I wonder how many people could get off of their anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds if they just got regular exercise.
My personal favorite is road biking. Low impact, saves gas, produces its own breeze and there's the added excitement of being chased by snarling dogs (there are a pair of black and tan coonhounds that can keep up for a short while and one magnificent-looking german short haired pointer that can even catch me from behind).
Please read the classic and well-respected work, Man's Search for Meaning, by Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl. He was interned in Auschwitz during WWII and has indicated the same thing that your father did.
My God man, don't you know that this is slashdot. Your unbiased and rational post is not welcome here. Next time, please try to respond in one of the following ways:
In the *state* university that I attended in the mid 90s, critical thinking was emphasized across the curriculum. In fact, when I did my post-grad, it was assumed that students already have a complete grasp of the scientific method, logic, writing, etc. Grad school was much more of a hand's-on, training type of thing where it was implemented. If you didn't understand it by then, you were pretty much screwed.
I have the dreaded BA in Liberal Arts and both my introductory level Chemistry and intro Biology started with a comprehensive unit on the scientific method. My Introduction to Philosophy included a full quarter on logic and rhetoric.
Moving forward to the present, my son's high school does include the scientific method in some depth in all science classes. However, they barely touch on logic and rhetoric.
I wonder if the problem was more about when you were educated rather than where. I graduated from high school in the early 80s and I can't remember any of that stuff being taught.
Honestly, I can't see how most people can afford to live in some places. In the early eighties, my older brother had 252 square foot, one-room apartment in Manhattan that shared a bathroom with two other units. Cost: $500/month. His salary as an editor of a magazine: $21,000/yr. Work week: > 70hrs.
At the same time, I was earning $26,000/year as a grocery store clerk in the midwest, working 40hrs/wk, living in an 1100 square foot apartment for $385/month, which included heat and laundry.
When I see the average home prices in places like Boston, San Francisco, NY, and Los Angeles, I wonder how anyone could afford a house. For the love of God, the mortgage on $700,000 is around $4500/month. For that amount, one could live in a veritable mansion in our area. Something on the order of 5500sq/ft, on a golf course, 5 acres, and monthly blowjobs included.
Exactly. Even though the point is that you don't really pay for the software--you pay for the use of the software--the bottom line is still the bottom line. And most people simply *do not need* MS Office to peck out a letter to grandma or make a spreadsheet for their household budget when there are cheaper/free alternatives.
The only reason most people have MS Office on their box is because they have a pirated/corporate version. When individual users and small businesses have to actually pay for Office, OO will become the standard rather quickly.
Do you have any evidence to support that claim? No.
Or do you base all of your opinions on stereotypes that are played out continuously in the media? Yes.
Okay, let me get this straight...if behavior A is risky, but less risky than behavior B, behavior A is okay? By that logic, I should be allowed to go shoot a bow and arrow in a crowded shopping mall because arrows kill way less people than guns.
Why don't you get down off of your high horse and think before you call someone "asshole?"
Never put all of your eggs in one little basket (RAID or otherwise)! For the love of God, if your data is critical, you need a backup *and* an offsite backup. At least one of each. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Wow. That's a big ole load of righteous indignation.
I hope that you don't wreck and kill somebody when you're on your cell phone with the police. Oh never mind, you safely negotiate to the side of the road before you tattle.
Your mommy called and said that it's time for you to take one of your pills to help you calm down. She said not to worry, that's why the nice doctor prescribed them.
Yeah, whatever dude. Just make sure that you have plenty of escape routes for when the "home invaders" come to your place. Maybe dig an underground tunnel.
... and I have no idea what is so significant about being first... What are you talking about? Everybody I know uses VisiCalc (first spreadsheet) and WordStar (first commercial word processing program) on their MITS Altair workstations. And what about these Google people, thinking that they can surpass Altavista? Pffft!
How about simple invasion of privacy, or even home invaders using the info to case your house and cut off avenues of escape, etc., all with the convenience of sitting at their computers? Ha ha hahhhhhh. Yeah, home invaders! Cutting off the routes of escape. Whatthefuckever. You might want to stop packing the pipe so full and maybe mix in a little sleep now and then.
Most people have more important things to worry about than the dubious injustice of some company in Canada making $13 dollars from a photo of their 1200 square foot double-wide. Might I suggest a job and perhaps a little less of the self-righteous indignation?
The outside of your house is not your private life; it's your public life.
Even a cursory internet search will quickly show that you do not have the legal expectation of privacy in your yard or even in your house in front of a window if it is viewable from public areas. Please see this as it pertains to "peeping toms."
Generally speaking, what you can see from public areas you are permitted to photograph. How do you think that the paparazzi vermin shoot the pictures for the tabloids? If you must have that level of privacy, buy a house that cannot be seen from public areas.
Well, what if you're taking a picture of your house and the neighbor's house is in the background? It sounds like you're in favor of the government telling us what we can take pictures of.
why should this Canadian company get a free pass? They're not getting a "free pass." They're getting the same treatment as anyone else who would like to photograph someone else's house.
For God's sake, there are enough rights-curtailing things going on if you want to worry about it. There's no need to take a non-issue like this and get so freaked out. I would be more worried if they told you that you can't take the picture.
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...kind of like PBS
I wonder how many people could get off of their anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds if they just got regular exercise.
My personal favorite is road biking. Low impact, saves gas, produces its own breeze and there's the added excitement of being chased by snarling dogs (there are a pair of black and tan coonhounds that can keep up for a short while and one magnificent-looking german short haired pointer that can even catch me from behind).
That depends on what your definition of "is" is.
Please read the classic and well-respected work, Man's Search for Meaning, by Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl. He was interned in Auschwitz during WWII and has indicated the same thing that your father did.
My God man, don't you know that this is slashdot. Your unbiased and rational post is not welcome here. Next time, please try to respond in one of the following ways:
- M$ is teh suck
- GWB is teh suck
- America is teh suck
Thanks.- "M$"
- starting out a post with "ummm" or any of it's variants
- "boxen"
- political sigs that pander to the prevailing slashdot hive mentality
- ass-kissy posts that seem to confer demi-god status on prominent nerds like Linus Torvalds or "DVD Jon"
There are probably more, but I can't think of them at this moment.I was playing CS:S with a 6800GT OC from BFG until just recently.
I just couldn't help but think about the blank look that would be on my mom's face if she had to translate that sentence into English.
Of course, she thinks that I'm a total computer guru because I know how to copy and paste.
In the *state* university that I attended in the mid 90s, critical thinking was emphasized across the curriculum. In fact, when I did my post-grad, it was assumed that students already have a complete grasp of the scientific method, logic, writing, etc. Grad school was much more of a hand's-on, training type of thing where it was implemented. If you didn't understand it by then, you were pretty much screwed.
I have the dreaded BA in Liberal Arts and both my introductory level Chemistry and intro Biology started with a comprehensive unit on the scientific method. My Introduction to Philosophy included a full quarter on logic and rhetoric.
Moving forward to the present, my son's high school does include the scientific method in some depth in all science classes. However, they barely touch on logic and rhetoric.
I wonder if the problem was more about when you were educated rather than where. I graduated from high school in the early 80s and I can't remember any of that stuff being taught.
Honestly, I can't see how most people can afford to live in some places. In the early eighties, my older brother had 252 square foot, one-room apartment in Manhattan that shared a bathroom with two other units. Cost: $500/month. His salary as an editor of a magazine: $21,000/yr. Work week: > 70hrs.
At the same time, I was earning $26,000/year as a grocery store clerk in the midwest, working 40hrs/wk, living in an 1100 square foot apartment for $385/month, which included heat and laundry.
When I see the average home prices in places like Boston, San Francisco, NY, and Los Angeles, I wonder how anyone could afford a house. For the love of God, the mortgage on $700,000 is around $4500/month. For that amount, one could live in a veritable mansion in our area. Something on the order of 5500sq/ft, on a golf course, 5 acres, and monthly blowjobs included.
Exactly.
FTA: In contrast, the use of common bacteria to 'cement' sands has no harmful effects on the environment.
That should read "...has no *known* harmful effects..." Introducing species has a long history of unintended consequences. For example:
Exactly. Even though the point is that you don't really pay for the software--you pay for the use of the software--the bottom line is still the bottom line. And most people simply *do not need* MS Office to peck out a letter to grandma or make a spreadsheet for their household budget when there are cheaper/free alternatives.
The only reason most people have MS Office on their box is because they have a pirated/corporate version. When individual users and small businesses have to actually pay for Office, OO will become the standard rather quickly.
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Okay, let me get this straight...if behavior A is risky, but less risky than behavior B, behavior A is okay? By that logic, I should be allowed to go shoot a bow and arrow in a crowded shopping mall because arrows kill way less people than guns.
Why don't you get down off of your high horse and think before you call someone "asshole?"
Never put all of your eggs in one little basket (RAID or otherwise)! For the love of God, if your data is critical, you need a backup *and* an offsite backup. At least one of each. There are no exceptions to this rule.
Wow. That's a big ole load of righteous indignation.
I hope that you don't wreck and kill somebody when you're on your cell phone with the police. Oh never mind, you safely negotiate to the side of the road before you tattle.
FTA: as the Canadian Consulate's Web site says, "Driving while under the influence of alcohol is regarded as an extremely serious offense in Canada.
Whatever. I'd say DUI is the norm in Canada. Anybody for a Labatt's?
Your mommy called and said that it's time for you to take one of your pills to help you calm down. She said not to worry, that's why the nice doctor prescribed them.
Yeah, whatever dude. Just make sure that you have plenty of escape routes for when the "home invaders" come to your place. Maybe dig an underground tunnel.
... and I have no idea what is so significant about being first... What are you talking about? Everybody I know uses VisiCalc (first spreadsheet) and WordStar (first commercial word processing program) on their MITS Altair workstations. And what about these Google people, thinking that they can surpass Altavista? Pffft!Most people have more important things to worry about than the dubious injustice of some company in Canada making $13 dollars from a photo of their 1200 square foot double-wide. Might I suggest a job and perhaps a little less of the self-righteous indignation?
Tower, airplane or helicopter. Your house is not safe from them. I suggest that you stop parading around in your underpants.
The outside of your house is not your private life; it's your public life.
Even a cursory internet search will quickly show that you do not have the legal expectation of privacy in your yard or even in your house in front of a window if it is viewable from public areas. Please see this as it pertains to "peeping toms."
Generally speaking, what you can see from public areas you are permitted to photograph. How do you think that the paparazzi vermin shoot the pictures for the tabloids? If you must have that level of privacy, buy a house that cannot be seen from public areas.
Well, what if you're taking a picture of your house and the neighbor's house is in the background? It sounds like you're in favor of the government telling us what we can take pictures of.
For God's sake, there are enough rights-curtailing things going on if you want to worry about it. There's no need to take a non-issue like this and get so freaked out. I would be more worried if they told you that you can't take the picture.