Spelling is an organizational skill, not an intelligence skill.
The question remains as to where the organizational issues apply - mental? (and whether you are willing to overlook those organizational flaws; e.g. in hiring?)
There are many who feel spelling is not an issue when a spellchecker is around. This is no different than someone who thinks math is not an issue when a calculator is handy. That dependency doesn't help much [that I've ever seen].
When I was in college 20-25 years ago, it's when calculators were starting to be comfortable in price. Several of us would perform all of our arithmetic in our classes longhand and be done 20 minutes before everyeone else. Then it was calculator time to validate. By the time those who needed a crutch were done, we were outside, playing soccer. One of the nice things about doing it all longhand is if you've got a problem, you can go back over it and find your mistake.
I think it's a coincidence. We keep hearing about global warming tied to our activity. I could just see everyone on the planet agreeing to some preposterous rules to remove any of our interference and the warming would continue.
Much like watering your flowers in the rain. Turning off the human interference (the hose) doesn't stop what nature is already doing.
The human reaction|solution to control this is stupid - we do it in every situation: credits. Companies can then buy|sell|trade those credits. The big boys obtain the credits from the factories who aren't going to use all of theirs and the large(r|st) factories make few, if any changes and are still in compliance with the letter of the law (but obviously not the intent). On top of that, the little companies get a little extra income.
What would happen if they distributed penalty points for licensed drivers in the same way? You'd have plenty of people paying people to assume a couple of their points to avoid losing their license. Drunk drivers would never lose their licenses as long as they had people who would be bought off.
Isn't that how it always seems to be? It is in a plutocracy...
1) The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.
2) Life is like a sh%t sandwich: the more bread you have, the less sh%t you have to eat.
I'm religious but I don't decide what anyone else's beliefs should or shouldn't be. That's their business. This planet would be pretty boring if everyone thought the same way. Fewer problems would be solved. And if we all looked the same, it would be even worse.
But there's always "The Man Who Folded Himself" (David Gerrold - the tribble guy).
Are there any [fatal] diseases in which the same gene in other people are not susceptible to that disease?
Those (African Americans) who have the sickle cell gene do not get malaria. And those of us who aren't African American are not prone to sickle cell but are more than capable of dying from malaria.
I think there are similar situations for CF (Cystic Fibrosis) as well as others I can't remember...
Several scientific papers have pointed out one of the highest collective regions for Asperger's syndrome (in the US) is a certain place in San Francisco....
This page claims it took seven years and $97M. It also states he can interact with it remotely.
This is similar to what the guy who invented voicemail has set up. Nothing has been said WRT the total bill but it's been estimated at $25M. He used to joke that while Bill's will be bigger, his would work.
That's a healthy chunk of change. If he left everything behind to his kids, it'd be split three ways although there's still the Bill & Melinda Trust|Endowment Fund.
Lest anyone think leaving it to the kids keeping future generations in a healthly position take a look at the Kennedys. Just a couple of generations ago, life was cushy and there were few enough everyone could live off of the interest and didn't touch the principal. Guess what? They started breeding like rabbits (or is that like coat hangers in dark clost?) and no one was working enough to replenish the principal.
It's been calculated that the Kennedys could become middle class in the next 4-5 generations.
First things first. There's a "Rich Dad" series: "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" - the advice rich fathers give their children vs. what most fathers tell their kids. Why do which people work for whom? Who owns the company and who works for the owner of the company? There's an entire series - advice for teens, investment advice...
Free tip for saving money (from me): Use Amazon to do your research about books - finding out a hardback book also has a paperback version, which you are willing to buy, the reviews, what books everyone else bought with it, etc. Then: go to AddAll and use a book shopping 'bot to scan (40?) online book stores. Frequently, you'll find you can get a book and shopping for less than the book from B&N or Amazon. And occasionally, you can beat the number of days required to ship it|them. It's no different than using Froogle or PriceWatch to shop.
I was taught: go first class, then find the lowest price.
Now - a perfect example wealth and what the market (of 1) will bear in a clash of wealth vs. rich (or middle class)[1] in an episode of Taxi: Cooking for Two. Reverend Jim torches Louie's apartment and Jim's dad says he'll pay whatever Louie tells Jim on the phone (Jim's dad is extremely wealthy, as we see in another episode. Alex points out the danger of doing that - that Louie would fill it out for $1M and Louie tells him that's where they are different. Louie says there's a value low enough that (Louie shrugs his shoulders and makes a quick cheep) and high enough to make him (shudder). And Louie sets about to work through his body motions to find the right value. What happens? Louie $30,000 and Jim's dad okays it. Louie is overjoyed until he learns that Jim's dad was expecting the amount to be more like $200k.
[1] Years ago, "middle class" was a defined value. It seems now as though there's upper class and everyone else.
It's time for some of the "special ones" responsible for posting the material to step aside. This is getting more than silly.
It's time to clean house and boot the idiots.
It's not fair to those who submit the stories, only to have some moron with special privileges "edit" (mangle) them to make them grammatically incorrect - mostly, because they don't know what they are doing. I have an authoring background worthy of doing this and I'm certain there are others as well.
It's time to put them out to pasture, but not to stud. We don't need those genes to continue.
I'm guessing you're either still in your teens or trolling. But just in case neither is true:
There are multiple forms of memory. There wil be certain things you need to know without looking them up and there will be things which you need to be familiar enough to have an idea as to whether the information exists - an index - "I know I've seen that somewhere" and be able to track it down quickly. There's also short-term memory - memorize the information for a test, the dump it. You might have to refresh that material for mid-terms and finals, but your brain as at least seen it [once|before].
When I was an EMT half a lifetime ago, would you have preferred I not have memorized some of the things I knew? "It hurts!" "I know, I know. Hold on, I'm reading as fast as I can."
EKG: ______________________________________ oops! (I need to study with Evelyn Wood!)
Can you name a profession where you wouldn't have to waste time memorizing things which could easily be looked up? Oh, and make that a job you'd be willing to work at, long-term (until you retire). That way, you can't claim something like putting nuts on a screws at an assembly line. Obvious things, such as a DJ, where you'd claim all you'd have to do is swap discs (although it's not even that difficult) don't count, either.
You will find it to be very difficult to find a job where you are mentally challenged, don't have to memorize anything[1], and can look things up on a whim, where you'll be effective (doing the right job right) and efficient (doing the right job with good speed).
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[1] Perhaps you'd like to employ the techniques in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" ???
And those who claim they've taken (or will have to take) subjects which will have no effect upon their lives when they get out of school, I feel sorry for them as they must live uneventful lives. I can go through every course these people would consider to be worthless and show how I've used them. And that's from attending a Liberal Arts College. I took as much, if not more, computer science. I see a lot of people coming into interviews with a CS degree and it becomes apparent they have a degree in computer programming. They are not the same thing.
Never heard there are copies on the streets (and likely online)???
Maybe Ep III is fun to look at, but I was bored to death...because I couldn't stand it. Sometimes i wasn't bored...
"Fun to look`at" seems to have been the battle cry for I, II, III. IV, V, and IV really didn't need that much dialogue and the plot lines were pretty straight forward and nothing really needed to be developed. In fact, the movies almost to stand on their own as independent releases; the sign of a good movie.
Because I, II, III were shoehorned into the proper timeline, events, details and history in general, add plenty of dialogue for character development - to ensure we would understand why someone was the way they were in IV, V, VI, ensured an extremely tough challenge for Lucas. Should he have recruited outside assistance?
We, as customers, practically have a right to see phenomenal improvements in the experience (f/x) compared to '77, '80, '83. Even looking at the most recent date '83, there are twenty-two years of increased use of technology for digital animation for movies and cartoons guaranteed the available tools and audience interest.
IIRC, I was shot shot 90% digital, 10% standard. II was shot 100% digital and Lucas was hoping that would give the audiences unbelievable experiences. But there were only nineteen theatres in the US capable of exploiting the features of a digital movie. I'm sure that was a bit demoralizing.
Another interesting thing about this movie is Lucas financed it himself. Does that mean he wanted complete control + guaranteed profits - particularly because he knew it was going to be better than I, and II, that it would just put more butts in the seats?
My grandma, who is 87, has walked three miles a day for years - she had both knees replaced last year and resumed her distance within a couple of weeks. She does this unless the weather is bad, in which case she puts twenty miles on her stationary bike. She's great on the turnaround for email, surfs the web, and has been busy with a lost of features in word processing - putting together substantial family history - collecting biographical information about family members going beyond the usual geneological information. She frequently sends email to younger members of distant relatives (who aren't online) who collect the information and return it back to her to use.
Apparently all of the other pervs have been pretty dumb until now...dumber than possessing child porn to begin with. to wit: Look at all of the child porn owners who have it on their HDs, plaintext. So now they've finally figured out they can try to protect themselves.
Now, if they heed the advice of another/. story (below a ways) - the Microsoft security suggestion of writing passwords down so more sophisticated passwords would be used, they could claim they wrote it down and lost the paper. I don't think they could be conviced on the basis of lost information.
On the other hand, the meth lab problem has gotten bad enough here in Central Indiana stores which sell the "right" cough medicines are being instructed to keep them under lock & key, and take the names & addresses of those who buy them. There was a story last week on the news of a guy who bought a dozen boxes and the police were called during his visit. They were waiting for him to come back to his bicycle and was promptly arrested. They then obtained a search warrant and had a lot of fun romping through his living quarters, looking for the remainder of the lab.
Now you know why the entertainment business doesn't like to accept -or- acknowledge scripts or ideas from outsiders. It provides them with ammunition to cry Thief!
In terms of movies and control, I remember reading Stephen King once told another author (Clancy?) was something along the lines of, "The best thing to do with regard to angst about selling your work to the movies is collect your money and let them do what they do. You won't be able to change it and you'll only frustrate yourself."
I remember reading it at the time and thought it made a lot of sense. It reminds me of a lot of people who code for a living and don't want to submit the source along with the delivery of the project - as though they're giving away all of their hard-earned work for someone else to do anything with it. It's been paid for! It's not yours any more!
"The problem with this industry is you don't have to be good, just good enough." (unfortunately, that's not good enough)
-me, circa mid-80s
Most of the new radios & stereos have a crawl which show you the title of the song, the artist, the genre, and the station. (obviously requiring the station in question to transmit that information) That would more or less flatten the need to pay for the same information in a vehicle, and if you call a radio station and ask them what they just played, they'll gladly tell you.
It's been available in the US for a few years as well. Advertised as, "if you're driving down the road, hear a song on the radio, dial your cell, and hold it up to the radio..."
I suppose someone decided their "approved" count was 0-for and they wanted to take a swing with the bat.
I suppose duplicating information across a couple of years is better than repeating the story across a few weeks, eh?
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Current topics on the pet peeve list (so you made #1):
1. "out-of-the-box"?
An overused, misunderstood phrase. Were you by chance referring to lateral thinking? (see: Edward deBono)
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2. karaoke is not carry-okay. How people get carry out of kara I have no idea.
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3. And this is a Van Dyke , not a goatee. This: this is a goatee .
My personal wager is we'll find stem cells are responsible for cancer. Stem cells can be turned into or grown into any other cells.
Consider that along with unchecked growth, wasting with blood-fed tumors, etc.
Also, "Plague Time" makes a good case for bacteria and many diseases, including cancer.
I'll suggest you read it if you aren't familiar with it.
Spelling is an organizational skill, not an intelligence skill.
The question remains as to where the organizational issues apply - mental? (and whether you are willing to overlook those organizational flaws; e.g. in hiring?)
There are many who feel spelling is not an issue when a spellchecker is around. This is no different than someone who thinks math is not an issue when a calculator is handy. That dependency doesn't help much [that I've ever seen].
When I was in college 20-25 years ago, it's when calculators were starting to be comfortable in price. Several of us would perform all of our arithmetic in our classes longhand and be done 20 minutes before everyeone else. Then it was calculator time to validate. By the time those who needed a crutch were done, we were outside, playing soccer. One of the nice things about doing it all longhand is if you've got a problem, you can go back over it and find your mistake.
I think it's a coincidence. We keep hearing about global warming tied to our activity. I could just see everyone on the planet agreeing to some preposterous rules to remove any of our interference and the warming would continue.
Much like watering your flowers in the rain. Turning off the human interference (the hose) doesn't stop what nature is already doing.
The human reaction|solution to control this is stupid - we do it in every situation: credits. Companies can then buy|sell|trade those credits. The big boys obtain the credits from the factories who aren't going to use all of theirs and the large(r|st) factories make few, if any changes and are still in compliance with the letter of the law (but obviously not the intent). On top of that, the little companies get a little extra income.
What would happen if they distributed penalty points for licensed drivers in the same way? You'd have plenty of people paying people to assume a couple of their points to avoid losing their license. Drunk drivers would never lose their licenses as long as they had people who would be bought off.
Isn't that how it always seems to be? It is in a plutocracy
1) The Golden Rule: He who has the gold, makes the rules.
2) Life is like a sh%t sandwich: the more bread you have, the less sh%t you have to eat.
Why pick on the religious?
I'm religious but I don't decide what anyone else's beliefs should or shouldn't be. That's their business. This planet would be pretty boring if everyone thought the same way. Fewer problems would be solved. And if we all looked the same, it would be even worse.
But there's always "The Man Who Folded Himself" (David Gerrold - the tribble guy).
something you learned at band camp
"and one time, at band camp"
Are there any [fatal] diseases in which the same gene in other people are not susceptible to that disease?
Those (African Americans) who have the sickle cell gene do not get malaria. And those of us who aren't African American are not prone to sickle cell but are more than capable of dying from malaria.
I think there are similar situations for CF (Cystic Fibrosis) as well as others I can't remember...
Several scientific papers have pointed out one of the highest collective regions for Asperger's syndrome (in the US) is a certain place in San Francisco....
coincidence?
I was making a joke.
Specifically, paronomasia.
If James Kirk isn't in it, perhaps another cast member could wear Bill's rug so there would at least be a cameo appearance of him on the screen.
I might have you beat...
I've been trying for quite some time to introduce a new markup tag when appropriate:
<ESP>How about this?</ESP>
How is he gettting an exemption for silver? Is there a lot of his estate?
This page claims it took seven years and $97M. It also states he can interact with it remotely.
This is similar to what the guy who invented voicemail has set up. Nothing has been said WRT the total bill but it's been estimated at $25M. He used to joke that while Bill's will be bigger, his would work.
I heard he was going to give away 95%. He does have to have something to live on. If we ballpark this, we could say he's $50B when he croaks.[1]
$50B = 50'000'000'000
5% = 0.05
$50B * 5% = $2'500'000'000.00
or
$2.5B
That's a healthy chunk of change. If he left everything behind to his kids, it'd be split three ways although there's still the Bill & Melinda Trust|Endowment Fund.
Lest anyone think leaving it to the kids keeping future generations in a healthly position take a look at the Kennedys. Just a couple of generations ago, life was cushy and there were few enough everyone could live off of the interest and didn't touch the principal. Guess what? They started breeding like rabbits (or is that like coat hangers in dark clost?) and no one was working enough to replenish the principal.
It's been calculated that the Kennedys could become middle class in the next 4-5 generations.
First things first. There's a "Rich Dad" series: "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" - the advice rich fathers give their children vs. what most fathers tell their kids. Why do which people work for whom? Who owns the company and who works for the owner of the company? There's an entire series - advice for teens, investment advice...
Free tip for saving money (from me): Use Amazon to do your research about books - finding out a hardback book also has a paperback version, which you are willing to buy, the reviews, what books everyone else bought with it, etc.
Then: go to AddAll and use a book shopping 'bot to scan (40?) online book stores. Frequently, you'll find you can get a book and shopping for less than the book from B&N or Amazon. And occasionally, you can beat the number of days required to ship it|them. It's no different than using Froogle or PriceWatch to shop.
I was taught: go first class, then find the lowest price.
Now - a perfect example wealth and what the market (of 1) will bear in a clash of wealth vs. rich (or middle class)[1] in an episode of Taxi: Cooking for Two . Reverend Jim torches Louie's apartment and Jim's dad says he'll pay whatever Louie tells Jim on the phone (Jim's dad is extremely wealthy, as we see in another episode. Alex points out the danger of doing that - that Louie would fill it out for $1M and Louie tells him that's where they are different. Louie says there's a value low enough that (Louie shrugs his shoulders and makes a quick cheep) and high enough to make him (shudder). And Louie sets about to work through his body motions to find the right value. What happens? Louie $30,000 and Jim's dad okays it. Louie is overjoyed until he learns that Jim's dad was expecting the amount to be more like $200k.
[1] Years ago, "middle class" was a defined value. It seems now as though there's upper class and everyone else.
There is around?
It's time for some of the "special ones" responsible for posting the material to step aside. This is getting more than silly.
It's time to clean house and boot the idiots.
It's not fair to those who submit the stories, only to have some moron with special privileges " edit " (mangle) them to make them grammatically incorrect - mostly, because they don't know what they are doing. I have an authoring background worthy of doing this and I'm certain there are others as well.
It's time to put them out to pasture, but not to stud. We don't need those genes to continue.
I'm guessing you're either still in your teens or trolling. But just in case neither is true:
There are multiple forms of memory. There wil be certain things you need to know without looking them up and there will be things which you need to be familiar enough to have an idea as to whether the information exists - an index - "I know I've seen that somewhere" and be able to track it down quickly. There's also short-term memory - memorize the information for a test, the dump it. You might have to refresh that material for mid-terms and finals, but your brain as at least seen it [once|before].
When I was an EMT half a lifetime ago, would you have preferred I not have memorized some of the things I knew? "It hurts!" "I know, I know. Hold on, I'm reading as fast as I can."
EKG: ______________________________________ oops! (I need to study with Evelyn Wood!)
Can you name a profession where you wouldn't have to waste time memorizing things which could easily be looked up? Oh, and make that a job you'd be willing to work at, long-term (until you retire). That way, you can't claim something like putting nuts on a screws at an assembly line. Obvious things, such as a DJ, where you'd claim all you'd have to do is swap discs (although it's not even that difficult) don't count, either.
You will find it to be very difficult to find a job where you are mentally challenged, don't have to memorize anything[1], and can look things up on a whim, where you'll be effective (doing the right job right) and efficient (doing the right job with good speed).
____________________
[1] Perhaps you'd like to employ the techniques in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" ???
And those who claim they've taken (or will have to take) subjects which will have no effect upon their lives when they get out of school, I feel sorry for them as they must live uneventful lives. I can go through every course these people would consider to be worthless and show how I've used them. And that's from attending a Liberal Arts College. I took as much, if not more, computer science. I see a lot of people coming into interviews with a CS degree and it becomes apparent they have a degree in computer programming. They are not the same thing.
That's one way to get things done: get others to do the work for you. Delegate the effort and take the credit later.
You fast-forwarded the movie?
Never heard there are copies on the streets (and likely online)???
Maybe Ep III is fun to look at, but I was bored to death...because I couldn't stand it. Sometimes i wasn't bored...
"Fun to look`at" seems to have been the battle cry for I, II, III. IV, V, and IV really didn't need that much dialogue and the plot lines were pretty straight forward and nothing really needed to be developed. In fact, the movies almost to stand on their own as independent releases; the sign of a good movie.
Because I, II, III were shoehorned into the proper timeline, events, details and history in general, add plenty of dialogue for character development - to ensure we would understand why someone was the way they were in IV, V, VI, ensured an extremely tough challenge for Lucas. Should he have recruited outside assistance?
We, as customers, practically have a right to see phenomenal improvements in the experience (f/x) compared to '77, '80, '83. Even looking at the most recent date '83, there are twenty-two years of increased use of technology for digital animation for movies and cartoons guaranteed the available tools and audience interest.
IIRC, I was shot shot 90% digital, 10% standard. II was shot 100% digital and Lucas was hoping that would give the audiences unbelievable experiences. But there were only nineteen theatres in the US capable of exploiting the features of a digital movie. I'm sure that was a bit demoralizing.
Another interesting thing about this movie is Lucas financed it himself. Does that mean he wanted complete control + guaranteed profits - particularly because he knew it was going to be better than I, and II, that it would just put more butts in the seats?
My grandma, who is 87, has walked three miles a day for years - she had both knees replaced last year and resumed her distance within a couple of weeks. She does this unless the weather is bad, in which case she puts twenty miles on her stationary bike. She's great on the turnaround for email, surfs the web, and has been busy with a lost of features in word processing - putting together substantial family history - collecting biographical information about family members going beyond the usual geneological information. She frequently sends email to younger members of distant relatives (who aren't online) who collect the information and return it back to her to use.
Apparently all of the other pervs have been pretty dumb until now...dumber than possessing child porn to begin with. to wit: Look at all of the child porn owners who have it on their HDs, plaintext. So now they've finally figured out they can try to protect themselves.
/. story (below a ways) - the Microsoft security suggestion of writing passwords down so more sophisticated passwords would be used, they could claim they wrote it down and lost the paper. I don't think they could be conviced on the basis of lost information.
Now, if they heed the advice of another
On the other hand, the meth lab problem has gotten bad enough here in Central Indiana stores which sell the "right" cough medicines are being instructed to keep them under lock & key, and take the names & addresses of those who buy them. There was a story last week on the news of a guy who bought a dozen boxes and the police were called during his visit. They were waiting for him to come back to his bicycle and was promptly arrested. They then obtained a search warrant and had a lot of fun romping through his living quarters, looking for the remainder of the lab.
Now you know why the entertainment business doesn't like to accept -or- acknowledge scripts or ideas from outsiders. It provides them with ammunition to cry Thief!
In terms of movies and control, I remember reading Stephen King once told another author (Clancy?) was something along the lines of, "The best thing to do with regard to angst about selling your work to the movies is collect your money and let them do what they do. You won't be able to change it and you'll only frustrate yourself."
I remember reading it at the time and thought it made a lot of sense. It reminds me of a lot of people who code for a living and don't want to submit the source along with the delivery of the project - as though they're giving away all of their hard-earned work for someone else to do anything with it. It's been paid for! It's not yours any more!
"The problem with this industry is you don't have to be good, just good enough." (unfortunately, that's not good enough)
-me, circa mid-80s
Most of the new radios & stereos have a crawl which show you the title of the song, the artist, the genre, and the station. (obviously requiring the station in question to transmit that information) That would more or less flatten the need to pay for the same information in a vehicle, and if you call a radio station and ask them what they just played, they'll gladly tell you.
It's been available in the US for a few years as well. Advertised as, "if you're driving down the road, hear a song on the radio, dial your cell, and hold it up to the radio..."
I suppose someone decided their "approved" count was 0-for and they wanted to take a swing with the bat.
I suppose duplicating information across a couple of years is better than repeating the story across a few weeks, eh?
Now you know why Wookie Hookie fits so many people. They didn't want to be in costume at work while they waited so they just skipped work altogheter.