What your kid does is entirely within your control.
Read the entire thread. All I was trying to say was that even for a good parent, your child's every move is not entirely within your control (maybe ESPECIALLY for a good parent) and that even good kids with good parents will listen to a bad outside influence now and then - it's part of growing up. The person I was replying to seemed to think that only a bad parent (one who "[had] children without having the resources and maturity to take care of them and raise them properly") would not be able to entirely control with whom their child speaks and interacts.
If the contract contains an early-termination clause, it's perfectly ethical to use the terms laid out in that clause to get out of the rest of your contract.
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a government can always adjust the tax rate or even reverse them if the effects on society turn out to be undesirable.
Assuming you trust the government to decide what effects are undesirable.
Today's station wagons are actually not nearly as ugly as they were back in the 80s. When I have kids, I actually might not be embarrassed to own one (though honestly, I've always liked minivans).
I dunno about that. These days, SUVs scream "soccer mom" to me. Hybrids are the new "I'm so young and hip" vehicle. I'm guessing that within a couple of years, a lot of families that would have driven SUVs five years ago will own a minivan/station wagon that's only used when it has to be an a cute little hybrid that's driven whenever possible.
Well, I did buy a phone card there once when I locked my cel phone (and housekeys) in my house. I guess it's the next logical step... (Thank goodness they also had one of the last remaining pay phones outside.)
What your kid does is entirely within your control. if "they spend a lot more time talking to their friends and being on-line," try being a parent and exercising some parental control.
Bold words from someone who has "chosen not to have them until I'm in a position to raise them in a way that they deserve." I'm sure you'd also freak if this guy tried to ban his 16-year-old from playing GTA.
It's been shown over and over again that once children enter school, their peers have greater influence over their personality and decisions than their parents do. You've got genetics plus about 5-6 years to instill your values, then do what you can and hope for the best. Both the genetics and the first few years can be very strong influences, but they're both often rebelled against during the teen years and their true influence might not be seen til after college.
Presumably, shortly the US will no longer be the world's largest market. I think Europe has already overtaken in in many ways....
It's interesting that people are splitting "markets" into US vs Europe. Last I checked, those were still two different levels of analysis - the US being a country and Europe being a whole bunch of countries. Shouldn't it be Europe vs North America? At least, for the moment, until the EU finally realizes its dream of becoming one shiny happy country that doesn't know the difference between a constitution and a complete code of law...
That's basically a set of three minigames you do over and over again, not an immersive game environment where you learn the language through your interactions with people and things in the environment. It's framed by a bit of a (really lame) story, but that's it.
... Yes, because my computer is going to just stop working when they release 10.6 and I can't install it.
Hell, I'm still running 10.3 on my home computer and 10.4 on my work laptop. Somehow a lack of 10.5 has not hurt me at all, I doubt a lack of 10.6 will have any more of an effect.
I dunno, when my sister tried to update from 10.5.0 to 10.5.2, her computer refused to restart. She had to take it to a Genius Bar (and this is an emac, no easy task) where they restored it to 10.5.0. She still hasn't been brave enough to try 10.5.3. This was not an uncommon problem.
Plus, Apple made some absolutely ridiculous design errors - most of which, thankfully, were fixed with 10.5.2 (if you could get it to install).
I definitely wouldn't say "fiasco," you're right, that's outright hyperbole, but it seems like it's been a rougher upgrade than any other recent one. The soup was definitely lukewarm, but it's not like there was spit in it, or it was the wrong soup.
Most of them, that I've seen at least, contain nothing but cutesy little games that aren't much more than dressed-up flashcards or worksheets from your Spanish I class. Nothing like a full immersive game environment. This type of a game might contain those types of things as mini-games, etc, but you can do so much more than that.
Someone please create something similar for the DS! For a learning environments design class, my partners and I designed something along the same lines, only not an MMO, to teach Swedish (one guy happened to know Swedish) on the DS. Just the bare-bones outline of a design, no programming, but something like that would ROCK. Everyone in the class agreed we wanted one - some people would even buy a DS to get that kind of a language-learning game in preparation for a trip.
The DS is the perfect platform - multiple types of possible input, including typing, writing, and voice (which could be turned off if you're on the go), portable, affordable. Create a game where you're a tourist in some foreign city and must complete little missions like finding a hotel and eating in a restaurant, along with something more out-there for the fun factor. In addition to language, you'd be able to get some cultural info (like currency, etc) as well as a map of part of the city if that's where you'll be visiting. Sure, the stores etc won't be accurate but it could incorporate major tourist landmarks like museums and historical sites.
SOMEONE PLEASE STEAL THIS IDEA AND MAKE IT. Please. I have no idea how to go about making a video game.
But a) they weren't originally trying to make it look like they were downloading anything - they were just monitoring the traffic for a different study, and then happened to get all these takedown notices and were like, hey, we should look into this.
And b) the point isn't that they made it look like THEY were committing infringement, they made it look like SOMEONE ELSE WAS. Big difference between bringing a fake gun to school and planting the fake gun in someone else's backpack. If you can put it in their backpack, someone else could too, and the school administration should allow for the fact that the kid whose backpack it's in might be innocent.
Overall, it's pretty predictable: The democrat wants more government regulation, the Republican wants less government involvement. Shockers all around. (Though the wiretapping issue is the one thing that's not so obvious.)
European governments are utterly blocked and halted things. They never do anything.
You actually meant "they manage to do everything all at once, even the contradictory things, thus making most of what they do meaningless"? Because "they never do anything" implies that none of these laws get passed (which is what happens in the US when the parties are evenly balanced), but you're saying now that they just ALL get passed and because of that nothing works.
And this is because the Ministers of various things are free to act in whatever way suits their party without approval by Parliament, is that right? (Just trying to understand how this works. In the US, you do have different departments that can do some things autonomously, but in the end they all still answer to Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court and many of their ideas/proposals have to be directly approved by Congress. For instance, the Dept of Education couldn't just declare No Child Left Behind to be official policy, Congress had to approve it.)
Behavior changes when people are observed? Psychologists have known this for years. It's called the Hawthorne effect, and it's something you always have to watch for when studying behavior.
Wow, I had no idea the crazy went back that far. The shit with Janet Reno in the 80s even. Anyone who tries to go after anyone for assault after having a hand laid on their shoulder should lose all lawyer privileges. That should just be automatic.
In high school, I took a correspondence class through the University of Missouri, and I had to submit the answers to my scantron-style tests via that sort of modem in our guidance counselors' office. So they did exist. Even then they were pretty outdated, though - this was like 1996. No clue why they still used it for this system.
Given that the government wants to ensure that we all remain educated Stupid in the Evil ignorance of oneism, I think that there is only one website that they find truly threatening.
(...On a side note, it's actually managed to get crazier just in the past few months. Mr Ray is certainly not one to be crowned Wisest Human on Earth and then simply rest on his laurels.)
How is it at all ironic that the people who demonstrated good business sense are now doing well in businesses elsewhere, while the people who held on to an obviously-crumbling dream and refused to accept reality are not? I'm quite an idealist, but sometimes you just have to know when to pack it in and try something else.
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And this part of the statement I was replying to:
What your kid does is entirely within your control.
Read the entire thread. All I was trying to say was that even for a good parent, your child's every move is not entirely within your control (maybe ESPECIALLY for a good parent) and that even good kids with good parents will listen to a bad outside influence now and then - it's part of growing up. The person I was replying to seemed to think that only a bad parent (one who "[had] children without having the resources and maturity to take care of them and raise them properly") would not be able to entirely control with whom their child speaks and interacts.
If the contract contains an early-termination clause, it's perfectly ethical to use the terms laid out in that clause to get out of the rest of your contract.
Assuming you trust the government to decide what effects are undesirable.
Today's station wagons are actually not nearly as ugly as they were back in the 80s. When I have kids, I actually might not be embarrassed to own one (though honestly, I've always liked minivans).
I dunno about that. These days, SUVs scream "soccer mom" to me. Hybrids are the new "I'm so young and hip" vehicle. I'm guessing that within a couple of years, a lot of families that would have driven SUVs five years ago will own a minivan/station wagon that's only used when it has to be an a cute little hybrid that's driven whenever possible.
Well, I did buy a phone card there once when I locked my cel phone (and housekeys) in my house. I guess it's the next logical step... (Thank goodness they also had one of the last remaining pay phones outside.)
Bold words from someone who has "chosen not to have them until I'm in a position to raise them in a way that they deserve." I'm sure you'd also freak if this guy tried to ban his 16-year-old from playing GTA.
It's been shown over and over again that once children enter school, their peers have greater influence over their personality and decisions than their parents do. You've got genetics plus about 5-6 years to instill your values, then do what you can and hope for the best. Both the genetics and the first few years can be very strong influences, but they're both often rebelled against during the teen years and their true influence might not be seen til after college.
It's interesting that people are splitting "markets" into US vs Europe. Last I checked, those were still two different levels of analysis - the US being a country and Europe being a whole bunch of countries. Shouldn't it be Europe vs North America? At least, for the moment, until the EU finally realizes its dream of becoming one shiny happy country that doesn't know the difference between a constitution and a complete code of law...
That's basically a set of three minigames you do over and over again, not an immersive game environment where you learn the language through your interactions with people and things in the environment. It's framed by a bit of a (really lame) story, but that's it.
Pretty easily, given your writing style.
Hell, I'm still running 10.3 on my home computer and 10.4 on my work laptop. Somehow a lack of 10.5 has not hurt me at all, I doubt a lack of 10.6 will have any more of an effect.
You must be new here.
Plus, Apple made some absolutely ridiculous design errors - most of which, thankfully, were fixed with 10.5.2 (if you could get it to install).
I definitely wouldn't say "fiasco," you're right, that's outright hyperbole, but it seems like it's been a rougher upgrade than any other recent one. The soup was definitely lukewarm, but it's not like there was spit in it, or it was the wrong soup.
Most of them, that I've seen at least, contain nothing but cutesy little games that aren't much more than dressed-up flashcards or worksheets from your Spanish I class. Nothing like a full immersive game environment. This type of a game might contain those types of things as mini-games, etc, but you can do so much more than that.
The DS is the perfect platform - multiple types of possible input, including typing, writing, and voice (which could be turned off if you're on the go), portable, affordable. Create a game where you're a tourist in some foreign city and must complete little missions like finding a hotel and eating in a restaurant, along with something more out-there for the fun factor. In addition to language, you'd be able to get some cultural info (like currency, etc) as well as a map of part of the city if that's where you'll be visiting. Sure, the stores etc won't be accurate but it could incorporate major tourist landmarks like museums and historical sites.
SOMEONE PLEASE STEAL THIS IDEA AND MAKE IT. Please. I have no idea how to go about making a video game.
And b) the point isn't that they made it look like THEY were committing infringement, they made it look like SOMEONE ELSE WAS. Big difference between bringing a fake gun to school and planting the fake gun in someone else's backpack. If you can put it in their backpack, someone else could too, and the school administration should allow for the fact that the kid whose backpack it's in might be innocent.
It means you need to restart the printer's download of Geto Boys MP3s.
Overall, it's pretty predictable: The democrat wants more government regulation, the Republican wants less government involvement. Shockers all around. (Though the wiretapping issue is the one thing that's not so obvious.)
European governments are utterly blocked and halted things. They never do anything.
You actually meant "they manage to do everything all at once, even the contradictory things, thus making most of what they do meaningless"? Because "they never do anything" implies that none of these laws get passed (which is what happens in the US when the parties are evenly balanced), but you're saying now that they just ALL get passed and because of that nothing works.
And this is because the Ministers of various things are free to act in whatever way suits their party without approval by Parliament, is that right? (Just trying to understand how this works. In the US, you do have different departments that can do some things autonomously, but in the end they all still answer to Congress, the President, and the Supreme Court and many of their ideas/proposals have to be directly approved by Congress. For instance, the Dept of Education couldn't just declare No Child Left Behind to be official policy, Congress had to approve it.)
Behavior changes when people are observed? Psychologists have known this for years. It's called the Hawthorne effect, and it's something you always have to watch for when studying behavior.
Wow, I had no idea the crazy went back that far. The shit with Janet Reno in the 80s even. Anyone who tries to go after anyone for assault after having a hand laid on their shoulder should lose all lawyer privileges. That should just be automatic.
In high school, I took a correspondence class through the University of Missouri, and I had to submit the answers to my scantron-style tests via that sort of modem in our guidance counselors' office. So they did exist. Even then they were pretty outdated, though - this was like 1996. No clue why they still used it for this system.
(...On a side note, it's actually managed to get crazier just in the past few months. Mr Ray is certainly not one to be crowned Wisest Human on Earth and then simply rest on his laurels.)
How is it at all ironic that the people who demonstrated good business sense are now doing well in businesses elsewhere, while the people who held on to an obviously-crumbling dream and refused to accept reality are not? I'm quite an idealist, but sometimes you just have to know when to pack it in and try something else.
Not much better. They go on a helicopter over uncharted Amazonian jungle, and the best camera they bring is their cel phone?