The reason why there is so many problems with sex is because of tight-assed overly religious assholes like you (obviously). You view sex as being bad only because of your fucking stupid shithole religion (the same one that harps personal responsibility).
Where did the poster say anything about religion? Unless you know the poster on a personal basis, you are only assuming he is against sex and that he has a religious basis for this.
What he has stated is that he wants to protect his children from unsavory elements. And he alludes to a concern about pedophiles who use the internet to meet and lure young children. Unmonitored chatrooms are today's new vans and lollipops.
Assignments were graded only on a completion credit. Every day, he would take questions regarding the previous assignment, so you could learn more about any equations that gave you trouble.
On the test, every question was either directly taken from the homework, or adapted from the homework. The only way you could do it is if you could do the homework.
You were required to show work on the test. You could get partial credit depending on how far you got in the problem before you messed up; likewise, whether the answer was correct or not, you'd get no credit if you didn't show your work, since that was part of the instructions.
Tests were weighted in such a way that you could not pass the course without passing the tests.
Personal anecdote: I once caught somebody copying my test answers, so I began deliberately marking them incorrectly, every single question. I pretended to check my work while he turned his test in. As he returned to his seat, he couldn't help seeing me furiously erase my answers and reworking the entire test. I just smiled at him.
But they'll have to come up with a really catchy "space-agey" name to market it to the general public. The idea of a commercial VO saying "The new BMW 7-series, now with BUBBLOY!" makes me giggle a little bit.
"Members also will examine whether the government can mandate content protection technologies without limiting consumers' legal uses of digital media products."
If Congress attempts to mandate any kind of copy protection technology, they have deliberately, knowingly, and unabashedly sacrificed their Constitutional responsibility to protect the rights of the people for the protection of billions of dollars for a few CEO's controlling the RIAA member companies.
That kind of elitist "scratch-my-back" bullshit goes against everything that this country was founded on!
It's been said before, but the recording industry's business model is completely ridiculous. The reason people most download is because bands don't actually produce enough quality material to justify the price of a whole album. However, record companies no longer produce cheap singles. So rather than feed money to the hungry beast, consumers look elsewhere.
It's not the job of Congress to protect the interests of the self-righteous assholes who run the RIAA. The fact these money grubbers get so much attention, while our country is facing real problems shows just where our elected officials' interests lie. FWIW, at the time Napster was still around and Kazaa was waiting in the trenches, record sales were at all time highs. And the RIAA had the cojones to claim that file sharing was hurting business!
I'm not trying to insult your intelligence, but I've seen people who are affiliated with the military or government have problems because they thought they had to use overseas shipping. If you have an APO/FPO mailbox, you can have things sent there. It's still the US Postal Service at that point
Simply enter APO or FPO, whichever applies, as the city. Enter AE as the state if it's a text field. Alternately, if it's a drop list use NY as the state, because overseas mail going to the military are all routed through New York.
If you try this I promise it will work, I did it many times and never once had a problem. It's still the American postal service, so you don't have any problem with overseas shipping, normal rates still apply
I think a civilian can also obtain an APO/FPO box, but only if you're working for the US government. I'm not certain on that one.
Failing that, you could maybe ask a soldier to let you use his/her mailing address for this purpose.
I apologize if this has already been mentioned, I'm too lazy to scroll through all the replies and check.
WTF? Take back that comment before I do some serious damage to you using a wing nut, or possible a couple toggle bolts. Seriously, why the negative stereotypes of women not being able to fix anything?
If I go to the auto parts store with my fiance the salesmen always ignore me and ask him what the problem is, even if I've already run the diagnostics and know exactly what I need! And people sometimes even ask me if I know about computers because I picked it up from him, as if I'm completely incapable of comprehending the intricacies of stack classes on my own. Blecch.
/Feminist rant completely unrelated to original thread
I rarely handwrite anymore, given that I can type as quickly as I can think and my hands don't cramp up nearly as much. When I am forced to write something out by hand, I tend to use certain programming structures as shortcuts to avoid actual words. Ex: += or -= when balancing checkbook
|| && ! when jotting notes And since I work a mindless retail job, none of the peons I work with can understand any of my self notes, thereby avoiding any nosy browsers who happen to "notice" it on the table.
Try reading some classic Sci Fi, such as Jules Verne. Journey to the Center of the Earth is the mental equivalent of a popcorn flick, and H.G. Wells's Time Machine is good despite the god-awful movie adaptations that come out.
If you can find The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, it's a fun series, a sort of cross between Tolkien and Piers Anthony (In his early Xanth/Incarnations heyday). It's currently out of print, but it was written by a man with the last name Donaldson.
I also recommend V.C. Andrews's Foxworth, Casteel, and Cutler series, which start with Flowers in the Attic, Heaven, and Dawn respectively. Formula fiction? Yes. Total trash? You bet. But good to take your mind off the real world, and much better paced than soap operas.
For the same reasons, check out some Harlequin Romance novels.
I think it's good to be well-rounded in one's reading. Not all books have to be high literature, and I've always associated summer reading with something light and forgettable. It's fun to read trashy formula fiction for the same reason we like to see stupid disaster movies with predictable endings. Save the heavy tomes for the gloom of winter next to the roaring fire with a mug of cocoa (Irished up, of course).
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The reason why there is so many problems with sex is because of tight-assed overly religious assholes like you (obviously). You view sex as being bad only because of your fucking stupid shithole religion (the same one that harps personal responsibility).
Where did the poster say anything about religion? Unless you know the poster on a personal basis, you are only assuming he is against sex and that he has a religious basis for this. What he has stated is that he wants to protect his children from unsavory elements. And he alludes to a concern about pedophiles who use the internet to meet and lure young children. Unmonitored chatrooms are today's new vans and lollipops.
Personal anecdote: I once caught somebody copying my test answers, so I began deliberately marking them incorrectly, every single question. I pretended to check my work while he turned his test in. As he returned to his seat, he couldn't help seeing me furiously erase my answers and reworking the entire test. I just smiled at him.
I thought the name was cute.:-p
But they'll have to come up with a really catchy "space-agey" name to market it to the general public. The idea of a commercial VO saying "The new BMW 7-series, now with BUBBLOY!" makes me giggle a little bit.
"Members also will examine whether the government can mandate content protection technologies without limiting consumers' legal uses of digital media products."
If Congress attempts to mandate any kind of copy protection technology, they have deliberately, knowingly, and unabashedly sacrificed their Constitutional responsibility to protect the rights of the people for the protection of billions of dollars for a few CEO's controlling the RIAA member companies. That kind of elitist "scratch-my-back" bullshit goes against everything that this country was founded on!
It's been said before, but the recording industry's business model is completely ridiculous. The reason people most download is because bands don't actually produce enough quality material to justify the price of a whole album. However, record companies no longer produce cheap singles. So rather than feed money to the hungry beast, consumers look elsewhere.
It's not the job of Congress to protect the interests of the self-righteous assholes who run the RIAA. The fact these money grubbers get so much attention, while our country is facing real problems shows just where our elected officials' interests lie. FWIW, at the time Napster was still around and Kazaa was waiting in the trenches, record sales were at all time highs. And the RIAA had the cojones to claim that file sharing was hurting business!
Read a history book, you'll see that pretty much every major technological or engineering feat ever achieved can be traced back to military purposes.
I'm not trying to insult your intelligence, but I've seen people who are affiliated with the military or government have problems because they thought they had to use overseas shipping. If you have an APO/FPO mailbox, you can have things sent there. It's still the US Postal Service at that point
Simply enter APO or FPO, whichever applies, as the city. Enter AE as the state if it's a text field. Alternately, if it's a drop list use NY as the state, because overseas mail going to the military are all routed through New York.
If you try this I promise it will work, I did it many times and never once had a problem. It's still the American postal service, so you don't have any problem with overseas shipping, normal rates still apply
I think a civilian can also obtain an APO/FPO box, but only if you're working for the US government. I'm not certain on that one.
Failing that, you could maybe ask a soldier to let you use his/her mailing address for this purpose.
I apologize if this has already been mentioned, I'm too lazy to scroll through all the replies and check.
WTF? Take back that comment before I do some serious damage to you using a wing nut, or possible a couple toggle bolts. Seriously, why the negative stereotypes of women not being able to fix anything?
If I go to the auto parts store with my fiance the salesmen always ignore me and ask him what the problem is, even if I've already run the diagnostics and know exactly what I need! And people sometimes even ask me if I know about computers because I picked it up from him, as if I'm completely incapable of comprehending the intricacies of stack classes on my own. Blecch.
I rarely handwrite anymore, given that I can type as quickly as I can think and my hands don't cramp up nearly as much. When I am forced to write something out by hand, I tend to use certain programming structures as shortcuts to avoid actual words.
Ex:
+= or -= when balancing checkbook
|| && ! when jotting notes
And since I work a mindless retail job, none of the peons I work with can understand any of my self notes, thereby avoiding any nosy browsers who happen to "notice" it on the table.
Try reading some classic Sci Fi, such as Jules Verne. Journey to the Center of the Earth is the mental equivalent of a popcorn flick, and H.G. Wells's Time Machine is good despite the god-awful movie adaptations that come out.
If you can find The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, it's a fun series, a sort of cross between Tolkien and Piers Anthony (In his early Xanth/Incarnations heyday). It's currently out of print, but it was written by a man with the last name Donaldson.
I also recommend V.C. Andrews's Foxworth, Casteel, and Cutler series, which start with Flowers in the Attic, Heaven, and Dawn respectively. Formula fiction? Yes. Total trash? You bet. But good to take your mind off the real world, and much better paced than soap operas.
For the same reasons, check out some Harlequin Romance novels.
I think it's good to be well-rounded in one's reading. Not all books have to be high literature, and I've always associated summer reading with something light and forgettable. It's fun to read trashy formula fiction for the same reason we like to see stupid disaster movies with predictable endings. Save the heavy tomes for the gloom of winter next to the roaring fire with a mug of cocoa (Irished up, of course).