Pre- turns a noun into an adjective. "Civil War" is a noun. Pre-Civil War is an adjective that we can use to describe things from before the Civil War. Pre means "chronologically before" not "in advance". Heated is not an event, but if it were... then a pre-heated oven would be ROOM TEMPERATURE. Unless it was a gas oven and the pilot light gave it some additional warmth.
And a webcam. How could would it be to have a webcam on the moon pointing at Earth. It would take the narcissism of internet technology to the global scale. Too bad it would probably just show us all masturbating.
But seriously i think such a webcam would generate great interest.
Because the sanctions were about to end, leaving Saddam to return to being a mass murdering, neighbor invading tyrant with billions in oil revenue to spend on rearming (with the help of China, Russia and France) and resuming WMD research.
And children no longer stand when an adult enters the room.
You have a point about it being a disservice to kids to let them skate by. However comma the bit about self-esteem shows you to be socially clueless or at least to be cavalier with other's emotions. Which is all too easy.
Traumatizing a child into thinking they are worthless or incapable tends to stick with them. Once a kid gets that in their head they tend to go downward from there.
Teacher says I'm stupid, why try? Teacher says I'm lazy, why bust my ass for a bad grade. Sure, I'll have a cigarette, teacher says I'm worthless.
You're also conflating grades with learning. Kids can learn AND have bad grades. Kids can get good grades if they learn how to game the system. Some kids get good grades out of fear of punishment. Those kids tend to grow up to be assholes. Grades and other over simplistic models are part of the problem.
Girls with self-esteem issues become particularly vulnerable to sexual pressures and predators. The adults around her treat her like crap. But this guy swears that he loves her. Kids in bad neighborhoods have little reason to work hard in school. If they do, they are frowned upon by their peers. What examples do they look to? Their parents are uneducated, if they are present at all. No one they know escaped by working hard at school.
No.
A child's emotional well-being has too great an effect on what sort of adult they will become for us to sociopathically disregard it. It's possible to teach kids academically AND socially AND emotionally. Humans are not thinking machines that happen to have feelings. They are feeling machines that happen to be able to think.
Maybe iProduct users could be more humble and honest about the things they buy and why. If they behaved more like buyers of say... Coke, realizing it's just a thing and not a philosophy or way of life or that it somehow makes them fabulous, there would be less animosity. i dislike Apple's products, they cost too much for what you get and are crippled. Which would be fine if i didn't have Lance telling me how much more awesome he is than me for having the latest iToy. Or if Lisa didn't spout some crap about Windows always crashing and having viruses. Then they complain to each other that in their self imposed exile they can get basic services and no one visits. They are buying fashion statements and bragging about it.
Granted there are people using iProducts now that are not just fanbois, the iPod and iPad being the best example.
When the bragging about buying over priced gimped products stops, the attitude toward such people will change.
Cliches and stereotypes are only offensive when there is truth to them. If i accused macfans of being Martian or liking Italian Opera it wouldn't be a big deal.
Freedom requires restrictions. My freedom to live requires denying your freedom to kill me. Sometimes protecting freedom requires telling people what they can't and must do. There are no absolute freedoms. In every case where we have seen absolute freedom the strong gain too much freedom and brutality reigns.
i've always disliked this sort of arrogant assumption about how bad we are. They're just as likely to be worse than us than better. Sci-fi writers have crammed this idea into our skulls that we are bad. Mostly in an attempt to tell us how bad we are to each other. As a literary thing, that's fine, but when we take a sci-fi novel or Star Trek episode outside of its context (entertainment) we could run into trouble.
Maybe aliens look at us and see us as food, or vermin or violent monkeys. But it's just as likely they are fallible too. They might not be beatific super evolved beings that have outgrown blah blah blah. They might be just like us. Most of them are OK and just want to get along. Some want to make their world better, some want to rape and plunder.
Or maybe they are truly alien and have no idea what to think of us because we are so alien to them.
RPG heros must account to the DM. Go around looting the villagers and before you can say "Deus ex machina" someone will put the players in their place.
Lady Gaga isn't manufactured. She's the real deal. Search for Stefani Germanotta on YouTube. She put in her time playing tiny clubs, she plays piano, she performed all through her high school years as well, written tons of hits for other folks. Her style happens to be glam meta-pop. If she wanted to do the Sarah MacLachlan thing she could. She has the pipes for it. Don't confuse popular/successful with manufactured. It paints you as pretentious.
The whole idea that some music is better than others because *you* don't get it asinine and asshole-ish. It's junior high school "you're fav band sux LOLLOLOLO!" or "my former fav band sold out when they went gold, QQ!" but with big words.
Slashdot Mirror
Unless you are sending a txtmsg and each character costs you something.
Double tap. Always.
Ubuntu is equipped. Not pre-equipped.
Pre- turns a noun into an adjective. "Civil War" is a noun. Pre-Civil War is an adjective that we can use to describe things from before the Civil War. Pre means "chronologically before" not "in advance". Heated is not an event, but if it were... then a pre-heated oven would be ROOM TEMPERATURE. Unless it was a gas oven and the pilot light gave it some additional warmth.
Descriptivist excuse making in 3... 2....
Meh. Wake me when they invent the smelloscope.
Or install a telescope on the moon.
And a webcam. How could would it be to have a webcam on the moon pointing at Earth. It would take the narcissism of internet technology to the global scale. Too bad it would probably just show us all masturbating.
But seriously i think such a webcam would generate great interest.
Because the sanctions were about to end, leaving Saddam to return to being a mass murdering, neighbor invading tyrant with billions in oil revenue to spend on rearming (with the help of China, Russia and France) and resuming WMD research.
And children no longer stand when an adult enters the room.
You have a point about it being a disservice to kids to let them skate by. However comma the bit about self-esteem shows you to be socially clueless or at least to be cavalier with other's emotions. Which is all too easy.
Traumatizing a child into thinking they are worthless or incapable tends to stick with them. Once a kid gets that in their head they tend to go downward from there.
Teacher says I'm stupid, why try? Teacher says I'm lazy, why bust my ass for a bad grade. Sure, I'll have a cigarette, teacher says I'm worthless.
You're also conflating grades with learning. Kids can learn AND have bad grades. Kids can get good grades if they learn how to game the system. Some kids get good grades out of fear of punishment. Those kids tend to grow up to be assholes. Grades and other over simplistic models are part of the problem.
Girls with self-esteem issues become particularly vulnerable to sexual pressures and predators. The adults around her treat her like crap. But this guy swears that he loves her. Kids in bad neighborhoods have little reason to work hard in school. If they do, they are frowned upon by their peers. What examples do they look to? Their parents are uneducated, if they are present at all. No one they know escaped by working hard at school.
No.
A child's emotional well-being has too great an effect on what sort of adult they will become for us to sociopathically disregard it. It's possible to teach kids academically AND socially AND emotionally. Humans are not thinking machines that happen to have feelings. They are feeling machines that happen to be able to think.
Glad someone else noticed!
i loved that game. There's a PC port of it somewhere on the webbernets.
One the riched companies in the world doesn't have a business model LOLLOOLLO!
Enjoy your self-imposed exile. Being able to connect and share with other comes with the risk of catching cooties.
He's the one they call Doctor Fielgud
He's gonna make you feel all right
He's the one they call Doctor Fielgud
He's gonna be your Frankenstein!
Maybe iProduct users could be more humble and honest about the things they buy and why. If they behaved more like buyers of say... Coke, realizing it's just a thing and not a philosophy or way of life or that it somehow makes them fabulous, there would be less animosity. i dislike Apple's products, they cost too much for what you get and are crippled. Which would be fine if i didn't have Lance telling me how much more awesome he is than me for having the latest iToy. Or if Lisa didn't spout some crap about Windows always crashing and having viruses. Then they complain to each other that in their self imposed exile they can get basic services and no one visits. They are buying fashion statements and bragging about it.
Granted there are people using iProducts now that are not just fanbois, the iPod and iPad being the best example.
When the bragging about buying over priced gimped products stops, the attitude toward such people will change.
Cliches and stereotypes are only offensive when there is truth to them. If i accused macfans of being Martian or liking Italian Opera it wouldn't be a big deal.
Smile when you eat the vegemite.
Freedom requires restrictions. My freedom to live requires denying your freedom to kill me. Sometimes protecting freedom requires telling people what they can't and must do. There are no absolute freedoms. In every case where we have seen absolute freedom the strong gain too much freedom and brutality reigns.
Don't offer your hand to a lady. Let her decide if she wants that familiarity. It's presumptuous of a man to offer his.
i impressed my then girlfriend's mother (who is now my mother in law) by observing this rule.
Err on the side of being classy. You can't go wrong.
i do this in my pocket.
ASLO:
If you are a male
DO NOT OFFER YOUR HAND TO A LADY. If she wants to be that familiar, she will offer her hand to you. Err on the side of classy.
i impressed my girlfriend's mother (now my mother in law) by adhering to this rule.
i've always disliked this sort of arrogant assumption about how bad we are. They're just as likely to be worse than us than better. Sci-fi writers have crammed this idea into our skulls that we are bad. Mostly in an attempt to tell us how bad we are to each other. As a literary thing, that's fine, but when we take a sci-fi novel or Star Trek episode outside of its context (entertainment) we could run into trouble.
Maybe aliens look at us and see us as food, or vermin or violent monkeys. But it's just as likely they are fallible too. They might not be beatific super evolved beings that have outgrown blah blah blah. They might be just like us. Most of them are OK and just want to get along. Some want to make their world better, some want to rape and plunder.
Or maybe they are truly alien and have no idea what to think of us because we are so alien to them.
i give you sarcastrophes!
i just ^love^ being modded down.
Yo dawg i herd you like tabbed browsing so we but tabs in your tabs so you can browse while you browse.
So why are there no keyboard and mouse inputs for consoles? i've never seen or heard of any. Seems obvious.
i can't play console games for shit. Moving that many fingers at once just hurts my brain.
CRPG heroes.
RPG heros must account to the DM. Go around looting the villagers and before you can say "Deus ex machina" someone will put the players in their place.
Slashdot: News for Paranoid, cynical egomaniacs.
Attaching lasers to the heads of ships could serve a double use in zapping hemorrhroids and impromptu circumcisions.
Lady Gaga isn't manufactured. She's the real deal. Search for Stefani Germanotta on YouTube. She put in her time playing tiny clubs, she plays piano, she performed all through her high school years as well, written tons of hits for other folks. Her style happens to be glam meta-pop. If she wanted to do the Sarah MacLachlan thing she could. She has the pipes for it. Don't confuse popular/successful with manufactured. It paints you as pretentious.
The whole idea that some music is better than others because *you* don't get it asinine and asshole-ish. It's junior high school "you're fav band sux LOLLOLOLO!" or "my former fav band sold out when they went gold, QQ!" but with big words.
Mod Parent +1 Funny. /never have Karma when i truly want to give it
Is the &mdash supposed to be cute or clever?
Hire a developer who can fix that for you. It's 2010, not 1997.
No. The stupid just won't stop.