I think the real story here is that a handful of people had $33 Million to blow on a card game while others are dying on the street, and there wasn't a pitch fork and torch wielding rebellion.
All this says to me is that Obama didn't tell someone to put their job on hold to go gift shopping. Symbolic or not, any gift between leaders is just useless objects that someone will get paid to dust off every now and then. Like him or not, Obama is a practical man. He probably gives his family gift cards at christmas time so that they can get what they really want instead of waiting in line to return something they didn't really want.
there is perhaps a more important reason to not lock down the computers. The easiest way to keep students from destroying their laptops is to let them do whatever they want on them. If students are allowed to use them for their personal lives they will then have a stake in the computer and will actually care if they break it. Not being able to listen to their music and get on myspace is damn good motivation to take care of their computer. Students won't care at all if they can't [insert boring educational use here].
This of course is only about video games in general, and only the social aspect. I think many people will extend this to the argument over violent video games, which is a whole different topic entirely. It also has nothing to do with fat kids who don't get any exercise because they're sitting on their ass all day. Just something to keep in mind before people start making conclusions about everything video game related.
Just today the stoplight near my house was giving green lights to all directions of traffic. Luckily nobody was hurt (since all the cars presumably had human drivers). So...
1. How long have we had stoplights?
2. If we can't make a really simple device work after X number of years, how is an extremely complicated system going to work.
As mean as it sounds, I totally agree. Looking far to the future I think selfishly and/or strategicly it makes sense to use as much oil as we possibly can while it is still cheap and there is less competition for it. If we use up everyone else's oil we will be the only ones able to use it as a resource, which means the rest of the world will be screwed and unable to compete. It's the perfect scheme for world domination! Perhaps it's time to lay off the Civ4... But in all seriousness, the middle east having all that oil is like 6 year olds playing with a Ferrari. Except that they have guns, and all hate each other.
I was discussing with one of my friends about how we don't use houses, houses use us to build them and spread across the world. Houses as a species have evolved to adapt to all parts of the earth and even into space. Dude, like whooaaah...
Tiger Direct edits their user reviews on the site. I submitted a review of an Ultra power supply where the fan died and I said that it worked great until the fan died. They changed it to "Works great."
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I think the real story here is that a handful of people had $33 Million to blow on a card game while others are dying on the street, and there wasn't a pitch fork and torch wielding rebellion.
All this says to me is that Obama didn't tell someone to put their job on hold to go gift shopping. Symbolic or not, any gift between leaders is just useless objects that someone will get paid to dust off every now and then. Like him or not, Obama is a practical man. He probably gives his family gift cards at christmas time so that they can get what they really want instead of waiting in line to return something they didn't really want.
there is perhaps a more important reason to not lock down the computers. The easiest way to keep students from destroying their laptops is to let them do whatever they want on them. If students are allowed to use them for their personal lives they will then have a stake in the computer and will actually care if they break it. Not being able to listen to their music and get on myspace is damn good motivation to take care of their computer. Students won't care at all if they can't [insert boring educational use here].
This of course is only about video games in general, and only the social aspect. I think many people will extend this to the argument over violent video games, which is a whole different topic entirely. It also has nothing to do with fat kids who don't get any exercise because they're sitting on their ass all day. Just something to keep in mind before people start making conclusions about everything video game related.
Just today the stoplight near my house was giving green lights to all directions of traffic. Luckily nobody was hurt (since all the cars presumably had human drivers). So... 1. How long have we had stoplights? 2. If we can't make a really simple device work after X number of years, how is an extremely complicated system going to work.
As mean as it sounds, I totally agree. Looking far to the future I think selfishly and/or strategicly it makes sense to use as much oil as we possibly can while it is still cheap and there is less competition for it. If we use up everyone else's oil we will be the only ones able to use it as a resource, which means the rest of the world will be screwed and unable to compete. It's the perfect scheme for world domination! Perhaps it's time to lay off the Civ4... But in all seriousness, the middle east having all that oil is like 6 year olds playing with a Ferrari. Except that they have guns, and all hate each other.
Does nobody remember playing Number Munchers on an Apple II? That game was awesome!
I was discussing with one of my friends about how we don't use houses, houses use us to build them and spread across the world. Houses as a species have evolved to adapt to all parts of the earth and even into space. Dude, like whooaaah...
Yea that doesn't quite seem to make sense. I can only see this leading to poor transcriptions with no security benefit.
This is the first CD I've purchased before I listened to it in years.
I am going to kill Jack Thompson with a chainsaw.
Perhaps a full band with drums, bass, guitar, and vocal recognition.
I guess we can't all have a sense of humor.
Tiger Direct edits their user reviews on the site. I submitted a review of an Ultra power supply where the fan died and I said that it worked great until the fan died. They changed it to "Works great."