It's ok, I didn't push the obnoxious brat off the chairlift, and I was pleased that my four year old was with me rather than my six year old, who might have caught on to how bad the 9 year old's behavior really was, and might have opted to behave similarly at some point, to my consternation.
There are good kids and bad, it does not mean that I have to tolerate the bad behavior of the latter.
All of them? If so, that's quite a nasty generalization. If not, then you should be judging them on an individual basis.
The vast majority of them. I see them every day at work or out on the hill, etc. Clarified that for ya.
if every administrator and teacher had to worry about little Billy bitching to his parents about how Mr. Smith was mean to him at school.
Why would they have to worry about that? Being "mean" to someone is not a crime (not only that, but words themselves are almost never valid evidence).
Read TFA. Teacher does something student doesn't like, student retaliates by libeling the teacher as a pedophile, rapist and as being bipolar. This is not an appropriate response to being "mean."
I had this 9 year old (not mine) lipping off to me on the chairlift yesterday and if it hadn't been so high in the air I might have just pushed her off (of course into the soft fluffy snow near the top of the lift)...
You could say the same thing about any person who is insulting you, not just children. Age doesn't change this one single bit. It is unfortunate for those who cannot control their anger, however, that assaulting others is generally not accepted behavior.
I could say the same thing about any person that is insulting me, or offending me through their disrespectful, inflammatory and completely obnoxious behavior, as this little shit of a 9 yr old was yesterday, but unless you're an adult I'm not going to knock your block off. If you are, well we'll see who wins the fracas. Not all/.'rs live in their parents' basements and don't see the sun, let alone have had enough stress over the past say, decade, to have lost tolerance for assholes, especially ones that are not even old enough to drive.
Honestly, as this child lives in the same valley where I live, and as I was asked to accompany her up the chairlift by her instructor, I should have waited until the instructor got to the top of the mountain to let him know how horrible his student's behavior had been on the lift, and given him my phone number to pass along to her parents. Life in a small valley can be a real bitch...
Well, he does work with kids, which gives him an ample supply of victims, so yes, I'd say the possibility of the pedo claim being believable and plausible to be true. The kids should be run up the flagpole. I'd freakin' go nuclear on my kids if they pulled this kind of behavior.
I haven't seen anywhere that this was the only copy of this libelous speech posted on Facebook, and I'd imagine some conscientious 12-13 year old (yes, they apparently exist) probably provided a screen shot of the conversation to the Principal for investigation.
God think like 1 step ahead here people.
Likewise, adolescents are total little shits, and if a school had to provide them with the full range of rights given to ADULTS then the low performance of our schools now would be completely eclipsed by their crappiness if every administrator and teacher had to worry about little Billy bitching to his parents about how Mr. Smith was mean to him at school. Sheesh, none of you must actually have adolescents.
I had this 9 year old (not mine) lipping off to me on the chairlift yesterday and if it hadn't been so high in the air I might have just pushed her off (of course into the soft fluffy snow near the top of the lift)...
Come on, the Apple Bluetooth keyboard I have is ridiculously small for what it does, having full sized keys and all. If you can carry a tablet with you certainly this could squeeze into your bag. No cables and the batteries last a long time. Easy peasy.
It's really a matter of purchasing a computer that lasts, such as this 4 yr old MacBook I'm typing on today. It's been through hell and back, and still works.
I used to purchase wintel laptops for a FD I did IT work for, and we always spec'd ThinkPads as they were bomber, well except for the Chief who had to have a Dell with all the bs, home use bells and whistles. His priorities weren't fiscal, they were personal.
Hadn't really considered this vector, as my kids are not old enough to have phones but when the time comes this will introduce a signficant wrinkle. At least I have the next few years to think about how to handle it. TY.
I'm thinking of only allowing them internet access on the 52" LCD connected to a mac mini in the living room will help keep my kids in line. Kinda hard to miss the pr0n when it's filling a wall.
The last thing my kids will have is a laptop, unless I start proxying everything in and out of my home connection. You wanna use the internet, we're all going to be watching...
That's right. If the little motherfucker doesn't shit, urinate, and projectile vomit, IT IS NOT REAL. If it's all unicorns and candy and fun, made from carbon fiber, plastic and has a battery, it's not real.
I'm sorry, but I have to support Aaron here, all this assisted driving crap has taken the act of driving and turned it into this plasticky, computer controlled, abstraction of driving that seems more dangerous to me than good old school "driving."
I can feel what my car is doing while I'm driving it. I can throw it into oversteer when I need to if I get into trouble on a snowy turn. I intentionally bought a model without yaw control or traction control, because I'll be damned if the car isn't going to react the way I expect it to, consistently, every single time. All this computerized stability shit, traction control and so on might be great for my parents, who are a menace on the road, but they make driving unpredictable for me.
Bear in mind I drive on snow and ice in the mountains 7 months out of the year, and have had the opportunity to drive many other cars up here, hard, and I am always comparing the "feel", enabling and disabling various assistive technologies in an attempt to learn more about their particular effect on handling, here in the snow. I find that while some of the technology is interesting, in it's ability to keep the vehicle under control even with ridiculous user input, sufficient use of my hands and feet could do the same thing without all the fluff.
Give me a 100% user controlled throttle, brakes and steering, and I'll take my chances. Give me some car that's doing half of the job of driving for me, and I am sure I will hate it. I like to drive.
My pellet stove also burns corn, and corn produces a slightly higher btu per unit, where available. Alas, as no-one raises cows nearby (10,000 ft. mountains) feed corn is not cost effective nor easy to come by, so I purchase wood pellets instead.
10 mile trip to Home Depot, 250 bucks later I've got abundant heat for another month and a half, or two if the weather is kind.
I've managed to teach myself the entire content of the courses I'm taking during my summer breaks and weekends.
Are you sure about the entire part? Self-taught programmers often know about 70% of the language quite well.
This is all fine and dandy until they encounter a situation where there's a simple, reliable and elegant solution to it that lies in the other 30%; they end up building an almighty kludge.
One advantage of a formal training course is that it has structure and forces you out of your comfort zone.
This described me, back when I was a self taught coder, and honestly, after I had exhausted my own ability to solve problems in my language of choice, I took a 3 day course which introduced me to the other 30% (structures, arrays, etc.). It was as if someone had opened up my other eye and I could see everything. I had no idea these concepts existed and was creating some pretty kludgey solutions to easy problems...
I have a launch day 360, which has been repaired (by me) for RROD 2x, and last night the optical drive gave up the ghost.
I'm not a gamer, we're talking maybe, maybe 2 hours a week MAX, with periods of time measured in months where the stupid thing doesn't get turned on at all.
The thing that burns me, I just bought the new NFS a week ago, which worked great the first few days, but definitely was the nail in the coffin for this 360. If I didn't enjoy that game I would bail on the platform.
What would I rather replace this with, another 360 or a PS3? Honestly, I'd rather be adding a PS3 to my collection rather than throwing more money at MS for a new 360, kinect or not. I'd get the PS3 and enjoy it's BR player but I don't want to replace my 7.1 receiver with one that supports audio over HDMI, so the appeal of the PS3 goes way down due to not having 7.1 analog out.
I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. Who's to say the newly revised 360 isn't going to suck as bad as the original? I mean, what, they revised the original design 4 or 5 times before it stopped RROD'ing.
Given the hell that many people have been going through the past few years compliments of the banks, I say, expose them ALL!
If big Pharma has some dirt on it's hands we all should be aware of that too. Energy companies? They wouldn't ever try to screw anyone over either. The total lack of transparency when it comes to the movement of riches from the poor to the richest in America needs to be exposed with hard factual evidence, and if wikileaks has it, I hope it comes out before wikileaks is no more...
This is a potential positive from wikileaks for the general US populous, whereas the diplomatic cables, while interesting, sure piss a lot of Americans off...
It's not exclusive to UPS, I watched the FedEx delivery girl drop my new head unit from waist height to the floor of the truck. Note, this was not from like the shelf to the floor, rather, she was holding it and the electronic scanner tool and just dropped the box right in front of me. It was as if she wanted to throw it off the truck through me, whilst propelling me off the step of the truck all in one motion, but this was the best she could get away with.
NBD, right? FFS.
OTOH, the UPS driver up here is the man, and treats my stuff right. USPS works but is slow as molasses.
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It's ok, I didn't push the obnoxious brat off the chairlift, and I was pleased that my four year old was with me rather than my six year old, who might have caught on to how bad the 9 year old's behavior really was, and might have opted to behave similarly at some point, to my consternation. There are good kids and bad, it does not mean that I have to tolerate the bad behavior of the latter.
adolescents are total little shits
All of them? If so, that's quite a nasty generalization. If not, then you should be judging them on an individual basis.
The vast majority of them. I see them every day at work or out on the hill, etc. Clarified that for ya.
if every administrator and teacher had to worry about little Billy bitching to his parents about how Mr. Smith was mean to him at school.
Why would they have to worry about that? Being "mean" to someone is not a crime (not only that, but words themselves are almost never valid evidence).
Read TFA. Teacher does something student doesn't like, student retaliates by libeling the teacher as a pedophile, rapist and as being bipolar. This is not an appropriate response to being "mean."
I had this 9 year old (not mine) lipping off to me on the chairlift yesterday and if it hadn't been so high in the air I might have just pushed her off (of course into the soft fluffy snow near the top of the lift)...
You could say the same thing about any person who is insulting you, not just children. Age doesn't change this one single bit. It is unfortunate for those who cannot control their anger, however, that assaulting others is generally not accepted behavior.
I could say the same thing about any person that is insulting me, or offending me through their disrespectful, inflammatory and completely obnoxious behavior, as this little shit of a 9 yr old was yesterday, but unless you're an adult I'm not going to knock your block off. If you are, well we'll see who wins the fracas. Not all /.'rs live in their parents' basements and don't see the sun, let alone have had enough stress over the past say, decade, to have lost tolerance for assholes, especially ones that are not even old enough to drive.
Honestly, as this child lives in the same valley where I live, and as I was asked to accompany her up the chairlift by her instructor, I should have waited until the instructor got to the top of the mountain to let him know how horrible his student's behavior had been on the lift, and given him my phone number to pass along to her parents. Life in a small valley can be a real bitch...
You just pointed out one MORE reason for my umbrella insurance. State Farm *hearts* bball99.
Well, he does work with kids, which gives him an ample supply of victims, so yes, I'd say the possibility of the pedo claim being believable and plausible to be true. The kids should be run up the flagpole. I'd freakin' go nuclear on my kids if they pulled this kind of behavior.
Mod up insightful please.
I haven't seen anywhere that this was the only copy of this libelous speech posted on Facebook, and I'd imagine some conscientious 12-13 year old (yes, they apparently exist) probably provided a screen shot of the conversation to the Principal for investigation.
God think like 1 step ahead here people.
Likewise, adolescents are total little shits, and if a school had to provide them with the full range of rights given to ADULTS then the low performance of our schools now would be completely eclipsed by their crappiness if every administrator and teacher had to worry about little Billy bitching to his parents about how Mr. Smith was mean to him at school. Sheesh, none of you must actually have adolescents.
I had this 9 year old (not mine) lipping off to me on the chairlift yesterday and if it hadn't been so high in the air I might have just pushed her off (of course into the soft fluffy snow near the top of the lift)...
It's easy...
Funny how I always thought 2000 rocked and the rest sucked. Guess the consumer isn't deserving of a solid os.
Typed on my aging MacBook...
Come on, the Apple Bluetooth keyboard I have is ridiculously small for what it does, having full sized keys and all. If you can carry a tablet with you certainly this could squeeze into your bag. No cables and the batteries last a long time. Easy peasy.
It's really a matter of purchasing a computer that lasts, such as this 4 yr old MacBook I'm typing on today. It's been through hell and back, and still works.
I used to purchase wintel laptops for a FD I did IT work for, and we always spec'd ThinkPads as they were bomber, well except for the Chief who had to have a Dell with all the bs, home use bells and whistles. His priorities weren't fiscal, they were personal.
I was using porn as a loose euphemism for all the bad shit on the internet.
Hadn't really considered this vector, as my kids are not old enough to have phones but when the time comes this will introduce a signficant wrinkle. At least I have the next few years to think about how to handle it. TY.
I'm thinking of only allowing them internet access on the 52" LCD connected to a mac mini in the living room will help keep my kids in line. Kinda hard to miss the pr0n when it's filling a wall.
The last thing my kids will have is a laptop, unless I start proxying everything in and out of my home connection. You wanna use the internet, we're all going to be watching...
That's right. If the little motherfucker doesn't shit, urinate, and projectile vomit, IT IS NOT REAL.
If it's all unicorns and candy and fun, made from carbon fiber, plastic and has a battery, it's not real.
Your mother is currently residing in my bed, performing fellatio on my wife.
Your wife is a tranny?
Unicorns? Can we please have at least one unicorn?
I'm sorry, but I have to support Aaron here, all this assisted driving crap has taken the act of driving and turned it into this plasticky, computer controlled, abstraction of driving that seems more dangerous to me than good old school "driving."
I can feel what my car is doing while I'm driving it. I can throw it into oversteer when I need to if I get into trouble on a snowy turn. I intentionally bought a model without yaw control or traction control, because I'll be damned if the car isn't going to react the way I expect it to, consistently, every single time. All this computerized stability shit, traction control and so on might be great for my parents, who are a menace on the road, but they make driving unpredictable for me.
Bear in mind I drive on snow and ice in the mountains 7 months out of the year, and have had the opportunity to drive many other cars up here, hard, and I am always comparing the "feel", enabling and disabling various assistive technologies in an attempt to learn more about their particular effect on handling, here in the snow. I find that while some of the technology is interesting, in it's ability to keep the vehicle under control even with ridiculous user input, sufficient use of my hands and feet could do the same thing without all the fluff.
Give me a 100% user controlled throttle, brakes and steering, and I'll take my chances. Give me some car that's doing half of the job of driving for me, and I am sure I will hate it. I like to drive.
My pellet stove also burns corn, and corn produces a slightly higher btu per unit, where available. Alas, as no-one raises cows nearby (10,000 ft. mountains) feed corn is not cost effective nor easy to come by, so I purchase wood pellets instead.
10 mile trip to Home Depot, 250 bucks later I've got abundant heat for another month and a half, or two if the weather is kind.
Are you sure about the entire part? Self-taught programmers often know about 70% of the language quite well.
This is all fine and dandy until they encounter a situation where there's a simple, reliable and elegant solution to it that lies in the other 30%; they end up building an almighty kludge.
One advantage of a formal training course is that it has structure and forces you out of your comfort zone.
This described me, back when I was a self taught coder, and honestly, after I had exhausted my own ability to solve problems in my language of choice, I took a 3 day course which introduced me to the other 30% (structures, arrays, etc.). It was as if someone had opened up my other eye and I could see everything. I had no idea these concepts existed and was creating some pretty kludgey solutions to easy problems...
Several dedicated bluray players support this and are probably cheaper than a dedicated dac. Regardless it chaps my ass to be replacing the 360...
I have a launch day 360, which has been repaired (by me) for RROD 2x, and last night the optical drive gave up the ghost.
I'm not a gamer, we're talking maybe, maybe 2 hours a week MAX, with periods of time measured in months where the stupid thing doesn't get turned on at all.
The thing that burns me, I just bought the new NFS a week ago, which worked great the first few days, but definitely was the nail in the coffin for this 360. If I didn't enjoy that game I would bail on the platform.
What would I rather replace this with, another 360 or a PS3? Honestly, I'd rather be adding a PS3 to my collection rather than throwing more money at MS for a new 360, kinect or not. I'd get the PS3 and enjoy it's BR player but I don't want to replace my 7.1 receiver with one that supports audio over HDMI, so the appeal of the PS3 goes way down due to not having 7.1 analog out.
I'm damned if I do and damned if I don't. Who's to say the newly revised 360 isn't going to suck as bad as the original? I mean, what, they revised the original design 4 or 5 times before it stopped RROD'ing.
Given the hell that many people have been going through the past few years compliments of the banks, I say, expose them ALL!
If big Pharma has some dirt on it's hands we all should be aware of that too. Energy companies? They wouldn't ever try to screw anyone over either. The total lack of transparency when it comes to the movement of riches from the poor to the richest in America needs to be exposed with hard factual evidence, and if wikileaks has it, I hope it comes out before wikileaks is no more...
This is a potential positive from wikileaks for the general US populous, whereas the diplomatic cables, while interesting, sure piss a lot of Americans off...
It's not exclusive to UPS, I watched the FedEx delivery girl drop my new head unit from waist height to the floor of the truck. Note, this was not from like the shelf to the floor, rather, she was holding it and the electronic scanner tool and just dropped the box right in front of me. It was as if she wanted to throw it off the truck through me, whilst propelling me off the step of the truck all in one motion, but this was the best she could get away with.
NBD, right? FFS.
OTOH, the UPS driver up here is the man, and treats my stuff right. USPS works but is slow as molasses.
I can tell you who gets my shipping dollars.
If something is a bit too small, I just hold it closer.
Apparently I'm getting older, as if something is too small I have to hold it farther away...
Looks like I'll be keeping this 2003 VW a little longer. Thanks for saving me from that future car payment Ray.