Quick point - getting a hunting license in the US (or at least in any state I've looked into hunting in) isn't "just a matter of signing your name on a piece of paper, waiting a couple of weeks and then getting your brand new rifle." You have to take and pass a hunter safety course where you learn how to properly handle a gun, identify your target, identify what is a safe shot and a kill shot (and not to take the shot if it isn't both), how to navigate based on topo map and compass, etc... And yes, people do fail the course.
That's not to say that people who lack courtesy and will shoot and scare off the animals for other hunters are the ones who fail.
You're not missing much with Android 2.2 being late. I've got it on my droid and I'd almost consider going back to 2.1. The icons routinely disappear off the screen (I just have to swipe to another screen to get them back, but it's an annoyance), and Pandora (or any other streaming music service) is affected by having every other song come through in low quality. All for what? Flash? They claim speed increases, but I haven't noticed any.
It caches, yes, but my Droid starts talking to me to let me know that my 3G connection is gone and it can't update maps. Annoying enough that I shut it off and powered up my friend's Garmin while driving in the Allagash. Navigator had the better interface up until that point.
Hate to say it (because I refuse to use any of my equipment beyond a mouse and keyboard for work-related stuff), but tell that to a mechanic. They mostly supply their own tools. And that is thousands of dollars worth of tools. When they go work for a new garage they'll pull a huge toolchest out of one place and drag it to another.
Funny - one of the things I thought was great about the Avatar 3D was that it was mostly into-screen rather than out-of-screen. There was very little that stuck out beyond the edge of the screen, but depth was there for everything.
Forget EU and the UK. They're piloting the road pricing thing here in Maine. They ran commercials for a few months last fall on the radio asking for people to sign up for this pilot for some small amount of money. In exchange you get a GPS or something similar installed in your car that tracks your in-state driving and informs the government so they can tax you properly.
I'd bet that more people than you'd realize prefer that type of environment for writing code. I know it works for me. Although my copy of Psalm 69 wore out long ago and I have a good brutal mix of other bands on my mp3 player now.
That looks like inflation due to continually rounding in the same direction:
rounding to the nearest 10% 19.5% rounded to 20% have attended but have no degree 7.4% rounded to 10% have an associates degree 17.1% rounded to 20% have a bachelor's only 9.9% rounded to 10% have beyond a bachelor's.
That adds up to 60% which the grandparent kindly rounded to two thirds for us. Since it's really 53.9%, I'd call it half.
You should have known that something was up when a priest told you to install Slackware. The clergy are typically none-to-fond of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and his slack!
Don't get me wrong - I've been a Slayer fan since the 80's, but to say that they have more musical ability than pretty much everything on the radio is just plain wrong. They have written some fantastic stuff and have the ability to play fast, but both Kerry and Jeff get sloppy when they play fast. Tom plays simple bass lines and doesn't get too complicated with the vocals. Dave is a fantastic drummer though.
If you want to compare musical ability of metal players with what you hear on the radio, there are thousands of better choices.
Oh - and to get back to the great grandparent, I don't think the article said that all of this generation listen to rap. Even the quote in the summary says, "Rap music has always been mainstream." You can't deny that for kids going into college this year.
I think SilverEyes answered the bit about killing off all without the mutation quite nicely with this:
Suddenly, during a drought, proto-elephants (or whatever you want to call them) are able to retain enough water by digging for roots, whereas their less fortunate relatives die off.
As for a "first mutated individual," it may have been a trait that occurred in several individuals much like being tall is in humans. It wasn't long ago that being six feet tall was out of the ordinary. Now it's very common and not uncommon to see someone in a crowd over six and a half. Such heights were an existing trait and as they became more desirable they became more pronounced.
Of course, this type of drug testing is done as a condition of employment, not as a legal proceeding. I do not believe such tests would be admissible in court. And a business does have a right to investigate whether their employees are doing something that is detrimental to their ability to work.
To relate it back to the story, I really don't see how social networking could be detrimental to their ability to work (unless they're "networking" 24x7 while they're supposed to be working, but that would be apparent very soon after hiring). Asking for passwords is just plain ridiculous.
There's no problem for teaching Fortran if it's the right tool for the job. It was 13 years ago that I took Fortran in College. It went great with physics and modeling courses. These days I write web-based database apps in Java/Perl/whatever language-du-jour is required of me, but I wouldn't want to use many of these languages for scientific purposes. I'll leave that to Fortran and C.
So did you catch the cheater? That's one of the reasons I started playing with you guys - very low incidence of cheating. Nowadays I always play there unless it's full. And then I keep checking back.
Funny - I don't remember ever playing Urban Terror with you, but the night after we post here I find you on the server I always play on. Sounds like you're a member of the clan - have I always just missed you?
Running at Mach5 - check Wall jump a 3 story building - check slide crouched 40 yards - check execute a perfect headshot with a pistol - I'm just not that good I guess. Sounds like someone on your server's running a hack to me....
There are some good strategies you can use if your team will work with you, but quite often everyone's just looking at their personal score and not the overall team score. Sure - if someone else on your team gets the flag you get 10 points, but if YOU get it you get 15! But find a good server with lots of regulars and it's a blast.
I'll go you one better... I do spend over $50/year on music and movies, and I will gladly pay for what I use. I don't think it's fair that you or anybody else should have to pay for my share. Music and movies are not a necessity, and therefore should not be treated like welfare.
Re:Hey, remember when Ender's Game was good?
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After reading all the posts from folks hating the Ender Sequels, I've got to say that I enjoyed different books at different times in my life. When I was a teenager and first exposed to Ender's Game I thought it was great. I'd heard that the sequels were no good, so I stayed away. Later in life I went back and re-read all 8 books. What struck me was that while I thoroughly enjoyed Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, it was mostly in a nostalgic way. The 3 sequels to Ender's Game all interested me much more. And then when I went on to the Shadow sequels I enjoyed those as some of the best political thrillers I've read. They aren't science fiction books, so you can't judge them as such. Now I'm very much looking forward to Ender in Exile.
I would argue that being economically conservative means spending where you need to and not just paying money out because you want something. Economically liberal means that you're more likely to spend on less necessary things. In this sense, we have no economically conservative politicians in power right now that I'm aware of.
As I mentioned in another reply, they seem to be claiming correlation - not implying that the stickers cause road rage. The word "linked" should kind of tip you off since it basically screams correlation.
I don't think they're saying that people are more likely to rage BECAUSE of the bumper stickers. They're only claiming that there is a correlation between them. So yeah - I think they did already know that.
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Heh - like HR goons know the syntax for grep.
Quick point - getting a hunting license in the US (or at least in any state I've looked into hunting in) isn't "just a matter of signing your name on a piece of paper, waiting a couple of weeks and then getting your brand new rifle." You have to take and pass a hunter safety course where you learn how to properly handle a gun, identify your target, identify what is a safe shot and a kill shot (and not to take the shot if it isn't both), how to navigate based on topo map and compass, etc... And yes, people do fail the course.
That's not to say that people who lack courtesy and will shoot and scare off the animals for other hunters are the ones who fail.
You're not missing much with Android 2.2 being late. I've got it on my droid and I'd almost consider going back to 2.1. The icons routinely disappear off the screen (I just have to swipe to another screen to get them back, but it's an annoyance), and Pandora (or any other streaming music service) is affected by having every other song come through in low quality. All for what? Flash? They claim speed increases, but I haven't noticed any.
It caches, yes, but my Droid starts talking to me to let me know that my 3G connection is gone and it can't update maps. Annoying enough that I shut it off and powered up my friend's Garmin while driving in the Allagash. Navigator had the better interface up until that point.
Hate to say it (because I refuse to use any of my equipment beyond a mouse and keyboard for work-related stuff), but tell that to a mechanic. They mostly supply their own tools. And that is thousands of dollars worth of tools. When they go work for a new garage they'll pull a huge toolchest out of one place and drag it to another.
Funny - one of the things I thought was great about the Avatar 3D was that it was mostly into-screen rather than out-of-screen. There was very little that stuck out beyond the edge of the screen, but depth was there for everything.
Forget EU and the UK. They're piloting the road pricing thing here in Maine. They ran commercials for a few months last fall on the radio asking for people to sign up for this pilot for some small amount of money. In exchange you get a GPS or something similar installed in your car that tracks your in-state driving and informs the government so they can tax you properly.
I say, "No thanks."
I love my (almost) two acre (almost) weed-free lawn. But then again, my kids are all over that thing in the summer.
Being on a science fiction show implies you know something about science? Since when?
I'd bet that more people than you'd realize prefer that type of environment for writing code. I know it works for me. Although my copy of Psalm 69 wore out long ago and I have a good brutal mix of other bands on my mp3 player now.
That looks like inflation due to continually rounding in the same direction:
rounding to the nearest 10%
19.5% rounded to 20% have attended but have no degree
7.4% rounded to 10% have an associates degree
17.1% rounded to 20% have a bachelor's only
9.9% rounded to 10% have beyond a bachelor's.
That adds up to 60% which the grandparent kindly rounded to two thirds for us. Since it's really 53.9%, I'd call it half.
You should have known that something was up when a priest told you to install Slackware. The clergy are typically none-to-fond of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and his slack!
Don't get me wrong - I've been a Slayer fan since the 80's, but to say that they have more musical ability than pretty much everything on the radio is just plain wrong. They have written some fantastic stuff and have the ability to play fast, but both Kerry and Jeff get sloppy when they play fast. Tom plays simple bass lines and doesn't get too complicated with the vocals. Dave is a fantastic drummer though.
If you want to compare musical ability of metal players with what you hear on the radio, there are thousands of better choices.
Oh - and to get back to the great grandparent, I don't think the article said that all of this generation listen to rap. Even the quote in the summary says, "Rap music has always been mainstream." You can't deny that for kids going into college this year.
I think SilverEyes answered the bit about killing off all without the mutation quite nicely with this:
Suddenly, during a drought, proto-elephants (or whatever you want to call them) are able to retain enough water by digging for roots, whereas their less fortunate relatives die off.
As for a "first mutated individual," it may have been a trait that occurred in several individuals much like being tall is in humans. It wasn't long ago that being six feet tall was out of the ordinary. Now it's very common and not uncommon to see someone in a crowd over six and a half. Such heights were an existing trait and as they became more desirable they became more pronounced.
Of course, this type of drug testing is done as a condition of employment, not as a legal proceeding. I do not believe such tests would be admissible in court. And a business does have a right to investigate whether their employees are doing something that is detrimental to their ability to work.
To relate it back to the story, I really don't see how social networking could be detrimental to their ability to work (unless they're "networking" 24x7 while they're supposed to be working, but that would be apparent very soon after hiring). Asking for passwords is just plain ridiculous.
There's no problem for teaching Fortran if it's the right tool for the job. It was 13 years ago that I took Fortran in College. It went great with physics and modeling courses. These days I write web-based database apps in Java/Perl/whatever language-du-jour is required of me, but I wouldn't want to use many of these languages for scientific purposes. I'll leave that to Fortran and C.
I've always been happy to just play the stereo while I'm gaming.
Ah yes - I recognize that name quite well...
So did you catch the cheater? That's one of the reasons I started playing with you guys - very low incidence of cheating. Nowadays I always play there unless it's full. And then I keep checking back.
Funny - I don't remember ever playing Urban Terror with you, but the night after we post here I find you on the server I always play on. Sounds like you're a member of the clan - have I always just missed you?
Good game last night.
Running at Mach5 - check
Wall jump a 3 story building - check
slide crouched 40 yards - check
execute a perfect headshot with a pistol - I'm just not that good I guess. Sounds like someone on your server's running a hack to me....
There are some good strategies you can use if your team will work with you, but quite often everyone's just looking at their personal score and not the overall team score. Sure - if someone else on your team gets the flag you get 10 points, but if YOU get it you get 15! But find a good server with lots of regulars and it's a blast.
I'll go you one better... I do spend over $50/year on music and movies, and I will gladly pay for what I use. I don't think it's fair that you or anybody else should have to pay for my share. Music and movies are not a necessity, and therefore should not be treated like welfare.
After reading all the posts from folks hating the Ender Sequels, I've got to say that I enjoyed different books at different times in my life. When I was a teenager and first exposed to Ender's Game I thought it was great. I'd heard that the sequels were no good, so I stayed away. Later in life I went back and re-read all 8 books. What struck me was that while I thoroughly enjoyed Ender's Game and Ender's Shadow, it was mostly in a nostalgic way. The 3 sequels to Ender's Game all interested me much more. And then when I went on to the Shadow sequels I enjoyed those as some of the best political thrillers I've read. They aren't science fiction books, so you can't judge them as such. Now I'm very much looking forward to Ender in Exile.
I would argue that being economically conservative means spending where you need to and not just paying money out because you want something. Economically liberal means that you're more likely to spend on less necessary things. In this sense, we have no economically conservative politicians in power right now that I'm aware of.
As I mentioned in another reply, they seem to be claiming correlation - not implying that the stickers cause road rage. The word "linked" should kind of tip you off since it basically screams correlation.
I don't think they're saying that people are more likely to rage BECAUSE of the bumper stickers. They're only claiming that there is a correlation between them. So yeah - I think they did already know that.