I ended up taking the SATs because a friend talked me into it (he was very enthusiastic about getting into an American college, me not so much). The *only* really prepping I did was reading through the SAT book a week or two before the test, and doing a few example tests from the back. I can't stress enough how much the book helped "up" my score. My favourite part was figuring out which one or two of the answer were impossible (for instance, in "difficult" questions, there was almost guaranteed to be one answer which was simple, obvious and wrong). Once you'd eliminated those, you're odds of getting the right answer, even through random chance, was already higher than your coexaminees, which is all you really need.
Of course, this was the pre-2004 SATs, so your mileage may vary.
When I hear "chandler", I think of specialised retail dealers, like ship chandlers, who'd specialise in supplies needed by ships while docked at a port.
*Enable*?! You'd need to *disable* the self destruct which kills Toshiba laptops just after warranty expires.
(FIRMLY tongue-in-cheek: my faith is Tosh laptops was shattered after a friend's collapsed - and I mean *collapsed*, the keyboard and display failed within a week of each other, and all of it months after the warranty had expired. My faith is currently being restored by my laptop, which - apart from a somewhat dodgy cpu fan - has been running problem free for almost four years)
To begin with, please don't bandy words like genocide about; they've been created for very specific reasons. NONE of the three attacks you cite (or the Mumbai blasts) are systematic attempts at destroying a race (genocide). They are systematic attempts at terrorising a population. Nobody was trying to kill the Hindus or the Muslims or the Christians -- they were attacks on the people of America, the UK, Spain and India. In 1993, Rwandan militants began systematically annhilating members of a minority race; in 1945, Nazi supporters began systematically killing every Jewish person in Europe. That is not what is happening here. What is being destroyed is not a race, or even a people, but the feeling of security, and it's insulting to compare an attack against people who were unlucky enough to be on the wrong train at the wrong time (or in the wrong building) to the annihilation of a people because of belief, race, citizenship or skin color.
My main issue with your post, however, is the simplistic, self-serving and condescending attitude you show. Subhumans? Monsters? Who the hell do you think you're talking about, buddy, lions and tigers? You're talking about human beings, believe it or not, real living flesh-and-blood people who live and breathe and fuck and die just like you do. Human beings who happen not to live in your country, and who will not be treated as subhuman because of where they're born. Some of these humans believe that it is in their best interest that outrages like the Mumbai blasts occur. I think killing innocents is about the most damnably evil think you can do, but that's just my opinion, and it's just one in a million. In a billion. They think differently, and in a free country, they have a right to think it, and to talk about it, and whatever else they want to do, just as long as it doesn't adversely affect anybody else. We are NOT going to rein in every single person who believes in violence unless a crime has been committed. Something about not being guilty before being proven so comes to mind.
Also: I'm also not sure exactly how you're holding me responsible for murders carried out by people who are very likely my countrymen (or atleast that's how I read "responsibility of the good, law-abiding, and civilized peoples from the disfuctional lands"); I'm don't think it would be fair to hold you responsible for Abu Gharib, or Vietnam, or slavery. Societies will always try to "isolate and neutralize the monsters who live in [them]", but we will not "isolate and neutralize" somebody with extreme beliefs or philosophies. We'll arrest them when we can prove they committed a crime in a court of law. Otherwise, they have the exact same rights to say, think and believe what they want as I do.
We've got a lot of faults, I know, but we're NOT subhuman or monsters, and it's insulting to suggest we are. About the only thing you got right in your post was that we're from distant lands.
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Lemmings don't actually jump off cliffs. I wish I had time for a longer response/discussion, but I'm dead sleepy =P. Sorry.
Some of those are a hack around the VC 6 "for loop doesn't scope as per ANSI" bug. This forum post explains when its used.
I ended up taking the SATs because a friend talked me into it (he was very enthusiastic about getting into an American college, me not so much). The *only* really prepping I did was reading through the SAT book a week or two before the test, and doing a few example tests from the back. I can't stress enough how much the book helped "up" my score. My favourite part was figuring out which one or two of the answer were impossible (for instance, in "difficult" questions, there was almost guaranteed to be one answer which was simple, obvious and wrong). Once you'd eliminated those, you're odds of getting the right answer, even through random chance, was already higher than your coexaminees, which is all you really need.
Of course, this was the pre-2004 SATs, so your mileage may vary.
Up to you :).
I like the way you said that :). Mind if I quote you?
I can't tell if you're an elephant enthusiast, or if you're making a very subtle reference to the story of the blind men and the elephant ...
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Ah, the joys of making random inferences late at night
All the best.
This just proves that PhD stands for "piled higher and deeper."
Nonsense! Everybody knows it stands for "Permanent Head Damage" =)
Sounds like the Wheel of Reincarnation is spinning again. Not that that's a bad thing ...
There's a motivation-poster-maker amongst Fd's Flickr Tools. Is that what you're looking for?
When I hear "chandler", I think of specialised retail dealers, like ship chandlers, who'd specialise in supplies needed by ships while docked at a port.
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Something more to think about
*Enable*?! You'd need to *disable* the self destruct which kills Toshiba laptops just after warranty expires.
(FIRMLY tongue-in-cheek: my faith is Tosh laptops was shattered after a friend's collapsed - and I mean *collapsed*, the keyboard and display failed within a week of each other, and all of it months after the warranty had expired. My faith is currently being restored by my laptop, which - apart from a somewhat dodgy cpu fan - has been running problem free for almost four years)
Actually, it's Saturday morning here already ... and I try to be as unproductive as possible on Saturday mornings. Hence this post :).
To begin with, please don't bandy words like genocide about; they've been created for very specific reasons. NONE of the three attacks you cite (or the Mumbai blasts) are systematic attempts at destroying a race (genocide). They are systematic attempts at terrorising a population. Nobody was trying to kill the Hindus or the Muslims or the Christians -- they were attacks on the people of America, the UK, Spain and India. In 1993, Rwandan militants began systematically annhilating members of a minority race; in 1945, Nazi supporters began systematically killing every Jewish person in Europe. That is not what is happening here. What is being destroyed is not a race, or even a people, but the feeling of security, and it's insulting to compare an attack against people who were unlucky enough to be on the wrong train at the wrong time (or in the wrong building) to the annihilation of a people because of belief, race, citizenship or skin color.
My main issue with your post, however, is the simplistic, self-serving and condescending attitude you show. Subhumans? Monsters? Who the hell do you think you're talking about, buddy, lions and tigers? You're talking about human beings, believe it or not, real living flesh-and-blood people who live and breathe and fuck and die just like you do. Human beings who happen not to live in your country, and who will not be treated as subhuman because of where they're born. Some of these humans believe that it is in their best interest that outrages like the Mumbai blasts occur. I think killing innocents is about the most damnably evil think you can do, but that's just my opinion, and it's just one in a million. In a billion. They think differently, and in a free country, they have a right to think it, and to talk about it, and whatever else they want to do, just as long as it doesn't adversely affect anybody else. We are NOT going to rein in every single person who believes in violence unless a crime has been committed. Something about not being guilty before being proven so comes to mind.
Also: I'm also not sure exactly how you're holding me responsible for murders carried out by people who are very likely my countrymen (or atleast that's how I read "responsibility of the good, law-abiding, and civilized peoples from the disfuctional lands"); I'm don't think it would be fair to hold you responsible for Abu Gharib, or Vietnam, or slavery. Societies will always try to "isolate and neutralize the monsters who live in [them]", but we will not "isolate and neutralize" somebody with extreme beliefs or philosophies. We'll arrest them when we can prove they committed a crime in a court of law. Otherwise, they have the exact same rights to say, think and believe what they want as I do.
We've got a lot of faults, I know, but we're NOT subhuman or monsters, and it's insulting to suggest we are. About the only thing you got right in your post was that we're from distant lands.
Err ... rockets are hard. Rocketry is hard.
:p.
Just sayin'
Brilliant! Mind if I quote you on that?
*Cough*
It's a bit slow (because my poor lappie has no graphics acceleration to speak off), but between it and Flickr, I'm all set.
I gotta say it: you nailed it. Funniest DNF joke (I've seen yet). Are you going to go on?
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Wish I had mod points for this thread
Well said!
... can it evolve Linux?
:P)
(Sorry, couldn't resist
Now that's just CRUEL! :p
*stands up and applauds*
Why do you think I used the 'AAAAAATTT' trigraph? :p
ACTTTTTCGCGAGAGGAGAGTGAGT//todo:this should only return a positive values!AAAAAATTTCTATCTACTATCTACATATCATTACA/*warnin g we are kluding around the antique "arthropod" module, here there be bugs!*/AAAACTCTTATCTATTTATTCATCTATCATTCATCTATCATCT ACTACTATCTAATCTATACA//haha nice hackACTCTACTATAGATCGATGT
Haha! Haven't heard that one before! Hope the mods find you :)