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Well, not having read the article, I imagine the real reason they are deporting him is because of the passport violations. Typically when one is denied entry to a country because of something like this, they are sent back to their country of citizenship. (There was a case of a Syrian-Canadian who tried to come into the US after 9/11 and they denied him entry. Rather than let him drive back to Canada, they flew him to Syria and billed him for it! He had dual citizenship.)
So, the Japanese are hardly at fault here. It's just unlucky that Mr. Fischer still has US citizenship if he can't ever safely return to that country. If Mr. Jenkins hasn't violated any Japanese immigration laws, they can't deport him for that reason, right?
I don't think they do anything but frustrate the gifted students. I too was in that category, and I know that I had opportunities to skip a lot of the boring repetitive stuff, which allowed me to explore my interests. On the other hand, there were other kids who were probably just as "smart", but they didn't have those opportunities and they grew up dreading school. The one in particular that I am thinking of ended up with a number of discipline problems and eventually dropped out of school.
The fact of the matter is that even in college, I don't have to do repetitive exercises to understand material. (Other than foreign languages, that is). I had the opportunity to study abroad in Ireland, which showed me that other systems of education work much better for my style of learning. Over there they expect you to manage your own understanding, and as such don't assign weekly homeworks or things like that.
I'm out probably around $100. I don't buy things solely because they are on rebate any more. It's just not worth it.
That's bullshit, though, if he got the form in originally by the deadline, and they didn't tell him there was a problem until later, he should have an extended deadline to try again. Ridiculous.
Not necessarily. Many gifted students don't need to do the many repetitive exercises that teachers assign the entire class, because they can pick up the ideas after the first or second time through. If the kid can prove they know the material, then why make them waste their time (and yours)? Let them do something else.
You know, I have forgotten to send in rebates before, but every one I have sent in has yielded a check for the correct value. Even the most recent one, which I didn't get mailed until about a week after the postmarked-by deadline. I think they rely more on people forgetting to send it in rather than try to scam those who didn't forget.
Legally speaking, that's true, I suppose. But I thought the original poster was implying that the court examined all the evidence and decided that OJ didn't do it. That's not the case. They decided there wasn't enough evidence to conclude he did do it. It's a subtle difference, but there is a difference.
This is entirely off-topic, but you're incorrect. OJ was not found innocent, he was found not guilty. There is a difference. Innocent means you didn't do it. Not guilty means there is reasonable doubt about whether or not you did it. IANAL, etc.
The M4P files that come from the iTMS include the cover art. So you don't need to download it separately. If you go to File->Print (I'm on Windows here at work, unfortunately... I'm assuming it's similiar on the Mac) there is the option to print a CD jewel case insert as well. (Along with song and album listings.)
I don't order diet pop because it's healthy, I do it because it tastes better. I don't understand why people assume it's because I think I'm being healthy.
'Meanwhile, average users are no longer tech savvy.' Which is to say that they at one point were?
I think the "average users" they are referring to are the average users of the particular technology. The article goes on to say "The gadgets are mainstream, appearing on the shelves of Wal-Mart and other mass retailers," implying that the fact that the tech is mainstream is the reason that the average user is not tech savvy. So when WiFi was only in use by geeks, the average user of the technology was quite savvy.
I think these sports examples are meaningful because one purpose of international sports competition is to promote union between the nations. If the USA participated in the same sports as other countries, then perhaps Americans would have a little bit more understanding about the rest of the world and vice-versa. Yesterday I saw a news clip about the Gaza strip where some Palestinian teenagers were wearing the Brazilian national football team shirts. If the USA had a national team that was respected in a "world standard" sport such as football, then perhaps 9/11 wouldn't have happened.
It may or may not be true that if the US participated in a "world standard" sport, 9/11 would not have happened, but I think that's a pretty unfair thing to want. It isn't like Americans play (our) football, baseball, or basketball to spite the rest of the world--it's simply that we enjoy those sports more than (soccer) football or cricket or rugby. It's a cultural difference--not bad or good or anything. Your argument could easily be turned around to say "hey, if the rest of the world played the same sports as those Americans, maybe the rest of the world would have a better understanding of them and vice-versa."
This is ridiculous. A properly managed hog farm will produce little to no smell. I know, because my dad and uncle own such a farm. Only very rarely can one smell the farm from the road, which is less than.25 miles from the production buildings. The lagoon we use to store manure during its breakdown period does not smell due to the bacteria we put into the mix.
Please note, though, that I did say "properly managed." Without proper management any farm will stink like, well, shit.
I've never had their pizza, but the Pokey Stix are delicious. Although, they've raised the prices by quite a lot here at the University of Illinois, so it isn't nearly as good of a deal as it used to be. Still good though.
Pizza is not always worth eating. If you think so, you haven't had the University of Illinois late-night dorm pizza from a couple years ago. It was *horrible*. Apparently it's tolerable now, which is good for the suckers still living in the dorms, but man, was it bad when I was there.
It seems like it was on the route we used to cut down there, but like I said I don't entirely remember. I could be thinking of something completely different. Who knows? LOL
I probably won't be down there, but thanks for the invite anyway. If you're ever in Woodhull look me up.
Yeah, the kind of crap that passes for good writing around here is pretty amazing. I took a journalism class during my freshman year and it's incredible that some of those people passed 8th grade, never-mind high school.
Woodhull is the exit between the city of Galesburg and the Quad Cities on I74, so it's not surprising that you've driven through if you've ever been in that area of the state.
I think I had to drive through (or near) Winchester when I was going to meet an MIT alumnus for an admissions interview. I don't really remember specifically, though, because that was 3.5 years ago.
Not bad. Sounds like things worked out for you. LOL
I think that 34 and up on the English part of the test qualifies you for getting out of Rhet 105. I'm not entirely sure though, because I had a 36. Eh.
My home is in northwest Illinois. About 30 miles south of the Quad Cities, in Woodhull, IL. Good ol' AlWood High.
My school only offered "math IV", which was just barely pre-calc. I had to take calculus at the local community college just to be at a reasonable math level when I started school.:( I think Early Graduationguy did have some AP credits, though my school also didn't offer those (crappy small-town high schools). I tested out of Rhet 105, but that was it.
I'm curious about how big your high school was. Mine only had 150 kids (36 in my graduating class) but was probably as good as a small-town school can get. Our athletics were crappy, but the important thing isn't really winning as much as just being on a team and learning what that's all about, so it was ok with me. I definitely would not have been good enough to play sports at a giant suburban school.
I managed to get a high enough ACT score that I didn't even have to test out of Rhet 105. So that worked out well enough for me. LOL
Yeah, testing out of the gen-eds is the best way to do it on time (or early). One of my frat brothers is a ME major and he'll be graduating in 3 years because he started with 40 hours of credit. Yay for AP tests, eh? Too bad my high school only offered Calculus.
But then, who wants to go to the real world anyway? I'm having a pretty good time right now, I was able to study abroad, and while classes can be stressful, let's face it, they don't call college the best years of your life for nothing.
Of course, the only experience I've had with the "real world" is my internship with John Deere, so maybe I'm way off. <shrugs>
Sorry, the correct figure is 2%. I got ahold of the speaker who came to our fraternity and he also said that 2% is the same rate at which most other crimes are falsely reported (like robbery, assault, etc.).
So I was wrong with my "maybe 1%", but 2% is pretty close. And that means that out of those 62 cases in the original poster's fraternity, statistically one or two might have been false. So as I said, either those Sigma Nus are either incredibly unlucky (to have so many girls falsely accuse them) or they've ruined around 60 lives over those four years. Pretty sick.
Well done. My brother is going to be starting a CompE major here next year, so maybe he will be able to take one (or more?) of those courses.
I hear you on the not-in-4-years thing--I'm on the 4.5 year plan right now, and that might slip to the 5 year plan if I'm not careful over the next 3 semesters.
We had a couple speakers come in to talk to us about rape prevention and education as part of our fraternity's effort to fight sexual assault. I remember them saying that the number was closer to what I said than your source.
Also, isn't it pretty well known that the Air Force (and the US Armed Forces) has a problem with covering up sexual assaults as a matter of course? That was my impression, anyway, and it certainly makes me discount your source. But, I could be wrong.
Still, that means that of the 62 rape cases the original poster said were actually false, only 15 or so really were. One rape is enough to make me think there is a problem, so 45 or so is incredibly bad. Even if the true statistic IS 27%, there is a serious problem.
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Well, not having read the article, I imagine the real reason they are deporting him is because of the passport violations. Typically when one is denied entry to a country because of something like this, they are sent back to their country of citizenship. (There was a case of a Syrian-Canadian who tried to come into the US after 9/11 and they denied him entry. Rather than let him drive back to Canada, they flew him to Syria and billed him for it! He had dual citizenship.)
So, the Japanese are hardly at fault here. It's just unlucky that Mr. Fischer still has US citizenship if he can't ever safely return to that country. If Mr. Jenkins hasn't violated any Japanese immigration laws, they can't deport him for that reason, right?
I don't think they do anything but frustrate the gifted students. I too was in that category, and I know that I had opportunities to skip a lot of the boring repetitive stuff, which allowed me to explore my interests. On the other hand, there were other kids who were probably just as "smart", but they didn't have those opportunities and they grew up dreading school. The one in particular that I am thinking of ended up with a number of discipline problems and eventually dropped out of school.
The fact of the matter is that even in college, I don't have to do repetitive exercises to understand material. (Other than foreign languages, that is). I had the opportunity to study abroad in Ireland, which showed me that other systems of education work much better for my style of learning. Over there they expect you to manage your own understanding, and as such don't assign weekly homeworks or things like that.
I'm out probably around $100. I don't buy things solely because they are on rebate any more. It's just not worth it.
That's bullshit, though, if he got the form in originally by the deadline, and they didn't tell him there was a problem until later, he should have an extended deadline to try again. Ridiculous.
Not necessarily. Many gifted students don't need to do the many repetitive exercises that teachers assign the entire class, because they can pick up the ideas after the first or second time through. If the kid can prove they know the material, then why make them waste their time (and yours)? Let them do something else.
You know, I have forgotten to send in rebates before, but every one I have sent in has yielded a check for the correct value. Even the most recent one, which I didn't get mailed until about a week after the postmarked-by deadline. I think they rely more on people forgetting to send it in rather than try to scam those who didn't forget.
Legally speaking, that's true, I suppose. But I thought the original poster was implying that the court examined all the evidence and decided that OJ didn't do it. That's not the case. They decided there wasn't enough evidence to conclude he did do it. It's a subtle difference, but there is a difference.
This is entirely off-topic, but you're incorrect. OJ was not found innocent, he was found not guilty. There is a difference. Innocent means you didn't do it. Not guilty means there is reasonable doubt about whether or not you did it. IANAL, etc.
The M4P files that come from the iTMS include the cover art. So you don't need to download it separately. If you go to File->Print (I'm on Windows here at work, unfortunately... I'm assuming it's similiar on the Mac) there is the option to print a CD jewel case insert as well. (Along with song and album listings.)
I ordered a couple copies of the "Windows vs Linux Evaluation Kit".
One for "For Gondor Solutions". My job title in that company is Aragorn.
Another for "Mordor (the Land of Shadow) Development". My job title in that one is Sauron.
I wonder if they'll notice?
I don't order diet pop because it's healthy, I do it because it tastes better. I don't understand why people assume it's because I think I'm being healthy.
I think the "average users" they are referring to are the average users of the particular technology. The article goes on to say "The gadgets are mainstream, appearing on the shelves of Wal-Mart and other mass retailers," implying that the fact that the tech is mainstream is the reason that the average user is not tech savvy. So when WiFi was only in use by geeks, the average user of the technology was quite savvy.
It's the British way of doing things. They figure that most companies have more than one person working for them, thus the plural.
Hope that helps.
It may or may not be true that if the US participated in a "world standard" sport, 9/11 would not have happened, but I think that's a pretty unfair thing to want. It isn't like Americans play (our) football, baseball, or basketball to spite the rest of the world--it's simply that we enjoy those sports more than (soccer) football or cricket or rugby. It's a cultural difference--not bad or good or anything. Your argument could easily be turned around to say "hey, if the rest of the world played the same sports as those Americans, maybe the rest of the world would have a better understanding of them and vice-versa."
This is ridiculous. A properly managed hog farm will produce little to no smell. I know, because my dad and uncle own such a farm. Only very rarely can one smell the farm from the road, which is less than .25 miles from the production buildings. The lagoon we use to store manure during its breakdown period does not smell due to the bacteria we put into the mix.
Please note, though, that I did say "properly managed." Without proper management any farm will stink like, well, shit.
I've never had their pizza, but the Pokey Stix are delicious. Although, they've raised the prices by quite a lot here at the University of Illinois, so it isn't nearly as good of a deal as it used to be. Still good though.
Pizza is not always worth eating. If you think so, you haven't had the University of Illinois late-night dorm pizza from a couple years ago. It was *horrible*. Apparently it's tolerable now, which is good for the suckers still living in the dorms, but man, was it bad when I was there.
I put it on my calendar... Sounds pretty neat. I know exactly where I'll go to watch. Thanks for the tip!
Uhg. I need to get back to studying, since today is the first day of finals. Slashdot is not going to help my GPA...
It seems like it was on the route we used to cut down there, but like I said I don't entirely remember. I could be thinking of something completely different. Who knows? LOL
I probably won't be down there, but thanks for the invite anyway. If you're ever in Woodhull look me up.
Yeah, the kind of crap that passes for good writing around here is pretty amazing. I took a journalism class during my freshman year and it's incredible that some of those people passed 8th grade, never-mind high school.
Woodhull is the exit between the city of Galesburg and the Quad Cities on I74, so it's not surprising that you've driven through if you've ever been in that area of the state.
I think I had to drive through (or near) Winchester when I was going to meet an MIT alumnus for an admissions interview. I don't really remember specifically, though, because that was 3.5 years ago.
Not bad. Sounds like things worked out for you. LOL
I think that 34 and up on the English part of the test qualifies you for getting out of Rhet 105. I'm not entirely sure though, because I had a 36. Eh.
My home is in northwest Illinois. About 30 miles south of the Quad Cities, in Woodhull, IL. Good ol' AlWood High.
I'm curious about how big your high school was. Mine only had 150 kids (36 in my graduating class) but was probably as good as a small-town school can get. Our athletics were crappy, but the important thing isn't really winning as much as just being on a team and learning what that's all about, so it was ok with me. I definitely would not have been good enough to play sports at a giant suburban school.
I managed to get a high enough ACT score that I didn't even have to test out of Rhet 105. So that worked out well enough for me. LOL
May I ask when you graduated from UIUC?
Yeah, testing out of the gen-eds is the best way to do it on time (or early). One of my frat brothers is a ME major and he'll be graduating in 3 years because he started with 40 hours of credit. Yay for AP tests, eh? Too bad my high school only offered Calculus.
But then, who wants to go to the real world anyway? I'm having a pretty good time right now, I was able to study abroad, and while classes can be stressful, let's face it, they don't call college the best years of your life for nothing.
Of course, the only experience I've had with the "real world" is my internship with John Deere, so maybe I'm way off. <shrugs>
Sorry, the correct figure is 2%. I got ahold of the speaker who came to our fraternity and he also said that 2% is the same rate at which most other crimes are falsely reported (like robbery, assault, etc.).
So I was wrong with my "maybe 1%", but 2% is pretty close. And that means that out of those 62 cases in the original poster's fraternity, statistically one or two might have been false. So as I said, either those Sigma Nus are either incredibly unlucky (to have so many girls falsely accuse them) or they've ruined around 60 lives over those four years. Pretty sick.
Well done. My brother is going to be starting a CompE major here next year, so maybe he will be able to take one (or more?) of those courses.
I hear you on the not-in-4-years thing--I'm on the 4.5 year plan right now, and that might slip to the 5 year plan if I'm not careful over the next 3 semesters.
We had a couple speakers come in to talk to us about rape prevention and education as part of our fraternity's effort to fight sexual assault. I remember them saying that the number was closer to what I said than your source.
Also, isn't it pretty well known that the Air Force (and the US Armed Forces) has a problem with covering up sexual assaults as a matter of course? That was my impression, anyway, and it certainly makes me discount your source. But, I could be wrong.
Still, that means that of the 62 rape cases the original poster said were actually false, only 15 or so really were. One rape is enough to make me think there is a problem, so 45 or so is incredibly bad. Even if the true statistic IS 27%, there is a serious problem.