I don't think I've voted for an incumbent... well, ever, at any level of government. I've also never voted for a winner, at least at the federal level. DAMN YOU, OTHER PEOPLE IN MY DISTRICT/STATE, WASTING MY VOTE!
I emailed the guy running against my representative (who voted for this), asking about his stance on this act, intellectual property issues in general, and net neutrality, because none of this was covered on his website. So far no response, but I'll be voting for him anyhow - if he were to respond favorably, I'd even put up a sign for him, b/c god knows he needs all the help he can get.
I had the exact same experience. When I finally got annoyed and told it "You wouldn't pass my Turing test," it spit out some explanation of what a turing test is.
That was my thought, too. In the original, she has large, pretty eyes - in the new one, she has tiny, beady eyes swimming in a huge forehead. And that's supposed to be more attractive?
Then again, my husband and I often disagree on which women are prettiest, and he claims that it's because men and women have different standards, so maybe I'm just looking at her with the wrong set of chromosomes.
If you're old enough to drive, you're old enough to take responsibility for the way you do it.
The problem is that new, young drivers are often not even aware that they're doing things slightly wrong. Things that are second nature to someone who's been driving even a few years still take actual thought, and if they're distracted for just a second they can lose track of things that older drivers would just keep doing without thinking about it. It's not that they're not responsible, it's just that they're still learning, and will be for the first year or two they're driving. Not allowing them to drive at all will just make them have to learn it later.
I do think that parents should be restricting driving for the first year (for instance, no passengers without an adult, no driving after dark, etc), but this is just one more way for them to help the kids learn and develop the driving reflexes they need while being a bit less potentially dangerous in the process.
I'm sure all the other comments say this same thing b/c it's so very obvious but in case the message hasn't been driven home - none of the idiots I've seen driving badly while on their cel phones were dialing at the time, they were talking. Dialing takes a few seconds, talking can take your whole trip.
Notice that the govt's aim is to shift the responsibility for the problem to the parents.
Funny, I would have phrased that, "The government's aim is to allow parents to retain that responsibility."
The govt. is abdicating it's responsibility
And I'd probably phrase that "The government is recognizing the limits of its powers."
In the case of the 13-year-old, if they occasionally do something other than glare at you, and/or if they pout and grumble about their chores but still get them done eventually - then you're probably doing a terrific job.
I don't even have kids yet, but the idea of them turning into teenagers scares the shit out of me.
I saw a show on this on PBS a while back. They kept playing this really ominous music, the narrator was constantly making frightening suggestions-but-not-declarations like "Could a magnetic pole reversal have killed off the dinosaurs?" Of course, the answer turned out to be no. The whole effect actually managed to get me a little worried about what the punchline would be (yes, I am SO gullible, but at least I'm self-aware about it), but at the end they were just like... Yeah, you'll be able to see the aurora borealis in London fifty years from now. Oh.
But if someone had only been paying half-attention to the show, they totally could have come away with the impression that we're in big trouble.
Some of the ridiculous things I've heard people suggest as alternatives to the bailout (or even people's interpretations of what the bailout actually involves) definitely have me convinced that we shouldn't be letting ourselves directly control the laws. Whether or not the bailout is the best possible answer to the situation, or even one that will do more good than harm, it's probably a better idea than 90% of Americans could come up with - my overeducated (but not in econ) self included.
If you're lower-middle-class, chances are you're already in the second-lowest tax bracket. How do you expect the government to lower your taxes even more AND give you free health care and a free college education?
Btw, cry me a river on the college education. If you're truly lower-middle-class, you qualify for financial aid just like someone who's black with the same income. Yes, it will involve loans that you'll have to eventually pay back - do the math and decide if the increase in salary from getting a degree is likely to offset the loan payments. If you don't go anywhere overpriced, it probably will in the long run.
That's assuming that all divorces are due to reasons that truly couldn't be overcome with therapy and plain hard work. Some kids are certainly better off with divorced parents than, say, abusive parents or even just unhappy parents. But people are also sometimes faster to get divorced these days when it's possible that they could work through it. Of course, no one can say which couples are which, but you definitely can't say that every child of divorced parents is better off.
The recent album was pretty specifically hip hop-themed - given that it's a very prominent current genre, a smart move on his part to pull in new young listeners that paid off big with White & Nerdy. However, that doesn't mean that all of his future work will be based on hip hop, as there are plenty of other popular genres begging to be parodied. Hopefully this new release schedule will allow him to attack more strategically - though I wonder what he'll do with the non-parodies (which are usually my favorite songs!).
You sure? Kurt Cobain said that he knew they'd made it when Al wanted to parody Smells Like Teen Spirit. Most artists (if not always their labels) are pretty excited to have him do their songs.
At any rate, he claims in the blog post that he's releasing a song next week that's a parody of the current #1 song (or possibly last week's #1, it's unclear), so he is clearly not worried about the pitfalls of parodying current hits and in fact seems quite excited about it.
Seeing as how odor is your brain's interpretation of a chemical, it can do things that could be harmful or beneficial. Smelling a familiar scent can trigger emotions and memories, both good and bad. The neurological effects can go much further than simply the interaction of the chemicals on your nose - for instance, when I smelled a certain hand sanitizer I'd used during chemotherapy, three years later, it made me sick to my stomach. There's no chemical in the hand sanitizer that did that, but my brain connected the odor to a physical sensation I'd often experienced alongside the odor. Animals learn certain things - such as what foods to avoid - much more quickly when there is a smell associated with them than, say, a visual stimulus, so odors definitely have an effect on learning.
Heck, even imagining an odor can activate the relevant areas of the brain.
In this case, yes, it is definitely the gas and not the odor of the gas that is causing the problem. But that doesn't mean that odors have no effect on your whatsoever.
You can't play classic Gameboy games on a DS (or even a Micro). I'm sure they could have included another slot, but that would... make the handheld bigger than they wanted. They decided that cutting down on size was worth the loss of one level of backwards compatibility. Same here - only this time, they can offer the GBA (and classic GB even) games for download, so they really have no reason to sacrifice space for being able to use older physical media.
At first I was disappointed in the lack of GBA slot, but how many GBA games do you think will be available soon as $5-10 downloads? Which is cheaper than you can get most of the good ones used. If you already have a stock of GBA games that you play a lot it sucks to rebuy them, but I tend to buy one, play it, then trade it in (with only a few exceptions), so downloading for cheaper would be great!
Ok, I can understand how you could claim that the odor is merely your brain's interpretation of the gas, and therefore cannot be toxic.
But that argument just makes me wish slashdot allowed pictures in comments so that I could post the "I'm here for the long argument about semantics" macro.
Unless the "scope of the topic" is one in which no one ever behaves irrationally, and so I would have absolutely no reason to ever ever interpret something as someone behaving irrationally, then no.
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Your post is harder to read than the damn law.
Metaphorical fail.
I emailed the guy running against my representative (who voted for this), asking about his stance on this act, intellectual property issues in general, and net neutrality, because none of this was covered on his website. So far no response, but I'll be voting for him anyhow - if he were to respond favorably, I'd even put up a sign for him, b/c god knows he needs all the help he can get.
I had the exact same experience. When I finally got annoyed and told it "You wouldn't pass my Turing test," it spit out some explanation of what a turing test is.
That was my thought, too. In the original, she has large, pretty eyes - in the new one, she has tiny, beady eyes swimming in a huge forehead. And that's supposed to be more attractive?
Then again, my husband and I often disagree on which women are prettiest, and he claims that it's because men and women have different standards, so maybe I'm just looking at her with the wrong set of chromosomes.
If you're old enough to drive, you're old enough to take responsibility for the way you do it.
The problem is that new, young drivers are often not even aware that they're doing things slightly wrong. Things that are second nature to someone who's been driving even a few years still take actual thought, and if they're distracted for just a second they can lose track of things that older drivers would just keep doing without thinking about it. It's not that they're not responsible, it's just that they're still learning, and will be for the first year or two they're driving. Not allowing them to drive at all will just make them have to learn it later.
I do think that parents should be restricting driving for the first year (for instance, no passengers without an adult, no driving after dark, etc), but this is just one more way for them to help the kids learn and develop the driving reflexes they need while being a bit less potentially dangerous in the process.
I'm sure all the other comments say this same thing b/c it's so very obvious but in case the message hasn't been driven home - none of the idiots I've seen driving badly while on their cel phones were dialing at the time, they were talking. Dialing takes a few seconds, talking can take your whole trip.
That's not true today: there's very little TV which is a genuine part of the shared experience, simply because it's far more fragmented.
Tell that to the parents of a Hannah Montana fan.
Notice that the govt's aim is to shift the responsibility for the problem to the parents.
Funny, I would have phrased that, "The government's aim is to allow parents to retain that responsibility." The govt. is abdicating it's responsibility
And I'd probably phrase that "The government is recognizing the limits of its powers."
In the case of the 13-year-old, if they occasionally do something other than glare at you, and/or if they pout and grumble about their chores but still get them done eventually - then you're probably doing a terrific job.
I don't even have kids yet, but the idea of them turning into teenagers scares the shit out of me.
That was Nova? Really? Wow, I didn't realize they'd gone so tabloid. Blech.
I saw a show on this on PBS a while back. They kept playing this really ominous music, the narrator was constantly making frightening suggestions-but-not-declarations like "Could a magnetic pole reversal have killed off the dinosaurs?" Of course, the answer turned out to be no. The whole effect actually managed to get me a little worried about what the punchline would be (yes, I am SO gullible, but at least I'm self-aware about it), but at the end they were just like... Yeah, you'll be able to see the aurora borealis in London fifty years from now. Oh.
But if someone had only been paying half-attention to the show, they totally could have come away with the impression that we're in big trouble.
Some of the ridiculous things I've heard people suggest as alternatives to the bailout (or even people's interpretations of what the bailout actually involves) definitely have me convinced that we shouldn't be letting ourselves directly control the laws. Whether or not the bailout is the best possible answer to the situation, or even one that will do more good than harm, it's probably a better idea than 90% of Americans could come up with - my overeducated (but not in econ) self included.
Most of which they expect to make back by reselling the properties eventually. No return on health care.
If you're lower-middle-class, chances are you're already in the second-lowest tax bracket. How do you expect the government to lower your taxes even more AND give you free health care and a free college education?
Btw, cry me a river on the college education. If you're truly lower-middle-class, you qualify for financial aid just like someone who's black with the same income. Yes, it will involve loans that you'll have to eventually pay back - do the math and decide if the increase in salary from getting a degree is likely to offset the loan payments. If you don't go anywhere overpriced, it probably will in the long run.
That's assuming that all divorces are due to reasons that truly couldn't be overcome with therapy and plain hard work. Some kids are certainly better off with divorced parents than, say, abusive parents or even just unhappy parents. But people are also sometimes faster to get divorced these days when it's possible that they could work through it. Of course, no one can say which couples are which, but you definitely can't say that every child of divorced parents is better off.
The recent album was pretty specifically hip hop-themed - given that it's a very prominent current genre, a smart move on his part to pull in new young listeners that paid off big with White & Nerdy. However, that doesn't mean that all of his future work will be based on hip hop, as there are plenty of other popular genres begging to be parodied. Hopefully this new release schedule will allow him to attack more strategically - though I wonder what he'll do with the non-parodies (which are usually my favorite songs!).
Very new, and they won't want it made fun of.
You sure? Kurt Cobain said that he knew they'd made it when Al wanted to parody Smells Like Teen Spirit. Most artists (if not always their labels) are pretty excited to have him do their songs.
At any rate, he claims in the blog post that he's releasing a song next week that's a parody of the current #1 song (or possibly last week's #1, it's unclear), so he is clearly not worried about the pitfalls of parodying current hits and in fact seems quite excited about it.
Seeing as how odor is your brain's interpretation of a chemical, it can do things that could be harmful or beneficial. Smelling a familiar scent can trigger emotions and memories, both good and bad. The neurological effects can go much further than simply the interaction of the chemicals on your nose - for instance, when I smelled a certain hand sanitizer I'd used during chemotherapy, three years later, it made me sick to my stomach. There's no chemical in the hand sanitizer that did that, but my brain connected the odor to a physical sensation I'd often experienced alongside the odor. Animals learn certain things - such as what foods to avoid - much more quickly when there is a smell associated with them than, say, a visual stimulus, so odors definitely have an effect on learning.
Heck, even imagining an odor can activate the relevant areas of the brain.
In this case, yes, it is definitely the gas and not the odor of the gas that is causing the problem. But that doesn't mean that odors have no effect on your whatsoever.
You can't play classic Gameboy games on a DS (or even a Micro). I'm sure they could have included another slot, but that would... make the handheld bigger than they wanted. They decided that cutting down on size was worth the loss of one level of backwards compatibility. Same here - only this time, they can offer the GBA (and classic GB even) games for download, so they really have no reason to sacrifice space for being able to use older physical media.
At first I was disappointed in the lack of GBA slot, but how many GBA games do you think will be available soon as $5-10 downloads? Which is cheaper than you can get most of the good ones used. If you already have a stock of GBA games that you play a lot it sucks to rebuy them, but I tend to buy one, play it, then trade it in (with only a few exceptions), so downloading for cheaper would be great!
Ok, I can understand how you could claim that the odor is merely your brain's interpretation of the gas, and therefore cannot be toxic.
But that argument just makes me wish slashdot allowed pictures in comments so that I could post the "I'm here for the long argument about semantics" macro.
You mean like this?
Unless the "scope of the topic" is one in which no one ever behaves irrationally, and so I would have absolutely no reason to ever ever interpret something as someone behaving irrationally, then no.
No, technically, he did the illegal thing, and thus is getting punished.
Whether it's wrong is up for debate. I can see how someone could think it was wrong, or morally neutral but stupid, or perfectly fine.