> Hammering a small toddler with so much medication at one time seems unnecessary.
Vaccinations are not medications. Ye olde Wikipedia says specifically that vaccinations are th, "administration of antigenic material (a vaccine) to stimulate an individual's immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a pathogen." Read the full entry to understand if that is not clear...it is not the same thing as giving someone a cocktail of drugs (medication).
One of the biggest problems with denying the Adam and Eve story is that it negates the fundamental reason Jesus appeared - that is, to take on "our sins" created by the fall. Denying Adam and Eve pretty much throws a wrench into the whole works of Christianity, so this is bigger than just admitting that it is allegory or metaphor...
I can't help but sigh when someone else comes out with a one-point item that is supposed to save creative copyright. To suggest that a lower price point will fix things is so incredibly naive, you wonder where these folks have been spending the last 10 years. Piracy has motives that run the gamut from folks wanting to make money to folks who just want more music to fill up their 2 tb disk drive. While an extremely low price point may force out those pirates trying to make a buck, it won't have a bit of an effect upon those who are happily increasing their music/movie collection for free.
While the movie world hasn't really changed all that much, the music world has been flooded with choice...so much so that there is just no way for a music aficionado to be able to keep up financially with the possible options. There is nothing the music business can do about this as it is now the nature of the industry. They must devise other revenue streams and scale back their expectations with the current streams since there is no going back. I guarantee, no lowering of the price of their goods is going to significantly slow the tide of piracy.
Sounds like Orwell's 1984 -
"We are at war with Eurasia. We've always been at war with Eurasia..." (even though we were at war with Eastasia last week...)
It is not necessarily true that the parents must have teaching credentials to home school. Some states do not require this but still allow home schooling.
I would disagree and say that Vista simply stunk. In years of using XP, I can't remember the last time it crashed. With Vista, I saw the blue screen of death within the first 20 minutes of using it - on a computer designed to work with Vista. Even now, as I help clients with their Vista PC's the Explorer shell crashes and has to restart due to the simplest of things (like trying to open the control panel...I've seen that a million times). Sluggish and buggy is just plain bad and I embrace my XP for games and Linux for just about everything else!
As a performing artist, I know all too well how ASCAP and BMI work. They are actually artist organizations (they don't represent the labels) that pay the artist directly for "performances" of their music. Any public performance of an ASCAP or BMI artist's music is supposed to be supplemented by payment, usually in the form of a contract between the venue and ASCAP/BMI. The money the venue pays to the organization goes into a pot - and then this money is distributed to the artists. Nice idea, in theory. The problem begins when one looks at how these organizations pay the artists. It is almost entirely based upon radio airplay, so the system doesn't work particularly well except for the big players in the game.
ASCAP is well-known in cities for cracking-down on places like coffee houses that have live music - they send in what are essentially thugs to scare the venue into paying what works out to be "protection money" to keep ASCAP from suing them in the event someone plays an ASCAP-artist song during an open mic or live music event. Rather than trying to come off on a more positive marketing angle of trying to help out the music business and the artist, which ASCAP could easily create a pretty compelling argument for, they instead use strongarm legal language and intimidation. I know many coffee houses who simply won't allow live music due to a scary visit from ASCAP or BMI thugs.
Much like the RIAA, these "artist" companies, due to their plainly nasty way of dealing with their clients and the public, are simply in the business of making money off other people's work. This is why I am not a member of any of these organizations and work hard to support venues who don't cave-in to the pressures these organizations place on them. Original live music, owned by the performer - that cannot be touched by these cads.
Hear hear! My last company kept trying to move me into management. I tried it for about 3 months and was bored to death since you are supposed to delegate everything instead of have your hands in the mix. I moved back into the position of underling as soon as possible so I could have something to DO!
Ah, but you see, the parties themselves aren't really all that big a problem, and in fact, help to maintain stability of the nation. Face it, there really isn't all that much difference in the long run between a Dem and a Rep (though at this time in history, they are sitting astride one of the greatest ideological gulfs they've ever come across). However, the dominance of these parties, while not to the letter a democratic design, help to maintain a relative consistency in the way the country functions. Just take a look at some of the emerging democracies elsewhere in the world where the outcome of an election may completely change how a country is perceived based upon the ideology of the winner. In the US, the parties keep things relatively status quo. Yes - things change much more slowly, but it TENDS to keep the extremes out of power.
Of course, there are those who would think something extreme might be fun. There are others who generally think whoever is in power is extremely against their own ideology.
Novelist Tom Wolfe said it very nicely,
"The United States is so stable that political victories consist of minor variations. Our government is like a train on a track, and there are people on the right-hand side and on the left screaming at the train. But the train has no choice: it's on a track! It just keeps going. And it's really quite marvellous how stable that situation is. You can't suddenly have parliament deciding there has to be an election."
Exactly right - XP is "better than fine." I got a new PC for my kids and it came with Vista. I thought I'd give it a fair chance. Sadly, it hard crashed to a black screen reboot within 15 minutes of starting it up. After 2 weeks of watching the very pretty interface while I waited for programs to start...and waited...and waited...and waited...geez, its slow...I got fed up and formatted the disk and dropped XP back on it. The machine is a screamer with XP and of course, completely stable. I won't be going Vista any time soon, if ever. I figure by the time the kids are out of the house, XP will be really too old, and I can just switch everything to Linux since I don't play games anymore like they do!
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YES YES YES...I agree that this is not an apt comparison at all. I worked for a company that used both. I loved and loathed them both. But each did something very well - and those "somethings" were very different. I think it is pretty unusual to use Notes solely as a rapid development platform for web-based database apps with workflow and granular security, but that's what we did with it - no email...no groupware. It completely blew anything else we had out of the water at doing this.
SharePoint? Well...it was great for little web sites using default web parts, which is what most clients wanted it for. But the doggone things multiplied like tribbles in the hold and if you have any kind of serious change management system in your company, SharePoint likes to thumb its nose at working within those types of guidelines (Head of IT: "What do you mean the users change the content of the site LIVE? We need to lock that down!") (sigh)
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> Hammering a small toddler with so much medication at one time seems unnecessary. Vaccinations are not medications. Ye olde Wikipedia says specifically that vaccinations are th, "administration of antigenic material (a vaccine) to stimulate an individual's immune system to develop adaptive immunity to a pathogen." Read the full entry to understand if that is not clear...it is not the same thing as giving someone a cocktail of drugs (medication).
One of the biggest problems with denying the Adam and Eve story is that it negates the fundamental reason Jesus appeared - that is, to take on "our sins" created by the fall. Denying Adam and Eve pretty much throws a wrench into the whole works of Christianity, so this is bigger than just admitting that it is allegory or metaphor...
I can't help but sigh when someone else comes out with a one-point item that is supposed to save creative copyright. To suggest that a lower price point will fix things is so incredibly naive, you wonder where these folks have been spending the last 10 years. Piracy has motives that run the gamut from folks wanting to make money to folks who just want more music to fill up their 2 tb disk drive. While an extremely low price point may force out those pirates trying to make a buck, it won't have a bit of an effect upon those who are happily increasing their music/movie collection for free.
While the movie world hasn't really changed all that much, the music world has been flooded with choice...so much so that there is just no way for a music aficionado to be able to keep up financially with the possible options. There is nothing the music business can do about this as it is now the nature of the industry. They must devise other revenue streams and scale back their expectations with the current streams since there is no going back. I guarantee, no lowering of the price of their goods is going to significantly slow the tide of piracy.
Sounds like Orwell's 1984 - "We are at war with Eurasia. We've always been at war with Eurasia..." (even though we were at war with Eastasia last week...)
It is not necessarily true that the parents must have teaching credentials to home school. Some states do not require this but still allow home schooling.
I would disagree and say that Vista simply stunk. In years of using XP, I can't remember the last time it crashed. With Vista, I saw the blue screen of death within the first 20 minutes of using it - on a computer designed to work with Vista. Even now, as I help clients with their Vista PC's the Explorer shell crashes and has to restart due to the simplest of things (like trying to open the control panel...I've seen that a million times). Sluggish and buggy is just plain bad and I embrace my XP for games and Linux for just about everything else!
As a performing artist, I know all too well how ASCAP and BMI work. They are actually artist organizations (they don't represent the labels) that pay the artist directly for "performances" of their music. Any public performance of an ASCAP or BMI artist's music is supposed to be supplemented by payment, usually in the form of a contract between the venue and ASCAP/BMI. The money the venue pays to the organization goes into a pot - and then this money is distributed to the artists. Nice idea, in theory. The problem begins when one looks at how these organizations pay the artists. It is almost entirely based upon radio airplay, so the system doesn't work particularly well except for the big players in the game.
ASCAP is well-known in cities for cracking-down on places like coffee houses that have live music - they send in what are essentially thugs to scare the venue into paying what works out to be "protection money" to keep ASCAP from suing them in the event someone plays an ASCAP-artist song during an open mic or live music event. Rather than trying to come off on a more positive marketing angle of trying to help out the music business and the artist, which ASCAP could easily create a pretty compelling argument for, they instead use strongarm legal language and intimidation. I know many coffee houses who simply won't allow live music due to a scary visit from ASCAP or BMI thugs.
Much like the RIAA, these "artist" companies, due to their plainly nasty way of dealing with their clients and the public, are simply in the business of making money off other people's work. This is why I am not a member of any of these organizations and work hard to support venues who don't cave-in to the pressures these organizations place on them. Original live music, owned by the performer - that cannot be touched by these cads.
Hear hear! My last company kept trying to move me into management. I tried it for about 3 months and was bored to death since you are supposed to delegate everything instead of have your hands in the mix. I moved back into the position of underling as soon as possible so I could have something to DO!
Ah, but you see, the parties themselves aren't really all that big a problem, and in fact, help to maintain stability of the nation. Face it, there really isn't all that much difference in the long run between a Dem and a Rep (though at this time in history, they are sitting astride one of the greatest ideological gulfs they've ever come across). However, the dominance of these parties, while not to the letter a democratic design, help to maintain a relative consistency in the way the country functions. Just take a look at some of the emerging democracies elsewhere in the world where the outcome of an election may completely change how a country is perceived based upon the ideology of the winner. In the US, the parties keep things relatively status quo. Yes - things change much more slowly, but it TENDS to keep the extremes out of power.
Of course, there are those who would think something extreme might be fun. There are others who generally think whoever is in power is extremely against their own ideology.
Novelist Tom Wolfe said it very nicely,
- "The United States is so stable that political victories consist of minor variations. Our government is like a train on a track, and there are people on the right-hand side and on the left screaming at the train. But the train has no choice: it's on a track! It just keeps going. And it's really quite marvellous how stable that situation is. You can't suddenly have parliament deciding there has to be an election."
(FT.com http://www.ft.com/cms/s/21501b0e-fa33-11db-8bd0-0Exactly right - XP is "better than fine." I got a new PC for my kids and it came with Vista. I thought I'd give it a fair chance. Sadly, it hard crashed to a black screen reboot within 15 minutes of starting it up. After 2 weeks of watching the very pretty interface while I waited for programs to start...and waited...and waited...and waited...geez, its slow...I got fed up and formatted the disk and dropped XP back on it. The machine is a screamer with XP and of course, completely stable. I won't be going Vista any time soon, if ever. I figure by the time the kids are out of the house, XP will be really too old, and I can just switch everything to Linux since I don't play games anymore like they do!
YES YES YES...I agree that this is not an apt comparison at all. I worked for a company that used both. I loved and loathed them both. But each did something very well - and those "somethings" were very different. I think it is pretty unusual to use Notes solely as a rapid development platform for web-based database apps with workflow and granular security, but that's what we did with it - no email...no groupware. It completely blew anything else we had out of the water at doing this.
SharePoint? Well...it was great for little web sites using default web parts, which is what most clients wanted it for. But the doggone things multiplied like tribbles in the hold and if you have any kind of serious change management system in your company, SharePoint likes to thumb its nose at working within those types of guidelines (Head of IT: "What do you mean the users change the content of the site LIVE? We need to lock that down!") (sigh)