Guess someone in the patents-cubicle zoned out and forgot to follow up on his email properly..
"Oh those patents, yes, they're sent off..."
"What are those patentnumbers, we need them for printing.."
*searches inbox on 'patent issue'* "Here's a list, let me put it in excel for you.."
"kthx!!"
Netcraft now confirms: in Soviet Russia, a beowulf cluster of these imagines Natalie Portman with hot grits; thereby answering the question "Does it run Linux?"
We used to buy a silver disk and it contained a game. As long there was an active userbase playing it, you would have multiplayer. Otherwise, you'd organize a night of multiplayer gaming with friends or play single player mode. But the game was yours to play.
If I look at it, the games industry is evolving to a SaaS-model; you pay a subscription fee on a games base and when you stop paying you are denied access.
it wouldn't surprice me, with latest Nvidea's realtime rendering farm et al, we'd soon have a subscribers base "gamers account", where you can pay monthly for "casual gaming", a more expensive "regular gaming"-account or "extreme all the latest games at fuckplenty fps"-account giving you access to certain titles/types of games which you can play realtime over wire.
Gaming like we've known before, on brown or silver disks, seems to be phasing out forever.
Possibly they've hired enough highly educated idjits to do it themselves by now.
I challenge thé, to setup a company, manage it to outperform Microsoft after you've modified a minimal "discarted" OS yourself and repackaged it to sell it as your own, with support and an agile development cycle, staying under a 2 percentile bugrate on all code in production while each "release" you have to think up something that seems to be "fresh" enough or an "improvement" over the last version in order to resell your updates while you grow to thousands of employees to work it all and above all, try to compete with Apple and make Linux look like a "hobby project" vs an industry standard for tooling (you cry, it's the truth.).
You get 5 years to success, starting in your garage. Success will be received by a strong handshake and respect, failure will just confirm expectations and will be smiled upon.
[Zoidberg voice] Houray! We are discussing youtube videos on slashdot! Now it might be time to show off my LARGER model of a slight smaller original model the thing I made and posted on youtube to show off!!! Finally recognition of my geniality!! It will be MINEEE!!!
[Fry] But can I play wii while I'm walking around?
[Zoidberg] No... You don't have your arms free while you are carrying it
If you think your words make a bigger difference to your politician than the loads of money he gets from various social and business special interest lobbies, you're fooling yourself.
I do not. Even overhere politics is a joke, but I also know politics isn't easy and you have alot of stakeholders with power you have to ski around to get your personal agenda across (like idealistic persuits).
My strong sentiments are rather geared towards the "throw arms up in the air and point to the system". Maybe it's because it's a typical US thing where they bring politics in such a spectacular black/white way to the public, to gain support (because otherwise the public wouldn't be interested or engaged.) Based on reading slashdot this would be a "FOX"-level politics. In my country, Belgium, they try to engage the people by relating to "personal drama" and childlike accusations and xenophoby, dancing around and having media-appearances as retarded clowns wheras a very complex structure in layers makes it hard to get anything really done and even harder to understand for the layman. Yet those "crying out the loudest" are least willing to get into politics or to make a change themselves, nor have the inclination to try to understand and educate themselves about it.
But in all, I still believe there are people in politics trying hard to work around those blockages and difficulties. Just want to nuance the negative doomsday "they are out to rob us"-thinking...
It's not my argument with the "weight I have is a letter of representative x", I just try to transpose myself into their decisionmaking and the concerns of some people leading up to these law-proposals resulting in a miscommunication between people more concerned about privacy (groups like slashdot) and people who feel they want a "clean" experience or want to limit the exposure to certain content as the internet isn't just a toy of academics, hackers, social castouts, or curious people; it's become something every layer of society is consuming. (and has been transformed into a "product", agreed, but by the nature of the internet it is punished off greatly if a brand-presence online takes away from the experience. Online marketting has evolved to "increasing or bettering the experience" through virals, games or the community presences or "related ads", if it sucks hard, the company is dumped by users or there is no userbase left to sqeeze).
It's a balance between freedom and the power/greed of those who already have too much of everything.
Stop crying about being poor, but turn off your "freedom computer", which binds you to your self-created and imposed cage (don't tell me WoW-gamers aren't caged while slowly extracting their money), and do something worthwhile instead of imposing "your freedom onto someone else" on chatroulette with your dick in your hand or something. If it's worthwhile enough, people will give you money for it. If you're knowledgable enough, people will give you money for it. If you're really smart, you'll make people with influence happy so you have greater leaverage to get your idealistic goals met, maybe something silly like pushing a companies "green energy"-initiatives trying to muffle the oil-industry with their connections. Yes, that's politics. Not fucking over you man, get a grip on your own life instead of finding some external factors to cry about, srsly. If the only thing you have to rally and fight for, passively, typing on your "freedom computa", you must be very comfortable and have most if not all primary needs taken care off under support of your goverment keeping it all together for you so nobody rapes you or takes your monnies from you, easily and without you thinking you want to give it to them.
This will lead to one thing only; those savvy enough or caring about privacy and freedom will jump off in darknets, shadownets, unionrings and dissapear from the "radar" and jump through proxies or VPNs.
It'll create these "underground movements" with a club-like and elitist sense of self, as annonymous, with secret handshakes and what have you.
Those using the internet to chat up girls, share their pictures on facebook or what have you, will continue to use their computers as glorified TV-sets.
And why would that be a bad thing? You are concerned about "your internet experience being taken away", it'll just get more cool and secretive for you, while for the 9yo cousin the internet is "pretty with rainbows and unicorns" and not fapping old men trying to have them send pictures.
Don't get me wrong; I'm all against censorship and muffling freedom of speech, but the internet has grown a bit out of the "lets see what we can do with it" as alot of peopel are exposed to it. We'll just have to bend into a few curves to have the same experience, but is that really an issue?
To me it just seems these lawmakers at one hand are worried about what can potentially come out of the internet biting teens butt, but otoh not wanting to kill freedom of speech alltogether.
During "Blackout Europe" (3 strike policy law on EU level), I've written my European representative to urge him to recognise the internet not just as "playground for innovation" but also as basic right and medium to exercise freedom of speech, which was received well. So in my naive world, I'd like to think they do care about free speech, but also protecting some weaker people in society. It's a difficult balance, but internet-censorship wont make a difference to all the crying nerds: we'll get our tools and methods to get around it and nobody is going to proscecute you for that. Its not that we've been desensitized and media got a bit like a loose whore people need to be exposed to that involentary: Make it a bit harder to get but not illegal... fe, like porn used to be in the 90s; being younger as 18 you had to get creative to get porn, but we got it anyway without it been blasted in our field of vision constantly.
Now that the Australian government finds itself to be on the same side than China on censorship, I hope their legislators take a second look on the path they have taken for a while, and this apply to a few other Western parliaments as well...
When they build a new library with modern non-wood tables, the graffiti no longer existed. The florescent pen graffiti on the condom machines in the restrooms was a poor substitute.
I agree with that underlaying thought; the sterility of our society makes it not as authentic as it can be. It's like holding a book, with some smudges, signs of usage, people leaving trails and the object being a subject of a living, organic process.
While I feel it shouldn't be "allowed", it should to a certain degree be tolerated as organic expression and a capture of time.
another old wrinkly dinosaur doesn't like change! news at 11.
I don't know, I sortof like the physical representation of data and "handling" a book. After being done with it, it is some useless mass laying around, yet by then there's some affinity with that book and in some cases a trophee.
After reading through 1500 pages or so of "A unix bible" (I don't remember the exact title, but I was stuck without PC so I dragged that heavy weight around like a good roman novel as a pseudo PC-experience, where each new concept or commanline syntax felt like the unravelling of a plot) it felt more like an achievement to read through it all (even the boring parts). Because of the weight of the book, I could literally state it was "heavy material", and it helped me conquer greater parts of Linux and capture the history and evolution of Unix to Linux.
I have a shelf with ALOT of books, while getting through them you "bound" in a way and make them your own. A serene, boringly sleekly designed static and efficient Kindle cannot seduce me yet (where are the coffee stains? comments, underlinings, referential memories to the hot blonde reading over your shoulder while you master a new subject?) to replace my collection of books which have have their own and contain their own stories. Even the paper in itself has a story: it had something die to bring it into papery existence, it's like the skin of a tree.
You can't argue with the added value of killed plants and uplifted status going with that by putting them on display on a shelf...
Funny that, I'm turning 29 this year and I feel a hell of a lot freer and no less healthy than I did at 21 much less 15.
At 28 I'm feeling actually better and more healthy as I was under 24; I've gotten more aware about my health and noticed that as a "sortof adult" (I still feel like I'm "the same entity" as I felt and identified myself in any age. I've just seen and experienced more, but the "essence", while evolving through those experiences, is still the same to me.) your body is stronger and sport is really a pleasant way to get rid of stress while it makes you feel/look a bit more healthy and gives you plenty stamina, which really gives you an advantage when you're pushing through a tough and long, draining project. As a kid I used to bike to school, 14km or about 9 miles, a day. Add at least six for fridays or weekends, yet it didn't make such a dramatic change.
the autonomy that comes with a professional income far outstrips merely having more time to ride your bike during the summer holidays.
I wonder what kindof work you do; I have 40 leavedays a year. From that, I usually end up taking just 14 as I can't leave project during the year.
When I was a kid, I used to have at least 60 free days in the summer to do whatever I could think up within the acceptable, plus the school holidays through the year and coming home 4 hours earlier as I do now, while having no responsabilities when being home. Now I have to cook for myself and make sure my place is moderatly comfortable.
So it weird for me to read your comment, stating you have "more" time to ride your bike. If I ride my bike now, I have to get up on saturday and usually end up biking for 4 hours, which takes away half my day. As a kid, by the time I got home, daily, I already had up to 2 hours of biking behind me and went out to look for my friends, by bike where we drove around doing whatever made sense in the moment. (catching frogs, building camps, playing on the railways, exploring, kiting, trying to find fireworks to shoot off, playing "war" - inspired on all those action movies ofcourse, or get into trouble.)
In my professional life, as software consultant, I really don't have time to do all that anymore even though I have "more autonomy" or financial freedom. Strange how those things never really mattered to me back then, it didn't take "autonomy" to just roam around and find a way to occupy myself and have a good time (to great displeasure of my mother when I walked back in covered in mud).
I was "let free" in a sense, but my mother just had to yell out for me to show back up, ask a neigbour kid or one of my sisters to go look for me or knew I would show up when it started to get dark without the concept of cellphones or walking around wired with GSP locators and retarted "protective gear". When one of us got hurt, bad enough, we always found "an adult" to get taken care of.
I was thinking "health insurance company's dream."
I was thinking signal hack to see if your pickuplines have positive effect by certain bodyques, with an Android app to process it and show a realtime "fail/success" meter, upload statistics to a central server (ofcourse with target foto and the type of person failing) so you can augment reality, do a facial detection match and pull a list of moves that might work and this target is sensitive to.
Just record data, let the suckers be shot down and swoon in with a "You know, I LOVE puppies, the brand tampons you buy and that joke about bananas, like you do (based on the data we have collected)" and have it be an instant success.
Ofcourse, this is acceptable, as that information in public domain once you walk in public and are observable.
If they wanted to home-school their German-speaking children, they could easily and freely moved to Switzerland
There's a strong seperation between "Swiss German" and general spoken German, also in culture and acceptence while they have a very strong anti-immigration policy.
Those kids very likely would've been excluded. Don't think the USA is so might attractive to emigrate to, it's not, at least not to a 1st world citizen.
Also their kids could speak with their new-found friends, and read books, and watch TV, without a huge learning curve.
In Europe, the greater part of the yought and population is already watching English TV, reading English books and listening to English music without a learning curve, don't extrapolate or project your own monolinguism:)
Having said that, personally I think they just have the concept it's possible to "home school" in the USA without having another concept of it, hence making them feel the USA would be a sortof safe-haven to do what they want to do.
Next time you whine about this "issue" think who voted for this guy.
I certainly haven't:) It's exactly what I mean; the politicians play the "celebrity game" and people fall for it or only pay attention to it in that fashion.
It used to frustrate me, so I stop being part of it as my involvedness wouldn't make a difference in this case, so it's out of my range of direct influence. In an ideal democracy, like you describe it, it becomes an extrapolation of your society and its values, but not of everyone individually.
Yet, once you are playing "political games" (in politics itself or in companies, wherever) you'll notice it's not all that what it's supposed to be and you'll notice other forces play a very strong role.
Alot of the news in my country is a joke. Really, it's a big joke.
Politicians are like little children and are arguing and pestering eachother through the media and there's indeed the tendency to serve more news which seem to draw in more people, align with their soap-series, or magazine style "sex-facts", upskirts and what have you.
I've disconnected from "tv" because of that purpose, but now the crap is entering into my online experience and I choose to ignore it; for one it causes less frustration when "yet another important sounding headline" preaches nonsense. Or there's yet someone pushing some FUD through articles...
Important news will reach me one way or another, but I don't care about 90% in "news" these days and wont waste time being "in the loop" constantly... I would if the quality would be much much better.
I guess what I'm saying is that this is more about answering the question of how bird-like were the dinosaurs already or how early did bird-like features evolve, rather than piling more evidence on the dinosaur-bird connection.
Well, they could've been the other way around and have been just giant chicks. Based on the bones alone we've made some reptilic godzilla's from them. Maybe they were just fluffy carinvore birds, they did evolve flight and came out of eggs. I'm not sure based on which features they decided dinosaurs would be reptiles..
Say we have it all wrong, and the dinosaur ends up being just fluffy chicks while the image we have had a long time evolves to be a fantastical or almost mythical beast. That'd be such a dissapointment, yet it's science!
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Guess someone in the patents-cubicle zoned out and forgot to follow up on his email properly..
"Oh those patents, yes, they're sent off..."
"What are those patentnumbers, we need them for printing.."
*searches inbox on 'patent issue'* "Here's a list, let me put it in excel for you.."
"kthx!!"
Epic beard guy, is that you?
We used to buy a silver disk and it contained a game. As long there was an active userbase playing it, you would have multiplayer. Otherwise, you'd organize a night of multiplayer gaming with friends or play single player mode. But the game was yours to play.
If I look at it, the games industry is evolving to a SaaS-model; you pay a subscription fee on a games base and when you stop paying you are denied access.
it wouldn't surprice me, with latest Nvidea's realtime rendering farm et al, we'd soon have a subscribers base "gamers account", where you can pay monthly for "casual gaming", a more expensive "regular gaming"-account or "extreme all the latest games at fuckplenty fps"-account giving you access to certain titles/types of games which you can play realtime over wire.
Gaming like we've known before, on brown or silver disks, seems to be phasing out forever.
I challenge thé, to setup a company, manage it to outperform Microsoft after you've modified a minimal "discarted" OS yourself and repackaged it to sell it as your own, with support and an agile development cycle, staying under a 2 percentile bugrate on all code in production while each "release" you have to think up something that seems to be "fresh" enough or an "improvement" over the last version in order to resell your updates while you grow to thousands of employees to work it all and above all, try to compete with Apple and make Linux look like a "hobby project" vs an industry standard for tooling (you cry, it's the truth.).
You get 5 years to success, starting in your garage. Success will be received by a strong handshake and respect, failure will just confirm expectations and will be smiled upon.
5,4,3,2,1... GO!
That looks like a.. oh wait a minute.. mirrors on youtube? I'm not falling for this one again...
There have been alot of stupid asses in the universe blowing themselves up. We just collect the last piece of their asploded civilization.
THIS COULD BE YOU!! IF YOU DONT RECYCLE! THE METEORITES ARE A WARNING!!!
How you feel about the technology of the Belgian neurologist, who brought you a means of communication while in coma?
What word do you think about to indicate "yes"?
[Zoidberg voice] Houray! We are discussing youtube videos on slashdot! Now it might be time to show off my LARGER model of a slight smaller original model the thing I made and posted on youtube to show off!!! Finally recognition of my geniality!! It will be MINEEE!!!
[Fry] But can I play wii while I'm walking around?
[Zoidberg] No... You don't have your arms free while you are carrying it
Nothing is "too big to fail".
At the current rate, people will shy away from Google as it's becoming an omnipresence on the internet which is raising concern.
There are numerous examples of things that could not be that happened, like the Titanic, Yahoo and Enron.
No, the thoughtpolice's little bitch.
Google is continuing to make me feel more uneasy as time progresses...
I do not. Even overhere politics is a joke, but I also know politics isn't easy and you have alot of stakeholders with power you have to ski around to get your personal agenda across (like idealistic persuits).
My strong sentiments are rather geared towards the "throw arms up in the air and point to the system". Maybe it's because it's a typical US thing where they bring politics in such a spectacular black/white way to the public, to gain support (because otherwise the public wouldn't be interested or engaged.) Based on reading slashdot this would be a "FOX"-level politics. In my country, Belgium, they try to engage the people by relating to "personal drama" and childlike accusations and xenophoby, dancing around and having media-appearances as retarded clowns wheras a very complex structure in layers makes it hard to get anything really done and even harder to understand for the layman. Yet those "crying out the loudest" are least willing to get into politics or to make a change themselves, nor have the inclination to try to understand and educate themselves about it.
But in all, I still believe there are people in politics trying hard to work around those blockages and difficulties. Just want to nuance the negative doomsday "they are out to rob us"-thinking...
It's not my argument with the "weight I have is a letter of representative x", I just try to transpose myself into their decisionmaking and the concerns of some people leading up to these law-proposals resulting in a miscommunication between people more concerned about privacy (groups like slashdot) and people who feel they want a "clean" experience or want to limit the exposure to certain content as the internet isn't just a toy of academics, hackers, social castouts, or curious people; it's become something every layer of society is consuming. (and has been transformed into a "product", agreed, but by the nature of the internet it is punished off greatly if a brand-presence online takes away from the experience. Online marketting has evolved to "increasing or bettering the experience" through virals, games or the community presences or "related ads", if it sucks hard, the company is dumped by users or there is no userbase left to sqeeze).
Stop crying about being poor, but turn off your "freedom computer", which binds you to your self-created and imposed cage (don't tell me WoW-gamers aren't caged while slowly extracting their money), and do something worthwhile instead of imposing "your freedom onto someone else" on chatroulette with your dick in your hand or something. If it's worthwhile enough, people will give you money for it. If you're knowledgable enough, people will give you money for it. If you're really smart, you'll make people with influence happy so you have greater leaverage to get your idealistic goals met, maybe something silly like pushing a companies "green energy"-initiatives trying to muffle the oil-industry with their connections. Yes, that's politics. Not fucking over you man, get a grip on your own life instead of finding some external factors to cry about, srsly. If the only thing you have to rally and fight for, passively, typing on your "freedom computa", you must be very comfortable and have most if not all primary needs taken care off under support of your goverment keeping it all together for you so nobody rapes you or takes your monnies from you, easily and without you thinking you want to give it to them.
This will lead to one thing only; those savvy enough or caring about privacy and freedom will jump off in darknets, shadownets, unionrings and dissapear from the "radar" and jump through proxies or VPNs.
It'll create these "underground movements" with a club-like and elitist sense of self, as annonymous, with secret handshakes and what have you.
Those using the internet to chat up girls, share their pictures on facebook or what have you, will continue to use their computers as glorified TV-sets.
And why would that be a bad thing? You are concerned about "your internet experience being taken away", it'll just get more cool and secretive for you, while for the 9yo cousin the internet is "pretty with rainbows and unicorns" and not fapping old men trying to have them send pictures.
Don't get me wrong; I'm all against censorship and muffling freedom of speech, but the internet has grown a bit out of the "lets see what we can do with it" as alot of peopel are exposed to it. We'll just have to bend into a few curves to have the same experience, but is that really an issue?
To me it just seems these lawmakers at one hand are worried about what can potentially come out of the internet biting teens butt, but otoh not wanting to kill freedom of speech alltogether.
During "Blackout Europe" (3 strike policy law on EU level), I've written my European representative to urge him to recognise the internet not just as "playground for innovation" but also as basic right and medium to exercise freedom of speech, which was received well. So in my naive world, I'd like to think they do care about free speech, but also protecting some weaker people in society. It's a difficult balance, but internet-censorship wont make a difference to all the crying nerds: we'll get our tools and methods to get around it and nobody is going to proscecute you for that. Its not that we've been desensitized and media got a bit like a loose whore people need to be exposed to that involentary: Make it a bit harder to get but not illegal... fe, like porn used to be in the 90s; being younger as 18 you had to get creative to get porn, but we got it anyway without it been blasted in our field of vision constantly.
Just imagine a beowulf of computerized grammar nazi's... The internet would be grammatically cleansed...
Maybe they have the same agenda...
I agree with that underlaying thought; the sterility of our society makes it not as authentic as it can be. It's like holding a book, with some smudges, signs of usage, people leaving trails and the object being a subject of a living, organic process.
While I feel it shouldn't be "allowed", it should to a certain degree be tolerated as organic expression and a capture of time.
It's not just a modern phenomomen, in pompei they already knew grafitti which painted a picture of daily life for us today.
I don't know, I sortof like the physical representation of data and "handling" a book. After being done with it, it is some useless mass laying around, yet by then there's some affinity with that book and in some cases a trophee.
After reading through 1500 pages or so of "A unix bible" (I don't remember the exact title, but I was stuck without PC so I dragged that heavy weight around like a good roman novel as a pseudo PC-experience, where each new concept or commanline syntax felt like the unravelling of a plot) it felt more like an achievement to read through it all (even the boring parts). Because of the weight of the book, I could literally state it was "heavy material", and it helped me conquer greater parts of Linux and capture the history and evolution of Unix to Linux.
I have a shelf with ALOT of books, while getting through them you "bound" in a way and make them your own. A serene, boringly sleekly designed static and efficient Kindle cannot seduce me yet (where are the coffee stains? comments, underlinings, referential memories to the hot blonde reading over your shoulder while you master a new subject?) to replace my collection of books which have have their own and contain their own stories. Even the paper in itself has a story: it had something die to bring it into papery existence, it's like the skin of a tree.
You can't argue with the added value of killed plants and uplifted status going with that by putting them on display on a shelf...
At 28 I'm feeling actually better and more healthy as I was under 24; I've gotten more aware about my health and noticed that as a "sortof adult" (I still feel like I'm "the same entity" as I felt and identified myself in any age. I've just seen and experienced more, but the "essence", while evolving through those experiences, is still the same to me.) your body is stronger and sport is really a pleasant way to get rid of stress while it makes you feel/look a bit more healthy and gives you plenty stamina, which really gives you an advantage when you're pushing through a tough and long, draining project. As a kid I used to bike to school, 14km or about 9 miles, a day. Add at least six for fridays or weekends, yet it didn't make such a dramatic change.
I wonder what kindof work you do; I have 40 leavedays a year. From that, I usually end up taking just 14 as I can't leave project during the year.
When I was a kid, I used to have at least 60 free days in the summer to do whatever I could think up within the acceptable, plus the school holidays through the year and coming home 4 hours earlier as I do now, while having no responsabilities when being home. Now I have to cook for myself and make sure my place is moderatly comfortable.
So it weird for me to read your comment, stating you have "more" time to ride your bike. If I ride my bike now, I have to get up on saturday and usually end up biking for 4 hours, which takes away half my day. As a kid, by the time I got home, daily, I already had up to 2 hours of biking behind me and went out to look for my friends, by bike where we drove around doing whatever made sense in the moment. (catching frogs, building camps, playing on the railways, exploring, kiting, trying to find fireworks to shoot off, playing "war" - inspired on all those action movies ofcourse, or get into trouble.)
In my professional life, as software consultant, I really don't have time to do all that anymore even though I have "more autonomy" or financial freedom. Strange how those things never really mattered to me back then, it didn't take "autonomy" to just roam around and find a way to occupy myself and have a good time (to great displeasure of my mother when I walked back in covered in mud).
I was "let free" in a sense, but my mother just had to yell out for me to show back up, ask a neigbour kid or one of my sisters to go look for me or knew I would show up when it started to get dark without the concept of cellphones or walking around wired with GSP locators and retarted "protective gear". When one of us got hurt, bad enough, we always found "an adult" to get taken care of.
I was thinking signal hack to see if your pickuplines have positive effect by certain bodyques, with an Android app to process it and show a realtime "fail/success" meter, upload statistics to a central server (ofcourse with target foto and the type of person failing) so you can augment reality, do a facial detection match and pull a list of moves that might work and this target is sensitive to.
Just record data, let the suckers be shot down and swoon in with a "You know, I LOVE puppies, the brand tampons you buy and that joke about bananas, like you do (based on the data we have collected)" and have it be an instant success.
Ofcourse, this is acceptable, as that information in public domain once you walk in public and are observable.
You can compress that effectively to one bit like that. Imagine how fast you would send over a bluray movie...
There's a strong seperation between "Swiss German" and general spoken German, also in culture and acceptence while they have a very strong anti-immigration policy.
Those kids very likely would've been excluded. Don't think the USA is so might attractive to emigrate to, it's not, at least not to a 1st world citizen.
In Europe, the greater part of the yought and population is already watching English TV, reading English books and listening to English music without a learning curve, don't extrapolate or project your own monolinguism :)
Having said that, personally I think they just have the concept it's possible to "home school" in the USA without having another concept of it, hence making them feel the USA would be a sortof safe-haven to do what they want to do.
I certainly haven't :)
It's exactly what I mean; the politicians play the "celebrity game" and people fall for it or only pay attention to it in that fashion.
It used to frustrate me, so I stop being part of it as my involvedness wouldn't make a difference in this case, so it's out of my range of direct influence.
In an ideal democracy, like you describe it, it becomes an extrapolation of your society and its values, but not of everyone individually.
Yet, once you are playing "political games" (in politics itself or in companies, wherever) you'll notice it's not all that what it's supposed to be and you'll notice other forces play a very strong role.
Politicians are like little children and are arguing and pestering eachother through the media and there's indeed the tendency to serve more news which seem to draw in more people, align with their soap-series, or magazine style "sex-facts", upskirts and what have you.
I've disconnected from "tv" because of that purpose, but now the crap is entering into my online experience and I choose to ignore it; for one it causes less frustration when "yet another important sounding headline" preaches nonsense. Or there's yet someone pushing some FUD through articles...
Important news will reach me one way or another, but I don't care about 90% in "news" these days and wont waste time being "in the loop" constantly... I would if the quality would be much much better.
Well, they could've been the other way around and have been just giant chicks. Based on the bones alone we've made some reptilic godzilla's from them. Maybe they were just fluffy carinvore birds, they did evolve flight and came out of eggs. I'm not sure based on which features they decided dinosaurs would be reptiles..
Say we have it all wrong, and the dinosaur ends up being just fluffy chicks while the image we have had a long time evolves to be a fantastical or almost mythical beast. That'd be such a dissapointment, yet it's science!