You have that backwards. If the goal was to make white people fear black people, they would not have printed photos of an 11 year old child. You are right that it was to create racial divide, but it was to rial black people to hate white people, and to kick in the 'white guilt' in white people. The whole thing was portrayed as a big bad evil white man shooting a poor defenseless black child. Of course, the black person wasn't a child, and the white guy was Mexican. Who was the aggressor is hard to say, but what is clear is that this wasn't an attempt to rally white folks against blacks.
I don't believe it does. They only determined that the half-life of a particular animal in a particular location has been 521 years. The study specifically point out that it was for a specific location. It also specifically points out that environmental factors play a role in how long DNA lasts.
It looks like the study point to the idea that DNA degrades exponentially, but it does not pin that degradation to a specific rate.
"Peak Oil" is a fiction. I am not saying that there is not a finite amount of oil in the ground, but all of the varying definitions for "Peak Oil" are BS.
Focusing on 'children' is a red herring in this though. If your problem is with slave labor, then you should say it is with slave labor. Saving a 'child' of 14 from slave labor so that they can become non-child slave labor at 18 isn't a virtue. There is nothing wrong 14 year olds having jobs. Not only is it not wrong, it is a good thing. Slave labor is a bad thing. By complaining about the child labor, people are throwing out the baby and KEEPING the bathwater.
In my youth, I personally knew a couple of girls that ended up as prostitutes right here in the good old US of A because lawmakers believed the crap you are spewing. You get your pick. 'Child' labor, or 'Child' prostitution. We know what side you stand on.
OK, that IS a bit harsh. It is true, but harsh to say. It would be nice if more people would consider the real world outcome of our drive towards eternal 'childhood'.
You must have missed the part ware I was responding to an individual who was already at the 90% mark of that slippery slope. Your already a generation behind for claiming that student tracking doesn't condition kids to be tracked as adults.
No, it just means that this particular community is far less willing to submit to abusive behavior than the one you lived in as a youth. Your attitude is a real world example of why they are outraged.
As for the comment about their parents having badges... There is a big difference between choosing to work at a job that requires badges, and being implicitly told, "Either carry this tracking device, or we will send the men with guns to round you up and imprison you."
Not really. Emphasizing attendance is a surrogate for emphasizing making money. That is the primary concern for schools these days. They have become a business. They get $30 dollars each day for each student. They are trying to make sure that they get as many of those $30 checks as they possibly can.
Your point still stands that they are not concerning themselves with education, but the reason isn't a love of metrics. It is a love of money.
The problem here is that if your kid's school tracks your kid this way on the school campus, your kid likely won't have a problem being tracked that way all the time when they are an adult. Schools are at least as much about social engineering as they are about education. So, unless your attitude is "I got mine, screw my kids." you should be outraged at a school trying to do this.
I'm going to have to agree with you on the too frequent of revisions issue. This is the third revision of the board in less than a year. If they were going to up the memory, they should have done it at the same time that they changed the motherboard layout.
At $35, you can do a lot more revisions than on a $100 or more device, as price is not really an issue. As you say, it is compatibility that is an issue with too many revisions. If the Pi Foundation were smart, they would shoot for a revision once a year, and roll all of their changes into those revisions. I would happily buy 1 or 2 new Pi's a year that had noticeable improvements.
The biggest problem here is that they don't seem to have a really good way to identify by sight which Pi you have, or which Pi you will get if you order one. They need to have clearly stated and marked revision numbers on the boards.
Don't kid yourself. At that age, the kid won't even consider it a different OS. All of the same tried and true desktop metaphors are there. At about 14 months, I set my kid up with his first computer running Ubuntu Linux, and gCompris. In less than 15 minutes of instruction, and a day or two of free play, he was a competent user. When put in front of Windows, he didn't bat an eye at using the system. It was clear that from his perspective, the two worked the same. The transition was no more difficult than using a computer with a different wallpaper.
Yep. gCompris is a great 'First Computer Program'. I set my kid up with his first PC at about 14 months, and started him out on gCompris. The difficulty/reward is great for very young kids, and the age range it is good for is great for everything from a precocious 12 month old to a normal 7 year old.
No, it is more like finding a bunch of hammers around, welding them together in the shape of a pair of pliers in a land where no pliers previously existed, and loudly proclaiming that one has achieved the ability to manufacture impressive tools.
Yes, funerals are for the living. Not for all of the living, but for the living that knew and cared for the dead. The problem that we are facing is the increasingly common practice of trying to force all of the people that didn't know the dead to acknowledge and grieve for them. It is understandable why one might rationalize putting a "In Memory" tag at the end of a movie or TV show that was about the dead, or the dead worked on. This is because the person seeing it has a direct tie to the dead.
In the case of putting "in memory of" on software for people that were totally unrelated to the project, I would say it is in poor taste. It is in line with the piles of garbage that people leave by the roadside when someone dies. Poor taste. Before you assault me about being a monster for calling those piles 'garbage', take the old adage "One mans trash is another mans treasure." It is equally true that "One man's treasure is another mans trash." I fully recognize that those piles are not trash for the people who knew the dead, but for just about everyone else they are.
GNUALMAFUERTE isn't a dumbass. The_Buse invited GNUALMAFUERTE to express his opinion on the matter, and GNUALMAFUERTE did. This is another reason why public displays are a bad idea for death. It is fine for The_Buse to mourn his grandmother, but it would actually The_Buse who is the asshole if he has a problem with complete strangers not caring. It would be The_Buse who is an asshole if he is offended that someone answered his question.
Remember, GNUALMAFUERTE did not seek out The_Buse. The_Buse came to GNUALMAFUERTE for advice.
So, my advice is don't put a memorial in the software. Have a funeral. Invite her friends. Invite her family. Invite those that you think might want to be there because they are your friends and family. If you want something more permanent, commission an oil painting that can be hung in your home. Inviting random strangers (particularly ones that have a reputation of being harsh) into a personal, important, and fragile part of your life is a HUGE mistake.
I have yet to hear a single Libertarian claim that anarchy is a good thing. Every Libertarian I have ever discussed politics has taken the stance that Government was a necessary evil, and that the goal should be to only use it in places that can't work without it. It should be a measure of last resort. What constitutes a necessary place would differ from Libertarian to Libertarian, but none of them have said that there should be no government at all.
Trying to paint Libertarians as Anarchists doesn't make you right. In fact it makes you that much more wrong.
Most people makes their vote based off of party line. Not only do most people not really care who the VP is, they don't really care who the President is. As for the 5 or 10% that tip the scales one way or the other, I would say that the VP ends up being a nudge. If there are 10 issue the voter cares about, the VP as a whole might be 1 of them.
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You have that backwards. If the goal was to make white people fear black people, they would not have printed photos of an 11 year old child. You are right that it was to create racial divide, but it was to rial black people to hate white people, and to kick in the 'white guilt' in white people. The whole thing was portrayed as a big bad evil white man shooting a poor defenseless black child. Of course, the black person wasn't a child, and the white guy was Mexican. Who was the aggressor is hard to say, but what is clear is that this wasn't an attempt to rally white folks against blacks.
I don't believe it does. They only determined that the half-life of a particular animal in a particular location has been 521 years. The study specifically point out that it was for a specific location. It also specifically points out that environmental factors play a role in how long DNA lasts.
It looks like the study point to the idea that DNA degrades exponentially, but it does not pin that degradation to a specific rate.
Do you really think there is a high enough rate of genius in the tranny demographic that all you have to do is find one that joined slashdot early?
"Peak Oil" is a fiction. I am not saying that there is not a finite amount of oil in the ground, but all of the varying definitions for "Peak Oil" are BS.
Dude! You got to bang 3 college aged lesbians? That is like porno grade stuff there.
Focusing on 'children' is a red herring in this though. If your problem is with slave labor, then you should say it is with slave labor. Saving a 'child' of 14 from slave labor so that they can become non-child slave labor at 18 isn't a virtue. There is nothing wrong 14 year olds having jobs. Not only is it not wrong, it is a good thing. Slave labor is a bad thing. By complaining about the child labor, people are throwing out the baby and KEEPING the bathwater.
In my youth, I personally knew a couple of girls that ended up as prostitutes right here in the good old US of A because lawmakers believed the crap you are spewing. You get your pick. 'Child' labor, or 'Child' prostitution. We know what side you stand on.
OK, that IS a bit harsh. It is true, but harsh to say. It would be nice if more people would consider the real world outcome of our drive towards eternal 'childhood'.
Google says it was delayed. http://www.google.com/nexus/#/q
You must have missed the part ware I was responding to an individual who was already at the 90% mark of that slippery slope. Your already a generation behind for claiming that student tracking doesn't condition kids to be tracked as adults.
Or we could just not expect the state to be every child's parent, and the school to be the orphanage they are assigned to.
No, it just means that this particular community is far less willing to submit to abusive behavior than the one you lived in as a youth. Your attitude is a real world example of why they are outraged.
As for the comment about their parents having badges... There is a big difference between choosing to work at a job that requires badges, and being implicitly told, "Either carry this tracking device, or we will send the men with guns to round you up and imprison you."
Not really. Emphasizing attendance is a surrogate for emphasizing making money. That is the primary concern for schools these days. They have become a business. They get $30 dollars each day for each student. They are trying to make sure that they get as many of those $30 checks as they possibly can.
Your point still stands that they are not concerning themselves with education, but the reason isn't a love of metrics. It is a love of money.
The problem here is that if your kid's school tracks your kid this way on the school campus, your kid likely won't have a problem being tracked that way all the time when they are an adult. Schools are at least as much about social engineering as they are about education. So, unless your attitude is "I got mine, screw my kids." you should be outraged at a school trying to do this.
Good news! It's a suppository!
I'm going to have to agree with you on the too frequent of revisions issue. This is the third revision of the board in less than a year. If they were going to up the memory, they should have done it at the same time that they changed the motherboard layout.
At $35, you can do a lot more revisions than on a $100 or more device, as price is not really an issue. As you say, it is compatibility that is an issue with too many revisions. If the Pi Foundation were smart, they would shoot for a revision once a year, and roll all of their changes into those revisions. I would happily buy 1 or 2 new Pi's a year that had noticeable improvements.
The biggest problem here is that they don't seem to have a really good way to identify by sight which Pi you have, or which Pi you will get if you order one. They need to have clearly stated and marked revision numbers on the boards.
Isn't irony fun?
Don't kid yourself. At that age, the kid won't even consider it a different OS. All of the same tried and true desktop metaphors are there. At about 14 months, I set my kid up with his first computer running Ubuntu Linux, and gCompris. In less than 15 minutes of instruction, and a day or two of free play, he was a competent user. When put in front of Windows, he didn't bat an eye at using the system. It was clear that from his perspective, the two worked the same. The transition was no more difficult than using a computer with a different wallpaper.
Yep. gCompris is a great 'First Computer Program'. I set my kid up with his first PC at about 14 months, and started him out on gCompris. The difficulty/reward is great for very young kids, and the age range it is good for is great for everything from a precocious 12 month old to a normal 7 year old.
No, it is more like finding a bunch of hammers around, welding them together in the shape of a pair of pliers in a land where no pliers previously existed, and loudly proclaiming that one has achieved the ability to manufacture impressive tools.
Yes, funerals are for the living. Not for all of the living, but for the living that knew and cared for the dead. The problem that we are facing is the increasingly common practice of trying to force all of the people that didn't know the dead to acknowledge and grieve for them. It is understandable why one might rationalize putting a "In Memory" tag at the end of a movie or TV show that was about the dead, or the dead worked on. This is because the person seeing it has a direct tie to the dead.
In the case of putting "in memory of" on software for people that were totally unrelated to the project, I would say it is in poor taste. It is in line with the piles of garbage that people leave by the roadside when someone dies. Poor taste. Before you assault me about being a monster for calling those piles 'garbage', take the old adage "One mans trash is another mans treasure." It is equally true that "One man's treasure is another mans trash." I fully recognize that those piles are not trash for the people who knew the dead, but for just about everyone else they are.
GNUALMAFUERTE isn't a dumbass. The_Buse invited GNUALMAFUERTE to express his opinion on the matter, and GNUALMAFUERTE did. This is another reason why public displays are a bad idea for death. It is fine for The_Buse to mourn his grandmother, but it would actually The_Buse who is the asshole if he has a problem with complete strangers not caring. It would be The_Buse who is an asshole if he is offended that someone answered his question.
Remember, GNUALMAFUERTE did not seek out The_Buse. The_Buse came to GNUALMAFUERTE for advice.
So, my advice is don't put a memorial in the software. Have a funeral. Invite her friends. Invite her family. Invite those that you think might want to be there because they are your friends and family. If you want something more permanent, commission an oil painting that can be hung in your home. Inviting random strangers (particularly ones that have a reputation of being harsh) into a personal, important, and fragile part of your life is a HUGE mistake.
I have yet to hear a single Libertarian claim that anarchy is a good thing. Every Libertarian I have ever discussed politics has taken the stance that Government was a necessary evil, and that the goal should be to only use it in places that can't work without it. It should be a measure of last resort. What constitutes a necessary place would differ from Libertarian to Libertarian, but none of them have said that there should be no government at all.
Trying to paint Libertarians as Anarchists doesn't make you right. In fact it makes you that much more wrong.
Most people makes their vote based off of party line. Not only do most people not really care who the VP is, they don't really care who the President is. As for the 5 or 10% that tip the scales one way or the other, I would say that the VP ends up being a nudge. If there are 10 issue the voter cares about, the VP as a whole might be 1 of them.
Sealand had a proud history, dating all the way back to it's founding, of letting it's citizens declare allegiance to foreign countries.
Interesting. Which states? It would be interesting to see the accident rates for those places are available.
What are those assumptions?