A convervative columnist, Jonah Goldberg, once gave an answer to that. To sum up, violence at least tends to enforce morality, whereas sex tends to deny it.
If I understand him (and I am NOT saying I agree with him, because I don't) I think you would apply it like this: say there's a scene where a man walks in on his wife cheating. If he shoots her, then at least the scene is teaching that adultery is bad. If he gets turned on and joins in, then it's teaching that there's nothing wrong with it. Make sense?
I just started a new web gig two months ago. My company lets IT staff expense broadband (wireless, for those of us who have laptops).
They also have a group plan with Sprint PCS that includes unlimited text messages. But the included phone wasn't nearly as nice as my current one (and I don't get messaged nearly as often as the Help Desk/server guys anyway), so I'm just expensing the equivalent amount from my own plan.
That's a supremely silly argument the CIO's using. Not wishing to pay for the company's out-of-office access to you suddenly makes you not dedicated?!? Perhaps it means the CIO's not dedicated to the access needed by the company's customers...
But, has the number of couples that can't have children gone up? It always worried me. Am I just being paranoid?
Well, part of that is simply a redefinition of infertility. It used to mean that a couple could not conceive after two years of trying. Now, at many clinics, they label you infertile after only one year. Of the couples with no reproductive problems at all, 20-30% take over a year to conceive.
Me, I've never wanted kids, so it's no skin off my back...
Telecommuting breeds resentment among co-workers since they are anonymous to each other and also because non-telecommuters might dislike others getting such a "rosy" deal.
Oh, I got to deal with that one. When I was in my last semester of my master's degree program in Indiana Univ. Bloomington, a company in Indy (one hour away) wanted to hire me immediately. So I worked two days a week for that semester, then at home twice a week once I graduated. One of my co-workers (who later became my manager) also telecommuted from Atlanta--the company had an office there which they sold off, but they decided to keep him.
A few months later, we got a new CIO, who started an anonymous forum to get suggestions. Someone from another department bitched about us (albeit not by name), and how unfair it was that we got to telecommute while others didn't. In a sense, I agree--more people should be able to, if they demonstrate that they can handle it. I just wish they hadn't been as snarky about it...
I like Noggin if for no other reason than they do Daria reruns. I'd encourage you or your cousins to watch it, so you understand high school a bit better before getting there.
As for web sites, your female cousins would probably dig Girlstart. It's from a cool non-profit in Austin that does camps for middle-school-aged girls. I got to speak at one of their camps, and was amazed at the quality of their questions. (What your site's privacy policy? What are the most and least popular parts of the site? What should I study in high school and college to get a job like that?)
Actually, that's exactly what they did. Wong and Morgan (who had previously worked on X-Files) were the writers for Millennium's second season, which I still think may have been the best season of TV ever. They found out that they weren't getting their contracts renewed with a couple of episodes left, and basically used the season finale to write the show into a corner.
There are definite exceptions to that, either way. Most library internships are unpaid or minimum wage, but while I was working on a Master of Information Science degree, I interned in the research library at Ford for $19.50 an hour, plus housing (at a sorority house in Ann Arbor) & a chartered bus to/from Dearborn. I put some time in the reference desk like everyone else, but most of my work was web development.
OTOH, I know at least some of the game developers don't pay, because they don't have to.
Well, Carl Sagan (and Steven Pinker, Stephen Jay Gould, etc.) didn't get into the popularization business until their own careers were well established. The way American universities are structured, researchers need to put out lots of original research publications in peer-reviewed journals in order to get tenure. If anything, articles or books which try to distill the state of the art and make it accessible to outsiders are seen as a distraction.
As one of my psych professors put it, "Research puts food in my kids' mouths."
Stay flexible when it comes to your future. You have some great ideas, but you'll never know how those interests will be applied later. The web didn't even exist until the year I graduated high school.
Don't ever think you have to change something about yourself for a boy. (And an aside for my best friend: By the same token, don't think you can try to change a boy yourself--you'll be setting yourself up for an impossible project.) You'll know you've found the right guy when you're happy with each other.
You're smarter, prettier and funnier than you think.
No one has ever said that communication is the strongest skill that a geek ever had.
Now, now... I got into acting about 4 years before I took my first programming class. And I'm really glad I'm in a job where I have time to do it on the side.
Coincidentally, I found out a public radio station in Minnesota is broadcasting a radio comedy I worked on with Mind's Ear Productions a couple of years ago, called The Dante Experience. The premise: some angels have decided that GenXers are too apathetic about the afterlife, so four youngsters in a car headed for the Mall of America are abducted and taken on a tour of hell, led by Dante.
Episodes 6 & 7 are currently on their web site (I played Cleopatra in ep 7):
I grew up in a small town in Indiana. I had the double whammy going: smart and without a lot of money. (Remind me to rant about _The Bell Curve_ one of these days.) I couldn't wait to get to college and make something of myself. But while I was pretty sad through most of school, the happiness I have now completely outweighs it.
I live in Austin, a much larger and more diverse place, and I've found true friends. My career isn't what I thought it would be earlier, but it's enough to keep the roof over my head and give me time to do interesting stuff like theater. And I have an amazing husband who refused to let me believe I was uninteresting, unattractive, or otherwise unworthy--after about 5 years, it started sinking in.
A piece of advice to those of you have or are going to have kids yourselves: think carefully before you immediately flee to a suburb. I think it would've helped it I had gone to a larger school, where the odds were higher of meeting others like me and I could have had some opportunities a small school didn't offer (broadcasting equipment, languages other than French or Spanish, etc.).
The point of TNG's "Tapestry" was that all the pain and mistakes in your life help make up who you ultimately become, and I try to look at my past the same way. Anyone who says that high school was the best time of their lives... man, I pity them.
I really don't get the priorities when it comes to naming girls. Parents only think about how cute a name sounds on a baby girl, rather than how it's going to look at the top of a resume 20 years later.
Me? I'm one of those god-forsaken Jennifers, but Mom chose it as a wonderful gesture to her brother, rather than just because she saw _Love Story_...
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If you're drinking $50 worth of booze a day, I'd say you have a problem...
On a cruise, $50 breaks down to 4-5 drinks. Over the course of an entire day, that's not much.
I'd also say that offering "unlimited alcohol" is unlawful in most states, for obvious reasons.
The obvious reason is drunk driving. On a cruise, the only person driving is the captain.
If so, sign my ass up!
"Stop saying Wii! NOBODY says Wii!!"
Is he a dream (ahh ...), or is he a dud?
Open the door for your Mystery Bulge!
You forgot about how God is complex and ambivalent.
If I understand him (and I am NOT saying I agree with him, because I don't) I think you would apply it like this: say there's a scene where a man walks in on his wife cheating. If he shoots her, then at least the scene is teaching that adultery is bad. If he gets turned on and joins in, then it's teaching that there's nothing wrong with it. Make sense?
And let's not even talk about the Frasier nerds ...
They also have a group plan with Sprint PCS that includes unlimited text messages. But the included phone wasn't nearly as nice as my current one (and I don't get messaged nearly as often as the Help Desk/server guys anyway), so I'm just expensing the equivalent amount from my own plan.
That's a supremely silly argument the CIO's using. Not wishing to pay for the company's out-of-office access to you suddenly makes you not dedicated?!? Perhaps it means the CIO's not dedicated to the access needed by the company's customers ...
Actually, that's how AP wrote it, so many other newspapers are stating it the same way. Fox News gets a pass this time ...
Or a stalker, for that matter.
That could be used for the world's best (albeit most expensive) phone sex ...
I told my husband back when we were engaged that he wasn't going to get a domestic goddess. But I have turned into 24/7 tech support ...
But how can he type while carrying his security blanket?
Jennifer: Of course you are!
Johnny (reading the book): Wow, look what I'm doing with teenaged boys!
Well, part of that is simply a redefinition of infertility. It used to mean that a couple could not conceive after two years of trying. Now, at many clinics, they label you infertile after only one year. Of the couples with no reproductive problems at all, 20-30% take over a year to conceive.
Me, I've never wanted kids, so it's no skin off my back ...
Oh, I got to deal with that one. When I was in my last semester of my master's degree program in Indiana Univ. Bloomington, a company in Indy (one hour away) wanted to hire me immediately. So I worked two days a week for that semester, then at home twice a week once I graduated. One of my co-workers (who later became my manager) also telecommuted from Atlanta--the company had an office there which they sold off, but they decided to keep him.
A few months later, we got a new CIO, who started an anonymous forum to get suggestions. Someone from another department bitched about us (albeit not by name), and how unfair it was that we got to telecommute while others didn't. In a sense, I agree--more people should be able to, if they demonstrate that they can handle it. I just wish they hadn't been as snarky about it ...
I like Noggin if for no other reason than they do Daria reruns. I'd encourage you or your cousins to watch it, so you understand high school a bit better before getting there. As for web sites, your female cousins would probably dig Girlstart. It's from a cool non-profit in Austin that does camps for middle-school-aged girls. I got to speak at one of their camps, and was amazed at the quality of their questions. (What your site's privacy policy? What are the most and least popular parts of the site? What should I study in high school and college to get a job like that?)
Actually, that's exactly what they did. Wong and Morgan (who had previously worked on X-Files) were the writers for Millennium's second season, which I still think may have been the best season of TV ever. They found out that they weren't getting their contracts renewed with a couple of episodes left, and basically used the season finale to write the show into a corner.
You know what I look like from a /. comment? I'm in awe!
OTOH, I know at least some of the game developers don't pay, because they don't have to.
As one of my psych professors put it, "Research puts food in my kids' mouths."
Now, now ... I got into acting about 4 years before I took my first programming class. And I'm really glad I'm in a job where I have time to do it on the side.
Coincidentally, I found out a public radio station in Minnesota is broadcasting a radio comedy I worked on with Mind's Ear Productions a couple of years ago, called The Dante Experience. The premise: some angels have decided that GenXers are too apathetic about the afterlife, so four youngsters in a car headed for the Mall of America are abducted and taken on a tour of hell, led by Dante.
Episodes 6 & 7 are currently on their web site (I played Cleopatra in ep 7):
I grew up in a small town in Indiana. I had the double whammy going: smart and without a lot of money. (Remind me to rant about _The Bell Curve_ one of these days.) I couldn't wait to get to college and make something of myself. But while I was pretty sad through most of school, the happiness I have now completely outweighs it. I live in Austin, a much larger and more diverse place, and I've found true friends. My career isn't what I thought it would be earlier, but it's enough to keep the roof over my head and give me time to do interesting stuff like theater. And I have an amazing husband who refused to let me believe I was uninteresting, unattractive, or otherwise unworthy--after about 5 years, it started sinking in. A piece of advice to those of you have or are going to have kids yourselves: think carefully before you immediately flee to a suburb. I think it would've helped it I had gone to a larger school, where the odds were higher of meeting others like me and I could have had some opportunities a small school didn't offer (broadcasting equipment, languages other than French or Spanish, etc.). The point of TNG's "Tapestry" was that all the pain and mistakes in your life help make up who you ultimately become, and I try to look at my past the same way. Anyone who says that high school was the best time of their lives ... man, I pity them.
I really don't get the priorities when it comes to naming girls. Parents only think about how cute a name sounds on a baby girl, rather than how it's going to look at the top of a resume 20 years later.
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Me? I'm one of those god-forsaken Jennifers, but Mom chose it as a wonderful gesture to her brother, rather than just because she saw _Love Story_