It pains me that so many people drive cars larger than they really need,
You can thank taxes and insurance for that. I have occasional need for a large truck. Most of the time I would prefer to drive a 45mpg Suzuki Swift. Unfortunalty, I don't because the cost of taxes and insurance make it uneconomical to own the extra car. Since owning the truck is not optional, I am left with driving it, instead of a more fuel efficient and convenient car.
I'm not trying to villainize insurance companies in this, but just point out that they are a factor in people driving too big of cars.
How did the company lose money. If they were not issuing stock on that day, they should have already recieved whatever money they were going to get for the stock they issued. Is there some way that companies continue to make money on stocks that have already sold?
Well, if we went through a phase of hunting people instead of venison for food, the plan just might work. Then not only do you get a reduced population due to food harvesting, but you also get a reduced population due to wide spread disease. Whoo Hoo! All our problems are solved!
You joke, but there really in very little reason to teach children handwriting/script/cursive (whichever you want to call it). The point of cursive was to speed up writing. It was never any good for readability. In today's world, if you need to write a lot of stuff, you are generally going to type it on a computer. Since just about anything that we would want to write by hand will be short, the speed gain would be minimal. Thus spending time and resource to teach every kid to write a useless, illegibly font is pretty pointless.
Range limitation being ok for some uses is why I think that cars similar to the Volt are needed. Once we have all electric cars that can charge while they run, we can swap out the electric source. Batteries for around town, gas when you need the distance, and anything else when it makes sense.
To get people to have multiple cars for different uses would require that the registration and insurance costs come down. Adding an extra $100 a month in insurance and taxes to save $50 in gas isn't going to excite a whole lot of people.
Given that it is well known that complaining about spelling is a whole hearted agreement with all content, I am glad to know you completely agree with me.
In reality, there's a ton of stuff over the 5th-grade reading level. Most of the books worth reading are there.
I know you are joking, as you have already completely agreed with me, but, if you had been serious, I would suggest that you and I had a different opinion of what constitutes a 5th grade reading level.
Almost every time I play Blackjack. I have won more money than I have lost. I am in the net positive for all blackjack I have ever played. Of course by the time I tip out the waitresses and pay for the other items in my trip, I usually come back from Vegas with a little less than I went with. Now, I'm not saying that gambling in a casino has better odds than gambling. Just saying that losing lots of money isn't always the case.
The idea that there is a limit to practical learning in some subjects is something that many many people miss. As you said, fine motor skills is one of those. Reading is another one that most people don't get. We hear over and over how much better reading is than TV, but really, once you get past about a 5th grade reading level, your done learning to read. Really, if reading a book is any more difficult for someone over the age of about 12 than watching TV, that person has a real problem.
If their getting to the interview stage then the resume is not likely the culprit. Unless the poster is a minority, that's the only reason (I can think of) any company would waste time interviewing a person who's resume is not a fit for the job (ie to meet some interview quota,
Here is another reason you could add to the list then. It could be that the poster is NOT a "minority" and the company has a HIRING quota, or just thinks it would make them look good to have as few white men as possible. I'm not saying that is what is happening to this person, but in this day and age, not being a white straight male is more likely to help you than hurt you.
Either way, that is almost assuredly not the case here. While there are still some businesses out there that take gender/sexual orientation/race into account, THEY are in the minority, so the poster would not be seeing this exclusively.
You sound serious. If you are, then you are taking the neo-luddite phone hating to a whole new level. Honestly, if phones in supermarkets have caused you grief, you might want to seek counseling.
Great, so when you have 4 of those streams coming into your home, and are trying to video confrence, while screen sharing, you might actually be able to stop worrying about your bandwidth crapping out.
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Parenting is something you learn by doing and learn by consulting people who have done. No offense, but most parents discount the advice of the childless because 1) we used to be one and remember how clueless we were, and 2) they come up to us all the time and tell us their clueless ideas. I won't say it's impossible for people without children to give meaningful parenting advice, just unlikely.
I have found this to be completely untrue. I have found that people who have not figured out how to raise children before they have them make shitty parents. I have found the people that DO know how to raise children well are the ones who have been proactive in figuring out how to handle situations BEFORE they happen instead of haphazardly making decisions based on their current whim, or trying to resolve situation a week later, after they have had a chance to consult other parents and the child has had the chance to forget about the situation all together.
Second, you don't generally dump kids from 100% oversight to 100% independence when a certain birthday hits.
While I agree that it should not go from 100% oversight to 100% independence, most parents are close to that. It is really more like 90% oversight to 100% independence. They want to 'protect' them from everything until they send them off to college where all hell breaks loose.
If you don't have your own children, you have probably only seen the end result of good parenting
I would guess that this isn't true. He has also likely seen the end result of bad parenting.
What looks like a child doing something merely because a parent asks is actually the result of a long period of constantly adapting discipline and diplomacy with the most immature, illogical, demanding, self-centered, and emotional people you have ever met.
What looks like a person that is immature, illogical, demanding, self-centered and emotional are really pretty logical creatures that have been taught to be that way from parents who waited until faced with a child to figure out how to raise them. Just because shitty parenting is common, so you see lots of ill behaved kids, doesn't mean that they genetically any worse than adults.
It's not something that most people can grasp only by learning about parenting, observing parents, or babysitting.
Only the immature, illogical, demanding, self-centered and emotional ones, and having kids generally doesn't change that. No doubt, there is a small subset of the population that goes from clueless incompetent to insightful and competent after they have kids, but it is a very small subset. The hard part of raising kids isn't figuring out HOW to do it. The most difficult part is deciding that you want to think about what is best for THEM, and being willing to carry through. That's where most people fall down, and it means that people without kids are often MORE insightful than those with them.
I do agree that the OP is taking the right approach if his kid is very young. I used white listing to solve the problem with my 4 year old. As others have said, nobody that I don't already know needs to be sending my 4 year old email. When he is old enough to ask for the white list to be removed, he will likely be old enough to have it removed.
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You need to monitor a kid of 5 like 24/7 anyways.
Really they don't. Not unless they have been badly raised, or are genetically damaged. This idea that a 5 year old cannot go 10 minutes without being checked up on is really new.
Yes. You wouldn't use the original SD every time you wanted to listen to the music. You WOULD likely put it in on the way home from the music store. That is a big benefit. It wouldn't be much different than what I do now with CDs (which I like). Buy the CD, listen to the original in the car on the way home. Once at home, immediately rip it to the server, and make a 'car' copy. Then never use the original again until I need a new 'car' copy due to scratches and whatnot.
It is silly for them not to put an uncompressed copy on the SD alongside the compressed version. Space is not an issue, and it would give the format more respect. The other thing I would want is for the SD card to come in a gem case that is the same size as a cd case. Yes, that would be a lot of wasted space, but, packaging is a big reason that many people buy rather than copy their music. Also, CD packaging is small enough to be easily stored, while big enough not to get lost.
My son did his first install of Ubuntu just after his second birthday. He was unsuccessful at installing Windows at that time. Nobody is going to convince me that Ubuntu is harder to install than Windows.
I don't really have a huge problem if Slashdot gets paid to put things on the front page, as that is how most media works.
That being said, I have to agree with you. There are 'stories' that make the front page that are obviously ads, and the mocking done by samzenpus actually argues that the slashdot editors DO get paid. I have a hard time believing that the people running slashdot are dumb enough to believe that payoffs come in W-2s. Saying that a lack of W-2s from companies is any indication as to whether they are getting paid or not is disingenuous.
I'm not sure if I would call it a strawman or not, but it is close enough that the effect is the same.
Supersize Me was fixed. It was a joke. The guy that made that movie has publicly said that if he is making a show, he gets to spin things to look the way he wants. Just within the movie, they claim that eating McDonalds every day for a month was causing his liver to fail. Anyone who's liver fails from a month of McDonalds was seriously ill before the experiment ever started. So, either the guy was seriously ill before he ate at McDonalds and tried to blame the pre-existing condition on McDonalds, OR he was just lying.
Supersize me is not a documentory, it is a work of fiction.
If people want to eat McDonald's for dinner every day, let them. I'll eat a home cooked meal instead, but it's not my place to evangelize.
If 98% of the people ate nothing but McDonalds, you would find it very difficult to eat a home cooked meal, as grociery stores would be all but extinct.
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I'm with you.
I still can't figure out why people are not pissed off about the very idea of declaring royalty in the US government.
It pains me that so many people drive cars larger than they really need,
You can thank taxes and insurance for that. I have occasional need for a large truck. Most of the time I would prefer to drive a 45mpg Suzuki Swift. Unfortunalty, I don't because the cost of taxes and insurance make it uneconomical to own the extra car. Since owning the truck is not optional, I am left with driving it, instead of a more fuel efficient and convenient car.
I'm not trying to villainize insurance companies in this, but just point out that they are a factor in people driving too big of cars.
How did the company lose money. If they were not issuing stock on that day, they should have already recieved whatever money they were going to get for the stock they issued. Is there some way that companies continue to make money on stocks that have already sold?
Well, if we went through a phase of hunting people instead of venison for food, the plan just might work. Then not only do you get a reduced population due to food harvesting, but you also get a reduced population due to wide spread disease. Whoo Hoo! All our problems are solved!
No, it isn't taught in US schools either. We don't even really teach kids what money is.
You joke, but there really in very little reason to teach children handwriting/script/cursive (whichever you want to call it). The point of cursive was to speed up writing. It was never any good for readability. In today's world, if you need to write a lot of stuff, you are generally going to type it on a computer. Since just about anything that we would want to write by hand will be short, the speed gain would be minimal. Thus spending time and resource to teach every kid to write a useless, illegibly font is pretty pointless.
Range limitation being ok for some uses is why I think that cars similar to the Volt are needed. Once we have all electric cars that can charge while they run, we can swap out the electric source. Batteries for around town, gas when you need the distance, and anything else when it makes sense.
To get people to have multiple cars for different uses would require that the registration and insurance costs come down. Adding an extra $100 a month in insurance and taxes to save $50 in gas isn't going to excite a whole lot of people.
Well, Apple must think it's pretty good since they are now copying UI design from decade old versions of Notes.
...but not to write.
Given that it is well known that complaining about spelling is a whole hearted agreement with all content, I am glad to know you completely agree with me.
In reality, there's a ton of stuff over the 5th-grade reading level. Most of the books worth reading are there.
I know you are joking, as you have already completely agreed with me, but, if you had been serious, I would suggest that you and I had a different opinion of what constitutes a 5th grade reading level.
Almost every time I play Blackjack. I have won more money than I have lost. I am in the net positive for all blackjack I have ever played. Of course by the time I tip out the waitresses and pay for the other items in my trip, I usually come back from Vegas with a little less than I went with. Now, I'm not saying that gambling in a casino has better odds than gambling. Just saying that losing lots of money isn't always the case.
The idea that there is a limit to practical learning in some subjects is something that many many people miss. As you said, fine motor skills is one of those. Reading is another one that most people don't get. We hear over and over how much better reading is than TV, but really, once you get past about a 5th grade reading level, your done learning to read. Really, if reading a book is any more difficult for someone over the age of about 12 than watching TV, that person has a real problem.
If their getting to the interview stage then the resume is not likely the culprit. Unless the poster is a minority, that's the only reason (I can think of) any company would waste time interviewing a person who's resume is not a fit for the job (ie to meet some interview quota,
Here is another reason you could add to the list then. It could be that the poster is NOT a "minority" and the company has a HIRING quota, or just thinks it would make them look good to have as few white men as possible. I'm not saying that is what is happening to this person, but in this day and age, not being a white straight male is more likely to help you than hurt you.
Either way, that is almost assuredly not the case here. While there are still some businesses out there that take gender/sexual orientation/race into account, THEY are in the minority, so the poster would not be seeing this exclusively.
You sound serious. If you are, then you are taking the neo-luddite phone hating to a whole new level. Honestly, if phones in supermarkets have caused you grief, you might want to seek counseling.
Great, so when you have 4 of those streams coming into your home, and are trying to video confrence, while screen sharing, you might actually be able to stop worrying about your bandwidth crapping out.
Parenting is something you learn by doing and learn by consulting people who have done. No offense, but most parents discount the advice of the childless because 1) we used to be one and remember how clueless we were, and 2) they come up to us all the time and tell us their clueless ideas. I won't say it's impossible for people without children to give meaningful parenting advice, just unlikely.
I have found this to be completely untrue. I have found that people who have not figured out how to raise children before they have them make shitty parents. I have found the people that DO know how to raise children well are the ones who have been proactive in figuring out how to handle situations BEFORE they happen instead of haphazardly making decisions based on their current whim, or trying to resolve situation a week later, after they have had a chance to consult other parents and the child has had the chance to forget about the situation all together.
Second, you don't generally dump kids from 100% oversight to 100% independence when a certain birthday hits.
While I agree that it should not go from 100% oversight to 100% independence, most parents are close to that. It is really more like 90% oversight to 100% independence. They want to 'protect' them from everything until they send them off to college where all hell breaks loose.
If you don't have your own children, you have probably only seen the end result of good parenting
I would guess that this isn't true. He has also likely seen the end result of bad parenting.
What looks like a child doing something merely because a parent asks is actually the result of a long period of constantly adapting discipline and diplomacy with the most immature, illogical, demanding, self-centered, and emotional people you have ever met.
What looks like a person that is immature, illogical, demanding, self-centered and emotional are really pretty logical creatures that have been taught to be that way from parents who waited until faced with a child to figure out how to raise them. Just because shitty parenting is common, so you see lots of ill behaved kids, doesn't mean that they genetically any worse than adults.
It's not something that most people can grasp only by learning about parenting, observing parents, or babysitting.
Only the immature, illogical, demanding, self-centered and emotional ones, and having kids generally doesn't change that. No doubt, there is a small subset of the population that goes from clueless incompetent to insightful and competent after they have kids, but it is a very small subset. The hard part of raising kids isn't figuring out HOW to do it. The most difficult part is deciding that you want to think about what is best for THEM, and being willing to carry through. That's where most people fall down, and it means that people without kids are often MORE insightful than those with them.
I do agree that the OP is taking the right approach if his kid is very young. I used white listing to solve the problem with my 4 year old. As others have said, nobody that I don't already know needs to be sending my 4 year old email. When he is old enough to ask for the white list to be removed, he will likely be old enough to have it removed.
You need to monitor a kid of 5 like 24/7 anyways.
Really they don't. Not unless they have been badly raised, or are genetically damaged. This idea that a 5 year old cannot go 10 minutes without being checked up on is really new.
Bing! Bing! Bing! That is exactly it. Social promotion is an admitting that the schools don't care if the kids actually learn anything.
Yes. You wouldn't use the original SD every time you wanted to listen to the music. You WOULD likely put it in on the way home from the music store. That is a big benefit. It wouldn't be much different than what I do now with CDs (which I like). Buy the CD, listen to the original in the car on the way home. Once at home, immediately rip it to the server, and make a 'car' copy. Then never use the original again until I need a new 'car' copy due to scratches and whatnot.
It is silly for them not to put an uncompressed copy on the SD alongside the compressed version. Space is not an issue, and it would give the format more respect. The other thing I would want is for the SD card to come in a gem case that is the same size as a cd case. Yes, that would be a lot of wasted space, but, packaging is a big reason that many people buy rather than copy their music. Also, CD packaging is small enough to be easily stored, while big enough not to get lost.
My son did his first install of Ubuntu just after his second birthday. He was unsuccessful at installing Windows at that time. Nobody is going to convince me that Ubuntu is harder to install than Windows.
the majority of the field validation is being moved into the new front end web app
That sounds scary...
I don't really have a huge problem if Slashdot gets paid to put things on the front page, as that is how most media works.
That being said, I have to agree with you. There are 'stories' that make the front page that are obviously ads, and the mocking done by samzenpus actually argues that the slashdot editors DO get paid. I have a hard time believing that the people running slashdot are dumb enough to believe that payoffs come in W-2s. Saying that a lack of W-2s from companies is any indication as to whether they are getting paid or not is disingenuous.
I'm not sure if I would call it a strawman or not, but it is close enough that the effect is the same.
Maybe I'm just old, but when I was a kid, we left grown up matters like politics to the adults.
Well, that explains the ignorance of the modern voter. I kid... Mostly...
Please excuse me if you were being sarcastic.
Supersize Me was fixed. It was a joke. The guy that made that movie has publicly said that if he is making a show, he gets to spin things to look the way he wants. Just within the movie, they claim that eating McDonalds every day for a month was causing his liver to fail. Anyone who's liver fails from a month of McDonalds was seriously ill before the experiment ever started. So, either the guy was seriously ill before he ate at McDonalds and tried to blame the pre-existing condition on McDonalds, OR he was just lying. Supersize me is not a documentory, it is a work of fiction.
Since Patents last for 20 years, if that right to utilize and control the utilization is for a period of 20 years, then would in fact be a sale.
If people want to eat McDonald's for dinner every day, let them. I'll eat a home cooked meal instead, but it's not my place to evangelize.
If 98% of the people ate nothing but McDonalds, you would find it very difficult to eat a home cooked meal, as grociery stores would be all but extinct.