All those who complain about the 'not in my backyard' syndrome should be forced to live near this site, and have their kids play in the waste. We'll see who cries 'not in my backyard' after a decade of exposure...
Just curious, how would living near and being exposed to radioactive waste make you more accepting of having one built near you in the future?
Otherwise, you're absolutely right. Expecting private for-profit companies to exert any serious effort in cleaning up after themselves borders on retarded.
You can't see the logic in them not wanting unfinished digital copies floating around? They don't care about piracy, (in fact they have a history of not minding) they care about their longtime fans downloading one of the unmastered, unfinished songs and thinking "Holy Jesus this is awful, there's no freaking way I'm going to see them live now."
Some people don't buy a new computer every year. I know, this is/. and that's a hard concept to grasp. A computer sold 3 years ago would very likely have only 256 MB. The hard drive might only be 20 GB, too! Gasp!
Do it our way, and we'll halve the price of our software that you sell your machines with. We both win
More like "Do it our way or you don't get to sell PCs with Windows at all meaning no one buys your computers and you go out of business." That's the business equivalent of a gun to the head. Do X or you "die."
So why can I consent to letting you take my car but I can't consent to letting you nail my cock to a board? Is English law really this ambiguous or do you just not understand it very well?
The only way to counter it is to make sure that the number of states using them is few enough that they cannot have a meaningful effect on the election.
Even one state can have a meaningful effect on the election, especially in a race that's as close as this one is.
That's exactly the point. The games make the system. The fanciest new-fangledest system in the world will fail unless it has great high-quality games in a variety of genres.
Why'd Dreamcast fail? Sega didn't have the titles it needed to succeed. The Atari Jaguar? Way ahead of its time technologically but again no decent games. The Neo-Geo was semi-successful but it was way too expensive to be within price range of the typical family.
Playstation and X-box succeed because they have a LOT of good titles available for them. Gamecube succeeds because it has many of the cross-platform titles as well as a few popular game franchises that are exclusive. (Zelda, Metroid, Mario etc)
But basically I agree with you, predicting success or failure before the system ever comes out is foolish. However, Sony does have a good trackrecord with the previous 2 Playstation systems.
Then why are we not allowed to speak to the public any way we want? Why MUST the government censor us?
Because this country was founded by warmongering puritan wackos. That's why you can show a mutilated headless hooker on NYPD Blue but God forbid you see a nipple or Sipowicz drops an f-bomb.
The big difference being most Americans aren't aware of Echelon and Carnivore. It's shady, secret gubbamint stuff that pretty much only tech-savvy and EFF nuts know about. Your average person doesn't feel like they are being watched. In China, pretty much everyone is aware that their SMS messages (in addition to everything else) are probably being read. If that was happening here in the US with full public knowledge, heads would roll.
That's why you get $5000 of it in cash and travel to Bermuda or Switzerland where you can deposit it safely and transfer it bit-by-bit to US accounts when you need it.
Because companies that you have no business relationship with, nor do you intend to, give you no recourse if they call you over and over again. They have no incentive NOT to.
I'm pretty sure companies you have an existing business relationship with can spam you all they like without DNC violation. Of course, you have the option of taking your business elsewhere if they bother you.
How does teaching your kids at home help better the education of many children? It doesn't, it betters the education of YOUR children. While they may be raised to contribute something back to society as adults, your money that goes into a centralized place of learning does more for the community than a couple more happy cogs in the corporate machine does.
Hm. Giving them more doesn't seem to be producing good results...
Says who? Not all schools are mismanaged and corrupt. If parents would participate in the education system rather than just ignore it our pull their kids out entirely, that kind of shit would happen a lot less frequently. If you're not happy with the school district you're in, there's always private school or moving to another district.
To the contrary, public schools are the height of artificiality. Sitting in a room with 30 people of the same age ends once college is over. Homescholing allows children to interact with folks of all ages, which is a much more socially enriching experience.
Public school teaches kids to deal with authoritative figures that aren't parents, assholes bullies and jerks of all kinds, and the delicate social interactions that are required to make a successful network of friends and peers. If the only people they see until the leave for college are mommy and daddy and a couple of neighborhood kids they've known all their lives, they're not going to function as well in the adult world other than as weird sequestered academic types.
Your social obligation is to the community, not to just your children. If it were otherwise there would be tuition, not school taxes. The system's not perfect, but giving the schools LESS money is not going to fix it.
As far as home schooling goes, if you intend to home school them through the entirety of their pre-collegiate education, I think you're doing them a grave disservice. Kids learn how to interact, survive, and deal with problems socially in school. The education level may not meet your expectations, but you can always supplement that. (or god forbid teach raise your kids to enjoy learning so that they check out new things on their own time)
Yeah, and if you don't HAVE kids, you pay school taxes, too. It's a social obligation to try and improve the community as a whole. It's a shame that the money is sometimes wasted or misspent, but that doesn't change your obligation. Take it up with the school board.
I refuse to take seriously the predictions about the fields of genetics and molecular biology from someone who doesn't even know how fucking spell "enzyme."
Spelling aside, you have no idea what you're talking about. Advances in technology will probably be measuring the same genetic markers, just in a faster and more reliable way. (not that what we're doing now isn't all that reliable)
If you're writing a script for processing scientific data, you may very well use that operator quite a bit, especially with complex equations. I wrote a program to parse data from an experiment measuring the absorption spectra of organic dyes with conjugated pi electron systems and I had to use it quite a few times even in such a small script.
The bottom line is, if there's a feature, someone will probably use it.
And in the rest of the world, academics are expected to have a reasonable grasp of the English language and the spelling of common words therein. Plagiarism is a common word in the academic world, I would expect a "lecturer" to be able to spell it correctly, especially if he's teaching the kind of class where he will be grading papers!
A friend of mine has one of those bikes. He claims he can break any posted speed limit in the US in first gear. (if he really wanted to peg the RPMs that is) I don't know for sure about that but I HAVE seem him blow by me on the highway like I was standing still when I was going over 100. That bike is just wrong.
Just so you know, American Idol is on network television....you know, the public broadcast airwaves. That's where most of the crap lies these days. If you like to watch a little TV now and then and actually see something worthwhile, the only way that's going to happen is with cable.
Bragging about not watching TV is so 90's. Get over yourself.
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All those who complain about the 'not in my backyard' syndrome should be forced to live near this site, and have their kids play in the waste. We'll see who cries 'not in my backyard' after a decade of exposure...
Just curious, how would living near and being exposed to radioactive waste make you more accepting of having one built near you in the future?
Otherwise, you're absolutely right. Expecting private for-profit companies to exert any serious effort in cleaning up after themselves borders on retarded.
Don't forget Colin Powell as Theoden, the one noble and courageous general who became taken over by the forces of evil.
Who the hell gave monkeys mod points today?
You can't see the logic in them not wanting unfinished digital copies floating around? They don't care about piracy, (in fact they have a history of not minding) they care about their longtime fans downloading one of the unmastered, unfinished songs and thinking "Holy Jesus this is awful, there's no freaking way I'm going to see them live now."
Some people don't buy a new computer every year. I know, this is /. and that's a hard concept to grasp. A computer sold 3 years ago would very likely have only 256 MB. The hard drive might only be 20 GB, too! Gasp!
Do it our way, and we'll halve the price of our software that you sell your machines with. We both win
More like "Do it our way or you don't get to sell PCs with Windows at all meaning no one buys your computers and you go out of business." That's the business equivalent of a gun to the head. Do X or you "die."
Hence the FTC stepping in.
So why can I consent to letting you take my car but I can't consent to letting you nail my cock to a board? Is English law really this ambiguous or do you just not understand it very well?
You say that like Sony isn't capable of throwing just as large wads of cash. C'mon man, this is Sony.
And quit giving microsoft ideas. =P
Yeah, because good graphics, of course, require DirectX.
Whatever.
The only way to counter it is to make sure that the number of states using them is few enough that they cannot have a meaningful effect on the election.
Even one state can have a meaningful effect on the election, especially in a race that's as close as this one is.
That's exactly the point. The games make the system. The fanciest new-fangledest system in the world will fail unless it has great high-quality games in a variety of genres.
Why'd Dreamcast fail? Sega didn't have the titles it needed to succeed. The Atari Jaguar? Way ahead of its time technologically but again no decent games. The Neo-Geo was semi-successful but it was way too expensive to be within price range of the typical family.
Playstation and X-box succeed because they have a LOT of good titles available for them. Gamecube succeeds because it has many of the cross-platform titles as well as a few popular game franchises that are exclusive. (Zelda, Metroid, Mario etc)
But basically I agree with you, predicting success or failure before the system ever comes out is foolish. However, Sony does have a good trackrecord with the previous 2 Playstation systems.
Then why are we not allowed to speak to the public any way we want? Why MUST the government censor us?
Because this country was founded by warmongering puritan wackos. That's why you can show a mutilated headless hooker on NYPD Blue but God forbid you see a nipple or Sipowicz drops an f-bomb.
God bless America and stuff.
This is the funniest thing I've ever read on /.
And I have a low ID number.
Here's $10, go buy yourself a steak.
The big difference being most Americans aren't aware of Echelon and Carnivore. It's shady, secret gubbamint stuff that pretty much only tech-savvy and EFF nuts know about. Your average person doesn't feel like they are being watched. In China, pretty much everyone is aware that their SMS messages (in addition to everything else) are probably being read. If that was happening here in the US with full public knowledge, heads would roll.
That's why you get $5000 of it in cash and travel to Bermuda or Switzerland where you can deposit it safely and transfer it bit-by-bit to US accounts when you need it.
How about murder alibi? You know, to prove you were there.
Because companies that you have no business relationship with, nor do you intend to, give you no recourse if they call you over and over again. They have no incentive NOT to.
I'm pretty sure companies you have an existing business relationship with can spam you all they like without DNC violation. Of course, you have the option of taking your business elsewhere if they bother you.
I daresay homeschooling benefits both of them.
How does teaching your kids at home help better the education of many children? It doesn't, it betters the education of YOUR children. While they may be raised to contribute something back to society as adults, your money that goes into a centralized place of learning does more for the community than a couple more happy cogs in the corporate machine does.
Hm. Giving them more doesn't seem to be producing good results...
Says who? Not all schools are mismanaged and corrupt. If parents would participate in the education system rather than just ignore it our pull their kids out entirely, that kind of shit would happen a lot less frequently. If you're not happy with the school district you're in, there's always private school or moving to another district.
To the contrary, public schools are the height of artificiality. Sitting in a room with 30 people of the same age ends once college is over. Homescholing allows children to interact with folks of all ages, which is a much more socially enriching experience.
Public school teaches kids to deal with authoritative figures that aren't parents, assholes bullies and jerks of all kinds, and the delicate social interactions that are required to make a successful network of friends and peers. If the only people they see until the leave for college are mommy and daddy and a couple of neighborhood kids they've known all their lives, they're not going to function as well in the adult world other than as weird sequestered academic types.
Your social obligation is to the community, not to just your children. If it were otherwise there would be tuition, not school taxes. The system's not perfect, but giving the schools LESS money is not going to fix it.
As far as home schooling goes, if you intend to home school them through the entirety of their pre-collegiate education, I think you're doing them a grave disservice. Kids learn how to interact, survive, and deal with problems socially in school. The education level may not meet your expectations, but you can always supplement that. (or god forbid teach raise your kids to enjoy learning so that they check out new things on their own time)
Yeah, and if you don't HAVE kids, you pay school taxes, too. It's a social obligation to try and improve the community as a whole. It's a shame that the money is sometimes wasted or misspent, but that doesn't change your obligation. Take it up with the school board.
I refuse to take seriously the predictions about the fields of genetics and molecular biology from someone who doesn't even know how fucking spell "enzyme."
Spelling aside, you have no idea what you're talking about. Advances in technology will probably be measuring the same genetic markers, just in a faster and more reliable way. (not that what we're doing now isn't all that reliable)
If you're writing a script for processing scientific data, you may very well use that operator quite a bit, especially with complex equations. I wrote a program to parse data from an experiment measuring the absorption spectra of organic dyes with conjugated pi electron systems and I had to use it quite a few times even in such a small script.
The bottom line is, if there's a feature, someone will probably use it.
And in the rest of the world, academics are expected to have a reasonable grasp of the English language and the spelling of common words therein. Plagiarism is a common word in the academic world, I would expect a "lecturer" to be able to spell it correctly, especially if he's teaching the kind of class where he will be grading papers!
A friend of mine has one of those bikes. He claims he can break any posted speed limit in the US in first gear. (if he really wanted to peg the RPMs that is) I don't know for sure about that but I HAVE seem him blow by me on the highway like I was standing still when I was going over 100. That bike is just wrong.
Dear Smartass,
Just so you know, American Idol is on network television....you know, the public broadcast airwaves. That's where most of the crap lies these days. If you like to watch a little TV now and then and actually see something worthwhile, the only way that's going to happen is with cable.
Bragging about not watching TV is so 90's. Get over yourself.