Unfortunately, in my country that's not even an option. The law mandates 10 years in school (our system is different from the American one with different names etc.), no exceptions.
Second to last year of school I finally got to a school that didn't mind bumping me up a class. I completed what I thought would be the final year, finished my exams with an average of B+ if my conversion isn't entirely off... and was told by the Department of Education that my exam papers were invalid and I had to take the last year again.
There is no room for being different, for being better than others. If nothing else, laws that can't be bent will see to that.
By that logic we should all be medicated and brainwashed to all behave exactly the same, because of the minuscule risk that someone someday might do something to someone that isn't NORMAL.
Please count the number of school shootings in the past twenty years in America and compare it to the number of children/young adults who have attended an institute of education during that time frame. I'm sure you'll find that children suffer far greater risks in life than another child snapping and shooting up his school.
I recall scenes from the three original Star Wars movies set in starship hallways (star destroyer, Vader), a pine forest (moon of Eldor), desert (Tatooine), city (Coruscant) and rock quarry (Mos Eisley surroundings). Corridors? What were they flying along on the outside of the Death Star?
If you want to remove forests, cities and desert variations as possible scenes, along with the interior of space ships you are very quickly running out of options.
My bank issues as standard a MasterCard which also serves as a standard ATM card. Go to an ATM and it connects to your account, refusing to pay out money if you try to withdraw more than either your daily limit or the total on the account, whichever is lower.
To be fair I had the Amiga when I was between 7 and 10. It had a SCART connection and hooked up to the 21" TV in my room, that was pretty much the extent of my monitor understanding at the time.
The point remains, though - TV Out was standard on it, and PCs only got that a good decade later, with worse image than I remembered from my Amiga until recently when HD started taking over, so that's another decade or so.
And yes, I realize a SCART plug is rather unwieldy on a graphics card, that's not the point of my argument.
I remember how my Amiga600 had TV Out as standard. The TV was the only monitor you could easily use for that machine if I recall correctly.
Went to PC, a decade or so went by, and suddenly graphics cards start flaunting this incredible new innovation that would let you use your TV as a computer monitor. I was less than impressed.
I'm pretty sure if we cleared that pesky asteroid belt and built our own habitable planet in its place you'd be joining the petition to list THAT as a world wonder.
And why isn't our planet a world wonder in itself?
And if you say no you won't get a cookie remembering that you've said no, so on the next page you get a pop-up asking if you want the cookie, right up until people give up and just accept the cookie.
I want my huge multiTB holographic disc for my flying car, so I can burn every single tune that has ever been worth a crap
I think we need to agree to disagree on the space requirements for this unless you include live recordings in full HD surround sound and 3D of a lot of classical compositions.
If the big players in the search business could agree to this instead of going, "Woot, the others have backed out, this market is ours!" they could keep themselves safe.
Just because you can't imagine ever learning a language other than your own doesn't mean no one else will. A good portion of Europeans speak English to varying degrees, especially the younger generations.
From my experience (I know, citation needed) English is also becoming more and more common in the former east block countries, I have several friends in Poland and Hungary who I communicate with in English.
Myself? I'm Danish, but that doesn't mean I don't speak and understand English. Please take your opinions on only speaking one language somewhere else.
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Unfortunately, in my country that's not even an option. The law mandates 10 years in school (our system is different from the American one with different names etc.), no exceptions.
Second to last year of school I finally got to a school that didn't mind bumping me up a class. I completed what I thought would be the final year, finished my exams with an average of B+ if my conversion isn't entirely off ... and was told by the Department of Education that my exam papers were invalid and I had to take the last year again.
There is no room for being different, for being better than others. If nothing else, laws that can't be bent will see to that.
By that logic we should all be medicated and brainwashed to all behave exactly the same, because of the minuscule risk that someone someday might do something to someone that isn't NORMAL.
Please count the number of school shootings in the past twenty years in America and compare it to the number of children/young adults who have attended an institute of education during that time frame. I'm sure you'll find that children suffer far greater risks in life than another child snapping and shooting up his school.
It's strange.
I recall scenes from the three original Star Wars movies set in starship hallways (star destroyer, Vader), a pine forest (moon of Eldor), desert (Tatooine), city (Coruscant) and rock quarry (Mos Eisley surroundings). Corridors? What were they flying along on the outside of the Death Star?
If you want to remove forests, cities and desert variations as possible scenes, along with the interior of space ships you are very quickly running out of options.
So that's the same as saying Mexico and Canada are in the US because it's all America, right?
If it turned into gas it would likely have stayed in the Earth atmosphere instead of being carried by the ejected material to form the moon.
My bank issues as standard a MasterCard which also serves as a standard ATM card. Go to an ATM and it connects to your account, refusing to pay out money if you try to withdraw more than either your daily limit or the total on the account, whichever is lower.
It's a system that works pretty well, IMO.
To be fair I had the Amiga when I was between 7 and 10. It had a SCART connection and hooked up to the 21" TV in my room, that was pretty much the extent of my monitor understanding at the time.
The point remains, though - TV Out was standard on it, and PCs only got that a good decade later, with worse image than I remembered from my Amiga until recently when HD started taking over, so that's another decade or so.
And yes, I realize a SCART plug is rather unwieldy on a graphics card, that's not the point of my argument.
I remember how my Amiga600 had TV Out as standard. The TV was the only monitor you could easily use for that machine if I recall correctly.
Went to PC, a decade or so went by, and suddenly graphics cards start flaunting this incredible new innovation that would let you use your TV as a computer monitor. I was less than impressed.
I'm pretty sure if we cleared that pesky asteroid belt and built our own habitable planet in its place you'd be joining the petition to list THAT as a world wonder.
And why isn't our planet a world wonder in itself?
Yeah, you're right.
Dragonball Z will be real!
If 14 years later you aren't making money off of an invention, you've done something wrong with it that you are clearly unable to fix on your own.
Releasing it as-is to the public domain and the tinkering of other (smarter) inventors is the only way forward as a society.
Wow, that's the equivalent of 16 girls!
Sadly, 'taken action' in cases such as this usually involves post deletions and forum bans.
Updating and getting a firewall costs money, banning people from a forum doesn't.
Obviously it's better to treat the symptom than cure the disease.
Well, an amoeba is a single-cell organism.
At the moment of conception you really were an amoeba.
Your point is invalid.
And if you say no you won't get a cookie remembering that you've said no, so on the next page you get a pop-up asking if you want the cookie, right up until people give up and just accept the cookie.
Doesn't he kinda look like Nicola Tesla on Sanctuary?
I want my huge multiTB holographic disc for my flying car, so I can burn every single tune that has ever been worth a crap
I think we need to agree to disagree on the space requirements for this unless you include live recordings in full HD surround sound and 3D of a lot of classical compositions.
They are an authority in whether you're going on your trip or not.
Pretty sure that can all be managed by hooking the cameras up in a pair of sunglasses or the like.
Mod parent up.
If the big players in the search business could agree to this instead of going, "Woot, the others have backed out, this market is ours!" they could keep themselves safe.
Just because you can't imagine ever learning a language other than your own doesn't mean no one else will. A good portion of Europeans speak English to varying degrees, especially the younger generations.
From my experience (I know, citation needed) English is also becoming more and more common in the former east block countries, I have several friends in Poland and Hungary who I communicate with in English.
Myself? I'm Danish, but that doesn't mean I don't speak and understand English. Please take your opinions on only speaking one language somewhere else.
You mean, "Friend, motherfucker! Do you speak it?!"
The double spacing is a bug that appears if you haven't opened every parent comment above the one you're reading.
This is when you tell us he re-assembled it, loaded up some Linux Drive Recovery program and pulled all the data to safety, right?
>Where's the thought provoking article on horses?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-12309654