And it really came as a shock to me that some people actually put ketchup on top of pizza. No one in my country does so, but after moving to Asia I noticed how the restaurants started packing ketchup with ordered pizzas and saw that people actually put ketchup on them. Why? There's tomato sauce already, and it tastes much better on a pizza than ketchup does. And no, ketchup is equivalent to tomato sauce.
And what country is your "country"? I'm in the US and I usually put ketchup on my pizzas, especially store-bought kind.
Ketchup is not tomato sauce, and I have an experiment to prove it: next time you make spaghetti, use ketchup instead of tomato sauce.
Without gravity, we'd die. That's only part of what kills me about the whole manned space settlement concept. I love reading sci-fi where we live on lot's of planets and in space stations, but the fact is we're made of meat grown in a biological soup unique to Earth.
Not sure how this received +5, Insightful. Yes, we need gravity, but we do not need Earth's gravity to survive. If a person is comfortable with the idea of never returning to earth they can live just fine with less gravity. How much less is up to debate and difficult to test since space provides zero gravity and earth provides 1g and that's all we've had to test with for extended periods of time. How much gravity do humans need was asked before, and it seems we could get by with somewhere around 40%.
Wow seems your family is really ungrateful, but honestly I rarely use my usb drive. Only time I use the drive is when I'm trying to fix someone's PC that doesn't have internet because if they had Internet I'd just download whatever files I needed.
That' right everyone, remember when you store your information on a computer in the US, be fully aware that information is now subject to US laws.
Someone better warn her that her Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo are also at risk. Even her eBay and Google searches, maybe even some info sent through her iPhone or Android device if it passed through Apple or Google servers.
A smartphone without the monthly fee is a paperweight, you might as well get the subsidized model and save a few hundred dollars since the monthly fee is exactly the same whether you're in a contract or not.
I have to agree, I'm glad to see another instant Polaroid, but $300 + $20 paper? Seems like the camera should be $99 and they could make the money off the paper.
I'd buy it for $99 and I'm sure I'd end up buying more paper than I'm willing to admit, but at $300 I will never buy this camera. Ever. $300 is a brand new top-of-the-line smartphone, why would I spend that kind of $$$$ on a camera with "poor image quality"? A $300 smartphone would take better photos AND I can instantly post them online and send them to a wireless printer.
People that has been treated this way by their parents will grow up with big trust-issues that will affect them their whole life in all interactions with people that they might have...
And people that are not disciplined grow up thinking the world owes them everything and they can do anything they want without consequences. Visit any US prison for great examples of criminals who weren't disciplined growing up.
Or just scared of what would happen if she rejected him.
Scared she would be spanked with a belt again? So far there's been no evidence of abuse. No hospitalization, no division of family services, no broken bones, not even bruises, nothing to show she was being abused. Spanking your child with a belt IS NOT abuse in the US (yet).Federal prosecutors determined there wasn't even a crime depicted in the video.
Maybe if we made public education more about actually teaching and challenging students, rather than a game to see how you can bend the rules to pass the most students, then the first year of college wouldn't be such a difficult experience.
She didn't look too minced to me. Actually, she didn't look like she was beat badly at all. Got up and walked around afterwards, not falling to the ground, she wasn't even crying anymore.
If that's a "beating", it's the most pathetic example of a beating ever. No hospital, no ambulance, not even a broken bone. She even has all her teeth still! Was there even a bruise?
"...she warned her father if he reduced her financial support and took away her Mercedes, which he had provided, he would "live to regret it.""
What a spoiled brat. Isn't this blackmail or extortion? Give me money or else? It's already been ruled that it wasn't a crime, and even if it was she didn't go to the police, she uploaded it to the internet for all to see. I think she should be brought up on charges.
Let me break this down:
--easy to use
--not expensive = less than iPad
--iPad-like but not iPad
--no internet
--no "advanced features" (whatever that means)
Nope. Doesn't exist. Closest thing to what you described was the HP Touchpad when it was $99.You can still get a Touchpad for about $200, and if you're really trying to go cheap you can do that, but honestly all tablets are pretty worthless without internet, there's no amount of applications you can put on it that will make up for the fact that there's no internet connection. Does the nursing home not offer wifi for residents? I would think she would love to get on facebook and see how everyone's doing or open Skype and videochat.
So here's the options:
A) ~$200 = HP Touchpad off eBay and install Android because there's very few apps in the webOS market designed for tablets, only a few thousand.
B) iPad
Why: There's other tablets out there, but in the $200-$400 range none offer more than a Touchpad does. Devices under $200 will be small, underpowered, poor battery and might even have hardware issues, you don't want to visit grandma and find out the touchscreen stopped working. Device over $200 don't really offer as much as the Touchpad does until you get to the $400+ range, and if you don't mind spending $400 you might as well just go the iPad route at that point, it'll be the easiest tablet to use in the $400+ price range.
How is this Flamebait? He's right, this vehicle exists only on paper so far, and honestly a $7,000 electric car with 80 mile range seems so unbelievable in 2011 that I'll believe it when I see it. Not everything on the internet is real
The 99$ tag that you HAVE to pay per year to have your app in the appstore make it extremely hard for anyone to be able to make a profit (especially when apple will take 30% of anything they sell). I won't go into the top-app lists that are most likelly rigged or anything like that, but if I make a software, host it on github and publicize it on facebook, I won't be loosing anything other than my time...
$99... a YEAR?? That's your complaint? That's $8.25 a month, about the price of ONE Starbucks venti coffee. You're putting your app in front of millions of paying customers for the price of ONE cup of coffee a month, and you're complaining? I pay more for HOSTING that I hardly use!
Then by your argument loan sharking and preying on the elderly with scams should be 100% legal, after all they should know better, right? Ponzi schemes, pyramid scams, ALL of that should be legal, is that what you are advocating?
And by your definition adjustable rate mortgages and credit cards would be illegal, is that what you're advocating? After all they should know better then to sign up for that $600 mortgage that's going to jump to $2,000 a month in a year or get that 79% interest rate credit card that they'll never be able to pay back.
or that people have run out of valid things to complain and now they are complaining of free games with OPTIONAL in game items which cost money.
While spending real money is optional to simply play the game, it's not always optional if you want to actually finish the game. I've played some games like Pumpkins vs Monsters where you'd have to play hundreds of hours to beat the game unless you pay real $$$ because a level will only give you ~100-300 gold but a single upgrade is 10,000+ gold.
It's not impossible to win but almost. Imagine playing Half Life but health, additional lives and weapons cost real money, you're left to run around with whatever health you start with and a crowbar. Could you win? Highly unlikely.
"But everyone seems to be missing the REALLY NASTY little problem nobody is talking about...the for profit 'colleges' like De Vry and Remington and ITT."
Education is like anything in life, you need to do your research. Would you buy a car without doing research on reliability, repair records, carfax, etc? Would you buy a house without hiring an inspector or researching the history? I found information that ITT degrees are worthless and vet assistants don't even need to go to college within a few minutes for a/. post, yet thousands of people attend ITT every year for worthless degrees and others pay $$$ to become vet assistants. Who's fault is that? Why didn't these people spend 5 minutes googling it? Who's fault is it that they're stupid? The school for taking advantage? The govt for giving loans to stupid people or allowing them to go to a worthless school?
On the other hand not all for-profit are bad. Sanford Brown offers an LPN program where you become a licensed practical nurse by the state after you graduate. LPNs do alright considering it's a ~1 year degree for ~$25,000. I personally have called around to local universities and asked if they would accept the Sanford Brown LPN to bridge to RN and was told yes, as long as you are a licensed practical nurse by the state you can bridge into a registered nurse (RN) degree.
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And it really came as a shock to me that some people actually put ketchup on top of pizza. No one in my country does so, but after moving to Asia I noticed how the restaurants started packing ketchup with ordered pizzas and saw that people actually put ketchup on them. Why? There's tomato sauce already, and it tastes much better on a pizza than ketchup does. And no, ketchup is equivalent to tomato sauce.
And what country is your "country"? I'm in the US and I usually put ketchup on my pizzas, especially store-bought kind.
Ketchup is not tomato sauce, and I have an experiment to prove it: next time you make spaghetti, use ketchup instead of tomato sauce.
Without gravity, we'd die. That's only part of what kills me about the whole manned space settlement concept. I love reading sci-fi where we live on lot's of planets and in space stations, but the fact is we're made of meat grown in a biological soup unique to Earth.
Not sure how this received +5, Insightful. Yes, we need gravity, but we do not need Earth's gravity to survive. If a person is comfortable with the idea of never returning to earth they can live just fine with less gravity. How much less is up to debate and difficult to test since space provides zero gravity and earth provides 1g and that's all we've had to test with for extended periods of time. How much gravity do humans need was asked before, and it seems we could get by with somewhere around 40%.
So living on lots of planets is very plausible, as long as they provide a reasonable amount of gravity. Fortunately most planets do provide a reasonable amount of gravity: out of the 9 planets in our solar system, 7 provide sufficient gravity.
woosh! It was a joke.
Probably because it use to be people wanted foreign cars, but according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, out of the 10 most stolen cars in America, 5 were American brands: two Fords, one Chevy and two Dodges.
Wow seems your family is really ungrateful, but honestly I rarely use my usb drive. Only time I use the drive is when I'm trying to fix someone's PC that doesn't have internet because if they had Internet I'd just download whatever files I needed.
How long until they crack the unique ID generator and create viable clones of existing phones?
Probably about the same time they fix the problem of simply going with HTTPS to make sure it's valid: "So basically all we had to do was to setup a custom SSL certification authority, add it to our iPhone 4S, and use it to sign our very own certificate for a fake “guzzoni.apple.com”. And it worked : Siri was sending commands to your own HTTPS sever! Seems like someone at Apple missed something!"
Expect to see iOS 5.0.2 by Thanksgiving fixing this Siri "bug"
"I want everybody to be fully aware of the rights we apparently forfeit every time we sign one of these user agreements that no one reads," said Jonsdottir.
That' right everyone, remember when you store your information on a computer in the US, be fully aware that information is now subject to US laws.
Someone better warn her that her Facebook, Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo are also at risk. Even her eBay and Google searches, maybe even some info sent through her iPhone or Android device if it passed through Apple or Google servers.
A smartphone without the monthly fee is a paperweight, you might as well get the subsidized model and save a few hundred dollars since the monthly fee is exactly the same whether you're in a contract or not.
I have to agree, I'm glad to see another instant Polaroid, but $300 + $20 paper? Seems like the camera should be $99 and they could make the money off the paper.
I'd buy it for $99 and I'm sure I'd end up buying more paper than I'm willing to admit, but at $300 I will never buy this camera. Ever. $300 is a brand new top-of-the-line smartphone, why would I spend that kind of $$$$ on a camera with "poor image quality"? A $300 smartphone would take better photos AND I can instantly post them online and send them to a wireless printer.
Here's a video of it in action
I want to like it, but the $300 price is all wrong.
People that has been treated this way by their parents will grow up with big trust-issues that will affect them their whole life in all interactions with people that they might have...
And people that are not disciplined grow up thinking the world owes them everything and they can do anything they want without consequences. Visit any US prison for great examples of criminals who weren't disciplined growing up.
You'd think they'd contact AT&T, Verizon, and Sprint to make sure an alert like this went to all US cellphones. AT&T has 107 million US customers and Verizon has another 107 million so combined that covers 2/3rds of all Americans
Facebook would be another one I'd contact to see if an alert system could be put in place.
Or just scared of what would happen if she rejected him.
Scared she would be spanked with a belt again? So far there's been no evidence of abuse. No hospitalization, no division of family services, no broken bones, not even bruises, nothing to show she was being abused. Spanking your child with a belt IS NOT abuse in the US (yet). Federal prosecutors determined there wasn't even a crime depicted in the video.
Calling this video "abuse" is a horrible injustice to the 3.5 million children that really are abused or neglected.
Think I prefer this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzEqXXVWiQE
No smoke (that I can see) and no glass aquarium
Maybe if we made public education more about actually teaching and challenging students, rather than a game to see how you can bend the rules to pass the most students, then the first year of college wouldn't be such a difficult experience.
You can't do that, it would violate the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001
Colleges don't have to follow the Act, hence the problem we're having. Until No Child Left Behind is repelled I don't see things changing.
By beating the shit out of her with a belt?
CITATION NEEDED: Define "beating the shit out of"
she wasn't even crying when he finally left the room, hardly "beating the shit out of"
She didn't look too minced to me. Actually, she didn't look like she was beat badly at all. Got up and walked around afterwards, not falling to the ground, she wasn't even crying anymore.
If that's a "beating", it's the most pathetic example of a beating ever. No hospital, no ambulance, not even a broken bone. She even has all her teeth still! Was there even a bruise?
He's already lost his wife and daughter at least, that's a start. What a pathetic piece of shit.
He only lost his daughter because he stopped giving her money and took away her Mercedes. Seems she was pretty happy with the arrangement for the past 7 years since she didn't upload the video earlier (video's from 2004). He's not even up for re-election for 3 more years.
"...she warned her father if he reduced her financial support and took away her Mercedes, which he had provided, he would "live to regret it.""
What a spoiled brat. Isn't this blackmail or extortion? Give me money or else? It's already been ruled that it wasn't a crime, and even if it was she didn't go to the police, she uploaded it to the internet for all to see. I think she should be brought up on charges.
A CBS producer threaten to expose that David Letterman was sleeping with staff if he didn't pay $2 million. Police found out and the producer was arrested and got 6 months in jail.
How is this different? "Give me a Mercedes and money or I release the (perfectly legal) spanking video to Youtube!"
They get beaten to within an inch of their life by those who they thought were friends, and they never ever do it again.
like the "beating" he gave his daughter? So basically you'll do nothing, gotcha.
Watch the video, she isn't even crying after he leaves the room, and she only posted this video because he recently took away her Mercedes
I'd say someone's spoiled.
16 years old is old enough to be tried as an adult in a homicide case. The system likes to pick and choose when 16 is a minor, or adult.
11 year olds have been tried as adults, do you also consider them "adults"
being tried as an adult != being an adult
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Let me break this down:
--easy to use
--not expensive = less than iPad
--iPad-like but not iPad
--no internet
--no "advanced features" (whatever that means)
Nope. Doesn't exist. Closest thing to what you described was the HP Touchpad when it was $99. You can still get a Touchpad for about $200, and if you're really trying to go cheap you can do that, but honestly all tablets are pretty worthless without internet, there's no amount of applications you can put on it that will make up for the fact that there's no internet connection. Does the nursing home not offer wifi for residents? I would think she would love to get on facebook and see how everyone's doing or open Skype and videochat.
So here's the options:
A) ~$200 = HP Touchpad off eBay and install Android because there's very few apps in the webOS market designed for tablets, only a few thousand.
B) iPad
Why: There's other tablets out there, but in the $200-$400 range none offer more than a Touchpad does. Devices under $200 will be small, underpowered, poor battery and might even have hardware issues, you don't want to visit grandma and find out the touchscreen stopped working. Device over $200 don't really offer as much as the Touchpad does until you get to the $400+ range, and if you don't mind spending $400 you might as well just go the iPad route at that point, it'll be the easiest tablet to use in the $400+ price range.
How is this Flamebait? He's right, this vehicle exists only on paper so far, and honestly a $7,000 electric car with 80 mile range seems so unbelievable in 2011 that I'll believe it when I see it. Not everything on the internet is real
The 99$ tag that you HAVE to pay per year to have your app in the appstore make it extremely hard for anyone to be able to make a profit (especially when apple will take 30% of anything they sell). I won't go into the top-app lists that are most likelly rigged or anything like that, but if I make a software, host it on github and publicize it on facebook, I won't be loosing anything other than my time...
$99... a YEAR?? That's your complaint? That's $8.25 a month, about the price of ONE Starbucks venti coffee. You're putting your app in front of millions of paying customers for the price of ONE cup of coffee a month, and you're complaining? I pay more for HOSTING that I hardly use!
Top-app lists rigged? What else is new? It's the internet, nearly everything is rigged. These jerks charge over $4,000 so you can give your app away for free and very few developers recoup their losses
Then by your argument loan sharking and preying on the elderly with scams should be 100% legal, after all they should know better, right? Ponzi schemes, pyramid scams, ALL of that should be legal, is that what you are advocating?
And by your definition adjustable rate mortgages and credit cards would be illegal, is that what you're advocating? After all they should know better then to sign up for that $600 mortgage that's going to jump to $2,000 a month in a year or get that 79% interest rate credit card that they'll never be able to pay back.
or that people have run out of valid things to complain and now they are complaining of free games with OPTIONAL in game items which cost money.
While spending real money is optional to simply play the game, it's not always optional if you want to actually finish the game. I've played some games like Pumpkins vs Monsters where you'd have to play hundreds of hours to beat the game unless you pay real $$$ because a level will only give you ~100-300 gold but a single upgrade is 10,000+ gold.
It's not impossible to win but almost. Imagine playing Half Life but health, additional lives and weapons cost real money, you're left to run around with whatever health you start with and a crowbar. Could you win? Highly unlikely.
Then you have games like Smurfs' Village and Order & Chaos who have $99 in app purchases (here's another example)
I agree something should be done since these games don't really fall in the "free" category.
"But everyone seems to be missing the REALLY NASTY little problem nobody is talking about...the for profit 'colleges' like De Vry and Remington and ITT."
/. post, yet thousands of people attend ITT every year for worthless degrees and others pay $$$ to become vet assistants. Who's fault is that? Why didn't these people spend 5 minutes googling it? Who's fault is it that they're stupid? The school for taking advantage? The govt for giving loans to stupid people or allowing them to go to a worthless school?
Again, this is mostly the student's fault. Yes, the recruiters lie, lie like car salesmen, but the students still decide to pay $25,000 to be a veterinary assistant that doesn't require any education at all.
True, the government should do something to stop some schools from claiming to offer a "bachelors" degree that is worthless because no other university recognizes the degree.
Education is like anything in life, you need to do your research. Would you buy a car without doing research on reliability, repair records, carfax, etc? Would you buy a house without hiring an inspector or researching the history? I found information that ITT degrees are worthless and vet assistants don't even need to go to college within a few minutes for a
On the other hand not all for-profit are bad. Sanford Brown offers an LPN program where you become a licensed practical nurse by the state after you graduate. LPNs do alright considering it's a ~1 year degree for ~$25,000. I personally have called around to local universities and asked if they would accept the Sanford Brown LPN to bridge to RN and was told yes, as long as you are a licensed practical nurse by the state you can bridge into a registered nurse (RN) degree.