I definately agree with this post. All through Elementary School I was considered very unathletic and overweight. I always sat on the benches/sidelines during sports. My parents encouraged me, but didn't force me to do anything I didn't want to do. (e.g. my Dad loved Baseball and coached Baseball, but I hated the sport). I started running everymorning in 5th or 6th grade, because I wanted to have one of the fastest 1-miles in my class and by Junior High I was one of the best on my team in Soccer. In Junior High, however, I wanted to start playing Football as well. Naturally with no experience I was not very good. And during 9th Grade I was held back to play on the JV team with the 8th Graders. I was devastated but I didn't quit, I kept trying harder and working harder until by my Junior Year of High School I was starting on the High School Varsity Team. My Senior Year my team went undefeated 9-0 and it was one of the best experiences in my life.
My point is that the high level of competition is what made me successful. I wasn't born athletic, I had to work for it, and I certainly don't have the genetic predisposition for it. I still have to work out 5 days a week to keep myself from qualifying as 'obese'. Keep the 'everybody plays' attitude for younger kids, we have to teach people to grow up and work for what they want eventually. Once they get their feet wet, its our responsibility to teach them how to persist when the going get tough.
Because your game will be labeled a 'terrorist recruiting and training' tool and will be banned from sale in the United States and it's allied countries. Well, maybe not literally banned, but most retailers will refuse to carry it because consumer groups will boycott their stores.
First, I think you are leaving a lot out here. Probably the most important piece of your story is the time of day. Was is around 11am on a weekday? If school was in session and the police officer saw a High School age kid walking around outside the School, he probably assumed the kid was skipping class. Or maybe the kid was holding a skateboard and there was a civil ordinance prohibitting skateboarding in the area.
Second, there is a big difference between asking questions and doing something about it. Maybe the police got a tip that a drug deal was going on in the area, or perhaps someone had been writing grafitti around the school. Sure the Police Officer doesn't have any legal right to search the kid, and if he did the case would get thrown out of court, but just by talking to the kid he might 'spook' him into not committing a crime.
You are all very wrong in my opinion. As soon as the big titles like Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Gran Turismo start getting released you are going to see PS3's bundled with the games flying off the shelves. Unfortunately for Sony their launch titles were pretty weak. Not because they were bad games, Resistance: Fall of Man was quite fun, it just doesn't have the household recognition to justify a $600-700 purchase.
I don't understand all this talk about Hybrids. You can make a very economical gasoline powered car using light weight materials a small engine and an aerodynamic design. It would be much cheaper than any hybrid would be. People just cannot get over their big engines and either care more about style than aerodynamics. Then again most people are also totally clueless about aerodynamics as well (think pickup trucks with the tailgates down and a cargo net).
The other problem you have, is that the large SUV's and Truck's on the road today, would make this type of car very unsafe. Probably not any less safe than a small roadster like a Miata though.
For the most part I agree with you.
People bringing cases against McDonald's because it made them fat or because they spilled their hot coffee on themselves are frivoulous at best. However this is a completely different case. There is gross negligence on behalf of the Radio Station, which at the least should have had a trained medical professional on hand. I think it is very unfortunate that nobody stepped up and made people aware of the dangers of this event.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the family.
Any idea how much someone goes into debt in order to acquire a Medical Education? Sure you may get the education before you make the profit, but you need to make that profit to pay off your $2000/mo college loans.
I'm not saying I agree with the abuses being made by drug companies, just correcting the error in your comment.
The problem isn't coming up with a new solution to cope... that will be fairly easy. The real question is if you can find a software hotfix to cope. Something we can do to keep them from blinding us until we get a new spacecraft up. You have to remember that each new spacecraft takes years to develop/test and costs millions to put into space.
I always love the 'payroll' arguement, especially because it can be just as easily twisted the other way. I mean now that you mention it who pays the top 100 climatologists sited in that article? Could it be environmental lobbying money? Could it be the goverment paying them because of the concerns of taxpayers... concerned because of 'green house effect' propaganda? Their whole field of study only exists if they make people afraid of global warming, or if they jump on the ExxonMobil payroll.
Take a brief look around the net and you will see many Global Warming activists think Al Gore's campaign has been poorly researched and gives the cause a bad name. His publications have been sloppy at best. Backed by consensus... perhaps the consensus of the uniformed majority.
Did you actually read 'the Crichton book?' I'm assuming not if you don't remember the title. The real question isn't just IF earth is warming, it is WHY it is warming, and whether or not it is warming at any consistant or preditable rate. You see we have no idea why exactly the earth is warming and one suggestion is Green House Gases. However if you look historically, the time when green house gases were at their peak levels in our atmosphere was also an ice age. That alone isn't evidence that green house gases are contributing either. We just shouldn't jump to any conclusions or assume causal relations. As for the second question, good luck reliably predicting global temperature over the next 10 years, let alone these 100 year apocolypse 'simulations' we hear about.
I'm not saying we shouldn't reduce green house gases, and I'm not saying we should't reduce our environmental impact. What I am saying, is that we should not let fear-mongerer's like Al Gore force us to make decisions on phoney science, and we should not let big business lobby us into complacency. Study both sides of the arguement and make an informed decision. Look at environmental impacts, and look at the human impact of legislation. And through it all keep in mind that change in invevitable, sometimes people die because of it sometimes people thrive. We have a knack for adaptation and survival, but we should not be so niave to think the human race will last forever.
Maybe I'm missing something here...? I only know of one person that actually has a XBox 360. Why is everyone so convinced that MS is going to be successful? I feel like MS is losing this round already, despite its early launch. I'm sure someone will point to some sales numbers that say otherwise... but this launch seems less eventful than the GCN launch was.
Then again I am one of the 21 million that have a GCN and love it. So maybe I'm just biased
Grand Coulee Dam is a large hydroelectric dam located on the Columbia river in Central Washington. Made from 12 million cubic yards of concrete, Grand Coulee Dam is the largest concrete structure in the United States and the third largest hydroelectric facility in the world. Sharing the river with 10 other U.S. dams, Grand Coulee is the first dam encountered on the Columbia after the river enters the U.S from Canada. Lake Roosevelt, the reservoir created by the dam, contains 9 million acre-feet of water and streches over 150 miles back to the border.
Grand Coulee Dam fills three primary rolls. First, with its 24 generators providing up to 6.5 million kilowatts of power, it is a major provider of electrical power to the Northwest. Secondly, water pumped from behind the dam provides irrigation for over half a million acres of the Columbia basin from Coulee City in the north to Pasco, WA in the south. Finally, by strictly regulating the Columbia's highly variable flow rate, the dam provides much needed flood control to the river basin.
"Ignorance is not an excuse" really confuses me. If someone is selling something how are you really supposed to know that it is not a legal copy. I mean if my grandmother wanted an embroidery pattern for a gift, I wouldn't know who owns what. Even if the patterns themselves said (c) MyBigCompany, which was different than EbaySeller how am I supposed to know that EbaySeller is not selling a legally licensed copy? And whats to prevent MyBigCompany from paying EbaySeller under the table to sell unlicensed copies of their patterns so they can later sue everyone that paid for an illegal copy. It just seems like there are so many holes in that concept. I mean the only person that for sure is knowingly and willfully doing something wrong is EbaySeller. Sure it may be hard to try and stop every single person distributing/selling illegal copies... but is it really that much easier to go after all of the illegal buyers that may not know they did something wrong?
Yes, but one side has facts and a theory, whereas the other has a well-funded propaganda machine and a lot of self-appointed spiritual advisors telling the ignorant masses that they'll be tortured for all eternity if they let the facts affect their conclusions.
This is a very misguided retort. Many people like to deny the historical accuracy of the Bible. I will grant that some of the Bible takes faith, but the majority of it is just a report of history. More importantly however, I think you need to realize that there is no science in the Bible. The Bible has and never will claim to be a scientific accounting, only a historical one. A historian would no sooner dismiss the Bible than you would dismiss the fossil record.
When the Bible says that 'death' began with the original sin, I believe it is more accurate to not take death literally. Throughout the Bible 'life' and 'death' refer not to life and death here on Earth, but what happens to us in the hereafter. Hence Christ frequently discusses how through him we can achieve eternal life. He's not talking about living a mortal life forever, but that we will live forever in heaven with our Creator. Death on the other hand would be eternal seperation from our Creator, or eternal pain below. I believe mortal death existed before original sin, it was this spiritual death that Adam brought to us, and it was Jesus Christ that created a means for us to be redeemed of this death and live forever. This interpretation obviously is in keeping with evolution and old earth theory, and furthermore I think it makes more sense based on the teachings of Christ.
They also don't have any terrorist panic. There's no "terrorism alert levels", and there isn't much security. There's not even nearly as many police around as there is in Australia. The Swedes haven't made enemies for themselves by invading other countries, so they don't need to be afraid of any terrorists attacking them. The Swedes are more "free" than Americans are, which proves that terrorists don't hate America because they "hate freedom", as George Bush wants everyone to think. They attack America because America attacked them and is occupying their countries.
What you seem to be missing here is that because of our influence on western culture, Al Queda and company see America as a prime target. Notice what happened when Denmark published a certain cartoon? Their embassies were attacked... and so were US Embassies.
It's a joke... Ha Ha, like I've said many times. If I said something like this about Bush suddenly it becomes +5 Funny. But if I say something like this about climatologists I'm an evil neo-con lackey. Hey at least I had the courtesy to mention that it was a joke in my post. That's why I said 'Seriously'. (I'm not trying to be condescending, but apparently what I take to be obvious can make some people defensive).
Yes threaded discussion... did you ever read the original parent of this whole thread. Its a blatent bash on Bush. As I continued to read one some poor bloke tries to make an arguement showing some facts instead of stupid ignorant bashing, and you try to defend the orignal guy by saying that there is no science in what he typed, all the while neither of you have any evidence to back yourselves up. SO.. I make a post about how ignorant you are for bashing Bush and for saying there is no science backing up Bush's claims. It appears you don't really know how threaded discussion works to me. But hey the off-topic and overrated moderators are only there for people on slashdot to hide comments they don't agree with. Honestly I don't really care what you have to say if you care enough about your slashdot rating to hide behind 'Anonymous Coward' so you don't get a negative moderation point.
If someone made a comment like this about someone's arguement FOR global warming it would have been moderated as Flamebait, instead this is moderated+5 Funny. Once again demonstrating the problem with/.'s moderation system.
If global warming wasn't real climatologists wouldn't have a job...
But seriously, this overwhelming majority of climatologists you speak of don't exist. There's a lot of research about global warming and climate change, and not much can be shown one way or the other, the GLOBAL climate is probably one of the most unpredictable things there is in this world. There is a lot of writing on this matter, and I would HIGHLY suggest you look up some of the links other people have posted things like like the ones posted in this comment:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=175597 &threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=1459769 4
I can't believe this post got moderated down to overrated by the way, it just goes to show that even slashdot carries a heavy bias.
Any sources? We are currently #6 in Carbon Dioxide production per capita. And Canada is barely trailing us.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd//environment/air_greenh ouse_emissions.htm
I will concede, the trends in the US are not good. The UK is doing a much better job of improving. In the next 10 years I could see us no longer being a leader in renewable resource usage. THAT is a problem.
Look at my other post on this topic... we use a higher percentage of renewable resources than you do in the EU. Read some facts before you say there is something wrong with the US.
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I definately agree with this post. All through Elementary School I was considered very unathletic and overweight. I always sat on the benches/sidelines during sports. My parents encouraged me, but didn't force me to do anything I didn't want to do. (e.g. my Dad loved Baseball and coached Baseball, but I hated the sport). I started running everymorning in 5th or 6th grade, because I wanted to have one of the fastest 1-miles in my class and by Junior High I was one of the best on my team in Soccer. In Junior High, however, I wanted to start playing Football as well. Naturally with no experience I was not very good. And during 9th Grade I was held back to play on the JV team with the 8th Graders. I was devastated but I didn't quit, I kept trying harder and working harder until by my Junior Year of High School I was starting on the High School Varsity Team. My Senior Year my team went undefeated 9-0 and it was one of the best experiences in my life.
My point is that the high level of competition is what made me successful. I wasn't born athletic, I had to work for it, and I certainly don't have the genetic predisposition for it. I still have to work out 5 days a week to keep myself from qualifying as 'obese'. Keep the 'everybody plays' attitude for younger kids, we have to teach people to grow up and work for what they want eventually. Once they get their feet wet, its our responsibility to teach them how to persist when the going get tough.
Because your game will be labeled a 'terrorist recruiting and training' tool and will be banned from sale in the United States and it's allied countries. Well, maybe not literally banned, but most retailers will refuse to carry it because consumer groups will boycott their stores.
First, I think you are leaving a lot out here. Probably the most important piece of your story is the time of day. Was is around 11am on a weekday? If school was in session and the police officer saw a High School age kid walking around outside the School, he probably assumed the kid was skipping class. Or maybe the kid was holding a skateboard and there was a civil ordinance prohibitting skateboarding in the area.
Second, there is a big difference between asking questions and doing something about it. Maybe the police got a tip that a drug deal was going on in the area, or perhaps someone had been writing grafitti around the school. Sure the Police Officer doesn't have any legal right to search the kid, and if he did the case would get thrown out of court, but just by talking to the kid he might 'spook' him into not committing a crime.
You are all very wrong in my opinion. As soon as the big titles like Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts and Gran Turismo start getting released you are going to see PS3's bundled with the games flying off the shelves. Unfortunately for Sony their launch titles were pretty weak. Not because they were bad games, Resistance: Fall of Man was quite fun, it just doesn't have the household recognition to justify a $600-700 purchase.
I don't understand all this talk about Hybrids. You can make a very economical gasoline powered car using light weight materials a small engine and an aerodynamic design. It would be much cheaper than any hybrid would be. People just cannot get over their big engines and either care more about style than aerodynamics. Then again most people are also totally clueless about aerodynamics as well (think pickup trucks with the tailgates down and a cargo net).
The other problem you have, is that the large SUV's and Truck's on the road today, would make this type of car very unsafe. Probably not any less safe than a small roadster like a Miata though.
For the most part I agree with you.
People bringing cases against McDonald's because it made them fat or because they spilled their hot coffee on themselves are frivoulous at best. However this is a completely different case. There is gross negligence on behalf of the Radio Station, which at the least should have had a trained medical professional on hand. I think it is very unfortunate that nobody stepped up and made people aware of the dangers of this event.
My thoughts and prayers go out to the family.
Any idea how much someone goes into debt in order to acquire a Medical Education? Sure you may get the education before you make the profit, but you need to make that profit to pay off your $2000/mo college loans. I'm not saying I agree with the abuses being made by drug companies, just correcting the error in your comment.
The problem isn't coming up with a new solution to cope... that will be fairly easy. The real question is if you can find a software hotfix to cope. Something we can do to keep them from blinding us until we get a new spacecraft up. You have to remember that each new spacecraft takes years to develop/test and costs millions to put into space.
I always love the 'payroll' arguement, especially because it can be just as easily twisted the other way. I mean now that you mention it who pays the top 100 climatologists sited in that article? Could it be environmental lobbying money? Could it be the goverment paying them because of the concerns of taxpayers... concerned because of 'green house effect' propaganda? Their whole field of study only exists if they make people afraid of global warming, or if they jump on the ExxonMobil payroll.
Take a brief look around the net and you will see many Global Warming activists think Al Gore's campaign has been poorly researched and gives the cause a bad name. His publications have been sloppy at best. Backed by consensus... perhaps the consensus of the uniformed majority.
Did you actually read 'the Crichton book?' I'm assuming not if you don't remember the title. The real question isn't just IF earth is warming, it is WHY it is warming, and whether or not it is warming at any consistant or preditable rate. You see we have no idea why exactly the earth is warming and one suggestion is Green House Gases. However if you look historically, the time when green house gases were at their peak levels in our atmosphere was also an ice age. That alone isn't evidence that green house gases are contributing either. We just shouldn't jump to any conclusions or assume causal relations. As for the second question, good luck reliably predicting global temperature over the next 10 years, let alone these 100 year apocolypse 'simulations' we hear about.
I'm not saying we shouldn't reduce green house gases, and I'm not saying we should't reduce our environmental impact. What I am saying, is that we should not let fear-mongerer's like Al Gore force us to make decisions on phoney science, and we should not let big business lobby us into complacency. Study both sides of the arguement and make an informed decision. Look at environmental impacts, and look at the human impact of legislation. And through it all keep in mind that change in invevitable, sometimes people die because of it sometimes people thrive. We have a knack for adaptation and survival, but we should not be so niave to think the human race will last forever.
Maybe I'm missing something here...? I only know of one person that actually has a XBox 360. Why is everyone so convinced that MS is going to be successful? I feel like MS is losing this round already, despite its early launch. I'm sure someone will point to some sales numbers that say otherwise... but this launch seems less eventful than the GCN launch was.
Then again I am one of the 21 million that have a GCN and love it. So maybe I'm just biased
Grand Coolee Dam? http://users.owt.com/chubbard/gcdam/highres/dam08. jpg
"Ignorance is not an excuse" really confuses me. If someone is selling something how are you really supposed to know that it is not a legal copy. I mean if my grandmother wanted an embroidery pattern for a gift, I wouldn't know who owns what. Even if the patterns themselves said (c) MyBigCompany, which was different than EbaySeller how am I supposed to know that EbaySeller is not selling a legally licensed copy? And whats to prevent MyBigCompany from paying EbaySeller under the table to sell unlicensed copies of their patterns so they can later sue everyone that paid for an illegal copy. It just seems like there are so many holes in that concept. I mean the only person that for sure is knowingly and willfully doing something wrong is EbaySeller. Sure it may be hard to try and stop every single person distributing/selling illegal copies... but is it really that much easier to go after all of the illegal buyers that may not know they did something wrong?
When the Bible says that 'death' began with the original sin, I believe it is more accurate to not take death literally. Throughout the Bible 'life' and 'death' refer not to life and death here on Earth, but what happens to us in the hereafter. Hence Christ frequently discusses how through him we can achieve eternal life. He's not talking about living a mortal life forever, but that we will live forever in heaven with our Creator. Death on the other hand would be eternal seperation from our Creator, or eternal pain below. I believe mortal death existed before original sin, it was this spiritual death that Adam brought to us, and it was Jesus Christ that created a means for us to be redeemed of this death and live forever. This interpretation obviously is in keeping with evolution and old earth theory, and furthermore I think it makes more sense based on the teachings of Christ.
It's a joke... Ha Ha, like I've said many times. If I said something like this about Bush suddenly it becomes +5 Funny. But if I say something like this about climatologists I'm an evil neo-con lackey. Hey at least I had the courtesy to mention that it was a joke in my post. That's why I said 'Seriously'. (I'm not trying to be condescending, but apparently what I take to be obvious can make some people defensive).
Yes threaded discussion... did you ever read the original parent of this whole thread. Its a blatent bash on Bush. As I continued to read one some poor bloke tries to make an arguement showing some facts instead of stupid ignorant bashing, and you try to defend the orignal guy by saying that there is no science in what he typed, all the while neither of you have any evidence to back yourselves up. SO.. I make a post about how ignorant you are for bashing Bush and for saying there is no science backing up Bush's claims. It appears you don't really know how threaded discussion works to me. But hey the off-topic and overrated moderators are only there for people on slashdot to hide comments they don't agree with. Honestly I don't really care what you have to say if you care enough about your slashdot rating to hide behind 'Anonymous Coward' so you don't get a negative moderation point.
If someone made a comment like this about someone's arguement FOR global warming it would have been moderated as Flamebait, instead this is moderated+5 Funny. Once again demonstrating the problem with /.'s moderation system.
If global warming wasn't real climatologists wouldn't have a job...
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I can't believe this post got moderated down to overrated by the way, it just goes to show that even slashdot carries a heavy bias.
But seriously, this overwhelming majority of climatologists you speak of don't exist. There's a lot of research about global warming and climate change, and not much can be shown one way or the other, the GLOBAL climate is probably one of the most unpredictable things there is in this world. There is a lot of writing on this matter, and I would HIGHLY suggest you look up some of the links other people have posted things like like the ones posted in this comment: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=17559
Any sources? We are currently #6 in Carbon Dioxide production per capita. And Canada is barely trailing us.h ouse_emissions.htm
I will concede, the trends in the US are not good. The UK is doing a much better job of improving. In the next 10 years I could see us no longer being a leader in renewable resource usage. THAT is a problem.
http://unstats.un.org/unsd//environment/air_green
Obviously the point wasn't made for you then, horray for you! Go pat yourself on the back and have a lollypop.
Look at my other post on this topic... we use a higher percentage of renewable resources than you do in the EU. Read some facts before you say there is something wrong with the US.