Go fuck yourself. Being a good parent has very little indeed to do with being rich or poor. At least in any civilized country, your kids aren't going to starve or freeze to death, and as long as they are loved they will be OK.
You know the best way of ensuring you're never poor? Be a complete psychopathic bastard to everyone you meet, think of nothing but money 24/7, have no hobbies, friends or lovers, don't drink or take drugs, don't spend time listening to music or watching movies or reading or looking at art or nature, never donate to charity, live off a simple vegetarian diet, don't spend money on expensive clothes or toiletries, or parking spaces.
But, above all, make sure you're born to well off parents.
Yes, they are pretty bad. I used to have a bicycle with a mirror, and I rarely could see anything in that mirror because it vibrated too much.
The mirror goes on your helmet. This not only makes it seem larger, but it protects it from vibration the same way your head is protected from vibration, by your body.
That is one of the funniest things I have read for days. Didn't anybody tell the poor bastard he was doing it wrong?
I wouldn't call "able to reach average speeds of 25 miles per hour" to be "fast as automobiles."
It depends where you live. In London, the average traffic speed is about 10mph. However, if you're commuting 50 miles each way on open roads country roads, then you will be going a lot quicker in a car.
So does sitting in a near silent classroom listening to a teacher drone on and on and on, with little or no regard to if anyone is paying attention for hours a day, most of the year, 12+ years in a row.
You had bad teachers, which is a shame.. The solution is to employ good teachers, not just to say "fuck it, go and watch YouTube for six hours a day instead".
Constant technology use makes my brain produces a level of gamma waves -- those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory, or vagina -- never before reported in neuroscience!
That attempted new meme's a bit long to remember for kids today.
The only time my son seems to focus is when he is in minecraft and that is because he likes minecraft.
Unfortunately, you can't design education around just giving kids what they like.
I know slashdotters will all have kids who are programming games, writing chamber music and publishing e-books by the time they're 6, but in the rest of reality you'd just end up with a generation of kids watching Disney teen sit-coms with canned laughter and bolted-on merchandising opportunities, and playing shitty K-Pop videos unironically on YouTube.
I learned problem solving from working with computers.
There is a big difference between assembling your own computer or coding your own software and sitting looking at YouTube, although technically they're all "working with computers".
These days I can apply information without learning it.... I just need to cut, paste, and reformat it.
That seems to be what they teach kids in school now. They are utterly wrong. The internet has a vast amount of data, but you certainly can't assume it's all of equal information value.
Wow, there's a surprise, your generation of young people think they're better than their parents. That's only exactly what every other generation have ever said.
The amusing thing is that in twenty years time, you'll be the ones with the rude, ungrateful children bemoaning their lack of manners and saying how much better the music was back when you had Lady Gaga and PSY, and how the modern internet isn't as good as 4chan..
May be it's a hint that you're not enganging them...it's kind of like doodling only now you have a smartphone.
And in the same way, doodling while someone's talking is considered rude too, I guess.
You guess? You fucking guess?
If someone's not "enganging" you, then politely end the conversation, don't start digitally doodling or tapping your fingers on the table.
I'd love to see you checking your texts if you were talking to some of the people I've had as bosses. You'd be shitting pieces of smartphone for the next week where they forced it deep up your arse before throwing you out the nearest window.
If I get a text message while talking to you, I'll pull out my phone and check it. Same way that I would check my phone for a call if one came in while we were takling. Is it rude? I don't think so.
It's rude if you don't say "excuse me, I have to take this" or something. Just whipping your phone out and scanning the text messsage with no comment while someone is talking is incredibly fucking rude, whether you are prepared to admit it or not.
I don't know. It seems to me that when I was a child in the 70's, every single time the telephone rang, an adult in the house would answer it, even if they had guests. They seemed unable to disconnect themselves even for a few hours.
Back then most people (with the exception of teenagers) didn't spend hours talking to each other for no purpose. You used to ring people up for a reason, so it was almost always worth answering the phone. You didn't really get unsolicited sales calls either, as far as I remember.
So the younger generation has a problem because they choose being entertained over not being entertained?
Interesting logic
Yes, that is a problem. If you hadn't noticed, we don't live in a world with unlimited resources available for everybody, where everyone spends their time engaged purely in exciting game playing and the consumption and creation of entertainment. Most people have to work for a living, something which is a bit difficult if you've got your iPhone blaring out music into your ears so you can't hear when I ask you a fucking question.
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What I wrote is that doing those three simple things gives one a greater than 80% chance of never being poor.
You do understand that 80+ is less than 100, right? You understand I never said it was a perfect guarantee, right?
Yeah, it's a good thing that correlation is the same as causation isn't it?
What you wrote is utter bollocks. Do a lot of poor people not have college dgrees, but do have one or more children? Well, duh.
Go fuck yourself. Being a good parent has very little indeed to do with being rich or poor. At least in any civilized country, your kids aren't going to starve or freeze to death, and as long as they are loved they will be OK.
You know the best way of ensuring you're never poor? Be a complete psychopathic bastard to everyone you meet, think of nothing but money 24/7, have no hobbies, friends or lovers, don't drink or take drugs, don't spend time listening to music or watching movies or reading or looking at art or nature, never donate to charity, live off a simple vegetarian diet, don't spend money on expensive clothes or toiletries, or parking spaces.
But, above all, make sure you're born to well off parents.
Are you paying Canonical for Ubunut support?
No? So stop complaining.
Truly an Ubuntu fanboy.
Yes, they are pretty bad. I used to have a bicycle with a mirror, and I rarely could see anything in that mirror because it vibrated too much.
The mirror goes on your helmet. This not only makes it seem larger, but it protects it from vibration the same way your head is protected from vibration, by your body.
That is one of the funniest things I have read for days. Didn't anybody tell the poor bastard he was doing it wrong?
I wouldn't call "able to reach average speeds of 25 miles per hour" to be "fast as automobiles."
It depends where you live. In London, the average traffic speed is about 10mph. However, if you're commuting 50 miles each way on open roads country roads, then you will be going a lot quicker in a car.
maybe the problem doesn't lie with the transport, but the institution that places requirements not to arrive in blood, sweat or rain.
i.e. every institution apart from the Navy SEALS or similar
But if you want to watch the movie in the dark room, nothing beats the plasma.
Except going to the cinema, of course.
Apple could always acquire Sharp through a subsidiary company. That way Apple's profit margins (and hence, stock price) are firewalled from Sharp.
Large corporations produce group accounts that include all their subsidiaries. The stock price is for the whole group.
You Republican shills won't be laughing so much in a couple of days' time when President Obama nationalizes Mitt Romney's teeth.
I'm sure they said the same thing about the technology miracle of post-WW2 that would revolutionize eductaion: the overhead projector.
Growing up as a kid in the UK in the 60s/70s I never saw an overhead projector (or computer) til I got to University.
So does sitting in a near silent classroom listening to a teacher drone on and on and on, with little or no regard to if anyone is paying attention for hours a day, most of the year, 12+ years in a row.
You had bad teachers, which is a shame.. The solution is to employ good teachers, not just to say "fuck it, go and watch YouTube for six hours a day instead".
Constant technology use makes my brain produces a level of gamma waves -- those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory, or vagina -- never before reported in neuroscience!
That attempted new meme's a bit long to remember for kids today.
Wonder what those same people think about Shakespear's witches, why the lack of petitions to ban the Bard?
They probably have never read anything by Shakespeare, and just assume he's some safe Dead Guy.
The only time my son seems to focus is when he is in minecraft and that is because he likes minecraft.
Unfortunately, you can't design education around just giving kids what they like.
I know slashdotters will all have kids who are programming games, writing chamber music and publishing e-books by the time they're 6, but in the rest of reality you'd just end up with a generation of kids watching Disney teen sit-coms with canned laughter and bolted-on merchandising opportunities, and playing shitty K-Pop videos unironically on YouTube.
I learned problem solving from working with computers.
There is a big difference between assembling your own computer or coding your own software and sitting looking at YouTube, although technically they're all "working with computers".
These days I can apply information without learning it.... I just need to cut, paste, and reformat it.
That seems to be what they teach kids in school now. They are utterly wrong. The internet has a vast amount of data, but you certainly can't assume it's all of equal information value.
Wow, there's a surprise, your generation of young people think they're better than their parents. That's only exactly what every other generation have ever said.
The amusing thing is that in twenty years time, you'll be the ones with the rude, ungrateful children bemoaning their lack of manners and saying how much better the music was back when you had Lady Gaga and PSY, and how the modern internet isn't as good as 4chan..
May be it's a hint that you're not enganging them...it's kind of like doodling only now you have a smartphone.
And in the same way, doodling while someone's talking is considered rude too, I guess.
You guess? You fucking guess?
If someone's not "enganging" you, then politely end the conversation, don't start digitally doodling or tapping your fingers on the table.
I'd love to see you checking your texts if you were talking to some of the people I've had as bosses. You'd be shitting pieces of smartphone for the next week where they forced it deep up your arse before throwing you out the nearest window.
If I get a text message while talking to you, I'll pull out my phone and check it. Same way that I would check my phone for a call if one came in while we were takling. Is it rude? I don't think so.
It's rude if you don't say "excuse me, I have to take this" or something. Just whipping your phone out and scanning the text messsage with no comment while someone is talking is incredibly fucking rude, whether you are prepared to admit it or not.
I don't know. It seems to me that when I was a child in the 70's, every single time the telephone rang, an adult in the house would answer it, even if they had guests. They seemed unable to disconnect themselves even for a few hours.
Back then most people (with the exception of teenagers) didn't spend hours talking to each other for no purpose. You used to ring people up for a reason, so it was almost always worth answering the phone. You didn't really get unsolicited sales calls either, as far as I remember.
That's from all the Prozac, Vicodin, and other meds their parents have been feeding them all their lives... Mother's little helper.
Here in the UK we don't have (quite) the US prescription drug addiction problems, and the little cunts still act like that.
Mod parent up.
So the younger generation has a problem because they choose being entertained over not being entertained? Interesting logic
Yes, that is a problem. If you hadn't noticed, we don't live in a world with unlimited resources available for everybody, where everyone spends their time engaged purely in exciting game playing and the consumption and creation of entertainment. Most people have to work for a living, something which is a bit difficult if you've got your iPhone blaring out music into your ears so you can't hear when I ask you a fucking question.
Bring on the internet, I say. It can't be any worse that the old system.
yes, let's just let kids surf 4Chan all day. What could possibly go wrong?