I have to live around people that have no use (or perhaps can't be bothered to care) for words like quark, dromedary, chiroptera, circumlocute, etcetera.
Wouldn't you consider chiroptera, quark, and dromedary as falling into the fairly specific jargon category? I've got a great vocabularly, but I don't even know what a chiroptera is. I assume it has wings, and probably something like hands? I guess its a bird or bat or something, but I can't imagine using it anytime soon, except in Scrabble.
I agree with your point though. I get frustrated when people don't know the difference between "there" and "their". "were" and "where", and "verses" and "versus". I get emails all the time, and I can't even look at them because of people using "there" when meaning "their".
As everyone has equal rights to vote, everyone's rights must be protected equally. At the same time, everyone has an equal privilege to the privacy of the vote. If a blind person can't read the receipt, he has to choose either less privacy (by having someone verify it) or less protection (by not doing so). It definitely creates a disparity of privilege for the individual.
Thats ridiculous. Blind people can't do a lot of things that seeing people can do, but we don't sytematically punish the seeing people by making them wear blindfolds all the time. What is the difference between the paper and electronic voting in this situation? Blind people can't see either, and for the last 100 years, they have managed to get by somehow. There didn't seem to be any problems with the disparity of privacy before the eletronic machines were brought up, but now that there is a new way to vote, there is now a recognizable divide between the rights of blind people and seeing people? I don't think so.
I've got a cc permit so I guess as long as they didn't know I had it on me I'd carry too. Especially considering that you deliver to all sorts of shady places, and you've got cash on your person, and a light on the roof of your car letting people know exactly who you are.
Thats a fair rebuttal. I agree with the fact that you cannot know the outcome of the situation, and thus you must be prepared for any outcome. Perhaps what i wasn't clear about is that I personally wouldn't resort to violence until absoluetely neccessary. I would hand over a cell phone before initiating any physical actions against another. At the same time, I know that I am capable of disarming an attacker without much risk of injury because I have done it countless times. I apologize for any harshness that may have come across in my tone. After rereading my post I see that I was a bit unclear in my remarks, and I wasn't getting my point across. The pizza hut policy is just ridiculous. That deliveryman could well be dead if not for the 9mm, and yet he lost his job protecting his life, and company property and revenue. The world is a sick place friends.
Well Lord Kano, fortunately my self respect doesn't fit in my wallet or on my wrist, and I don't drive it to work, so its pretty tough to steal.
As my post said, I wouldn't hesitate to hand over a wallet or lapop to avoid injury. That doesn't mean I would allow someone to injure me or my family through my inaction. I own guns, I have worked security at night clubs and bars, and have been stabbed on multiple occasions. I'm not afraid of violence, I just don't think material possession warrant physical altercations.
that all depends on where you get stabbed, and whether or not you have medical insurance. I've been stabbed in the hand, done the stitches myself and it didn't cost me a penny.
On the other hand, I've been stabbed in the stomach and it was a little more pricey once it was all said and done. An ambulance ride costs close to a grand these days.
What about Inform? Its easy, fun, relatively quick to learn, and it definitely prepares you to wrap your head around loops, classes, and objects. Since everyone is being super picky about HTML not being a programming language, I figured I would throw this out there. if your mom likes reading, or gaming for that matter, you could entice her into the nerdy world of Infocom.
Unfortunately a lock doesn't do much good when you are being mugged. A guy with a pistol or knife doesn't have to do much to convince me to open a lock. Actually, all he has to do is be holding a gun or knife, and politely ask me t give him anything I have. There isn't a damn thing I own worth being shot or stabbed over. Trust me on this one, having been stabbed with a knife before, you do not want to get stabbed, anywhere, or for any reason.
Unfortunately I've found that the better you get at reading people and making smart decisions, the harder it gets to play against people who aren't good / haven't played for years. I play with some of the much younger brothers friends on occasion, and although I have been playing regularly for years, and have won a fair amount of money doing so, they can consistently take hands from me that they shouldn't, particularly because they will make calls they shouldn't make, and then catch a card on the turn or the river. Few things make me madder than when I have a top pair or better, and some jackass stupidly calls me after the turn and catches some b.s. card, when a talented player would never have made the call to begin with.
Just when I was getting used to being the only person without the neccesary camera on my cell phone, now I don't have a mirror on my mp3 player. If they come out with a portable DVD player with a hair dryer, or a laptop with a built in Remington shaver I am going to have to get a third job.
I think the idea is not just to have one magicbike going around, but many of them (perhaps attached to bicycle messengers?) in order to bridge the connection in many ways. Its pretty idealistic, but I think the idea is a good means of promoting the concept of free internet access for the masses. The town I live in (Athens, GA) has wifi access spanning the entire downtown, as well as the campus and immediate areas. I have often thought of how amazing it would be if some rich benefactor would set up similar access points across the nation. Couldn't telephone poles be used or even rented to bridge a wireless network to many new locales? It sounds like a hippy idea, but it would benefit so many people.
I would venture to guess that if the accident is violent enough to flip the car and trap the occupants inside, the likelihood of spinal damage is pretty high. I would not think that an uncontrolled re-flipping of the car would be in the best interest of the future mobility of the arms and legs of the passengers.
is program 3 or 4? If 4 then 353, either way it's wrong
Are you asking if program is three or four syllables? Are you serious? I would like to hear how you personally pronounce the word, because it is definitely not the way I do.
I've got a recording studio control room for my home studio that I used to use for graphic design. It currently has probably 8 six plug power strips all filled up, five computers constantly running, and two large racks filled with both audio and computer gear. In addition to how difficult it is to find which keyboard/mouse combo is for which computer, (KVM switches are for the lazy) I'm pretty sure the whole thing could go up in flames at any moment. Thank god for smoke detectors.
Can anyone say whether or not this has been done? It sems so easy, and with such an abundance of product placements already, you could assume that something similar to this has been at least attempted. I am pretty sure that releasing geographic specific versions of films (i.e. Southeast U.S. Northwest U.S. etc.) would alter Academy Awards eligibility, however for most films these days that isn't a concern in the first place, especially for the type of film maker who would put digitally placed ads in their films.
Now, if you'd like to admit that you're business is being run out of your dorm room, and you only want something "cool" to lock out your buddies in the dorm, then maybe you'd get some better advice.
That is truly +2 insightful. You got me. I want to protect my computer mostly from my annoying RA and frat buddies, not the freelance graphic designers I occasionally employ that aren't monitored constantly while they are working. I can only guess that you are making this assumption based on the fact that my email address on my slashdot profile is a University address, but this stems only from the fact that I have had this/. account since I my days in college. I will be sure to change it now to my current address.
Its pretty amazing that someone can ask a simple question and a sarcastic and rude response can get +2 Insightful. Did it get +2 because of the Ctrl+alt+Del comment? Because I actually was already aware of that function, believe it or not. I know that as a college student it could be assumed that certain subtle nuances of computer usage could slip past you in all those hungover mornings from the previous night's sorority function, and you bringing this to my attention has been a great service to me. Flamebait.
I learned Inform as my gateway into coding. Its actually not a bad first step, especially if you are in the 12 to 13 year old range. I guess the down side is that not too many kids want to make the transition from fully rendered 3D graphics to 'You are standing in front of a building...' But, it does facilitate a move into other object oriented languages.
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I have to live around people that have no use (or perhaps can't be bothered to care) for words like quark, dromedary, chiroptera, circumlocute, etcetera.
Wouldn't you consider chiroptera, quark, and dromedary as falling into the fairly specific jargon category? I've got a great vocabularly, but I don't even know what a chiroptera is. I assume it has wings, and probably something like hands? I guess its a bird or bat or something, but I can't imagine using it anytime soon, except in Scrabble.
I agree with your point though. I get frustrated when people don't know the difference between "there" and "their". "were" and "where", and "verses" and "versus". I get emails all the time, and I can't even look at them because of people using "there" when meaning "their".
As everyone has equal rights to vote, everyone's rights must be protected equally. At the same time, everyone has an equal privilege to the privacy of the vote. If a blind person can't read the receipt, he has to choose either less privacy (by having someone verify it) or less protection (by not doing so). It definitely creates a disparity of privilege for the individual.
Thats ridiculous. Blind people can't do a lot of things that seeing people can do, but we don't sytematically punish the seeing people by making them wear blindfolds all the time. What is the difference between the paper and electronic voting in this situation? Blind people can't see either, and for the last 100 years, they have managed to get by somehow. There didn't seem to be any problems with the disparity of privacy before the eletronic machines were brought up, but now that there is a new way to vote, there is now a recognizable divide between the rights of blind people and seeing people? I don't think so.
I've got a cc permit so I guess as long as they didn't know I had it on me I'd carry too. Especially considering that you deliver to all sorts of shady places, and you've got cash on your person, and a light on the roof of your car letting people know exactly who you are.
Thats a fair rebuttal. I agree with the fact that you cannot know the outcome of the situation, and thus you must be prepared for any outcome. Perhaps what i wasn't clear about is that I personally wouldn't resort to violence until absoluetely neccessary. I would hand over a cell phone before initiating any physical actions against another. At the same time, I know that I am capable of disarming an attacker without much risk of injury because I have done it countless times. I apologize for any harshness that may have come across in my tone. After rereading my post I see that I was a bit unclear in my remarks, and I wasn't getting my point across. The pizza hut policy is just ridiculous. That deliveryman could well be dead if not for the 9mm, and yet he lost his job protecting his life, and company property and revenue. The world is a sick place friends.
Well Lord Kano, fortunately my self respect doesn't fit in my wallet or on my wrist, and I don't drive it to work, so its pretty tough to steal. As my post said, I wouldn't hesitate to hand over a wallet or lapop to avoid injury. That doesn't mean I would allow someone to injure me or my family through my inaction. I own guns, I have worked security at night clubs and bars, and have been stabbed on multiple occasions. I'm not afraid of violence, I just don't think material possession warrant physical altercations.
that all depends on where you get stabbed, and whether or not you have medical insurance. I've been stabbed in the hand, done the stitches myself and it didn't cost me a penny. On the other hand, I've been stabbed in the stomach and it was a little more pricey once it was all said and done. An ambulance ride costs close to a grand these days.
What about Inform? Its easy, fun, relatively quick to learn, and it definitely prepares you to wrap your head around loops, classes, and objects. Since everyone is being super picky about HTML not being a programming language, I figured I would throw this out there. if your mom likes reading, or gaming for that matter, you could entice her into the nerdy world of Infocom.
Unfortunately a lock doesn't do much good when you are being mugged. A guy with a pistol or knife doesn't have to do much to convince me to open a lock. Actually, all he has to do is be holding a gun or knife, and politely ask me t give him anything I have. There isn't a damn thing I own worth being shot or stabbed over. Trust me on this one, having been stabbed with a knife before, you do not want to get stabbed, anywhere, or for any reason.
Unfortunately I've found that the better you get at reading people and making smart decisions, the harder it gets to play against people who aren't good / haven't played for years. I play with some of the much younger brothers friends on occasion, and although I have been playing regularly for years, and have won a fair amount of money doing so, they can consistently take hands from me that they shouldn't, particularly because they will make calls they shouldn't make, and then catch a card on the turn or the river. Few things make me madder than when I have a top pair or better, and some jackass stupidly calls me after the turn and catches some b.s. card, when a talented player would never have made the call to begin with.
Just when I was getting used to being the only person without the neccesary camera on my cell phone, now I don't have a mirror on my mp3 player. If they come out with a portable DVD player with a hair dryer, or a laptop with a built in Remington shaver I am going to have to get a third job.
I think the idea is not just to have one magicbike going around, but many of them (perhaps attached to bicycle messengers?) in order to bridge the connection in many ways. Its pretty idealistic, but I think the idea is a good means of promoting the concept of free internet access for the masses. The town I live in (Athens, GA) has wifi access spanning the entire downtown, as well as the campus and immediate areas. I have often thought of how amazing it would be if some rich benefactor would set up similar access points across the nation. Couldn't telephone poles be used or even rented to bridge a wireless network to many new locales? It sounds like a hippy idea, but it would benefit so many people.
I would venture to guess that if the accident is violent enough to flip the car and trap the occupants inside, the likelihood of spinal damage is pretty high. I would not think that an uncontrolled re-flipping of the car would be in the best interest of the future mobility of the arms and legs of the passengers.
is program 3 or 4? If 4 then 353, either way it's wrong Are you asking if program is three or four syllables? Are you serious? I would like to hear how you personally pronounce the word, because it is definitely not the way I do.
I've got a recording studio control room for my home studio that I used to use for graphic design. It currently has probably 8 six plug power strips all filled up, five computers constantly running, and two large racks filled with both audio and computer gear. In addition to how difficult it is to find which keyboard/mouse combo is for which computer, (KVM switches are for the lazy) I'm pretty sure the whole thing could go up in flames at any moment. Thank god for smoke detectors.
I've got five instances of firefox set to refresh it every 30 seconds. That ought to get me the page before anyone else, right?
Can anyone say whether or not this has been done? It sems so easy, and with such an abundance of product placements already, you could assume that something similar to this has been at least attempted. I am pretty sure that releasing geographic specific versions of films (i.e. Southeast U.S. Northwest U.S. etc.) would alter Academy Awards eligibility, however for most films these days that isn't a concern in the first place, especially for the type of film maker who would put digitally placed ads in their films.
Now, if you'd like to admit that you're business is being run out of your dorm room, and you only want something "cool" to lock out your buddies in the dorm, then maybe you'd get some better advice.
/. account since I my days in college. I will be sure to change it now to my current address.
That is truly +2 insightful. You got me. I want to protect my computer mostly from my annoying RA and frat buddies, not the freelance graphic designers I occasionally employ that aren't monitored constantly while they are working. I can only guess that you are making this assumption based on the fact that my email address on my slashdot profile is a University address, but this stems only from the fact that I have had this
Its pretty amazing that someone can ask a simple question and a sarcastic and rude response can get +2 Insightful. Did it get +2 because of the Ctrl+alt+Del comment? Because I actually was already aware of that function, believe it or not. I know that as a college student it could be assumed that certain subtle nuances of computer usage could slip past you in all those hungover mornings from the previous night's sorority function, and you bringing this to my attention has been a great service to me. Flamebait.
I learned Inform as my gateway into coding. Its actually not a bad first step, especially if you are in the 12 to 13 year old range. I guess the down side is that not too many kids want to make the transition from fully rendered 3D graphics to 'You are standing in front of a building...' But, it does facilitate a move into other object oriented languages.
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