Concerning number one is the problem that school is not a boxing ring. There is a chance you will encourage a bully to leave you alone temporarily, but often a child like this won't accept getting bested like that. They are likely to plan some sort of retaliation; it's not uncommon for them to get a group of other students to ambush you. There's also the risk that they may have a gun. It may sound drastic but at the public school I go to in a decent, suburban area it's not uncommon for kids to claim popularity based on their criminal records (or the ones they claim to have). No doubt some "gangster" could easily try to prove how tough he is by threatening you with a gun.
Then there is just the issue of whether or not you would be successful at fighting back? What if you only make your assbeating worse by pissing them off? I'm sure most of the posters of Slashdot are not paragons of physical fitness.
Concerning the second item, well, that's much simpler. Last year a kid who had been messing with me relentlessly ended up punching me in the face. He's got to be about 20 pounds smaller than I am, and his beating wasn't exactly merciless. Bearing in mind the fact that I had a large accordion folder in each hand for the duration of the fight, I could've pretty easily punched him in the face.
He punched me in the face once and them jumped on my back and then an older kid pulled him off of me before I had even really realized I was being attacked. I purposefully did not fight back for a number of reasons: 1) I didn't feel like my life or health were in any immediate danger, the only actual effect it had on me physically was my face was slightly red where he hit me, and 2) I figured I would get in less trouble if I didn't do anything back. Unfortunately it turned out "less trouble" meant "two days less of ISS." So now I got my ass kicked in front of an audience and I got ISS; I basically got the shaft.
But get this, I'm much more self confident now than I would've been if I'd "confronted" him. Why? Because I am not a douche bag. I don't believe in fighting unless I feel that it's the only way I have to defend myself, and I don't make exceptions for people who supposedly "have it coming." None of my friends think any less of me because of it because... that's what friends are. If they did change their opinion of me because of it then they are not the kind of people I'd want as friends. This kid is going to wind up either in jail, or dropping out of highschool, meanwhile I am living a pleasant life with real friends. All of my classes this year and next are either Advanced Placement or otherwise exclusive and I don't have to deal with any of the white-trash, Tech Prep trash that makes up the majority of the school, and I'm still good at being funny, and acting, and playing music and all the things I was good at before. Why exactly should I feel less confident now?
If you're wondering what I did to make him hit me, it depends on who you ask. He claims I was talking about having sex with his sister. In actuality, I called him Quackenbush, after a character from John Knowles' A Separate Peace.
Why didn't you call the police? What if this person fought back and hurt your daughter? What if her friends did? What if this person brings a gun to school and shoots her? Not only are you an asshole but you're also a shitty parent.
I agree! I say we ban loud breathing too. Anybody who has a cold and has to breathe through their mouth breathes way too loud and it's very distracting. In fact, I think I should be allowed to have everyone but me banned from the classroom, that way it minimizes distractions for me and maximizes the amount of energy the professor can devote to teaching me specifically.
Yes, but even the article summary describes the fossil as being found, not bought off some street vendor. One of the distinctions you may notice is that the majority of fossil forgeries in China are of already discovered fossils created to be sold to collectors. The Archaeoraptor, which I've already mentioned, is the only example of where a "discovery" was made and was convincing enough to fool the scientific community for a fair long amount of time.
Not to mention, after reading TFA I noticed there is no mention of the claim that this fossil may be a fake, in other words it was the high-and-mighty submitter's own contribution. Thanks, but keep your faux-expertise to yourself.
Where exactly did this long track record of forgeries come from? Archeoraptor was a hoax found in China. But that's because, IIRC it was found from a vendor off the street. It's not like people in America weren't peddling Fiji mermaids years ago, or making Bigfoot prints now.
Concerning the bit about switching directing styles, I think Tartakovsky may be well fit for this type of thing. The only series of his that I am really familiar with is Dexter's Lab, but if there's one thing I remember about Dexter's Lab it's that so much of the charm came from the richness of the world he created. The show exhibited a coherency from episode to episode that very few cartoons can match (although there are some exceptions in the series here or there), and does anyone recall the special cross over epiosde that brought together Dexter, Monkey, and the Super Justice Friends?
This being the kind of thing I appreciated most about the series, I can see how Tartakovsky could have a lot of potential directing in this genre.
There will be several different versions such as Windows Vista Red and Blue. They are all pretty much the same, but if you want to complete the game you'll need some friends with the other versions, and some link cables.
The problem with this is that you may personally believe that the Earth is more than a few thousand years old but that's not what the Bible says. I mean, if your religion is such that you have to constantly go back and fix all the inconsistencies with science (AKA the way things actually are) then what does that say about the religion?
From what I can gather in the article, it's not what they were doing. That in mind, I'd consider this experiment fundamentally flawed. It seems like a much more effective way of testing this effect would be to reverse the popularity of songs. Songs rated highly by the independent group would be shown as being rated lowly to the other group and vice-versa. Don't these researchers know anything about experiments?
Given that I don't remember any of the films they've released in the last 5 years, you may be correct. In fact, there is usually an exception to some part of the formula as I've described it, such as say, Mulan, where the girl is the hero but it's still the exact same bullshit with the blossoming romance that almost doesn't make it and then the bad guy who gets defeated in the end and the comic relief etc. etc. etc.
I refuse to buy the argument that Disney makes films that can be called anything close to good. I mean, what is Disney? They're a movie-making company. Movies are there business. They've figured out a system for pumping them out and making money. Can anybody try to argue that Michael Esiner and all the other rich-as-hell Disney executives really give a shit about the movies they make?
I think my point is that I like my art in any medium to be, well, artistic. And Disney is not an artist, it's a corporation.
Did anybody else notice a strong Christopher Guest influence? The prayer-before-the-dinner scene was the most pronounced part to me. I certainly thought it was funny. I thought about doing a Guest style mockumentary on Policy Debate at my school, but that's another story.
The part about high school reminded me of a thing I read in Dragon Magazine about making an RPG version of real life, where all the players tried to design themselves as characters and pick stats they saw as reasonable. I imagine there'd be a severe shortage of Charisma in that party.
"I just accept that Aladdin 4 or whatever is not made for me, it's made for younger kids who don't need quite the same level of quality or sophistication to be entertained."
The quality and sophistication of another pointless movie cranked out according to a rigid formula? Am I the only one here who finds a bit odd that any of Disney's movies get hailed as genius when it's the same freaking movie every freaking time. There's a guy who's the hero, and a pretty girl, and "comic" relief, and a bad guy, and the guy likes the girl but she is not very impressed by him, then they slowly fall in love, and then the badguy does something and it tests the hero's love but then in the end WHOA! THE HERO DEFEATS THE BAD GUY AND HE AND THE GIRL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
Wait, nevermind. Aladdin was different. It had a djinni.
Also, before I forget, the more important point you seem to be forgetting is I'm not the editor of a news site. So remind me again why I'm only allowed to criticize glaring spelling errors when my grammar is impeccable?
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And damnit if porn isn't the hardest thing on the net to find these days.
It's funny how a site dedicated to nerds is so biased against a site dedicated to having friends.
You are an idiot.
Then there is just the issue of whether or not you would be successful at fighting back? What if you only make your assbeating worse by pissing them off? I'm sure most of the posters of Slashdot are not paragons of physical fitness.
Concerning the second item, well, that's much simpler. Last year a kid who had been messing with me relentlessly ended up punching me in the face. He's got to be about 20 pounds smaller than I am, and his beating wasn't exactly merciless. Bearing in mind the fact that I had a large accordion folder in each hand for the duration of the fight, I could've pretty easily punched him in the face.
He punched me in the face once and them jumped on my back and then an older kid pulled him off of me before I had even really realized I was being attacked. I purposefully did not fight back for a number of reasons: 1) I didn't feel like my life or health were in any immediate danger, the only actual effect it had on me physically was my face was slightly red where he hit me, and 2) I figured I would get in less trouble if I didn't do anything back. Unfortunately it turned out "less trouble" meant "two days less of ISS." So now I got my ass kicked in front of an audience and I got ISS; I basically got the shaft.
But get this, I'm much more self confident now than I would've been if I'd "confronted" him. Why? Because I am not a douche bag. I don't believe in fighting unless I feel that it's the only way I have to defend myself, and I don't make exceptions for people who supposedly "have it coming." None of my friends think any less of me because of it because... that's what friends are. If they did change their opinion of me because of it then they are not the kind of people I'd want as friends. This kid is going to wind up either in jail, or dropping out of highschool, meanwhile I am living a pleasant life with real friends. All of my classes this year and next are either Advanced Placement or otherwise exclusive and I don't have to deal with any of the white-trash, Tech Prep trash that makes up the majority of the school, and I'm still good at being funny, and acting, and playing music and all the things I was good at before. Why exactly should I feel less confident now?
If you're wondering what I did to make him hit me, it depends on who you ask. He claims I was talking about having sex with his sister. In actuality, I called him Quackenbush, after a character from John Knowles' A Separate Peace.
Why didn't you call the police? What if this person fought back and hurt your daughter? What if her friends did? What if this person brings a gun to school and shoots her? Not only are you an asshole but you're also a shitty parent.
I agree! I say we ban loud breathing too. Anybody who has a cold and has to breathe through their mouth breathes way too loud and it's very distracting. In fact, I think I should be allowed to have everyone but me banned from the classroom, that way it minimizes distractions for me and maximizes the amount of energy the professor can devote to teaching me specifically.
Yes, but even the article summary describes the fossil as being found, not bought off some street vendor. One of the distinctions you may notice is that the majority of fossil forgeries in China are of already discovered fossils created to be sold to collectors. The Archaeoraptor, which I've already mentioned, is the only example of where a "discovery" was made and was convincing enough to fool the scientific community for a fair long amount of time.
Where exactly did this long track record of forgeries come from? Archeoraptor was a hoax found in China. But that's because, IIRC it was found from a vendor off the street. It's not like people in America weren't peddling Fiji mermaids years ago, or making Bigfoot prints now.
This being the kind of thing I appreciated most about the series, I can see how Tartakovsky could have a lot of potential directing in this genre.
There will be several different versions such as Windows Vista Red and Blue. They are all pretty much the same, but if you want to complete the game you'll need some friends with the other versions, and some link cables.
January was a horrible month for viruses. Take it from me: If you get an email from an Asian Bird, don't open it.
The problem with this is that you may personally believe that the Earth is more than a few thousand years old but that's not what the Bible says. I mean, if your religion is such that you have to constantly go back and fix all the inconsistencies with science (AKA the way things actually are) then what does that say about the religion?
Yeah. I say violence is althe best solution. Why don't we make the schools provide shooting lessons while we're at it?
From what I can gather in the article, it's not what they were doing. That in mind, I'd consider this experiment fundamentally flawed. It seems like a much more effective way of testing this effect would be to reverse the popularity of songs. Songs rated highly by the independent group would be shown as being rated lowly to the other group and vice-versa. Don't these researchers know anything about experiments?
"It will orbit the moon at fifty kilometers and image the entire surface at high resolution."
This device they've built is apparently so complex that it travels in units of distance, rather than speed.
"Yes, that sequence of words you said makes perfect sense."
You must be trying to view the page in China.
No. It's not. You suck at analogies.
No, is not English VSO. Is English SVO. Sound VSO languages retarded.
I refuse to buy the argument that Disney makes films that can be called anything close to good. I mean, what is Disney? They're a movie-making company. Movies are there business. They've figured out a system for pumping them out and making money. Can anybody try to argue that Michael Esiner and all the other rich-as-hell Disney executives really give a shit about the movies they make?
I think my point is that I like my art in any medium to be, well, artistic. And Disney is not an artist, it's a corporation.
I think the issue may have been less with AD&D and more with you being an idiot.
The part about high school reminded me of a thing I read in Dragon Magazine about making an RPG version of real life, where all the players tried to design themselves as characters and pick stats they saw as reasonable. I imagine there'd be a severe shortage of Charisma in that party.
The quality and sophistication of another pointless movie cranked out according to a rigid formula? Am I the only one here who finds a bit odd that any of Disney's movies get hailed as genius when it's the same freaking movie every freaking time. There's a guy who's the hero, and a pretty girl, and "comic" relief, and a bad guy, and the guy likes the girl but she is not very impressed by him, then they slowly fall in love, and then the badguy does something and it tests the hero's love but then in the end WHOA! THE HERO DEFEATS THE BAD GUY AND HE AND THE GIRL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER.
Wait, nevermind. Aladdin was different. It had a djinni.
I don't know how much longer the real sun's going to last. I mean these days it seems like half the time it's not even up there.
Also, before I forget, the more important point you seem to be forgetting is I'm not the editor of a news site. So remind me again why I'm only allowed to criticize glaring spelling errors when my grammar is impeccable?