...Even if they are getting better grades, it is developing a sense of entitlement, which will be far more damaging than bad grades in the future....
That insult is usually reserved for people who thing they deserve something w/o any sort of work on their part. In this case, the money is given to kids only when they get good grades (a.k.a. worked for them). I don't really feel your "sense of entitlement" complaint applies.
You needed to take an updated course in biology. What you've said is untrue. The micro/macro classification distinction exists outside of Creationist circles.
Mirco E. refers to the incremental changes w/in a species ( e.g. people born w/out wisdom teeth, darwin's finches ).
Macro E. refers to the change of an organism into a different one such that is is a new species (e.g. chimp->human, reptiles->birds).
The difference is important because we (scientists) have no proof for macroevolution aside from theories based on the DNA chain. We've never proofed or observed the evolution of one organism to a different [enough] organism.
When you move from this to nothing, to "everything is free", that's not a real economy. And nobody knows how to make the world spin with those rules.
No, you don't know how to make your world spin with those rules. They seem to be working fine for software developers, for instance. And last I checked, Trent Reznor wasn't exactly living in grinding poverty.
I understand why you picked him, but he isn't exactly the poster child for that business model. As in, it is easy to give your music away for free and make money with concerts/merchandise/etc when you are already famous. It is harder to rationalize doing that when you are a poor artist trying to get a break.
There was a/. discussion of the free Radiohead album release that went along these lines.
Darwin was a racist. Just because you believe in micro + macro evolution (well I do, and because you are defending Darwin you probably do too), doesn't mean its founded wasn't flawed.
I promise, just google it and you'll find quotes like this:
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes ⦠will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla. [2]
[2] The decent of man, Charles Darwin
Darwin's logic was used and abused by many to continue racist beliefs and actions. The man was a scientist with a great idea; not a saint.
I'm pretty sure that linux isn't designed to be fully audited either though. In fact, last I read the kernel rejected patches to allow it to be (on the grounds that it would be abused by DRM advocates).
You said she was older, have you made any attempt to contact her and explain that there is a yearly upkeep cost? If you haven't that would be the ethical thing to do before immediately capitalizing on her ignorance. It probably takes about the same amount of time it took you to post here today.
If you have and she just keeps blowing you off with, "oh yes laddy, I'll send you a check." Then try to recoup your losses.
A professor I had in collage ran 2 sets of central vacuum tubes all over his house when he built it (one for the central vac, one for the wires). That way he could change out the wiring pretty quickly for an upgrade.
Furthermore, imagine if a perfectly legal hobby were to be criminalized -- retroactively -- say, by a new government elected in a wave of frenzy about national security (totally hypothetical, I know but bear with me). Now if that had been my hobby, I would be a sitting duck for the newly created national security cop unit. I may be a perfectly law-abiding citizen perfectly willing to forgo a hobby if my government tells me it endangers the national security, but I would already be a criminal.
You do realize this already happens right? And stupid people play into it. Those retarded 'club' cards for every freaking grocery store, sporting goods store, (insert store type here) store.
Every place I know uses a phone number optionally. Just make one up until it works.
I've fried a turkey; I guess I'm just smart enough not to fuck up my fingers (I use a digital thermometer so it is easy to tell when oil is too hot to touch). Also, the parent said nothing about fried catfish; I just figured it was some fresh fish place down by a lake.
That is what we get when technology allows us to want for things that would have been out-of-our-grasp because we were fixated on eating that day. Meaning, I eat as well if not better than kings did 100years ago because of advances in farming, eletricity, engines, and education. Since I don't have to spend the majority of my paycheck on food anymore, I have extra to spend on things only the rich did before- the arts etc.
You say higher quality level, but I can only assume you are looking in the wrong places. Have you seen any new piano music performed?! There are some very talented musicians out there, and some of them still chose classical music as a way to make a living. Or are you trying to compare Mozart to B.Spears?!
My last post ((#28084169))) is incomplete. The Coat stealth plains in a material that simply absorbs EM radiation. This will get past a radar, but not a metal detector.
As I think about it more, an interesting way for someone to mess with this is the same way you mess with radars, Jamming. You'ld have to have someone with Line-of-site to the detectors with a directional antenna (they are small enough to be concealed at these frequencies), just blasting them with EM at the right frequency. If you didn't it randomly for a while the operator would thing his machine was just broken.
I'm positive that is is possible to make clothing to block this frequency range. I'm worried that you'll be thrown out of the airport for not being able to pass the metal detector. Because the same way you are blocking the EM from getting to your body(conductive metal fibers woven in your clothing), is the same phenomenon that will set off the metal detectors as you GREATLY disturb the EM field passing between it.
Now, that being said, the same material they build stealth planes out of could be used to get past this (because they don't use "shielding" as a way to get past radar).
In short: Yes, but you need to have a conductor to shield EM radiation efficiently, and that is going to be detected by the Metal detector first. (unless you are using some spy material I've never heard of).
Turns out that power used it much, much less than a dangerous amount. It simply isn't needed. Cell phones are much more tested and emit much more power right next to your skull.
Perhaps because they arn't intouch with their senses yet? I don't know.
But I do know I did not have to learn to not eat things that tasted/smelled badly. And urine/poop/and rotting foods do not smell good so I would not eat them with out someone having to tell me not to. The relationship between taste/smell and "is it 'healthy'" is an evolutionary trait that does not have to be taught. In fact, it has to be unlearned these days with Food manufactures exploiting the humans addiction to fat/sugar/salt.
"Then you are saying the diet soda does nothing for obese people"
You liar! Look, simply:
Person A: I'm overweight, I know, I'll drink diet. Person B: I'm not overweight, I know, I won't drink diet. RESULT: people found drinking diet are those who are overweight.
Here Here! That is exactly what I thought...something about correlation & causation.
You don't know what you are talking about. You only run into increased chance of cancer if the frequency is above that of visible light.
Anything visible light and lower (in frequency) is non-ionizing.
E=hf means the energy per photon is only a function of frequency. So the only way sub-ultraviolet light can hurt you, is if there is so much of it that it cooks you. And as the AC says, if you can still see, you probably aren't being cooked.
Yea,h every time I goto a place like that I end up answering questions of clueless customers. I'm the same way with cars, which is why I always call my "car friend" before I do any major repairs etc.
...the fact is that this is the current marketplace an author has to work with....
1- The current marketplace makes copyright illegal, but what does a lone writer do about it? (legal pursuits are expensive)
2-WTF kind of merchandise do you think an academic text book sells?! This isn't Harry Potter, you don't make money selling data-compression-algorithm dolls. You seriously need to take a talk in the shoes of an academic who writes a book. You think a person who spend 100s of hours of their free time writting a book for a small amount of notoriety and profit then, by themself, looks into how to mercandise on it!? NO! They go back to doing research, writing papers, mentoring students, and teaching classes.
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...Even if they are getting better grades, it is developing a sense of entitlement, which will be far more damaging than bad grades in the future....
That insult is usually reserved for people who thing they deserve something w/o any sort of work on their part. In this case, the money is given to kids only when they get good grades (a.k.a. worked for them). I don't really feel your "sense of entitlement" complaint applies.
You needed to take an updated course in biology. What you've said is untrue. The micro/macro classification distinction exists outside of Creationist circles.
Mirco E. refers to the incremental changes w/in a species ( e.g. people born w/out wisdom teeth, darwin's finches ).
Macro E. refers to the change of an organism into a different one such that is is a new species (e.g. chimp->human, reptiles->birds).
The difference is important because we (scientists) have no proof for macroevolution aside from theories based on the DNA chain. We've never proofed or observed the evolution of one organism to a different [enough] organism.
No, you don't know how to make your world spin with those rules. They seem to be working fine for software developers, for instance. And last I checked, Trent Reznor wasn't exactly living in grinding poverty.
I understand why you picked him, but he isn't exactly the poster child for that business model. As in, it is easy to give your music away for free and make money with concerts/merchandise/etc when you are already famous. It is harder to rationalize doing that when you are a poor artist trying to get a break.
There was a /. discussion of the free Radiohead album release that went along these lines.
Darwin was a racist. Just because you believe in micro + macro evolution (well I do, and because you are defending Darwin you probably do too), doesn't mean its founded wasn't flawed.
I promise, just google it and you'll find quotes like this:
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes ⦠will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla. [2]
[2] The decent of man, Charles Darwin
Darwin's logic was used and abused by many to continue racist beliefs and actions. The man was a scientist with a great idea; not a saint.
Sorry, I misunderstood. What I was talking about apparently isn't called auditing.
I'm pretty sure that linux isn't designed to be fully audited either though. In fact, last I read the kernel rejected patches to allow it to be (on the grounds that it would be abused by DRM advocates).
http://lwn.net/Articles/333825/
You said she was older, have you made any attempt to contact her and explain that there is a yearly upkeep cost? If you haven't that would be the ethical thing to do before immediately capitalizing on her ignorance. It probably takes about the same amount of time it took you to post here today.
If you have and she just keeps blowing you off with, "oh yes laddy, I'll send you a check." Then try to recoup your losses.
A professor I had in collage ran 2 sets of central vacuum tubes all over his house when he built it (one for the central vac, one for the wires). That way he could change out the wiring pretty quickly for an upgrade.
Furthermore, imagine if a perfectly legal hobby were to be criminalized -- retroactively -- say, by a new government elected in a wave of frenzy about national security (totally hypothetical, I know but bear with me). Now if that had been my hobby, I would be a sitting duck for the newly created national security cop unit. I may be a perfectly law-abiding citizen perfectly willing to forgo a hobby if my government tells me it endangers the national security, but I would already be a criminal.
That law would be unconstitutional. The hypothetical situation you suggested would require a coup d'état in the US.
"No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed. "
see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_post_facto_law#United_States
or: Article 1: Section 9 of US constitution - http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.articlei.html
You do realize this already happens right? And stupid people play into it. Those retarded 'club' cards for every freaking grocery store, sporting goods store, (insert store type here) store.
Every place I know uses a phone number optionally. Just make one up until it works.
Interesting + Informative + Insightful ?!
Where is the "-1 you're a dick" mod?
I've fried a turkey; I guess I'm just smart enough not to fuck up my fingers (I use a digital thermometer so it is easy to tell when oil is too hot to touch). Also, the parent said nothing about fried catfish; I just figured it was some fresh fish place down by a lake.
yes
Please excuse my ignorance-
How does working in a catfish restaurant destroy once fingerprints?
That is what we get when technology allows us to want for things that would have been out-of-our-grasp because we were fixated on eating that day. Meaning, I eat as well if not better than kings did 100years ago because of advances in farming, eletricity, engines, and education. Since I don't have to spend the majority of my paycheck on food anymore, I have extra to spend on things only the rich did before- the arts etc.
You say higher quality level, but I can only assume you are looking in the wrong places. Have you seen any new piano music performed?! There are some very talented musicians out there, and some of them still chose classical music as a way to make a living. Or are you trying to compare Mozart to B.Spears?!
My last post ((#28084169))) is incomplete.
The Coat stealth plains in a material that simply absorbs EM radiation. This will get past a radar, but not a metal detector.
As I think about it more, an interesting way for someone to mess with this is the same way you mess with radars, Jamming. You'ld have to have someone with Line-of-site to the detectors with a directional antenna (they are small enough to be concealed at these frequencies), just blasting them with EM at the right frequency. If you didn't it randomly for a while the operator would thing his machine was just broken.
I'm positive that is is possible to make clothing to block this frequency range. I'm worried that you'll be thrown out of the airport for not being able to pass the metal detector. Because the same way you are blocking the EM from getting to your body(conductive metal fibers woven in your clothing), is the same phenomenon that will set off the metal detectors as you GREATLY disturb the EM field passing between it.
Now, that being said, the same material they build stealth planes out of could be used to get past this (because they don't use "shielding" as a way to get past radar).
In short: Yes, but you need to have a conductor to shield EM radiation efficiently, and that is going to be detected by the Metal detector first. (unless you are using some spy material I've never heard of).
So I went to here to check on some info: http://www.tsa.gov/approach/tech/mwave.shtm
Turns out that power used it much, much less than a dangerous amount. It simply isn't needed. Cell phones are much more tested and emit much more power right next to your skull.
Perhaps because they arn't intouch with their senses yet? I don't know.
But I do know I did not have to learn to not eat things that tasted/smelled badly. And urine/poop/and rotting foods do not smell good so I would not eat them with out someone having to tell me not to.
The relationship between taste/smell and "is it 'healthy'" is an evolutionary trait that does not have to be taught. In fact, it has to be unlearned these days with Food manufactures exploiting the humans addiction to fat/sugar/salt.
"Then you are saying the diet soda does nothing for obese people"
You liar! Look, simply:
Person A: I'm overweight, I know, I'll drink diet.
Person B: I'm not overweight, I know, I won't drink diet.
RESULT: people found drinking diet are those who are overweight.
Here Here! That is exactly what I thought...something about correlation & causation.
You don't know what you are talking about. You only run into increased chance of cancer if the frequency is above that of visible light.
Anything visible light and lower (in frequency) is non-ionizing.
E=hf means the energy per photon is only a function of frequency. So the only way sub-ultraviolet light can hurt you, is if there is so much of it that it cooks you. And as the AC says, if you can still see, you probably aren't being cooked.
and Jar Jar Binks
Yea,h every time I goto a place like that I end up answering questions of clueless customers. I'm the same way with cars, which is why I always call my "car friend" before I do any major repairs etc.
If the Hard driver is mirrored why would they need to reinstall office/antivirus?!
Even if that were true, the new system has added costs if this is the same buyer. Office won't be installed on the new computer.
A person who needs a harddrive backed up, is the same one who won't be able to migrate his person files over (same $160 charge).
...the fact is that this is the current marketplace an author has to work with....
1- The current marketplace makes copyright illegal, but what does a lone writer do about it? (legal pursuits are expensive)
2-WTF kind of merchandise do you think an academic text book sells?! This isn't Harry Potter, you don't make money selling data-compression-algorithm dolls. You seriously need to take a talk in the shoes of an academic who writes a book. You think a person who spend 100s of hours of their free time writting a book for a small amount of notoriety and profit then, by themself, looks into how to mercandise on it!?
NO! They go back to doing research, writing papers, mentoring students, and teaching classes.