It's great to see that the format is still in use and still popular after so long. Equally impressive is how so many formats after it have the exact same form-factor (DVDs, HD-DVDs, Blu-Rays). Can you imagine watching a movie off of a disc the size of a vinyl record? Oh, thats right... LASERDISC.
'...teach children basic skills like reading, writing...'
I second the motion. Judging from what I've seen kids right, I can only come to the conclusion that a majority of them don't know how to spell even the simplist of words.
Forget about the their/there/they're confusion. It's getting so bad, that I have to sometimes sound out the mish-mash of syllables they've put together in order to understand what word they intended to write.
Invyrowmentill. I swear to Cthulhu, I once saw that! The English language is DOOMED!!!
Ah, and I forgot to mention something. They did this to me back in highscool. This is in Alberta, Canada BTW.
At the end of grade 9, teachers in the four major subjects (Math, Science, English, and Social Studies) had to decide which level each student would take once they started grade 10. You could only go as high as your teacher recommended.
Options for Math were Pure Math IB (10-20-30-31, the high end, where I was!), Pure Math (10-20-30), Applied (forgot the numbers for this one were), and regular Math (14-24). The provinces diploma requirements stated that you only needed to pass two classes (a 1X and a 2X) in any group to graduate. If you wanted to get into an Engineering Program at the local University, you needed Pure Math 31 IB.
On the other end of the spectrum, I was once told that the kids in Math 14 were learning how to do pictographs... The graph where each number unit is repressented by a picture, just like the kind I learned about IN THE THIRD GRADE!!!
Seriously, we need to make sure that in high school, we segragate the crowd that commits trigonomic functions to memory from the 'What's a trapizoid?' crowd.
"If a school wants to maximise their performance, they may feel that 'if we encourage weaker students not to take [advanced] maths, our results will look better',"
As much as I hate the 'make out results look better' argument, the concept of pruning the mathimatically inept out of the advanced math classes. They're not getting rid of Math all together. They're just encouraging those with weaker skills in math to avoid the high end classes. Surely the/. crowd is tired of having to share a classroom with folks who still can't wrap their heads around imaginary numbers...
Remember the last time the bubble burst? Remember how all those crappy sites like Pets.com died, and how those overly optimistic.com start ups crash-and-burned because they didn't have a business model beyond 'lets just do what Amazon does'?
Remember how all the GOOD sites managed to survive, like... oh I don't know... Slashdot?
Now imagine all those crappy mySpace/Facebook imitation websites burning to the ground, all (or most of) those Digg-clone'Social Bookmarking' sites biting the dust, and all those YouTube wannabe's going bankrupt.
It's going to be awesome... until the dust settles and we start hearing people say 'Web 3.0' over and over again, thinking that there is NO WAY this Web bubble is going to burst like the last two!
Personally, I'd like to see this metaphorical train crash in slow motion... and then in super slow motion... and then in slow motion reverse... and then in fast motion, and then slow motion with the colors reversed... all set to Yakety Sax...
...advertised his services on Craigslist and other web sites.
Why don't you just go ahead and put a sign on you lawn proclaiming your ill-goten warez? I'm all for Mod-chips (for import gaming) and pirating games off BitTorrent (if a game is hard to find), but when you make a business out of it, then you've just crossed the line.
Indeed. I'm all for holding the police accountable, but we have to ask questions as to what happened before the tapes started rolling. You never see the high-speed, red-light-running chase on the Rodney King tape, but it's still something that needs to be taken into consideration.
Marge:You know, the courts might not work any more, but as long as everybody is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.
Amero had faced 40 years on the conviction of four counts of risk of injury to a minor.
Porn puts minors at risk of injury? Wow... I guess that means I performed a large amount of self-mutilation to myself when I was a kid... HA! Take that Emo-Kids! I'm beating you at your own silly game!
OK... so how many times has it been that the RIAA ended up bringing legal action against people who didn't (and in some instances, couldn't have) engaged in music piracy?
How do people like these folks even end up on the RIAA's hitlist? Do they pick their targets by just pinning up a street map of a city and throwing darts at it?
Will it ever get to the point where a judge just gets tired of all these false positives, desides that the RIAA can't be trusted in court, and throw them out of the courthouse? Let's hope so!
OK... According to the article, CD-Wow sells 'top 10 albums for as little as £6.99', and the basic ideas behind economics lead me to assume that they acually profit from such low prices.
For them to profit from that, it leads me to assume that it's cheaper to produce a (legit) CD in Hong Kong, and fly it to the other side of the eastern hemisphere, then to simply buy the same CD in a store in the UK.
So why does the same album cost so much more in the UK then it does in Hong Kong?
Maybe the answer isn't to sue people. Maybe it's time for them to re-evaluate their business models.
Seriously, check out the controversy section on his Wikipedia Article. The dude got tons of soft cash from companies as campaign contributions. Makes you wonder why he feels the need to rob the poor to pay for his failed ideas...
Remember in War of the Worlds, how the Aliens all died because they got sick from our germs?
Well, by sending our Alien-killing germs into space, we fight them over there (wherever in the galaxy 'there' happens to be) instead of fighting them here!
Oh, sure... we might end up killing off an Alien race that really wasn't a threat in the first place, destabilize an entire Star Cluster, and fuel tensions between the Shi'a-goraths and the Sunni-donnas...
You might not know it, but in both the US and Canada, Hentai of children (common reffered to as 'Lolikon') is illegial, at least on paper. There hasn't been a real court case concerning it, but in Edmonton (Canada) a man was jailed for possesion of Lolikon while he was on parole (from prior, REAL Child porn charges).
Basicly, in the US and Canada, it is against the law to even draw pornographic pictures of minors. There's little chance that the FBI/RMCP are going to raid your house for it, so the law basicly sits a few shelves below mp3 sharing in enforcement. If they find while looking for other stuff (like real Child porn), then they might just arrest you.
Secondly, whos to say the character depicted is even underage? Perhaps it's a character who belongs to a fiction race with prolonged life-spans. She might look like an 11 year old human, but she's really an 50 year old elf. How do you legally define that? How do you legally define violence in porn?
Basicly, what I do is draw (bad quality) pictures of minors making love with religious figures and post them on certain message boards that shall remain nameless...
I don't know how this example will affect the 'No violent porn' law, and IANAL, but I'm going to assume it will die in the courts.
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"A succession of Canadian governments have sat on their hands and done nothing,"
They have more important things to do, like dealing with REAL crime!
RAM works in a way similar to Alberto Gonzales. If you ask it what it was doing at any moment in time, it will simply reply 'I don't recall.'
The only difference is that the RAM is actually telling the truth.
Oh God, your right. It's contagous!
It's great to see that the format is still in use and still popular after so long. Equally impressive is how so many formats after it have the exact same form-factor (DVDs, HD-DVDs, Blu-Rays). Can you imagine watching a movie off of a disc the size of a vinyl record? Oh, thats right... LASERDISC.
'...teach children basic skills like reading, writing...'
I second the motion. Judging from what I've seen kids right, I can only come to the conclusion that a majority of them don't know how to spell even the simplist of words.
Forget about the their/there/they're confusion. It's getting so bad, that I have to sometimes sound out the mish-mash of syllables they've put together in order to understand what word they intended to write.
Invyrowmentill. I swear to Cthulhu, I once saw that! The English language is DOOMED!!!
Ah, and I forgot to mention something. They did this to me back in highscool. This is in Alberta, Canada BTW.
At the end of grade 9, teachers in the four major subjects (Math, Science, English, and Social Studies) had to decide which level each student would take once they started grade 10. You could only go as high as your teacher recommended.
Options for Math were Pure Math IB (10-20-30-31, the high end, where I was!), Pure Math (10-20-30), Applied (forgot the numbers for this one were), and regular Math (14-24). The provinces diploma requirements stated that you only needed to pass two classes (a 1X and a 2X) in any group to graduate. If you wanted to get into an Engineering Program at the local University, you needed Pure Math 31 IB.
On the other end of the spectrum, I was once told that the kids in Math 14 were learning how to do pictographs... The graph where each number unit is repressented by a picture, just like the kind I learned about IN THE THIRD GRADE!!!
Seriously, we need to make sure that in high school, we segragate the crowd that commits trigonomic functions to memory from the 'What's a trapizoid?' crowd.
"If a school wants to maximise their performance, they may feel that 'if we encourage weaker students not to take [advanced] maths, our results will look better',"
/. crowd is tired of having to share a classroom with folks who still can't wrap their heads around imaginary numbers...
As much as I hate the 'make out results look better' argument, the concept of pruning the mathimatically inept out of the advanced math classes. They're not getting rid of Math all together. They're just encouraging those with weaker skills in math to avoid the high end classes. Surely the
Remember the last time the bubble burst? Remember how all those crappy sites like Pets.com died, and how those overly optimistic .com start ups crash-and-burned because they didn't have a business model beyond 'lets just do what Amazon does'?
Remember how all the GOOD sites managed to survive, like... oh I don't know... Slashdot?
Now imagine all those crappy mySpace/Facebook imitation websites burning to the ground, all (or most of) those Digg-clone'Social Bookmarking' sites biting the dust, and all those YouTube wannabe's going bankrupt.
It's going to be awesome... until the dust settles and we start hearing people say 'Web 3.0' over and over again, thinking that there is NO WAY this Web bubble is going to burst like the last two!
Personally, I'd like to see this metaphorical train crash in slow motion... and then in super slow motion... and then in slow motion reverse... and then in fast motion, and then slow motion with the colors reversed... all set to Yakety Sax...
...advertised his services on Craigslist and other web sites.
Why don't you just go ahead and put a sign on you lawn proclaiming your ill-goten warez? I'm all for Mod-chips (for import gaming) and pirating games off BitTorrent (if a game is hard to find), but when you make a business out of it, then you've just crossed the line.
Indeed. I'm all for holding the police accountable, but we have to ask questions as to what happened before the tapes started rolling. You never see the high-speed, red-light-running chase on the Rodney King tape, but it's still something that needs to be taken into consideration.
Marge: You know, the courts might not work any more, but as long as everybody is videotaping everyone else, justice will be done.
...isn't this what we do ALL THE TIME? Downloading Music?
Or do we just want to see the RIAA back down because they don't want to pick a fight with people who have better legal resources...
Amero had faced 40 years on the conviction of four counts of risk of injury to a minor.
Porn puts minors at risk of injury? Wow... I guess that means I performed a large amount of self-mutilation to myself when I was a kid... HA! Take that Emo-Kids! I'm beating you at your own silly game!
Yes, but as our BELOVED, UNFALLIBLE, DIVINELY CHOSEN LEADER, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH so wonderfully pointed out:
'There ought to be limits to freedom.'
I hope you potty-mouths have fun in Gitmo!
OK... so how many times has it been that the RIAA ended up bringing legal action against people who didn't (and in some instances, couldn't have) engaged in music piracy?
How do people like these folks even end up on the RIAA's hitlist? Do they pick their targets by just pinning up a street map of a city and throwing darts at it?
Will it ever get to the point where a judge just gets tired of all these false positives, desides that the RIAA can't be trusted in court, and throw them out of the courthouse? Let's hope so!
I hope we can find him. NASA might have forgotten to edit out the giant space mansion that he shares with Xenu and Jimmy Hoffa.
OK... According to the article, CD-Wow sells 'top 10 albums for as little as £6.99', and the basic ideas behind economics lead me to assume that they acually profit from such low prices.
For them to profit from that, it leads me to assume that it's cheaper to produce a (legit) CD in Hong Kong, and fly it to the other side of the eastern hemisphere, then to simply buy the same CD in a store in the UK.
So why does the same album cost so much more in the UK then it does in Hong Kong?
Maybe the answer isn't to sue people. Maybe it's time for them to re-evaluate their business models.
Seriously, check out the controversy section on his Wikipedia Article. The dude got tons of soft cash from companies as campaign contributions. Makes you wonder why he feels the need to rob the poor to pay for his failed ideas...
Remember in War of the Worlds, how the Aliens all died because they got sick from our germs?
Well, by sending our Alien-killing germs into space, we fight them over there (wherever in the galaxy 'there' happens to be) instead of fighting them here!
Oh, sure... we might end up killing off an Alien race that really wasn't a threat in the first place, destabilize an entire Star Cluster, and fuel tensions between the Shi'a-goraths and the Sunni-donnas...
Still not enough speed to furfull my need for HD Porn...
I heard Dick Cheney was a real Duck Hunt nut in the 80's... but he wasn't very good at it.
I bought a lot of Star Wars Lego thanks to that 'Support Denmark' campaign that came up during the Muhammad cartoons thing...
I mean... come on... Indulge myself with my favorite non-video game toy AND show my support for free speech AT THE SAME TIME? How could I lose?
The reason all our Hardware is suddenly going up in flames is... Global Warming! I'm serial!
You might not know it, but in both the US and Canada, Hentai of children (common reffered to as 'Lolikon') is illegial, at least on paper. There hasn't been a real court case concerning it, but in Edmonton (Canada) a man was jailed for possesion of Lolikon while he was on parole (from prior, REAL Child porn charges).
Basicly, in the US and Canada, it is against the law to even draw pornographic pictures of minors. There's little chance that the FBI/RMCP are going to raid your house for it, so the law basicly sits a few shelves below mp3 sharing in enforcement. If they find while looking for other stuff (like real Child porn), then they might just arrest you.
Secondly, whos to say the character depicted is even underage? Perhaps it's a character who belongs to a fiction race with prolonged life-spans. She might look like an 11 year old human, but she's really an 50 year old elf. How do you legally define that? How do you legally define violence in porn?
Basicly, what I do is draw (bad quality) pictures of minors making love with religious figures and post them on certain message boards that shall remain nameless...
I don't know how this example will affect the 'No violent porn' law, and IANAL, but I'm going to assume it will die in the courts.
Oh... not York, but NEW York!