These aren't really applicable to schoolkids, but the bulk of this post's readers are looking for some good tips for themselves anyway. I recommend Schlock Mercenary, that rarest of beasts - a hard-scifi webcomic. It doesn't really pay enough attention to physics to be a learning tool, but sticks to its rules quite well. There's a bit of potty humor involved from time to time, but the associated forums are the only place where you can mention a 30-inch sniper rifle and people won't bat an eye in assuming that you're talking about the BORE DIAMETER.
The anime (not the manga) Planetes is remarkable: it has not just silent vacuums and accurate zero-g modelling, but everything down to invisible lasers. And adult diapers in spacesuits.
Oh, the Freespace series was great, the best of the now extinct space shooter genre. They didn't have very much new material, but synthetized the best from all the other ones. You finally get to see properly done enormous beam weapons, too, and one of the only ancient mysterious alien races that actually STAY mysterious. The story's light on characters, but let me put this way... the first part is A New Hope, which features an intriguing self-contained tale. The second one is The Empire Strikes Back, which expanded the universe, started a number of new plot points and left no answers, only further questions.
Then Return of the Jedi was cancelled for the next Descent.
mosw.com is a paysite and does not let anyone download anything without payment. More than 150 spamlinks to it have been deleted from Wikipedia in the last couple of months. Just sayin'.
I've seen quite a lot of arguments defending the United States. Some of them were good ones. Some were not.
Never, ever before have I seen someone attack the Kyoto Treaty by pointing out the nonsignatory status of the Vatican, which is about a kilometer wide and largely consists of St. Peter's Basilica and the Apostolic Palace.
Please do any kind of fact-checking before presenting your facts.
Or you could always find the "E-mail this user" link that's in plain sight on the user page of anyone who's enabled this option. It seems very popular. I'd guess that a not insignificant part of the admins have.
The Administrators noticeboard (search for "Qatar") specifies that the ban on creating accounts is an optional part of an IP block, and that it initially came with this one as default, and was removed once the scope of the block was realized.
The noticeboard also states, repeatedly, that the block had nothing to do with censorship or antipathy towards Qatar. It was result of normal vandal-fighting while not knowing the specific circumstances of this particular instance at the time. But where's the fun of that?
--It would be like allowing George Bush to just grab and try any person, on any street, at any time... our system in the USA is built specifically to NOT ALLOW that!-- You know how on Slashdot, alot of non-USians make nonsense posts and show just how clueless they are of US politics and laws, well... you get my point. Don't be picky. There's plenty of room for USians showing the same about US politics as well. See that quote snippet? Bush signed that power into law last month and the grandparent poster failed to notice. Thank you, o ember in the eternal torch of liberty.
Consider: This actually has some kind of effect on the lives of many of us, if not most. That makes it far more notable than a possible new kind of solar panel coming up in a decade or two, or the hairiness of black holes.
Also, it's [Google's] now battling requests for user details coming from Brazilian and Indian government investigators.
In addition to showing pictures of cats, YouTube serves as a major broadcasting point for governmental and corporate criticism... including the naughty ones... who can now demand the details of undesirable users... and YouTube has been bending over backwards to meet user info demands?
From TFA:In addition to showing pictures of cats, YouTube serves as a major broadcasting point for governmental and corporate criticism... including the naughty ones... who can now demand the details of undesirable users... and YouTube has been bending over backwards to meet user info demands?
You'd really think that people had, by now, learned to think before making obviously reasonable statements.
Citizen: "This supports Bush, right?"
Us: "Well, yes, this is about his administration's approach to global warming--freezing Europe, sinking Japan..."
Citizen: "Where do I sign?"
These kids and their parents don't deserve fines or jail time. They should have had their behinds tanned, been grounded for a month or so and have to do some community service.
Yes.
And how do you propose she do that?
Why does this woman even care if others think she is a lesbian?
TFA says that the profile contained "obscene comments, pictures and graphics." While you might be comfortable with having graphic tales of your fictional cocksucking adventures publically available, it goes on to state that the teacher has been harassed by viewers of the web page, some of whom lived in the area. This goes well beyond an insult.
When I was in high school I was a horrible kid and I don't know how many times I said this teacher or principal was gay or a lesbian. It was the normal insult that most of my friends used.
I was a moron in high school as well, most people are at that age, and the words were indeed a common insult. So what would've happened if you had put a fake erotic ad to a newspaper in a teacher's name, or even just plastered a few nude posters? I know that this is not comparable to homosexuality, but from where I stand your logic seems to say that because people shouldn't care about being gay, it should be assumed that they don't. The MySpace profile could well have caused - and still might cause - serious damage.
Religion classes happen only by consent. Neutral lessons in elämänkatsomustieto (knowledge-of-the-ways-of-viewing-life or some such wordmonster), with elements of ethics, sociology, religious studies, cultural anthropology and the like, are meant for nonreligious students and those of minor religions, but students and their parents can swap religion classes for them.
To get a more authoritative position, I consulted my mother - an ordained and practicing minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. She said, (freely translated) quote:
Speaking as a Finn, you're right. The organization's name - Vapaa-ajattelijat - translates directly as "Freethinkers."
And this is just my opinion, but they're a bit annoying in the help-help-I'm-being-oppressed sense. Intentionally trying to get arrested for the archaic and all-but-gone blasphemy laws, that sort of thing. They got an egg on their faces in public pretty recently, after trying to ban the traditional school ending hymns as offensive to non-Christian immigrants; it turned out the immigrants were cool with it.
Speaking as a Finn - and the headline's ridiculous, by the way, but that's another can of worms - a lot of it goes to keep the services going, the churches in repair, all that jazz, but the church also employs a number of social workers and the Church Foreign Aid is the country's biggest organization of its kind.
8) There is a certain arrogance to the notion that consumers can't be trusted to act in their self-interest but require government's "help" to be protected.
As opposed to what?
How is no net neutrality better for the consumers' interests?
How does giving the telcos the power to use the Tony Soprano - business model help the citizens?
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These aren't really applicable to schoolkids, but the bulk of this post's readers are looking for some good tips for themselves anyway. I recommend Schlock Mercenary , that rarest of beasts - a hard-scifi webcomic. It doesn't really pay enough attention to physics to be a learning tool, but sticks to its rules quite well. There's a bit of potty humor involved from time to time, but the associated forums are the only place where you can mention a 30-inch sniper rifle and people won't bat an eye in assuming that you're talking about the BORE DIAMETER.
The anime (not the manga) Planetes is remarkable: it has not just silent vacuums and accurate zero-g modelling, but everything down to invisible lasers. And adult diapers in spacesuits.
"FREE HOT BABES FOR ALIENS"
When the tentacle monsters break in, it will be a small price to pay for the advancement of human knowledge.
Oh, the Freespace series was great, the best of the now extinct space shooter genre. They didn't have very much new material, but synthetized the best from all the other ones. You finally get to see properly done enormous beam weapons, too, and one of the only ancient mysterious alien races that actually STAY mysterious. The story's light on characters, but let me put this way... the first part is A New Hope, which features an intriguing self-contained tale. The second one is The Empire Strikes Back, which expanded the universe, started a number of new plot points and left no answers, only further questions.
Then Return of the Jedi was cancelled for the next Descent.
mosw.com is a paysite and does not let anyone download anything without payment. More than 150 spamlinks to it have been deleted from Wikipedia in the last couple of months. Just sayin'.
This was originally about censorship, but apparently it works as well on other arbitrary uses of power. We could use a rallying cry. This could help.
It stops where it starts, or not at all.
I've seen quite a lot of arguments defending the United States. Some of them were good ones. Some were not.
Never, ever before have I seen someone attack the Kyoto Treaty by pointing out the nonsignatory status of the Vatican, which is about a kilometer wide and largely consists of St. Peter's Basilica and the Apostolic Palace.
Please do any kind of fact-checking before presenting your facts.
Or you could always find the "E-mail this user" link that's in plain sight on the user page of anyone who's enabled this option. It seems very popular. I'd guess that a not insignificant part of the admins have.
The Administrators noticeboard (search for "Qatar") specifies that the ban on creating accounts is an optional part of an IP block, and that it initially came with this one as default, and was removed once the scope of the block was realized.
The noticeboard also states, repeatedly, that the block had nothing to do with censorship or antipathy towards Qatar. It was result of normal vandal-fighting while not knowing the specific circumstances of this particular instance at the time. But where's the fun of that?
The company has the resources to make you hurt if it wants to. And governments need to be able to ignore that. Mod grandparent up already.
Consider: This actually has some kind of effect on the lives of many of us, if not most. That makes it far more notable than a possible new kind of solar panel coming up in a decade or two, or the hairiness of black holes.
Christ! We've created an uncontrollable fusion
In the room was the last person on Earth. There was a lock on the door.
*Twitch*
From TFA:In addition to showing pictures of cats, YouTube serves as a major broadcasting point for governmental and corporate criticism... including the naughty ones... who can now demand the details of undesirable users... and YouTube has been bending over backwards to meet user info demands?
*Twitch*
And how do you propose she do that?
TFA says that the profile contained "obscene comments, pictures and graphics." While you might be comfortable with having graphic tales of your fictional cocksucking adventures publically available, it goes on to state that the teacher has been harassed by viewers of the web page, some of whom lived in the area. This goes well beyond an insult.
I was a moron in high school as well, most people are at that age, and the words were indeed a common insult. So what would've happened if you had put a fake erotic ad to a newspaper in a teacher's name, or even just plastered a few nude posters? I know that this is not comparable to homosexuality, but from where I stand your logic seems to say that because people shouldn't care about being gay, it should be assumed that they don't. The MySpace profile could well have caused - and still might cause - serious damage.
That only serves to prove that you've never been subjected to a colonoscopy gone wrong.
Which, from the patient's point of view, always happens.
Perhaps some kind of a communal observation system? Or a Less benign version?
Religion classes happen only by consent. Neutral lessons in elämänkatsomustieto (knowledge-of-the-ways-of-viewing-life or some such wordmonster), with elements of ethics, sociology, religious studies, cultural anthropology and the like, are meant for nonreligious students and those of minor religions, but students and their parents can swap religion classes for them.
(fi.wikipedia to the rescue!)
To get a more authoritative position, I consulted my mother - an ordained and practicing minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. She said, (freely translated) quote:
"Fuck no."
Speaking as a Finn, you're right. The organization's name - Vapaa-ajattelijat - translates directly as "Freethinkers."
And this is just my opinion, but they're a bit annoying in the help-help-I'm-being-oppressed sense. Intentionally trying to get arrested for the archaic and all-but-gone blasphemy laws, that sort of thing. They got an egg on their faces in public pretty recently, after trying to ban the traditional school ending hymns as offensive to non-Christian immigrants; it turned out the immigrants were cool with it.
Speaking as a Finn - and the headline's ridiculous, by the way, but that's another can of worms - a lot of it goes to keep the services going, the churches in repair, all that jazz, but the church also employs a number of social workers and the Church Foreign Aid is the country's biggest organization of its kind.
Don't knock it. Does it matter right now?
8) There is a certain arrogance to the notion that consumers can't be trusted to act in their self-interest but require government's "help" to be protected. As opposed to what?
How is no net neutrality better for the consumers' interests?
How does giving the telcos the power to use the Tony Soprano - business model help the citizens?
Hm?