The traditional family with one wage-earner and one stay-at-home person is not that common any more. Now it's 2 wage earners, or 1 wage earner and an empty seat. Fix that, and maybe you can increase home-schooling.
We could always try the multi-party family units, a la Robert Heinlein. Then you'd have multiple husbands and wives to share the duties of home schooling. I dare say the kids might even come out better if they had the tutelage of several points of view and experience.
I already have one wife. I haven't suggested adding more on to the tree as of yet; we haven't got kids to educate at home. I suppose that there's a good argument here to add-a-wife: procreation!
From the article: "One topic that is evidently too hot to handle: How do you cope with sexual desire among healthy young men and women during a mission years long?"
Okay, I read most of the posts for this topic so far. As a tired politico myself, I have to tell you something significant and important:
Gun CONTROL is NOT POSSIBLE.
I'm a liberal leaning Democrat, grew up in a southern state, and own 5 handguns. I also own a really neat carbine called the CX4 Storm, made by Beretta.
My father, a strongly conservative Republican who thinks even Bush the Lesser is a little liberal, owns more than 30 total guns. My grandfather has somewhere in the range of 400 guns (though not all of them can be fired).
We're pretty typical American citizens. I have NO idea how many total guns are out there in the hands of the general population. I suspect that professional politicians do. That is why they can take a stance that says "I'm for gun control," and yet have no real way to enforce it.
Some real right leaners think that the laws forbidding you to carry a concealed handgun into a courtroom/airport/public school/etc. amount to Gun Control. Strictly speaking, it is. But, ask yourself reasonably, why do you need to go packing in an airport? Do you really hate your student's teacher THAT much for forcing you into a parent-teacher conference? And let's just face it, a gun in a courtroom that's not in a plastic evidence bag is just looking for trouble.
What, pray tell, can a President like Hillary (presume she gets elected) do to curtail our Second Amendment rights? No flames, please. I'd really like to hear.
What do you think is easier, from the Chinese point of view: attempt to de-orbit the aging weather satellite or blow it to little pieces with a large hunk of steel?
I wonder if this new technology could actually be adapted to something useful, such as making my t-bone steak a perfect medium-rare?
Also, not in the article, but how would this affect plant life? Seems that radiation of that type would cause a devastating effect in just a few minutes of exposure, since the plant cannot execute the "Goodbye Maneuver."
Maybe this new weapon would be more useful in eliminating the damn kudzu from the American south.
you might as well believe the world was created 5 minutes ago by a spaghetti monster.
That's Flying Spaghetti Monster, sir!
People believe what they choose. The sheer 'wrongheadedness' of some of these beliefs will increase your blood pressure. I am, personally, of the belief that no one thing/event/entity created this which I perceive to be my world. The healthiest attitude yet I can discover is that it simply doesn't matter. Our corporeal, physical lives are pretty damn brief, even assuming we dodge chance often enough to make it into our 90's. Then, you get to die in a shootout with the police http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/22/woman.shot.ap/ind ex.html.
The major part of this entire issue is egoistic. One person says, "I believe that creationism is absolute truth, and anyone who disagrees with me will go to hell!" Another person will say, "I believe that The Flying Spaghetti Monster created everything, and anyone who disagrees with ME will go to hell."
Moral of the story, there's no truth to belief. Only comfort comes from belief.
"Make sure you vote on November 7, make sure if you're using a DRE machine that your vote is properly recorded"
How exactly do I do that? I have no paper chit to put in a box and I have no idea what was written to the drive.
Well, I can't think of how to check the drive's contents, but I for one am taking a photo with my camera phone. I live in an area where my vote might even count, so I'd like some record.
Also, I'd really like to watch this documentary, but haven't HBO. Has anyone done the dirty work to put it up as a torrent yet? Redundant, I know, but I'm most interested here.
I personally prefer Star Trek: Armada II for real-time strategy.
When the carpal tunnel isn't too awful, I'll break into an hour or so of original Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition.
And when the pain killers are prescription rather than over-the-counter, I can tolerate a few hours of Need For Speed Underground.
Failing these three, I always enjoy a game of "Let's re-install the OS". It is a little more challenging when drunk, though, and the outcome is more often disastrous.
Finally, I recommend marriage. There is no more comforting game than the one we play with our other half.
Looks like an 'air taxi' service with a potentially reasonable price. Probably won't be "really" affordable for most individual commercial fliers, but get a group of four people together and I bet it'd be almost as cheap as ticket resellers like priceline, etc.
I'm going to keep my eye on this company. They're still in the 'looking for investors' stage now, but if they take off (pun coincidental, but funny), they'll make lotsa money. Those mini jets they're buying are quite neat http://www.eclipseaviation.com/eclipse_500/. I wish I had one.
Everyone knows that devil worship and witchcraft increase by orders of magnitude every time a new Harry Potter book or movie is released. Why do you hate Jesus?
For me, it's because Jesus and Pedro are the two dudes at Chipotle that just can't roll a tight burrito. Loose burritos lead to messes. Messes lead to stained shirts. Stained shirts lead to hate.
Appearing before the Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development last year, Carleton University paleoclimatologist Professor Tim Patterson testified, "There is no meaningful correlation between CO2 levels and Earth's temperature over this [geologic] time frame. In fact, when CO2 levels were over ten times higher than they are now, about 450 million years ago, the planet was in the depths of the absolute coldest period in the last half billion years." Patterson asked the committee, "On the basis of this evidence, how could anyone still believe that the recent relatively small increase in CO2 levels would be the major cause of the past century's modest warming?"
Wasn't that around the time of the Ice Age, which was presumably caused by catastrophic impact with an asteroid or some such? I'd think the particulate levels in our atmosphere back then would cause a 'nuclear winter' effect, making even 10x CO2 totally useless as an insulator, since little thermal radiation was able to penetrate all the dust.
Okay, here we see uncontested evidence that the/. effect overheats computers. Er, it overheats computers whose fans have been removed by their owners to cool their own paltry 98.6F down a degree or two, completely ignoring the smoking machine whose processor just jumped to that magical 170F.
My biggest problem with Bluetooth isn't the appearance factor. It is that the claimed 10 meter range is severely reduced when I wear my tin-foil hat with the headset...
Fantastic! I can't believe I never found the thing before now. Not to mention it works like a champ. I'm able to run my favorite old word processor from high school now.
I shall be _forced_ to ignore the fact that I can also play old games again, like Wing Commander and Mechwarrior. DOSBox is a double edged evil/good tool here...
Thanks again for all those who recommended this tool.
Oh, and the primary reason I won't buy a copy of version 12 for Windows is that I already paid $400 waaaay back when I bought 5.1. I consider it a matter of principle that I don't need to upgrade now.
I've read most comments on this story and see a common theme: backward compatibility ain't gonna be guaranteed or expected.
My current issue is so related, it made me spit Diet Dr. Pepper on the floor when reading. I've been trying for years to get WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS to run on a Windows box. The closest I've ever come is semi-success with Windows98SE. Even then, stuff just wasn't right.
I prefer WP 5.1 for many reasons. First, I grew to love its simplicity. I tailored the screen to be black with white text and not a bloody thing else. The interface was easy to learn. Macros were a breeze.
Anyone got a clue on making this work in a more modern windows box, please include me in your cluefest.
p.s. I've used pico and nano with linux and liked them...but for practicality I must keep a windows machine running.
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We could always try the multi-party family units, a la Robert Heinlein. Then you'd have multiple husbands and wives to share the duties of home schooling. I dare say the kids might even come out better if they had the tutelage of several points of view and experience.
I already have one wife. I haven't suggested adding more on to the tree as of yet; we haven't got kids to educate at home. I suppose that there's a good argument here to add-a-wife: procreation!
Feh. I need my caffiene.
Simple. You let them fuck.
And the people within a 200km radius all enjoyed a free MRI that day, too!
umm...that happened yesterday, folks.
today: DOW up 12268.63 +52.39 (0.43%)
Okay, I read most of the posts for this topic so far. As a tired politico myself, I have to tell you something significant and important:
Gun CONTROL is NOT POSSIBLE.
I'm a liberal leaning Democrat, grew up in a southern state, and own 5 handguns. I also own a really neat carbine called the CX4 Storm, made by Beretta.
My father, a strongly conservative Republican who thinks even Bush the Lesser is a little liberal, owns more than 30 total guns. My grandfather has somewhere in the range of 400 guns (though not all of them can be fired).
We're pretty typical American citizens. I have NO idea how many total guns are out there in the hands of the general population. I suspect that professional politicians do. That is why they can take a stance that says "I'm for gun control," and yet have no real way to enforce it.
Some real right leaners think that the laws forbidding you to carry a concealed handgun into a courtroom/airport/public school/etc. amount to Gun Control. Strictly speaking, it is. But, ask yourself reasonably, why do you need to go packing in an airport? Do you really hate your student's teacher THAT much for forcing you into a parent-teacher conference? And let's just face it, a gun in a courtroom that's not in a plastic evidence bag is just looking for trouble.
What, pray tell, can a President like Hillary (presume she gets elected) do to curtail our Second Amendment rights? No flames, please. I'd really like to hear.
What do you think is easier, from the Chinese point of view: attempt to de-orbit the aging weather satellite or blow it to little pieces with a large hunk of steel?
Join the fight against metrics! :)
We don't want no foreign rulers!
Wouldn't the measurement results be skewed by the act of measuring?
Actually, I believe it is now illegal to melt US-minted coins.
b an-usat_x.htm/
http://www.usatoday.com/money/2006-12-14-melting-
I wonder if this new technology could actually be adapted to something useful, such as making my t-bone steak a perfect medium-rare?
Also, not in the article, but how would this affect plant life? Seems that radiation of that type would cause a devastating effect in just a few minutes of exposure, since the plant cannot execute the "Goodbye Maneuver."
Maybe this new weapon would be more useful in eliminating the damn kudzu from the American south.
That's Flying Spaghetti Monster, sir!
People believe what they choose. The sheer 'wrongheadedness' of some of these beliefs will increase your blood pressure. I am, personally, of the belief that no one thing/event/entity created this which I perceive to be my world. The healthiest attitude yet I can discover is that it simply doesn't matter. Our corporeal, physical lives are pretty damn brief, even assuming we dodge chance often enough to make it into our 90's. Then, you get to die in a shootout with the police http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/22/woman.shot.ap/in
The major part of this entire issue is egoistic. One person says, "I believe that creationism is absolute truth, and anyone who disagrees with me will go to hell!" Another person will say, "I believe that The Flying Spaghetti Monster created everything, and anyone who disagrees with ME will go to hell."
Moral of the story, there's no truth to belief. Only comfort comes from belief.
Well, I can't think of how to check the drive's contents, but I for one am taking a photo with my camera phone. I live in an area where my vote might even count, so I'd like some record.
Also, I'd really like to watch this documentary, but haven't HBO. Has anyone done the dirty work to put it up as a torrent yet? Redundant, I know, but I'm most interested here.
I personally prefer Star Trek: Armada II for real-time strategy.
When the carpal tunnel isn't too awful, I'll break into an hour or so of original Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition.
And when the pain killers are prescription rather than over-the-counter, I can tolerate a few hours of Need For Speed Underground.
Failing these three, I always enjoy a game of "Let's re-install the OS". It is a little more challenging when drunk, though, and the outcome is more often disastrous.
Finally, I recommend marriage. There is no more comforting game than the one we play with our other half.
"Where shall we have lunch?"
--Douglas Adams
A new startup company, http://www.pilotinvestors.com/ seems to be looking for exactly this kind of market.
Looks like an 'air taxi' service with a potentially reasonable price. Probably won't be "really" affordable for most individual commercial fliers, but get a group of four people together and I bet it'd be almost as cheap as ticket resellers like priceline, etc.
I'm going to keep my eye on this company. They're still in the 'looking for investors' stage now, but if they take off (pun coincidental, but funny), they'll make lotsa money. Those mini jets they're buying are quite neat http://www.eclipseaviation.com/eclipse_500/. I wish I had one.
For me, it's because Jesus and Pedro are the two dudes at Chipotle that just can't roll a tight burrito. Loose burritos lead to messes. Messes lead to stained shirts. Stained shirts lead to hate.
See and hear more at http://www.kinkyfriedman.com/index.html . This guy's is gonna de-wussify Texas, if he has to do it one wuss at a time.
Umm, uh, where could my friend like, uh, sign up? Hypothetically that is.
Wasn't that around the time of the Ice Age, which was presumably caused by catastrophic impact with an asteroid or some such? I'd think the particulate levels in our atmosphere back then would cause a 'nuclear winter' effect, making even 10x CO2 totally useless as an insulator, since little thermal radiation was able to penetrate all the dust.
Fewd for thought.
Considering Verizon's crappy coverage in my area, I think the young delinquents here are perfectly invisible.
Okay, here we see uncontested evidence that the /. effect overheats computers. Er, it overheats computers whose fans have been removed by their owners to cool their own paltry 98.6F down a degree or two, completely ignoring the smoking machine whose processor just jumped to that magical 170F.
I can't even RTFA on this one.
My biggest problem with Bluetooth isn't the appearance factor. It is that the claimed 10 meter range is severely reduced when I wear my tin-foil hat with the headset...
Fantastic! I can't believe I never found the thing before now. Not to mention it works like a champ. I'm able to run my favorite old word processor from high school now.
I shall be _forced_ to ignore the fact that I can also play old games again, like Wing Commander and Mechwarrior. DOSBox is a double edged evil/good tool here...
Thanks again for all those who recommended this tool.
Oh, and the primary reason I won't buy a copy of version 12 for Windows is that I already paid $400 waaaay back when I bought 5.1. I consider it a matter of principle that I don't need to upgrade now.
WOO HOO!
I've read most comments on this story and see a common theme: backward compatibility ain't gonna be guaranteed or expected.
My current issue is so related, it made me spit Diet Dr. Pepper on the floor when reading. I've been trying for years to get WordPerfect 5.1 for DOS to run on a Windows box. The closest I've ever come is semi-success with Windows98SE. Even then, stuff just wasn't right.
I prefer WP 5.1 for many reasons. First, I grew to love its simplicity. I tailored the screen to be black with white text and not a bloody thing else. The interface was easy to learn. Macros were a breeze.
Anyone got a clue on making this work in a more modern windows box, please include me in your cluefest.
p.s. I've used pico and nano with linux and liked them...but for practicality I must keep a windows machine running.
Well, not really. The process of combustion with hydrogen is...water.
http://www.hydrogennow.org/Facts/FAQs.htm#10 explains nicely.