Gravity does bad things to our bodies. If you're committed to never coming back you could avoid a lot of pain by finishing out those golden years in a low-G environment. (The idea isn't mine, probably stolen from Heinlein. If not him, then some other SF writer)
BTW, if he was running a 100% electric car, is he dodging taxes because he is using the roadways but is not paying gas taxes? How is this ANY different?
Even better, what if he was using waste grease to power a generator to charge the batteries of his 100% electric car? What if he was using waste grease to generate electricity to heat/cool his home, cook, and BTW to plug in an electric car every so often?
I find it best not to provide my 2-year old the opportunity to access the cars, trucks, tractors, and other machinery. I also keep her away from steep staircases, matches, assorted poisons, firearms etc.
Getting upset over a cute commercial is as ridiculous as is trying to reason with a 2 year old in such a complicated fashion. (Mine may be particularly dense, but if I tell her "Don't do that or you will have to stand in the corner" she hears "don't do that" and "stand in the corner", so she stops and goes to the corner (with a very intense pout on her face).
For my 8 year old, I do try to reason with him about all of the above, and sometimes trust him with access. Other times we'll leave something out and watch to see how he responds. Still other times he'll be asked to handle such items under our direction.
Examples: last summer I let him try to drive a truck and a riding lawn mower, under my supervision. In both cases his legs weren't quite long enough (and his clutch coordination non-existent), so we planned to revisit that issue this year. We've left an empty tylenol bottle (or other item he knows he is not to touch) accessible. In all cases, he's either not noticed it or reported back to us. Yesterday I sent him to the barn to fetch a gas can while I was moving snow. This was more a test that he wouldn't approach the snow blower than that he could handle the gas can, but he stopped well away, on the non-discharge side of the snowblower, and waited for me to recognize him. He knows that he doesn't get close to it from either side, and when I didn't immediately notice him he was prepared to retreat until I shut off the machine and motioned for him to approach.
You can reason with older kids, but it's not an all or nothing issue. Trust, but verify. Eventually they are going to be exposed to things which you cannot control, so start working towards that now. Don't worry about your two year old using her set of car keys to go to the beach with the neighbor kids, just don't give her her own set of keys.
(That said, I really do wish they wouldn't run so many Viagra adds during (american) football games. My 8 year old does like football, and doesn't really need to know any more about sex than he's already picking up on the school bus!).
Bob
While I agree with you regarding everything else, having a gun in your household -- let alone in the hands of a child -- can hardly be considered responsible.
Take someone like Dick Cheney for example. Here's a guy who clawed his way to the top, literally. He's worked his way to a level of wealth and power most people only dream of, and his face is like a road-map of pain and desperation.
Not a receipt. A receipt is a bad idea. A verifiable paper trail. If you need to involve computers (the only semi-legitimate reason that I've seen involves handicapped voters), then have the computer print the marked ballot. The person inspects it and then puts it into the ballot box. That is the official ballot. The person does not take a receipt with them. That makes it too easy to coerce people to vote a certain way, or punish them if they vote the wrong way.
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We gave up on the east coast and "moved to america" three years ago. The kids here don't have a sense of entitlement, and don't feel like everything is somebody else's fault. The adults think the same way. The government leaves people alone, in general, and the people don't go running to the government or courts for redress when they fall down and skin their knee.
My 8 year old is on an organized football team. Aside from the comic relief provided by a 64 pound (in full gear) defensive end, there are no problems. Kids twist ankles, get bruises, and get their hands stepped on by other kids in cleats. Nobody has been sued yet.
He's also active in cub scouts. We've got lots of rules from the national level that folks out here in America just can't understand. Being a recent transplant, I try to explain some of the rules (e.g. we can't ride on a float in next week's parade, or carpool kids to a campout w/out prior permission, insurance verification, and signed parental permission slips). The people who have lived here their whole life can't believe that a parent would/could sue when a kid falls down and gets hurt. Some of them probably think I'm making stuff up when I tell them the way it is "back east".
Out here it's not a federal case when a kid splits his head open on the monkey bars or sprains something falling off a swing. It's considered part of growing up, and a learning experience. Most of the kids aren't obese, they have chores and sports and other activities. There seems to be a lot more really tough, really old people around here also. Hmmm..
I use a separate gmail account for one of my classes. Last week the students had to mail me an assignment. All of the mail sent from a hotmail account was delayed (still hasn't shown up). All of the email from other accounts arrived. Several hours after the deadline, hotmail informed the students of the delay.
Ehrlich has abandoned his base and moved too far to the left to keep his republican support. He ran (against a Kennedy) as not only a fiscal conservative but as a "moderate". He had lots of conservative support, but the battle seems to have been carried by Maryland gun-owners who turned out in droves to support him (and work various grassroot campaign efforts prior to the election). Ehrlich claimed to be willing to get rid of restrictive gun laws that were obviously not working (the criminals didn't seem to be obeying them, for some reason), and focus on the crime. Once he got in, he started spending money like a drunken sailor and turned a blind eye towards the gun mess. He figured that the gunnies will still choose him as the lesser threat, and some still might but he's not getting the early suppport that he enjoyed last time around.
I suspect that the early polls are optimistic, and he'll lose much bigger than they are indicating. That doesn't mean that E-voting is a good thing. It should still be scrapped until/unless it comes with a paper trail (and not a "receipt" tying a voter to a vote).
This is the state that brought you Spiro Agnew. Then Marvin Mandel. The same party has been pretty well entrenched since Mandel took over (they actually had quite a bit of power before, when Agnew left, the general assembly elected Mandel to take over). Sure it's not the party that slashdotters love to hate, but the corruption is every bit as entrenched as that enjoyed by the Longs of Louisiana and the Daleys of Cook County.
Howzabout if I try to change the password to an "illegal" 7 or 8 digit password it doesn't make the change. e.g. the previous password remains in effect. Maybe even a warning "failed to change password--selection too long". Quietly restoring the default is ludicrous
It is a manufacturer/vender problem if the manual is to be believed:
Passwords MUST
be 6 digits in length, use of anything other
than a 6 digit password may cause the
passwords to revert back to factory default.
If this was a computer, and if I try to set my password to t&!rd17, it defaults to the default. If it's just a numeric keypad, and I use one digit more or one digit less than 6, it defaults back? Pure genius.
So, all of those folks emailing around.doc files instead of pdfs and text are helping preserve our freedoms by making more bits for these guys to sift through and parse?
agree with you. Some are sophisticated, but the link is ALWAYS a give away. It is either some kind of redirect, an IP address, or a Bogus URL altogether.
Then again, how many people that use AOL know what an IP address is? 10... 20%?
And of that percentage, how many know how to parse [not real links, please don't click]
As for using the IP address to track and prosecute, the owner of the IP address is often a victim also, and the trail often leads to places where your laws don't apply.
Now, in order to claim your children on taxes, you have to get them a social security number. But you wouldn't use that number for anything else... so for 16 to 18 years, there's a largely unmonitored SSN available for fraudulent use. Even this wouldn't be a major problem... except for all of the other stuff your SSN is now used for.
It's worse than that. When my son was born, we had to apply for the SSN before he could leave the hospital. We were busy with other stuff, but when we finally wondered why we never got the card, we called and checked. It had supposedly been sent, but never arrived. Not to worry, we could pay for a duplicate card. Could we have a different number, since somebody else was now using his? Nope, he was already in the computer. We could get a duplicate card, in fact we had to since that is the only way that we could learn his SSN.
I guess you'd consider me one of those. I'm more of a small "l" libertarian, but vote conservative if forced to choose between the two major parties. I've been this way for a while, and that includes on fiscal matters so I would argue the "neo" part and any attempt to link me to the current administration, but
The Jesus guy I'm familiar with seemed to hang around with lepers and hookers. He wasn't much for tax-collectors (but, really, who is?). I think the parent is a wee bit confused.
When I first saw the boot camp announcements, I thought "Nice. Won't effect me, but might sell some more computers". A couple of days later, I realized that it probably will effect me. We've got a biege G3 that was new 8 years ago, which is still the only computer that belongs to the house. I've got a dual boot XP/Fedora box in the basement that I use to mimic the set up that my students use. It's not even connected to the internet. I use my laptop (Powerbook) whenever I'm home, but the wife and kid are stuck with the G3. We've been thinking about buying a new one for about two years. It keeps coming back to the fact that neither adult cares for windows, but of the kids games (school house rock, not GTA) half claim to run on OS-X, but all claim to run on XP.
If we bought a WinTel box, it would be booted into Linux for the adults and we'd have to reboot for the kids games. If we bought an OS-X box the adults would be happy with it (I'd have my precious command line, the wife would have her preferred Mac gui), and we'd just limit ourselves to games that worked on OS-X. The wife isn't thrilled with that option (she's the one that has to research and buy the games), I'm not thrilled with paying the MS tax so I can run Linux, so we haven't moved on this for over two years.
Now that boot-camp is here/coming to 10.5 it's a no brainer. We'll get an Intel based Mac. If a game is so good that we've just got to get it, and it only runs on XP, the kids can boot XP occaisonally.
Yeah, and why is there more than one flavor of Linux? Why don't we merge them all? Same with different editors, don't vi and emacs basically do the same thing? Why not just have one and save the developers some effort?
Trying to run the world off soybeans is an invitation to slash and burn the rain forest for farmland and kill everything in the rivers with fertilizer.
I agree that it's not the "one true solution", but soybeans make alot more sense than growing corn to produce ethanol (which in turn, might make a little more sense than paying farmers to not grow corn).
Note, for example, that soybeans fix nitrogen, so the bad effects of nitrates in the water and using up your propane and natural gas to make fertilizer are mitigated.
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Gravity does bad things to our bodies. If you're committed to never coming back you could avoid a lot of pain by finishing out those golden years in a low-G environment. (The idea isn't mine, probably stolen from Heinlein. If not him, then some other SF writer)
Even better, what if he was using waste grease to power a generator to charge the batteries of his 100% electric car? What if he was using waste grease to generate electricity to heat/cool his home, cook, and BTW to plug in an electric car every so often?
Getting upset over a cute commercial is as ridiculous as is trying to reason with a 2 year old in such a complicated fashion. (Mine may be particularly dense, but if I tell her "Don't do that or you will have to stand in the corner" she hears "don't do that" and "stand in the corner", so she stops and goes to the corner (with a very intense pout on her face).
For my 8 year old, I do try to reason with him about all of the above, and sometimes trust him with access. Other times we'll leave something out and watch to see how he responds. Still other times he'll be asked to handle such items under our direction.
Examples: last summer I let him try to drive a truck and a riding lawn mower, under my supervision. In both cases his legs weren't quite long enough (and his clutch coordination non-existent), so we planned to revisit that issue this year. We've left an empty tylenol bottle (or other item he knows he is not to touch) accessible. In all cases, he's either not noticed it or reported back to us. Yesterday I sent him to the barn to fetch a gas can while I was moving snow. This was more a test that he wouldn't approach the snow blower than that he could handle the gas can, but he stopped well away, on the non-discharge side of the snowblower, and waited for me to recognize him. He knows that he doesn't get close to it from either side, and when I didn't immediately notice him he was prepared to retreat until I shut off the machine and motioned for him to approach.
You can reason with older kids, but it's not an all or nothing issue. Trust, but verify. Eventually they are going to be exposed to things which you cannot control, so start working towards that now. Don't worry about your two year old using her set of car keys to go to the beach with the neighbor kids, just don't give her her own set of keys.
(That said, I really do wish they wouldn't run so many Viagra adds during (american) football games. My 8 year old does like football, and doesn't really need to know any more about sex than he's already picking up on the school bus!). Bob
It's not just responsible, it's the law.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/opinion/16reynol ds.html?ex=1169528400&en=e25f9e3ee04c5254&ei=5070
Not a receipt. A receipt is a bad idea. A verifiable paper trail. If you need to involve computers (the only semi-legitimate reason that I've seen involves handicapped voters), then have the computer print the marked ballot. The person inspects it and then puts it into the ballot box. That is the official ballot. The person does not take a receipt with them. That makes it too easy to coerce people to vote a certain way, or punish them if they vote the wrong way.
My 8 year old is on an organized football team. Aside from the comic relief provided by a 64 pound (in full gear) defensive end, there are no problems. Kids twist ankles, get bruises, and get their hands stepped on by other kids in cleats. Nobody has been sued yet.
He's also active in cub scouts. We've got lots of rules from the national level that folks out here in America just can't understand. Being a recent transplant, I try to explain some of the rules (e.g. we can't ride on a float in next week's parade, or carpool kids to a campout w/out prior permission, insurance verification, and signed parental permission slips). The people who have lived here their whole life can't believe that a parent would/could sue when a kid falls down and gets hurt. Some of them probably think I'm making stuff up when I tell them the way it is "back east".
Out here it's not a federal case when a kid splits his head open on the monkey bars or sprains something falling off a swing. It's considered part of growing up, and a learning experience. Most of the kids aren't obese, they have chores and sports and other activities. There seems to be a lot more really tough, really old people around here also. Hmmm..
And Intel chips today run at the same speed that they always have?
I use a separate gmail account for one of my classes. Last week the students had to mail me an assignment. All of the mail sent from a hotmail account was delayed (still hasn't shown up). All of the email from other accounts arrived. Several hours after the deadline, hotmail informed the students of the delay.
If it's a dupe, do they have to read it twice?
I suspect that the early polls are optimistic, and he'll lose much bigger than they are indicating. That doesn't mean that E-voting is a good thing. It should still be scrapped until/unless it comes with a paper trail (and not a "receipt" tying a voter to a vote).
This is the state that brought you Spiro Agnew. Then Marvin Mandel. The same party has been pretty well entrenched since Mandel took over (they actually had quite a bit of power before, when Agnew left, the general assembly elected Mandel to take over). Sure it's not the party that slashdotters love to hate, but the corruption is every bit as entrenched as that enjoyed by the Longs of Louisiana and the Daleys of Cook County.
Howzabout if I try to change the password to an "illegal" 7 or 8 digit password it doesn't make the change. e.g. the previous password remains in effect. Maybe even a warning "failed to change password--selection too long". Quietly restoring the default is ludicrous
So, all of those folks emailing around .doc files instead of pdfs and text are helping preserve our freedoms by making more bits for these guys to sift through and parse?
And of that percentage, how many know how to parse [not real links, please don't click]
http://123.45.67.89/goodcompany.com
or even
http://evilentity.com/whatsnew/news/pictures/YOU RBANK.COM
As for using the IP address to track and prosecute, the owner of the IP address is often a victim also, and the trail often leads to places where your laws don't apply.
It's worse than that. When my son was born, we had to apply for the SSN before he could leave the hospital. We were busy with other stuff, but when we finally wondered why we never got the card, we called and checked. It had supposedly been sent, but never arrived. Not to worry, we could pay for a duplicate card. Could we have a different number, since somebody else was now using his? Nope, he was already in the computer. We could get a duplicate card, in fact we had to since that is the only way that we could learn his SSN.
What a country!
The Jesus guy I'm familiar with seemed to hang around with lepers and hookers. He wasn't much for tax-collectors (but, really, who is?). I think the parent is a wee bit confused.
If we bought a WinTel box, it would be booted into Linux for the adults and we'd have to reboot for the kids games. If we bought an OS-X box the adults would be happy with it (I'd have my precious command line, the wife would have her preferred Mac gui), and we'd just limit ourselves to games that worked on OS-X. The wife isn't thrilled with that option (she's the one that has to research and buy the games), I'm not thrilled with paying the MS tax so I can run Linux, so we haven't moved on this for over two years.
Now that boot-camp is here/coming to 10.5 it's a no brainer. We'll get an Intel based Mac. If a game is so good that we've just got to get it, and it only runs on XP, the kids can boot XP occaisonally.
Yeah, and why is there more than one flavor of Linux? Why don't we merge them all? Same with different editors, don't vi and emacs basically do the same thing? Why not just have one and save the developers some effort?
They don't need their own. They keep busy reading your email.
Check your spam filter. I get these offers all the time. Some guy in Uganda...
I agree that it's not the "one true solution", but soybeans make alot more sense than growing corn to produce ethanol (which in turn, might make a little more sense than paying farmers to not grow corn).
Note, for example, that soybeans fix nitrogen, so the bad effects of nitrates in the water and using up your propane and natural gas to make fertilizer are mitigated.
On a similar note, how are we holding the moon up? Why didn't it come crashing down as soon as we turned off the rockets?
I tell mine I play piano in a brothel. Really I'm a security guy at microsoft, but I don't want to burden him that.