This premise closely follows the old 'Teach a man to fish...' saying. We should be teaching our children problem solving skills, how to try things until you find what works. I work in Tech Support, and I see adults (35+) who will sit there and stare at an error message of any kind until I arrive to press enter for them. Give a kid a computer, even the most toked out power gaming machine, and don't even plug it in for them. Give them no manuals, make them figure it out. They'll be better for it!
My girlfriend got quite motion sick, but she also gets motion sick playing Quake. It didn't bother me any, but if you do get motion sick I wouldn't recommend the movie. Though really you don't lose much from keeping your eyes closed through the entire movie. I'm going to go see it a second time just to do that, the sound FX are scary as hell!!
Are you insane?! The movie left EVERYTHING unanswered! The sound effects were great! The acting was beautiful. Admittedly 3 idiots lost in the woods isn't the scariest concept I can think of, but you definately felt for the characters during the film. If you didn't then you aren't much of a human being. I thought it was an excellent movie. Something that is fun to watch 3 or 4 times. Or even watch again every few months. Can't wait to get it on DVD....
No kidding! I spent ALL DAY Saturday trying to tell one of my Girlfriends brothers friends (Heh, what a line) that the myth was made up by the film makers. I FINALLY got him convinced!
It was a 93 thousand dollar check and the story is linked to on www.bored.com He eventually gave the money back, even thuogh he wasn't legally required to.
Taco Bell recently offered 1 million dollars in exchange for 4 or 5 round cardboard tokens. If I had happened to collect those tokens and turn them in could Taco Bell have denied me the prize on the basis that it was "just a joke"?? The original version of the commercial had NO disclaimer, no indication that this company which makes multiple billions every year was not offering a jet. None. The guys should get his 700 thousand back, he should pay both legal fees, and Pepsi should be hit for attempting to defraud the guy out of 700 thousand.
The temperature of the Mcdonalds coffee in question was 140 degrees farenheit. The manager had been keeping it at that temperature because it stayed fresh longer or some such silliness. The lady didn't deserve to win the lawsuit as she should have been more careful, but Mcdonalds was breaking policy by super heating their coffee.
Are you implying that an Ad should be anything BUT dead facts?!?! If I want to be entertained it isn't going to happen in a commercial. I want to know what their product does and how it does it nothing more. I don't need flashing lights and large breasted women prancing around on screen to make me buy something. An Advertisement should be a set of facts about the product perhaps including a location where it is available and that's it. All of these absurd claims that are made in commercials are completely useless, a waste of resources. Pepsi should give the jet or the cash equivelant to the guy. And 7up should stop those god awful UN commercials.
So you're saying you would feel differently if we were censoring library books and not allowing people under 18 to read books that contained violent or sexual material, or foul language? I fail to see the consistancy in your view point. Either we have free media or we do not. If I opened a nice big private library/movie theatre/convenience store/etc.. could I decide that no blond, blue eyed people would be allowed in? How about no Black people? No Hispanics? No one over 35? No one under 20? Why are movie theatres different from any other business?
One would think that anyone old enough to be allowed to operate a 2000lb piece of machinery would be responsible enough to see any movie around.... I guess we should raise the driving age to 18... Of course, if you can drive and vote, and kill people in foreign countries, then you should be able to drink, so I guess we better move everything up to 21... Of course if you can do all of that you should be able to run for president, so let's move it all up to 35... Sounds good to me, everyone under 35 (Including me) is now considered a Child! >:)
I'm just randomly inserting this in the thread here:
I can't believe how many of the same people who screamed about the FBI wanting to tap Sat Phones are now advocating censorship in movie theatres. These people also dump on blocking software, yet once again advocate arbitrary censorship in movie theatres. So, everyone who complains about blocking software and FBI privacy infringment, then supports movie theatres denying entrance to 15-17 year olds is a hypocrite.
Well, with IE 5 at work I've been able to hit the microsoft site pretty much all day today and most of the day yesterday. That's the Win2000 one as well as the regular one. So it doesn't seem to have gone down too hard if at all.... Then again, if they just did something screwy with the page so that only IE5 would show it as existing.... Wouldn't that be interesting? I away to entirely shut out half of the community from your website.
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What on earth are you babbling about? You would question the ethics of a gun enthusiast who used Linux?? Since when does your operating system have to make a political/ethical statement? Would you question my ethics if I used a different brand of hammer than you do?! Can I question YOUR ethics if your shoes were made in a sweatshop in bangladesh?? I fail to make the connection between which brand of plastic I choose to purchase and which set of morals or ethics I follow. I'm a gun enthusiast, a Political Anarchist, a martial artist, and I love Linux. I don't see any contradictions there....
That means abortions are legal, drugs are legal, nothing against homosexuality, etc. That makes a lot of sense to me, far more than those damn Flying Monkey Right Republicans saying all that stuff is against the Bible, so it should be outlawed.
Especially since most of the time they are just waving the Bible around and screaming nonsense since the Bible doesn't mention a lot of the stuff that they proclaim to be evil. People like that give us real christians a bad name.
When an individuals actions drastically oppose the best interest of society, society tends to punish that person fairly quickly. If I started stealing randomly then the people I stole from would catch me and slap me around. We don't need police for this unless the criminals are better armed than we are.
Perhaps because the person from America is less likely to move to Denmark and leave the project hanging? That is the only legitimate reason I can think of for paying foreign workers who aren't yet citizens less. There IS a risk associated with it, though a small and flimsy one.
*slaps himself around* I knew John Grisham didn't look right, but I couldn't think of any other names. I just liked it because it had Ding in it mostly... It wasn't well developed, but it was a good action book, kind of like a Jackie Chan movie.>:)
STOP LUMPING ALL OF THE SEMI-CHRISTIAN FUDNAMENTALIST CULT GROUPS TOGETHER UNDER THE TERM CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!!!
I'm getting really irritated by some people here just dumping the term Christians out with regards to every fundamentalist wacko that says he believes in God. The freaks that kill abortion doctors may claim to be Christian, but they are NOT! If they were Christians then they wouldn't be killing people as the bible is chock full of commands to 'Love thy neighbor' and '...not kill.' So, please stop trying to squeeze me in with the psycho demon possessed freaks that go around killing people in the name of 'God'...
Call me darwinian, but isn't this Survival of the fittest? Apparently we were the fittest at the time and destroyed the competition at will. That of course may no longer be the case, China may turn our army into oatmeal and occupy Washington within the next month or two, or not... It's part of life until people stop focusing on differences between cultures. All of these people wanting to maintain their culture and ethnic identity, while I can respect that, are slowing the process of world peace. We need one culture if we are to have peace between all people, and until then we're going to kick each others asses every chance we get.
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This premise closely follows the old 'Teach a man to fish...' saying. We should be teaching our children problem solving skills, how to try things until you find what works. I work in Tech Support, and I see adults (35+) who will sit there and stare at an error message of any kind until I arrive to press enter for them. Give a kid a computer, even the most toked out power gaming machine, and don't even plug it in for them. Give them no manuals, make them figure it out. They'll be better for it!
Kintanon
"Don't do it to me, do it to Julia!"
Whenever I see/hear that line I almost cry with the amount of pain and frustration I felt the first time I read 1984. Definately a powerful book.
Kintanon
Can you ship it to Baltimore? Or Athens,Ga? Me or my Brother would love a truckload of 486s.
My girlfriend got quite motion sick, but she also gets motion sick playing Quake. It didn't bother me any, but if you do get motion sick I wouldn't recommend the movie. Though really you don't lose much from keeping your eyes closed through the entire movie. I'm going to go see it a second time just to do that, the sound FX are scary as hell!!
Also, I LOVED Clerks!
Kintanon
Are you insane?! The movie left EVERYTHING unanswered! The sound effects were great! The acting was beautiful. Admittedly 3 idiots lost in the woods isn't the scariest concept I can think of, but you definately felt for the characters during the film. If you didn't then you aren't much of a human being. I thought it was an excellent movie. Something that is fun to watch 3 or 4 times. Or even watch again every few months. Can't wait to get it on DVD....
Kintanon
No kidding! I spent ALL DAY Saturday trying to tell one of my Girlfriends brothers friends (Heh, what a line) that the myth was made up by the film makers. I FINALLY got him convinced!
Kintanon
It was a 93 thousand dollar check and the story is linked to on www.bored.com
He eventually gave the money back, even thuogh he wasn't legally required to.
kintanon
Taco Bell recently offered 1 million dollars in exchange for 4 or 5 round cardboard tokens. If I had happened to collect those tokens and turn them in could Taco Bell have denied me the prize on the basis that it was "just a joke"??
The original version of the commercial had NO disclaimer, no indication that this company which makes multiple billions every year was not offering a jet. None. The guys should get his 700 thousand back, he should pay both legal fees, and Pepsi should be hit for attempting to defraud the guy out of 700 thousand.
Kintanon
How could it? They're just joking, right?
Kintanon
The temperature of the Mcdonalds coffee in question was 140 degrees farenheit. The manager had been keeping it at that temperature because it stayed fresh longer or some such silliness. The lady didn't deserve to win the lawsuit as she should have been more careful, but Mcdonalds was breaking policy by super heating their coffee.
Kintanon
Are you implying that an Ad should be anything BUT dead facts?!?! If I want to be entertained it isn't going to happen in a commercial. I want to know what their product does and how it does it nothing more. I don't need flashing lights and large breasted women prancing around on screen to make me buy something. An Advertisement should be a set of facts about the product perhaps including a location where it is available and that's it. All of these absurd claims that are made in commercials are completely useless, a waste of resources. Pepsi should give the jet or the cash equivelant to the guy. And 7up should stop those god awful UN commercials.
Kintanon
So you're saying you would feel differently if we were censoring library books and not allowing people under 18 to read books that contained violent or sexual material, or foul language?
I fail to see the consistancy in your view point. Either we have free media or we do not. If I opened a nice big private library/movie theatre/convenience store/etc.. could I decide that no blond, blue eyed people would be allowed in? How about no Black people? No Hispanics? No one over 35? No one under 20? Why are movie theatres different from any other business?
Kintanon
One would think that anyone old enough to be allowed to operate a 2000lb piece of machinery would be responsible enough to see any movie around.... I guess we should raise the driving age to 18... Of course, if you can drive and vote, and kill people in foreign countries, then you should be able to drink, so I guess we better move everything up to 21... Of course if you can do all of that you should be able to run for president, so let's move it all up to 35... Sounds good to me, everyone under 35 (Including me) is now considered a Child! >:)
Kintanon
Stop trying to legislate my morality you fascist.
I'm just randomly inserting this in the thread here:
I can't believe how many of the same people who screamed about the FBI wanting to tap Sat Phones are now advocating censorship in movie theatres.
These people also dump on blocking software, yet once again advocate arbitrary censorship in movie theatres. So, everyone who complains about blocking software and FBI privacy infringment, then supports movie theatres denying entrance to 15-17 year olds is a hypocrite.
Kintanon
Well, with IE 5 at work I've been able to hit the microsoft site pretty much all day today and most of the day yesterday. That's the Win2000 one as well as the regular one. So it doesn't seem to have gone down too hard if at all.... Then again, if they just did something screwy with the page so that only IE5 would show it as existing....
Wouldn't that be interesting? I away to entirely shut out half of the community from your website.
Kintanon
What on earth are you babbling about?
You would question the ethics of a gun enthusiast who used Linux?? Since when does your operating system have to make a political/ethical statement?
Would you question my ethics if I used a different brand of hammer than you do?! Can I question YOUR ethics if your shoes were made in a sweatshop in bangladesh?? I fail to make the connection between which brand of plastic I choose to purchase and which set of morals or ethics I follow. I'm a gun enthusiast, a Political Anarchist, a martial artist, and I love Linux. I don't see any contradictions there....
Kintanon
That means abortions are legal, drugs are legal, nothing against homosexuality, etc. That makes a lot of sense to me, far more than those damn Flying Monkey Right Republicans saying all that stuff is against the Bible, so it should be outlawed.
Especially since most of the time they are just waving the Bible around and screaming nonsense since the Bible doesn't mention a lot of the stuff that they proclaim to be evil. People like that give us real christians a bad name.
Kintanon
When an individuals actions drastically oppose the best interest of society, society tends to punish that person fairly quickly. If I started stealing randomly then the people I stole from would catch me and slap me around. We don't need police for this unless the criminals are better armed than we are.
Kintanon
Perhaps because the person from America is less likely to move to Denmark and leave the project hanging?
That is the only legitimate reason I can think of for paying foreign workers who aren't yet citizens less. There IS a risk associated with it, though a small and flimsy one.
Kintanon
*slaps himself around*
I knew John Grisham didn't look right, but I couldn't think of any other names. I just liked it because it had Ding in it mostly... It wasn't well developed, but it was a good action book, kind of like a Jackie Chan movie.>:)
That would a book called Rainbow Six by John Grisham. Excellent book.
Kintanon
Ahem, Rant ahead:
STOP LUMPING ALL OF THE SEMI-CHRISTIAN FUDNAMENTALIST CULT GROUPS TOGETHER UNDER THE TERM CHRISTIAN!!!!!!!!!!
I'm getting really irritated by some people here just dumping the term Christians out with regards to every fundamentalist wacko that says he believes in God. The freaks that kill abortion doctors may claim to be Christian, but they are NOT! If they were Christians then they wouldn't be killing people as the bible is chock full of commands to 'Love thy neighbor' and '...not kill.'
So, please stop trying to squeeze me in with the psycho demon possessed freaks that go around killing people in the name of 'God'...
Ok, Rant is done with.
Kintanon
You wouldn't be saying that if you had every tried to organize 'legions and legions of soldiers'.
Kintanon
Call me darwinian, but isn't this Survival of the fittest? Apparently we were the fittest at the time and destroyed the competition at will. That of course may no longer be the case, China may turn our army into oatmeal and occupy Washington within the next month or two, or not... It's part of life until people stop focusing on differences between cultures. All of these people wanting to maintain their culture and ethnic identity, while I can respect that, are slowing the process of world peace. We need one culture if we are to have peace between all people, and until then we're going to kick each others asses every chance we get.
Kintanon