1- How MUCH is it going to be? If it's over $300, it's not going to sell real fast. Hardcore guys will pay anything for it, but Mom and Dad won't pay that much for junior's box. Stretch out that PS2, son, or get a job.
I think what you are forgetting is that Dad is the one who wants this thing. The average age of gammers is going up pretty fast. Dad just has to be able to get permission from Mom.
"The combination of medieval chivalry and modern lethal technology is pretty ridiculous," says Wilczek. "In real history, gunpowder--or even good crossbows--pretty much put knights out of business."
He fails to point out that swords didn't go away when gun powder and cross bows hit the scene. Broadswords evolved into rapiers and such. In the Three Musketeers, you'll note that they were supposed to be the gun experts and yet used their swords most of the time. Yes guns have won out for the most part, but maybe some new technology will give swords a comeback.
I think it's more that I don't have any kids. I played sports all through grade school, high scool and college. Allthough in college it was Fencing, perhaps the geekiest sport around.
Never soccer though except for in gym class and I grew up in the 80s, born in 77. Granted I grew up in rural America and not the suburbs, and they are always behind the times.
I do think you're estimating the growth of soccer in America to be too early, but it doesn't matter. If you grew up in the 80s, you're still only 30, meaning the majority of adults never played the game and just don't appreciate it because of that. I don't mean to imply that little kids soccer isn't as well coached as anything else little kids play. But before a certain age, they don't really teach them how to play the game. Football, soccer, basketball, all little kids games look exactly the same. There are a bunch of kids all clumped around the ball and one kid at the end of the field picking his nose. If that is a person's only experience of a game, they will never appreciate it.
"Soccer moms" have only come into existence in recent years and those kids are still growing up. Plus those teams aren't very organized on teaching how to play the game or the strategy behind it. As you also point out, not all "soccer moms" are taking their kids to soccer either. Add into that it's a term invented by the media and you can tell how much stock that is worth. I maintain, the vast majority of adults in America have never played soccer in any organized sense that they would truly understand the sport.
Finally, who plays sports as a kid or teenager for the money? Sure, some people in the inner city perhaps, at least that is the sterotype, plus a few trying to get scholarships to college, but teenagers don't play high school sports for the hope of making money, they play them for the fun and social aspects.
I think a big part of why Americans don't care for soccer is because they've never played it. Not in a real organized sense where you learn the rules and the strategy and the little things about the game. You'll never really appreciate a game you've never played. That's why Americans don't like soccer and Europeans don't like Baseball, because neither really gets the strategy.
In order to get a job nowadays, you have to show either a state ID and SSN card, or a passport. Otherwise, they aren't allowed to hire or pay you since they can't do the tax paperwork.
So, where are you going to get the cash to operate on a cash only basis?
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Wait, isnt "the fluff" exactly what they are talking about as the "non-news."
That's the point, that the BBC's news and and their "non-news" is better. For instance CNN has fluff about Paris Hilton fighting with Nicole Richie while BBC has fluff about nut jobs looking at salt stains on a Chicago expressway underpass and seeing an image of Mary. In the end, you don't have to read either story, but I'd rather be distracted by the BBC's than CNN's.
If you have a recommendation about a better News site that doesn't have the "human interest" stuff, I'd love to hear it.
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I mean really, whose left on American Idol should be something you read in TVGuide, not CNN.
True, but you could also just not click on that link. Frankly though, the BBC News site is vastly superior. Still has some fluff, but the fluff tends to be more interesting.
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
~ Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)
The higher the gain of the antenna, the smaller the arc of coverage is going to be. What you really need is one powerful omnidirectional antenna on top of a flag pole. You're going to have trouble finding someone to service it in the middle of winter though.
Why not spring forward an hour every other month? That way we can get rid of that pesky leap year too. Sure, you'll be eating lunch at midnight in two years, but so what.
I often wonder if America's work day got an hour longer and nobody noticed. Who works 9-5 anymore? Did they ever? In theory I work an 8 hour day with an hour for lunch in the middle. Hence I can work 8-5 or 9-6. In reality, I work 8-6 but who's counting? I need to go back to being a contractor where I actually got paid for all the hours I worked.
Leave the tank in the sun. You'll keep it from cooling. You could easily burst the tank however without some safety precautions. I've been there when a SCUBA tank burst because it was left in the sun. Your ears will ring for weeks.
By all means use a spell checker but if you've spend days/weeks/months writing a paper, the least you can do is spend a few hours reading it for grammatical errors!
I agree with you, but the problem for many people is that it is very difficult to do a good job proof reading their own material. At least, I have trouble with it. When I try to proof read my own work, at some point I stop really reading what is on the page and insteed read what I meant.
If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.
That isn't true, I used to take credit cards. The vendor gets an authorization code that gaurentees payment from the credit card company. As a vendor, once you get that code, you don't need to do anything else in order to get paid. You are supposed to keep their signatures on file for about 3 months, but this is only so that if the consumer contests the charge, the credit card company can challenge them or not. Granted, it may be different now, or with different credit card companies, but once I had the code, it was better than cash.
And with your IQ so increased, you might understand that it wasn't worth five years off your life ?
It depends, if it just chops off the five at the end, the five where I'm sitting in some nursing home being abused by the staff and drooling on myself because I don't remember who I am, then go ahead. It's worth it since being more intelligent will most likely improve the quality of life. If it chops off five from the prime of your life and you still end up a quivering blob who doesn't know who he is, then maybe it isn't.
Some of us will take quality over quantity though, and some of us will take some combination in the middle. I doesn't make them wrong.
No offense, but a lot of women can't walk four feet in a store with out gasping "Ohhh! I want THAT!"
That doesn't really tell me anything about the quality of their suggestions. Heck the whole checkout lane is based upon the idea that they can predict what a percentage of both men and women will want. You put a candy bar in front of most people, and they'll want it, but it doesn't make the store psychic.
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I think what you are forgetting is that Dad is the one who wants this thing. The average age of gammers is going up pretty fast. Dad just has to be able to get permission from Mom.
He fails to point out that swords didn't go away when gun powder and cross bows hit the scene. Broadswords evolved into rapiers and such. In the Three Musketeers, you'll note that they were supposed to be the gun experts and yet used their swords most of the time. Yes guns have won out for the most part, but maybe some new technology will give swords a comeback.
"He pulls a knife you pull a gun, he sends one of yours to the hospital you send one of his to the morgue! That's the Chicago way."
Never soccer though except for in gym class and I grew up in the 80s, born in 77. Granted I grew up in rural America and not the suburbs, and they are always behind the times.
I do think you're estimating the growth of soccer in America to be too early, but it doesn't matter. If you grew up in the 80s, you're still only 30, meaning the majority of adults never played the game and just don't appreciate it because of that. I don't mean to imply that little kids soccer isn't as well coached as anything else little kids play. But before a certain age, they don't really teach them how to play the game. Football, soccer, basketball, all little kids games look exactly the same. There are a bunch of kids all clumped around the ball and one kid at the end of the field picking his nose. If that is a person's only experience of a game, they will never appreciate it.
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"Soccer moms" have only come into existence in recent years and those kids are still growing up. Plus those teams aren't very organized on teaching how to play the game or the strategy behind it. As you also point out, not all "soccer moms" are taking their kids to soccer either. Add into that it's a term invented by the media and you can tell how much stock that is worth. I maintain, the vast majority of adults in America have never played soccer in any organized sense that they would truly understand the sport.
Finally, who plays sports as a kid or teenager for the money? Sure, some people in the inner city perhaps, at least that is the sterotype, plus a few trying to get scholarships to college, but teenagers don't play high school sports for the hope of making money, they play them for the fun and social aspects.
I think a big part of why Americans don't care for soccer is because they've never played it. Not in a real organized sense where you learn the rules and the strategy and the little things about the game. You'll never really appreciate a game you've never played. That's why Americans don't like soccer and Europeans don't like Baseball, because neither really gets the strategy.
In order to get a job nowadays, you have to show either a state ID and SSN card, or a passport. Otherwise, they aren't allowed to hire or pay you since they can't do the tax paperwork.
So, where are you going to get the cash to operate on a cash only basis?
That's the point, that the BBC's news and and their "non-news" is better. For instance CNN has fluff about Paris Hilton fighting with Nicole Richie while BBC has fluff about nut jobs looking at salt stains on a Chicago expressway underpass and seeing an image of Mary. In the end, you don't have to read either story, but I'd rather be distracted by the BBC's than CNN's. If you have a recommendation about a better News site that doesn't have the "human interest" stuff, I'd love to hear it.
I mean really, whose left on American Idol should be something you read in TVGuide, not CNN.
True, but you could also just not click on that link. Frankly though, the BBC News site is vastly superior. Still has some fluff, but the fluff tends to be more interesting.
DIY surface to air missile systems
Homeland Security will have a fit!
I don't think that Homeland Security will want to step on the NRA's toes though. It's my constitutional right to have surface to air missiles.
My bicycle travels at the speed of light, you insensitive clod!
My bicycle was stolen you insensitive clod!
"Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total ;of all those acts will be written the history of this generation."
~ Robert F. Kennedy (1925-1968)
The higher the gain of the antenna, the smaller the arc of coverage is going to be. What you really need is one powerful omnidirectional antenna on top of a flag pole. You're going to have trouble finding someone to service it in the middle of winter though.
Why not spring forward an hour every other month? That way we can get rid of that pesky leap year too. Sure, you'll be eating lunch at midnight in two years, but so what.
I often wonder if America's work day got an hour longer and nobody noticed. Who works 9-5 anymore? Did they ever? In theory I work an 8 hour day with an hour for lunch in the middle. Hence I can work 8-5 or 9-6. In reality, I work 8-6 but who's counting? I need to go back to being a contractor where I actually got paid for all the hours I worked.
Leave the tank in the sun. You'll keep it from cooling. You could easily burst the tank however without some safety precautions. I've been there when a SCUBA tank burst because it was left in the sun. Your ears will ring for weeks.
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Are you kidding, Martin Sheen would win in a landslide.
I agree with you, but the problem for many people is that it is very difficult to do a good job proof reading their own material. At least, I have trouble with it. When I try to proof read my own work, at some point I stop really reading what is on the page and insteed read what I meant.
Like the ending of "Midsummer Nights Dream"
If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear.
And this weak and idle theme,
No more yielding but a dream,
Gentles, do not reprehend:
if you pardon, we will mend:
And, as I am an honest Puck,
If we have unearned luck
Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue,
We will make amends ere long;
Else the Puck a liar call;
So, good night unto you all.
Give me your hands, if we be friends,
And Robin shall restore amends.
That isn't true, I used to take credit cards. The vendor gets an authorization code that gaurentees payment from the credit card company. As a vendor, once you get that code, you don't need to do anything else in order to get paid. You are supposed to keep their signatures on file for about 3 months, but this is only so that if the consumer contests the charge, the credit card company can challenge them or not. Granted, it may be different now, or with different credit card companies, but once I had the code, it was better than cash.
It depends, if it just chops off the five at the end, the five where I'm sitting in some nursing home being abused by the staff and drooling on myself because I don't remember who I am, then go ahead. It's worth it since being more intelligent will most likely improve the quality of life. If it chops off five from the prime of your life and you still end up a quivering blob who doesn't know who he is, then maybe it isn't.
Some of us will take quality over quantity though, and some of us will take some combination in the middle. I doesn't make them wrong.
Along those same lines, we had pie at work on Monday at 1:59:26.
I had the apple crumble, it was tasty.
That doesn't really tell me anything about the quality of their suggestions. Heck the whole checkout lane is based upon the idea that they can predict what a percentage of both men and women will want. You put a candy bar in front of most people, and they'll want it, but it doesn't make the store psychic.
That's because over at ARS, they don't have to post the story three different times.