March 17, 2005: I haven't added anything new to the target gallery in
a while, partially because I've been obsessed with a new game called
"Girlfriend Quest."
I agree to an extent. But learning for learning's sake can be done anytime. While you have a job, while you're unemployed. Having a system where students are stuck in their formitable years in rather closed and overly paternalistic institutions is not the best way. Vocational Training is not a bad thing, whether it starts at 8 or 18 years into a life. There are many places that offer courses in History, foreign languages, and cultural enrichment. It does not have to and should not have to be done at one set point in one's life.
Gallego, Breton, Welsh, and Cornish are all very similar (especially Cornish and Breton, they say that fishermen from Cornwall and Brittany could readily understand each other). They are all, of course, celtic, along with Scottish Gaelic, and Gaelic. Basque has virtually no relationship to any known language, which makes it such a mystery. Being that your mother is in Galecia right now studing linguistics, I'm sure you know most of this, but I'm still responding to the grandparent.
It's true. I can't tell you how prevalent it is, but the same is true with Brittany in France. Celtic people, culture, and language (barely spoken there however).
I'm a college freshman and I don't even have a TV in my dorm room. I've got a TV card (that hasn't been working) in my computer. I don't know my landline phone number either. Like the article says, I use my cell phone for everything.
I don't think the laws are dystopian. I don't smoke and I do enjoy clean air and I am glad leaded Gasoline is gone. Nevertheless I am against the ban. My point was about the statment is that I think saying "It's the wave of the future" sounds like the beginning to a dystopian novel. I just think that the city shouldn't do something for the mere fact that other cities are doing it.
The Govenor also overrode the Legislature and gave Comcast millions of dollars in tax breaks to build their new headquarters in Philadelphia. The tax breaks (called KOZ) were supposed to only go to business building in run down and blighted areas. The new building is going to be in Center City Philadelphia next to a busy train station and a block away from city hall, hardly a blighted area rather quite the opposite.
These types of companies are usually nothing more that shells held by friends of the mayor or similar placed people (see Atlanta airport for examples of a big city nepotism).
Look up Philadelphia Internation Airport and Mayor Street. Also search FBI wiretap, pay-to-play, and the Mayor's brother, Milton Street, and corruption probe.
Modernization: The mayor just endorsed Councilman Nutter's smoking ban and calling it, "the wave of the future". When they mayor endorses legislation by calling it "the wave of the future", it sounds awfully like the begining of a dystopian novel.
Seriously, I wonder if it ever occured to the 'honorable' Mayor Street why Philadelphia continues to be listed as one of the worst cities to do business in.
I'm utterly sick of this city's government and I haven't even lived here a year.
Amen to that. SEPTA police arn't rent-a-cops though, they are real police and they can arrest you. SEPTA already has the highest fares per mile and worst on-time rating in the country. The legislature ought to break it up into at least two entities. The regional rail should not be run by the same people who run the buses.
There's no doubt that poor managment at 1234 Market Street and to an extent the labor unions have caused this disaster. There's little wonder people call it INEPTA and the SEPTIC System.
SEPTA isn't really privatly held, it's by a government agency just like most other transit systems. It's controlled by a board made up of mostly government appointees (the city gets two seats). They also ought to keep the subway stations clean, have you seen 8th street station?
SEPTA has done some good, like building the Center City tunnel in the 80's, but doing that also ment cutting off longer routes like to Bethlehem, Newton, West Chester. Market East station is pretty nice. I'm fairly satisfied with the regional rail lines, but being on time and more frequent would be nice. SEPTA continued to close Trolley routes up until the 90's, all the while the ridership dropped on their replacement buses. At least now they are trying to bring back the Rt 15 trolley but Councilman Nutter is stoping them from doing so (the restoration was a multi-million dollar project).
I don't think that adding wireless Internet as a city service is really a good idea. It's not a sustainable plan at all. After a few years this will quickly escalate in expenses as more and more people take advantage of it. The city needs to concentate on working on basics, like trying to get off of the lists that ranks it as one of the worst cities to do business in and working with SEPTA to make its transit system a little more desirable to use. Many companies see the wage tax in Philadelphia and they just go to Conshohocken or a Main Line suburb, it takes more out of my paycheck than the State and Medicare combined.
Perhaps you should mention that the mayor had has a wire tap for the past few years because he is under investigation for fraud by the FBI. There is something called pay-to-play that goes on down at city hall.
On that same day, the City made a deal with Verizon. The headline sounds like this is uncertain, but the deal is already in place $2M has already been routed to this project by Mayor Street. All the while the transit system (SEPTA) is going bankrupt and threating to raise fairs AND cut weekend service.
The Wright Brothers are given credit for inventing the first heavier than air aircraft, but how often do you see their names attached to a brand?
Curtiss-Wright
http://www.curtisswright.com/
It's so Google has a sort of 'band name' for its year end summary. And people follow it, they know what it is. Having a specific and unique name for it helps market it. It has band name recognition now for a lot or people.
For example, when Pizza Hut launched its calzone, they called it a "Pizzone". It's marketing, nothing less.
Your view of scientific knowledge of 600 years ago is somewhat lacking. It was well established in the year 500BCE that that the earth was indeed round, and was belived to have a size roughly to the actual size of the Earth. (The error came from assuming a perfect sphere.) Even in the year 1400 round earthers were the norm. Columbus wasn't some visionary. He just was a politcally connected sailor.
While some people held the idea that the earth was round. Columbus shouldn't be written off as a 'politically connected sailor'. Spain, after all was the last country he lobbied! He was a cartographer before he was a sailor! While most well-read Europeans probably felt the earth was round no one could easily deny the that earth is flat. It made more sense and was infinatly easier to believe.
Social Security: I'm not going to pay a bunch of healthy and wealthy 200 year olds out of my taxes.
Then you might end up in jail. I think that the current plans for Social Security, if they are ever implimented, might help solve that problem.
People would be able (and are able for that matter) to work for their formitable years and live off the interest from their savings and investments for the rest of their years. The key is saving, investing smartly, and not spending more than the interest when you are living off of them.
Korean has "two present tenses" for certainty - one for events that the speaker knows to be true, and on that they are not 100% certain of. IANAKS (I am not a Korean speaker)
Should read: Korean has "two present tenses", one for old people...
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March 17, 2005: I haven't added anything new to the target gallery in a while, partially because I've been obsessed with a new game called "Girlfriend Quest."
I agree to an extent. But learning for learning's sake can be done anytime. While you have a job, while you're unemployed. Having a system where students are stuck in their formitable years in rather closed and overly paternalistic institutions is not the best way. Vocational Training is not a bad thing, whether it starts at 8 or 18 years into a life. There are many places that offer courses in History, foreign languages, and cultural enrichment. It does not have to and should not have to be done at one set point in one's life.
Gallego, Breton, Welsh, and Cornish are all very similar (especially Cornish and Breton, they say that fishermen from Cornwall and Brittany could readily understand each other). They are all, of course, celtic, along with Scottish Gaelic, and Gaelic. Basque has virtually no relationship to any known language, which makes it such a mystery. Being that your mother is in Galecia right now studing linguistics, I'm sure you know most of this, but I'm still responding to the grandparent.
It's true. I can't tell you how prevalent it is, but the same is true with Brittany in France. Celtic people, culture, and language (barely spoken there however).
I'm a college freshman and I don't even have a TV in my dorm room. I've got a TV card (that hasn't been working) in my computer. I don't know my landline phone number either. Like the article says, I use my cell phone for everything.
It's amusing but I wouldn't call it hypocritical. You're taking their class, not the other way around.
Drexel University has required all students to have a computer since the mid-80's. It was the first school to do so.
Because it's the government.
I don't think the laws are dystopian. I don't smoke and I do enjoy clean air and I am glad leaded Gasoline is gone. Nevertheless I am against the ban. My point was about the statment is that I think saying "It's the wave of the future" sounds like the beginning to a dystopian novel. I just think that the city shouldn't do something for the mere fact that other cities are doing it.
The Govenor also overrode the Legislature and gave Comcast millions of dollars in tax breaks to build their new headquarters in Philadelphia. The tax breaks (called KOZ) were supposed to only go to business building in run down and blighted areas. The new building is going to be in Center City Philadelphia next to a busy train station and a block away from city hall, hardly a blighted area rather quite the opposite.
I can assure that making the schools privatly run was not the Mayor's idea.
Modernization: The mayor just endorsed Councilman Nutter's smoking ban and calling it, "the wave of the future". When they mayor endorses legislation by calling it "the wave of the future", it sounds awfully like the begining of a dystopian novel.
I'm utterly sick of this city's government and I haven't even lived here a year.
Amen to that. SEPTA police arn't rent-a-cops though, they are real police and they can arrest you. SEPTA already has the highest fares per mile and worst on-time rating in the country. The legislature ought to break it up into at least two entities. The regional rail should not be run by the same people who run the buses.
There's no doubt that poor managment at 1234 Market Street and to an extent the labor unions have caused this disaster. There's little wonder people call it INEPTA and the SEPTIC System. SEPTA isn't really privatly held, it's by a government agency just like most other transit systems. It's controlled by a board made up of mostly government appointees (the city gets two seats). They also ought to keep the subway stations clean, have you seen 8th street station?
SEPTA has done some good, like building the Center City tunnel in the 80's, but doing that also ment cutting off longer routes like to Bethlehem, Newton, West Chester. Market East station is pretty nice. I'm fairly satisfied with the regional rail lines, but being on time and more frequent would be nice. SEPTA continued to close Trolley routes up until the 90's, all the while the ridership dropped on their replacement buses. At least now they are trying to bring back the Rt 15 trolley but Councilman Nutter is stoping them from doing so (the restoration was a multi-million dollar project).
I don't think that adding wireless Internet as a city service is really a good idea. It's not a sustainable plan at all. After a few years this will quickly escalate in expenses as more and more people take advantage of it. The city needs to concentate on working on basics, like trying to get off of the lists that ranks it as one of the worst cities to do business in and working with SEPTA to make its transit system a little more desirable to use. Many companies see the wage tax in Philadelphia and they just go to Conshohocken or a Main Line suburb, it takes more out of my paycheck than the State and Medicare combined.
Perhaps you should mention that the mayor had has a wire tap for the past few years because he is under investigation for fraud by the FBI. There is something called pay-to-play that goes on down at city hall.
Sam Katz for Mayor!
On that same day, the City made a deal with Verizon. The headline sounds like this is uncertain, but the deal is already in place $2M has already been routed to this project by Mayor Street. All the while the transit system (SEPTA) is going bankrupt and threating to raise fairs AND cut weekend service.
The Wright Brothers are given credit for inventing the first heavier than air aircraft, but how often do you see their names attached to a brand?
Curtiss-Wright
http://www.curtisswright.com/
Sir Richard Branson has his way with virgin in space! How vile! I thought knights were supposed to protect maidens!
It's so Google has a sort of 'band name' for its year end summary. And people follow it, they know what it is. Having a specific and unique name for it helps market it. It has band name recognition now for a lot or people.
For example, when Pizza Hut launched its calzone, they called it a "Pizzone". It's marketing, nothing less.
Your view of scientific knowledge of 600 years ago is somewhat lacking. It was well established in the year 500BCE that that the earth was indeed round, and was belived to have a size roughly to the actual size of the Earth. (The error came from assuming a perfect sphere.) Even in the year 1400 round earthers were the norm. Columbus wasn't some visionary. He just was a politcally connected sailor.
While some people held the idea that the earth was round. Columbus shouldn't be written off as a 'politically connected sailor'. Spain, after all was the last country he lobbied! He was a cartographer before he was a sailor! While most well-read Europeans probably felt the earth was round no one could easily deny the that earth is flat. It made more sense and was infinatly easier to believe.
The Indiana Jones happy fun ball!
Then you might end up in jail. I think that the current plans for Social Security, if they are ever implimented, might help solve that problem.
People would be able (and are able for that matter) to work for their formitable years and live off the interest from their savings and investments for the rest of their years. The key is saving, investing smartly, and not spending more than the interest when you are living off of them.
Korean has "two present tenses" for certainty - one for events that the speaker knows to be true, and on that they are not 100% certain of. IANAKS (I am not a Korean speaker) Should read: Korean has "two present tenses", one for old people...
do not taunt the pole