IIRC, it being underwater is a bad thing. Massive flooding, freak waves (i.e., large enough to sink entire fleets), contamination of the drinking water supply for much of the southeastern US and parts of Mexico and elsewhere, etc, contamination of food supplies (agricultural and fishing-related).
Some of this is from RTFA, some of it is from the atoll tests the military did. Not that it being above water would be good... but being below water is just as bad.
Personally, I'm going to see this movie for one reason: Angelina Jolie is in it. I'm going with a female friend of mine, who wants to see it for one reason: Jude Law is in it.
For a lot of people, it's the personalities of specific actors that draw them into the theatres.
This reminds me of when I was at summer camp a few years ago, and we were all going to the movies. The head counselor asked who was going to see Tomb Raider, then followed that up with, "for the acting, right? Right?" You're not going for AJ's *personality*...
I'm not deaf, but I have been exposed to the community a certain amount (I wear hearing aids, so I participated in a panel for parents of deaf/hard-of-hearing kids, and I've taken ASL classes). So I am somewhat familiar with these frustrations, as well as the prejudices that some deaf people have against hearing aid users.
I also have a non-hearing-related physical disability. Trust me, *all* of us are sick of "those amazing disabled people" stories.
This has been one of the constant debates - teach lip reading and other "learn to survive" traits, or signing only. The former has been overdone in the past, the argument supposedly being that signing would be a step backwards for the deaf kids. The latter is somewhat prevalent among less tolerant members of the deaf community (IMHO, at least; basically, they're feeling that their culture is threatened). This is the same group that feels that hearing aids are bad because they stigmatize deafness. Among educators, the mainstream view seems to be that both methods should be taught, and whatever works best for the individual is what they should use.
To explain my position, I don't have a huge amount of contact with the deaf community; I hear quite well with my hearing aids. But without them, my life would have been much more difficult (I would have been functionally deaf). So I am obviously biased.
American Sign Language is heavily based off of French Sign Language. A French monk (can't recall his name - Pierre somebody, I think) worked at a monastery that offered to take "useless" deaf children off their parents' hands and give them "a godly life".
When he started trying to communicate with them, he noticed that they had already developed a method of communicating with their hands, which he developed into a more consistent language with a slightly richer vocabulary called French Sign Language. Eventually, he opened a school for the deaf. Rich Americans sent their deaf kids there, and local (French) deaf kids attended for free. Eventually, a school was opened in the US, and the language was imported (I believe the original Gallaudet had something to do with it).
One of the interesting things about ASL is how dynamic it is. Phrases and names (i.e., "Joe") can be assigned to gestures by the user as they speak, much like a macro or a
No need, just reset it. More secure, then users who use the same password on multiple sites (insecure, but it happens) don't need to worry if they've forgotten which password goes with example.com.
Um... there's a reason for that, dummy. It's so you can't mod your (anonymous) self up to get your point unfairly heard, or mod someone else down unfairly, then get your 2 cents in.
What was it Phillip Morris (Tobacco co.) changed its name to? Altria?
This is also a common practice in the adapted (as in, for the disabled) vehicle industry; most (not all) vendors do crappy work, overcharge, then change their names and/or move/disincorporate/reincorporate every few years to avoid bad PR and lawsuits. It's a very disgusting industry. And if you want to be independent, there's no real choice - it's them or nothing.
Wrong. Fetal stem cells aren't being banned; they're partially differentiated anyway, so they're no better than adult stem cells. It's embryonic stem cells we are concerned about.
And the problem with the "existing lines" argument is that there's not enough of 'em, some of them have problems of various types, and even research on existing lines is somewhat restricted (and fairly expensive).
Stem cells are not all equal - adult stem cells are partially differentiated, which embryonic stem cells are completely undifferentiated. Guess why stem cells are so useful/versatile/powerful? Yup, they're undifferentiated. So do you want the embryonic ones, or the half-assed adult ones that are only good for a few situations?
And there's a heck of a lot of research that's been going on for more than 20 years that hasn't delivered yet.
Aren't there a few Japanese teams in the World Series? And baseball is pretty much only a fanatic's sport in the US and Japan. Stupid sport, though. Non-US football (which my fellow USians call soccer) is much better.
I know. We did this last year in AP Physics. *But*, on the scale of a 2500+ student school, no one gives a crap about a few extra bucks of electricity. Especially since we leave the HVAC on over the weekend, don't shut down the computers, etc.
There are times when I thank $DIETY my color perception is bad (I'm color blind, too, but color blindness & poor color perception are two different things).
I'm not the type to do that "Free PC/iPod/flatscreen stuff" (it's in his sig, if you aren't logged in). But how do I know those tinyURLs aren't goatse/tubgirl? I looked on tURLs' site once upon a time, and they didn't seem to have a reverse-URL finder...
I did this for my family after our Windows computer wouldn't even boot b/c of spyware (I don't use that computer, or it wouldn't have gotten that far). You can still get to IE through the file-folder interface, but I've removed all its shortcuts. And AOL still uses it, so I've convinced everyone to use AOL for email only (yeah, I know, but since they won't switch...).
I also did this at a neighbor's house; he was having virus problems, and was happy to try Firefox, when I told him that it would keep his computer cleaner. I will be making another house call today (different family), and they say IE won't even start, so that's an almost sure convert right there.
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IIRC, it being underwater is a bad thing. Massive flooding, freak waves (i.e., large enough to sink entire fleets), contamination of the drinking water supply for much of the southeastern US and parts of Mexico and elsewhere, etc, contamination of food supplies (agricultural and fishing-related).
... but being below water is just as bad.
Some of this is from RTFA, some of it is from the atoll tests the military did. Not that it being above water would be good
So? Maybe it isn't thermonuclear, but it would still make a nice dirty bomb.
Filemaker is a POS. Much better to write your own in PHP or something similar. Trust me - I spent the summer dealing with Filemaker's inflexibility.
Personally, I'm going to see this movie for one reason: Angelina Jolie is in it. I'm going with a female friend of mine, who wants to see it for one reason: Jude Law is in it.
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For a lot of people, it's the personalities of specific actors that draw them into the theatres.
This reminds me of when I was at summer camp a few years ago, and we were all going to the movies. The head counselor asked who was going to see Tomb Raider, then followed that up with, "for the acting, right? Right?" You're not going for AJ's *personality*
I'm not deaf, but I have been exposed to the community a certain amount (I wear hearing aids, so I participated in a panel for parents of deaf/hard-of-hearing kids, and I've taken ASL classes). So I am somewhat familiar with these frustrations, as well as the prejudices that some deaf people have against hearing aid users.
I also have a non-hearing-related physical disability. Trust me, *all* of us are sick of "those amazing disabled people" stories.
This has been one of the constant debates - teach lip reading and other "learn to survive" traits, or signing only. The former has been overdone in the past, the argument supposedly being that signing would be a step backwards for the deaf kids. The latter is somewhat prevalent among less tolerant members of the deaf community (IMHO, at least; basically, they're feeling that their culture is threatened). This is the same group that feels that hearing aids are bad because they stigmatize deafness. Among educators, the mainstream view seems to be that both methods should be taught, and whatever works best for the individual is what they should use.
To explain my position, I don't have a huge amount of contact with the deaf community; I hear quite well with my hearing aids. But without them, my life would have been much more difficult (I would have been functionally deaf). So I am obviously biased.
Yes, American Sign Language is based off of French Sign Language - see my post here.
When he started trying to communicate with them, he noticed that they had already developed a method of communicating with their hands, which he developed into a more consistent language with a slightly richer vocabulary called French Sign Language. Eventually, he opened a school for the deaf. Rich Americans sent their deaf kids there, and local (French) deaf kids attended for free. Eventually, a school was opened in the US, and the language was imported (I believe the original Gallaudet had something to do with it).
One of the interesting things about ASL is how dynamic it is. Phrases and names (i.e., "Joe") can be assigned to gestures by the user as they speak, much like a macro or a
No need, just reset it. More secure, then users who use the same password on multiple sites (insecure, but it happens) don't need to worry if they've forgotten which password goes with example.com.
And make sure they never get metamod points so they can't ever mod.
Um ... there's a reason for that, dummy. It's so you can't mod your (anonymous) self up to get your point unfairly heard, or mod someone else down unfairly, then get your 2 cents in.
What was it Phillip Morris (Tobacco co.) changed its name to? Altria?
This is also a common practice in the adapted (as in, for the disabled) vehicle industry; most (not all) vendors do crappy work, overcharge, then change their names and/or move/disincorporate/reincorporate every few years to avoid bad PR and lawsuits. It's a very disgusting industry. And if you want to be independent, there's no real choice - it's them or nothing.
How do you know they edited his responses?
'Fissile materials' isn't a word, but it is a common phrase. I agree with you on the rest, though. No way Bush wrote that himself.
Wrong. Fetal stem cells aren't being banned; they're partially differentiated anyway, so they're no better than adult stem cells. It's embryonic stem cells we are concerned about.
And the problem with the "existing lines" argument is that there's not enough of 'em, some of them have problems of various types, and even research on existing lines is somewhat restricted (and fairly expensive).
Stem cells are not all equal - adult stem cells are partially differentiated, which embryonic stem cells are completely undifferentiated. Guess why stem cells are so useful/versatile/powerful? Yup, they're undifferentiated. So do you want the embryonic ones, or the half-assed adult ones that are only good for a few situations?
And there's a heck of a lot of research that's been going on for more than 20 years that hasn't delivered yet.
And Russert's questions were all pre-approved. Giving Bush & Co. time to rehearse. I'm not sure about the Woodward thing.
Aren't there a few Japanese teams in the World Series? And baseball is pretty much only a fanatic's sport in the US and Japan. Stupid sport, though. Non-US football (which my fellow USians call soccer) is much better.
I know. We did this last year in AP Physics. *But*, on the scale of a 2500+ student school, no one gives a crap about a few extra bucks of electricity. Especially since we leave the HVAC on over the weekend, don't shut down the computers, etc.
There are times when I thank $DIETY my color perception is bad (I'm color blind, too, but color blindness & poor color perception are two different things).
Something old (tubes), something new (iPod), something "borrowed" (music) ... now we just need something blue.
I'm not the type to do that "Free PC/iPod/flatscreen stuff" (it's in his sig, if you aren't logged in). But how do I know those tinyURLs aren't goatse/tubgirl? I looked on tURLs' site once upon a time, and they didn't seem to have a reverse-URL finder ...
Unless, say, you already had a bunch of boxes with LCDs ... or didn't have the desk/wall space for 'em.
So how do you feel about the iPod logo right near the top of your answers, eh?
I did this for my family after our Windows computer wouldn't even boot b/c of spyware (I don't use that computer, or it wouldn't have gotten that far). You can still get to IE through the file-folder interface, but I've removed all its shortcuts. And AOL still uses it, so I've convinced everyone to use AOL for email only (yeah, I know, but since they won't switch ...).
I also did this at a neighbor's house; he was having virus problems, and was happy to try Firefox, when I told him that it would keep his computer cleaner. I will be making another house call today (different family), and they say IE won't even start, so that's an almost sure convert right there.