Damn that Oregon Trail and the inability to carry the whole carcass back to your wagon. Oh well. At least you can sell some of it to buy more bullets. Stupid banker couldn't do anything to replenish supplies along the way.
The pendulum of justice has swung too far in favor of the lawyers. And for some reason, it never swings back.
I propose that lawyers fees be severely limited above a certain threshold of award. That way, victims can still receive significant compensation when they are wronged in a way that warrants it, and the lawyers can still make more money on a higher award, but more like year-end bonus money than tri-state-lottery-winnings money.
The problem is that prior to "teaching to the test" they were "teaching to the nothing." It's not like there were schools doing an incredible job educating their charges, turning out well-rounded individuals prepared for the next stage of the adventure of life but unable to pass a multiple-guess test on a subset of that knowledge.
The argument falls flat because the people opposed to the test don't have an alternative method of evaluating the schools' performance. The teachers' unions argued against the need to even bother evaluating the schools' performance. Instead they focused on the "teachers can evaluate their students better than anyone else" aspect. Which is true for good teachers, but you still need an objective way to evaluate who those good teachers are.
Oh, I like algal biodiesel. I'm not particularly an environmentalist, but it appeals to me. Quite a bit more than the ethanol that stereotypical dumb farmer is hawking for BP.
But my pet peeve is carelessness with units in calculations. Especially when there are tools like google calc available to take most of the thinking right out of the equation. Literally.
I find it hard to believe, considering how many words were spent commenting on how universally consistent their vat-grown food supply was, or that the denizens' unnaturally strong agoraphobia was actually plot-relevant. Some aspects of the caves certainly were nice; they had an extremely efficient and comfortable transportation system*, but as a whole I don't think he intended to present them as some kind of ideal. Rather the opposite I would have surmised, especially considering the conclusion to the Robots and Empire.
*as in, the characters seemed comfortable with it. I'm not sure how comfortable I would be zipping along at 40mph on a thin strip of conveyor belt.
Yes, but spaces aren't special characters. You don't have to escape them. (unless you're using/x but you'd never use that for a single word one-line substitution)
People don't get their science from TV, and that was not the point of the article. We know what we see is doctored, but we still form our expectations based on what we see. So if you watch a bus crossing a gap enough times, eventually it'll be the basis of your expectations, even though you know conceptually that it doesn't work the way it was shown.
The problem apparently is that all the bad movie physics increases the noise and hinders fundamental understanding for students later in life. They now have to unlearn the ideas that they "feel" to be true. Certainly there's always going to be a certain amount of unlearning and replacement with better or more general concepts, since that's both the way we learn and the way science itself actually works, but the exposure to bad movie physics creates additional things that must be unlearned on the road to understanding.
There are quite a few options with those. I think there may be a "incoming calls free" version of at least one of the prepaid as well. It's been about 9 months since I last investigate the prepaid option. Frankly, I can't see much reason not to go prepaid. Unless you require a mini-camera or mp3 player in your phone.
The goal is to maximize comfort for the minimum footprint. You want to use as much space as you can afford (up to the point where additional space does not make you more comfortable) as efficiently as possible.
You weren't supposed to think the cities of "Caves of Steel" were great places to live.
The US is roughly the size of the EU (order of magnitude). Did you pay attention to every issue that is front page news in every member country of the EU when living in UK? or did you mostly focus on your snarky little island nation?
Perhaps you should try using google as your calculator instead of windows calc. You can enter units, and it keeps track of them for you. And as an added bonus, if your units don't match up, it fails to give an answer at all (until you correct it of course).
No one except the network admins who have to make sure everything is fixed. Unless they use open source software, then we know their time is worthless.
Dude, you shouldn't scrimp on the mattress. If you're sleeping properly, you're spending roughly 1/3 of your life on that thing. An extra dollar towards a mattress has far greater impact on your quality of life than an extra dollar on a car. If the sale mattress is adequate, then more power to you, though.
It is? Why don't you just get one of the "incoming calls free" plans proffered by verizon and, I think, T-mobile? Or one of the huge-number-of-minutes plans?
Nobody who does even a modicum of research* is in that position in this country, and haven't been for about a decade.
*I.e. not just going out and buying a $600 phone/toy computer because it looks cool or one of the Steves told you it was some kind of revolution.
As more and more kooks watch "The Matrix" you're going to see that virus meme pop up more and more. Which is really unfortunate, since Agent Smith was clearly describing the behavior of simple bacteria*: viruses don't consume anything. They just trick or force cells into making more viruses instead of more cells. The best human analogy is the serial bigamist...
Doing something for the purpose of doing something is almost always the worst way to go about anything. If you go off on an unproven solution before you've even got your problem well defined, you're pretty much doomed to failure.
Part of the problem is that any technology you can point out as a solution, I can find an environmental group opposing it for one or several reasons, not all of which are hysterical.
Another part is separating the hype from the useful stuff. Unfortunately, the stuff that is really effective isn't getting the headlines as the makers aren't out making fantastic claims.
I specifically did not see transformers because the previews made look like a joke. A caricature of an action robo-fi movie.
The clip that made the decision for me was shown on "The Tonight Show." It was about a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan having communications difficulty, and using a cell phone belonging to a hovel-dwelling family, he attempts to contact CIC only to be thwarted by Indian telephone operators with some over-the-top complaint. The scene was edited like a Conan O'Brian sketch, but after a few minutes of chitchat I discovered that it was an actual scene from the film.
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Which was a remarkably US-centric poetic device for a British author to use, when you think about it.
Damn that Oregon Trail and the inability to carry the whole carcass back to your wagon. Oh well. At least you can sell some of it to buy more bullets. Stupid banker couldn't do anything to replenish supplies along the way.
The real question is, Why is store-bought Mayo white?
The pendulum of justice has swung too far in favor of the lawyers. And for some reason, it never swings back.
I propose that lawyers fees be severely limited above a certain threshold of award. That way, victims can still receive significant compensation when they are wronged in a way that warrants it, and the lawyers can still make more money on a higher award, but more like year-end bonus money than tri-state-lottery-winnings money.
The problem is that prior to "teaching to the test" they were "teaching to the nothing." It's not like there were schools doing an incredible job educating their charges, turning out well-rounded individuals prepared for the next stage of the adventure of life but unable to pass a multiple-guess test on a subset of that knowledge.
The argument falls flat because the people opposed to the test don't have an alternative method of evaluating the schools' performance. The teachers' unions argued against the need to even bother evaluating the schools' performance. Instead they focused on the "teachers can evaluate their students better than anyone else" aspect. Which is true for good teachers, but you still need an objective way to evaluate who those good teachers are.
Oh, I like algal biodiesel. I'm not particularly an environmentalist, but it appeals to me. Quite a bit more than the ethanol that stereotypical dumb farmer is hawking for BP.
But my pet peeve is carelessness with units in calculations. Especially when there are tools like google calc available to take most of the thinking right out of the equation. Literally.
I find it hard to believe, considering how many words were spent commenting on how universally consistent their vat-grown food supply was, or that the denizens' unnaturally strong agoraphobia was actually plot-relevant. Some aspects of the caves certainly were nice; they had an extremely efficient and comfortable transportation system*, but as a whole I don't think he intended to present them as some kind of ideal. Rather the opposite I would have surmised, especially considering the conclusion to the Robots and Empire.
*as in, the characters seemed comfortable with it. I'm not sure how comfortable I would be zipping along at 40mph on a thin strip of conveyor belt.
Yes, but spaces aren't special characters. You don't have to escape them. (unless you're using /x but you'd never use that for a single word one-line substitution)
People don't get their science from TV, and that was not the point of the article. We know what we see is doctored, but we still form our expectations based on what we see. So if you watch a bus crossing a gap enough times, eventually it'll be the basis of your expectations, even though you know conceptually that it doesn't work the way it was shown.
The problem apparently is that all the bad movie physics increases the noise and hinders fundamental understanding for students later in life. They now have to unlearn the ideas that they "feel" to be true. Certainly there's always going to be a certain amount of unlearning and replacement with better or more general concepts, since that's both the way we learn and the way science itself actually works, but the exposure to bad movie physics creates additional things that must be unlearned on the road to understanding.
Why did you escape the space?
There are quite a few options with those. I think there may be a "incoming calls free" version of at least one of the prepaid as well. It's been about 9 months since I last investigate the prepaid option. Frankly, I can't see much reason not to go prepaid. Unless you require a mini-camera or mp3 player in your phone.
The goal is to maximize comfort for the minimum footprint. You want to use as much space as you can afford (up to the point where additional space does not make you more comfortable) as efficiently as possible.
You weren't supposed to think the cities of "Caves of Steel" were great places to live.
The US is roughly the size of the EU (order of magnitude). Did you pay attention to every issue that is front page news in every member country of the EU when living in UK? or did you mostly focus on your snarky little island nation?
Uh.. don't get a contract then. There're at least 3 different companies offering cheap pre-paid phones that you can buy at Wal-Mart.
Perhaps you should try using google as your calculator instead of windows calc. You can enter units, and it keeps track of them for you. And as an added bonus, if your units don't match up, it fails to give an answer at all (until you correct it of course).
For example,
52 acres * 200,000 in square meters = 4×10^10 square meters
(52 acres * 200,000 )/(678,051 km^2) = 62 millitexas
(52 acres * 200,000 )/(1,717,855 km^2) = 0.024 Alaskas
(52 acres * 200,000 )/(9,631,420 km^2) = 0.0043 United Stateses
(52 acres * 200,000 )/(3,166,414 km^2) = 0.013 Indias
(52 acres * 200,000 )/(17,075,400 km^2) = 0.0025 Russias
Or my favorite,
(52 acres * 200,000 )/(3,144 km^2) = 13 Rhode Islands.
You think Galileo's troubles were because he angered the Church?
Your challenge is a tautology though, since anything that corrects science is science.
No one except the network admins who have to make sure everything is fixed. Unless they use open source software, then we know their time is worthless.
Dude, you shouldn't scrimp on the mattress. If you're sleeping properly, you're spending roughly 1/3 of your life on that thing. An extra dollar towards a mattress has far greater impact on your quality of life than an extra dollar on a car. If the sale mattress is adequate, then more power to you, though.
I'd have gone for the low hanging, "inflammable" route. Funny rant, though.
'Cause nothing says, "Pacifist" like vandalizing somebody else's stuff...
It is? Why don't you just get one of the "incoming calls free" plans proffered by verizon and, I think, T-mobile? Or one of the huge-number-of-minutes plans?
Nobody who does even a modicum of research* is in that position in this country, and haven't been for about a decade.
*I.e. not just going out and buying a $600 phone/toy computer because it looks cool or one of the Steves told you it was some kind of revolution.
As more and more kooks watch "The Matrix" you're going to see that virus meme pop up more and more. Which is really unfortunate, since Agent Smith was clearly describing the behavior of simple bacteria*: viruses don't consume anything. They just trick or force cells into making more viruses instead of more cells. The best human analogy is the serial bigamist...
*and pretty much every other living organism. including, it seems, the robots themselves.
Doing something for the purpose of doing something is almost always the worst way to go about anything. If you go off on an unproven solution before you've even got your problem well defined, you're pretty much doomed to failure.
Part of the problem is that any technology you can point out as a solution, I can find an environmental group opposing it for one or several reasons, not all of which are hysterical.
Another part is separating the hype from the useful stuff. Unfortunately, the stuff that is really effective isn't getting the headlines as the makers aren't out making fantastic claims.
I specifically did not see transformers because the previews made look like a joke. A caricature of an action robo-fi movie.
The clip that made the decision for me was shown on "The Tonight Show." It was about a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan having communications difficulty, and using a cell phone belonging to a hovel-dwelling family, he attempts to contact CIC only to be thwarted by Indian telephone operators with some over-the-top complaint. The scene was edited like a Conan O'Brian sketch, but after a few minutes of chitchat I discovered that it was an actual scene from the film.
You had no cause to expect that film to be good.
Two words:
Car Cannon.