting at a nuisance goose with a BB gun.
There were no days before the Earth was formed. When the Earth first formed, the Earth turned much faster than it currently does. Even at the time of the Jurassic, the Earth day was about an hour shorter by our current measurements. Tidal friction is slowing us down.
If you read it literally, the Bible says that the Earth is older than the stars. I don't read that part literally though. I believe God explained the origins of the universe in terms that Moses would understand.
Unfortunately, Bible detractors contend that if any one part of the Bible is figurative, then no part of it can be taken literally (because everyone knows that a book cannot contain both literal meaning and figurative analogies.) That is one of the primary reasons that creationists stick so hard to the guns of a literal 6,000 year old Earth.
Or something else.
But they are probably right, it was probably ice from the beverage the giant face dropped when he heard the dismaying news that NASA "proved" he was just a natural rock formation.
Estimates place the glacier at 10,000 -- 100,000 years old.
What's an order of magnitude among friends?
I would think the ID explanation of life on Mars would most likely be the same as most scientists: "There isn't any."
Even if there was, nothing in the Bible says there is no life anywhere else. Jesus once said something to the affect of "I have other sheep which are not of this fold." As Jesus was a carpenter, I think we are not meant to take that literally. Most would say that refers to the Gentiles. But who knows for sure?
I have had problems with Non-HP branded cartridges as well, but I am tempted to blame HP for that as well. I had some RhinoTek cartridges, and when I put in the black cartridge, my printer responded with "please insert black ink cartridge". I examined every nook and cranny of the cartridge (which said it worked with my model) and found it to be exactly the same as the empty HP cartridge I had just pulled out. But it just wouldn't work in my printer. I guess it is either a problem with the cartridge or with the printer. Since I have a conspiratorial theory of life, I blame HP for recognizing and refusing to use a third party ink cartridge.
I was once in that situation. It was for a project to explore writing longhand, and we actually had to use a real fountain pen. I saw no reason to complain that I couldn't use a ballpoint. In fact, I thought it was kind of neat that we should do something unconventional like that.
We have no details (as usual) but make leaps to conclusions (as usual) regarding the circumstances. Perhaps the assignment was "Use IE to find information on X". Then Firefox could only be used to attain the end of the project, not the means.
It is good to question authority, but once you have questioned, should you automatically disobey? What if the answers to your questioning are reasonable? Do you assume they are trying to pull the wool over your eyes, or can you just take their answer at face value?
But real photography geeks use dSLRs,...
But do you trust anyone enough to get you the dSLR you want and with the correct lenses? If so, give them my name, I'm looking for a good wide angle for my Canon EOS 30D.
I am not looking for much for Christmas. Mostly, I am just glad to get my power back after 7 days without.
I agree with you. I absolutely will not go into debt for the holidays, therefore I am constrained to living within my means, which means that I can only afford to buy for others out of the excess between what I make and what it takes for me to survive. So I am trying to keep it under $500 this year. For everybody.
The most I ever spent on a Christmas Present was one year when I got a good Christmas bonus, and I bought a 52" DLP, for the whole family, all 6 of us.
What I really hate is all these ads on TV about giving a Mobile Phone as a Christmas gift. A gift with a contract.
Cell phones. The gift that keeps on taking.
Wow, you have a 1979 Ford Granada still running? I had one back in 1989 and it was already fit for the landfill. It sheered off two brand new factory specced bolts on the alternator mount before I finally learned to use baling wire to the frame to take some of the tension off. Or I could loosen the belt tension very slightly and listen to the cacophony of the belt slipping. What a pile of crap. I also had to put in a new muffler, replace the shocks etc, etc.
The 1980 Ford Fairmont I traded it for was only slightly better in terms of maintenance.
I had some trouble with foreign cars too. My '90 Supra Turbo gave up it's head gasket in about 97. Apparently, that was a common malady. I had to replace a muffler in my '88 MR-2 after only eight years. But I never had a spot of trouble with my '96 Camry, my '96 SC-400, my '98 Supra Turbo or my '01 ES-300.
I don't even want to get into what my 20 year old British car costs me.
What! The venerable Camry is fairing below average? Oh, wait, they're assembled in the U.S.
I know people at work that play during the day. People at our Operations Center in Dallas spend most of their day playing. They actually get pissed when they get interrupted and have to attend to a backup or reboot a server.
Meanwhile, I'm putting 60+ hour weeks actually working. I think I must have missed a memo or something.
Yes, but for $4500 you get one and they send one to some third world kid that you can kill repeatedly to bump up your own character.
Perhaps their legal team thoroughly researched all the voicemail patents out there, and decided to give Apple/AT&T the thumbs up as their technology was sufficiently differentiated from the patented technology, and the differences would be bloody obvious in any court in the U.S. except for perhaps in East Texas.
When I moved about five years back, I selected AT&T as my long distance provider as I had had no particular problems with them in the past. I talked to a nice representative who sold me a 7 cent per minute plan with no monthly fee and a long distance plan for $4 a month with reduced rates of 18 cents a minute so my wife could call South Korea. Lo and behold, the first bill is for over $400. I called AT&T and they explained that there was not plan on the account so they defaulted to standard rates. I told them that their representative had sold me a plan. They said that the plan that I had been sold was not available in my area. I told them too bad, that is what I was sold, and they said, yes, too bad for you. They are not responsible if their employee who they pay and train sold me a plan that was not available in my area. That is MY problem. I told them that I would pay them only what I owed them according to the plan I had been sold. They told me that would be fine and but if I did not pay the remainder of the balance within 30 days that they would cancel my account and refer it to collections. They refused to take responsibility for their error and the best they could finally offer me was to discount the bill to what WAS available in my area, which was something like 15 cents a minute for a couple dollars monthly fee, and the rate to Korea was about 35 cents.
My father worked for AT&T Bell Labs and then Lucent for 35+ years (and was ultimately also screwed by them as well). I will never do business with them again.
Pay phones here in Canada are up to $1 a call now,
I remember when an unlimited call to the local area could be had for a nickel. I think it is 35 cents now.
Of course, according to song lyrics and Hollywood, a pay phone only costs a dime.
I didn't realize that teachers gave grades. I always thought that you earned your grades based on the work performed. Every class that I went through always had a published scale. If you got so many points you got the corresponding grade.
Way to read too much into the word "gave". Of course, they published a scale, and of course you were given a grade based mostly on the work performed. However, not all classes are math. Classes in the Sciences, Languages, History, Performing Arts, Athletics, heck, the vast majority of the curriculum are subject to subjective interpretation of your work. The particular classes which I would receive Bs in were typically ones in which interpretation of literature or texts were involved. Ironically, I received As in all of these classes in University, and was asked by one of my professors to consider switching to an English major.
This kind of attitude, whether it is yours or not, is prevalent in today's kids. There are so many candidates that come in for interviews that have this sense of entitlement. I think that there should be come more B's and C's given out when the work reflects it, not the grade inflation that we see now.
There is undoubtedly a sense of entitlement among today's youth. Most kids in my neighborhood, including my stepson believe that it is a requirement for their parent to give them a car when they turn 16. I think that theft of other people's property is also linked to a sense of entitlement. But my original thought I was trying to expound was that kids shouldn't be surprised when their parents complain that they get Cs. Most kids respond "But C is average!". To which I have 2 responses. One, C is actually below average according to the marks actually given and 2) do you know what the "average" family earns, and what you can buy on that?
It's going to suck for those lower income parents having to shell out $200 when their kid loses the laptop or it is stolen. Or is the school going to absorb that cost? The article didn't make it clear, other than that they would disable it.
In my state (Oklahoma), or at least in my County, public schools are funded out of property taxes. This is fairly common. What is somewhat progressive, I think, is that a portion of property taxes also goes to support your closest vocational school, technical school, or junior college. Depending on income, some people can go through these schools and get an associates degree for free. My sister, who had been delivering pizzas, got an associates in CAD for next to nothing, and is now working at much higher pay in a professional environment with health care benefits and Paid Time Off.
A C is supposed to be what is expected of the average student, but when I was in school, if you got a C, you were thought of as a below average student. I think relatively few people ever actually got Cs. There were a few straight A people (of which I was not one because there was always one teacher a year who would give me a B), then there were probably 70% of the population which got As and Bs, and then there were your 10 or 20% that got D's and Fs, which dragged the average grade down to a C, but very few people actually received a C as an actual grade.
In my high school in Oklahoma (which I am sure most people will also consider third world), they actually instituted a new grading scale to try to move more people into the C range for some unknown reason. Their scale was 94-100 was an A, 85 to 93 was a B, 70 to 85 was a C, 63 to 70 was a D and everything else was an F.
I've often wondered about the traditional grading system anyway. Where is E? Did the school board flunk kindergarten?
If I wanted to do something about decreases in freedom of speech, I wouldn't even know where to start.
Start by sending a letter to your local congresscritters. If they don't care about your privacy, then vote someone in who does. If there is no one to vote in that cares about your privacy, then get involved in politics. It's not as hard as it sounds. Unless you are in a really large city, there are probably empty board seats on the city council in which you could probably run unopposed.
Better to be in a dark room dabbling in coding, than to be in a dark room browsing myspace or illegally downloading software/music.
What exactly is the speed of sound in a vacuum?