Well, generally speaking, a job at which you have to take payment for something, via credit card or cash, is a shitty job, and it's often true that people with shitty jobs like to exert their infinitesimal piece of control over everyone unlucky enough to fall under their jurisdiction.
I've had bad teachers, before the days of power point, who would just copy notes verbatim onto the board, then get all confused trying to read their own notes, and give you a wholly disjointed and useless lecture.
Microsoft hasn't invented the bad teacher. Hell, at least they can click next and keep moving, even if they don't explain or even understand the material. That's better than some profs I've had!
I will say that most excellent teachers I've known used powerpoint sparingly at most. They were always the ones who wrote everything out at least somewhat from memory - knowing the concepts and doing the math realtime, only using their notes as an outline.
That's kind of a funny thing to try to link to low test scores anyways. Odds are good that a parent who smokes around their kid gives less of a shit about them than one who doesnt, and that will manifest itself in ways other than smoking which will have a detrimental effect on the kid's success.
This is why when I feel like making an online purchase, I catalog all offered items from a particular retailer, use a random number generator to pick one from the list, and finally have it sent to a completely random address.
Sure, I'm paying for random crap for people I don't even know, but let's see them find a pattern in that!
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She's pretty senile, so instead of trying to teach her to use a computer, I put her in front of the TV with a keyboard and mouse and she thinks she's playing a Matlock videogame.
"I understand you experienced some problems because you didn't understand the install procedure but that's not the fault of Mozilla or Firefox.
The custom install option states it is for experienced users, if you managed to install to the root of the program folders you certainly are not such a user."
So, is the problem that if you install the software to your root directory it deletes your entire drive on uninstall?
That sounds like a major friggen bug to me. I don't care if you install it into your windows directory, the uninstaller should know to delete its own files only. Sure there are going to be cache directories that it creates on install and then will have to empty somewhat indiscriminantly, but it seems pretty stupid to just wipe everything in the root directory of the install when you know EXACTLY which files you put there.
"if people's civil rights were being violated by drug busts, wouldn't there be a much louder outcry over it?"
Just look at the totally insane property seizure laws regarding drug arrests to get an idea of how fucked the laws are, and how they've used accusation under the drug laws to deprive people of their property rights.
That is, of course, only one aspect of the problem, but it's pretty blatant. At this point, they might as well just drop the whole "eminent domain" process and use the drug laws to take whatever they want.
Your analysis is a little hard to follow, but are you accounting for the fact that mortgage interest is tax deductible? that's a pretty major factor when comparing the actual monthly costs, since so much of your mortgage payments, esp early on, are interest.
Hey, if this gives you a way to get your employer to buy you an ipod as a rescue device, why the hell not?
I think this should be carried to the extreme, can someone figure out a way to use one of the new Mustangs as a backup device? Maybe a RAID array designed to fit in the trunk, and the fast car keeps your data out of harm's way (ie impending fire, flood, etc.)
"This is in fact the most damning thing you could note about the.com speculation; when it blew up, and then blew down - it might as well have NEVER HAPPENED."
That depends, if you played the game and played well, you could have made a bundle, both on the rise and fall. If you played poorly, you could have lost your shirt.
If you didn't play (ie only investments were safe and non-tech) then yeah, it hardly mattered.
In the SF bay area, the only areas in which housing prices dropped noticeably rather than just going flat during the dot com bubble were in the very richest/overpriced areas. So, at least in that case, buying in those areas was the riskiest, which makes sense. It's one thing to pay a bit more so you aren't in the ghetto, but on the extreme end stuff was/is way overpriced for what you're getting, and much like the stock market at the time, was more about perception of value than real value.
Yeah, unfortunately I was in school at the time. I actually had thoughts about stopping out and trying to make a quick buck while I could, realizing that the atmosphere wasn't going to last forever. Like they say, you make money during a gold rush by selling shovels (or something like that).
Yeah, I'd say that the choice of the place to debut the trailer would be a bad sign, as if we needed another one on top of the two big ones known as eps I and II.
Good thing I've never been a big SW fan, I know some people who've been practically crushed.
"Those sites serve out different content for the Googlebot than they do for my browser, but obviously Google "makes an exception" in their case"
Or, it could be the case that the googlebot has a login/pass for that site.
Certainly not going to happen in the full on google web search, but i'm assuming the news crawler is its own entity, and with a finite, reasonable number of sources it's conceivable (but still not likely)
"And that would be fine by me, if I have the option to disable reporting of such sites in my news.google.com cookie."
I actually emailed them about this, asking for an option in google news that would exclude subscription news sources, and I got a retarded form letter response. Given that most news stories have hundreds of sources, it's pretty annoying when the few they show are all subscription.
Maybe it's changed, this was some time ago, but that really cooled me on google news.
The hilarious thing is that when you google it, the term seems to be most commonly used by fringe crackpots, so it really says something about the guy who originally used it here.
The point is that the criteria you were quoting are UTTERLY RETARDED when applied to the general case of the worthiness of life.
Also, having human DNA isn't an automatic "you're worthy" pass, or i'd be a lot more worried about the dead skin cells i'm leaving about. Yes, I have about as much concern for a few celled embryo as i do for dandruff. After a few months, it's a different story.
So this few celled organism has human DNA? There's more DNA in the dust on my desk. It's intelligent? I guarantee it's not as intelligent as a pig in the first few months, and pigs are tasty. There are counter examples for every argument you'll make but the one you truly believe and won't say - you believe it has a soul given to it by God and therefore deseves to live. I can't counter your faith other than to say keep it to yourself.
I thought your criteria wasn't just for life but for whether we should be allowed to end the life in question.
I mean, it's inarguable that an embryo is alive, it's just a question of whether we should be allowed to kill them or not. It's pretty tough to argue that killing ANYTHING is morally wrong, or we'd all starve to death.
Abiogenesis, in its most general sense, is the hypothetical generation of life from non-living matter. Today, the term is primarily used in the context of biology and the origin of life. Some confusion exists on this topic, because early concepts of abiogenesis were later proven to be incorrect. These early concepts of spontaneous generation (referred to here as "Aristotelian abiogenesis" for clarity) held that living organisms could be "born" out of decaying organic substances, et cetera, which we now know does not occur.
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The modern definition of abiogenesis is concerned with the formation of the simplest forms of life from primordial chemicals. This is a significantly different thing from the concept of Aristotelian abiogenesis, which postulated the formation of complex organisms. Different hypotheses for modern abiogenetic processes are currently under debate; see, for example, RNA world hypothesis, proteinoid, Miller experiment.
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"The GP was just being a jackass at his job"
Well, generally speaking, a job at which you have to take payment for something, via credit card or cash, is a shitty job, and it's often true that people with shitty jobs like to exert their infinitesimal piece of control over everyone unlucky enough to fall under their jurisdiction.
I've had bad teachers, before the days of power point, who would just copy notes verbatim onto the board, then get all confused trying to read their own notes, and give you a wholly disjointed and useless lecture.
Microsoft hasn't invented the bad teacher. Hell, at least they can click next and keep moving, even if they don't explain or even understand the material. That's better than some profs I've had!
I will say that most excellent teachers I've known used powerpoint sparingly at most. They were always the ones who wrote everything out at least somewhat from memory - knowing the concepts and doing the math realtime, only using their notes as an outline.
"What matters is how well you do in life, not in school."
Spoken like someone with a lot of B's and C's on his transcipt.
School isn't everything, but it's something.
Second hand smoke is a distraction?
That's kind of a funny thing to try to link to low test scores anyways. Odds are good that a parent who smokes around their kid gives less of a shit about them than one who doesnt, and that will manifest itself in ways other than smoking which will have a detrimental effect on the kid's success.
This is why when I feel like making an online purchase, I catalog all offered items from a particular retailer, use a random number generator to pick one from the list, and finally have it sent to a completely random address.
Sure, I'm paying for random crap for people I don't even know, but let's see them find a pattern in that!
She's pretty senile, so instead of trying to teach her to use a computer, I put her in front of the TV with a keyboard and mouse and she thinks she's playing a Matlock videogame.
"I understand you experienced some problems because you didn't understand the install procedure but that's not the fault of Mozilla or Firefox.
The custom install option states it is for experienced users, if you managed to install to the root of the program folders you certainly are not such a user."
So, is the problem that if you install the software to your root directory it deletes your entire drive on uninstall?
That sounds like a major friggen bug to me. I don't care if you install it into your windows directory, the uninstaller should know to delete its own files only. Sure there are going to be cache directories that it creates on install and then will have to empty somewhat indiscriminantly, but it seems pretty stupid to just wipe everything in the root directory of the install when you know EXACTLY which files you put there.
"well at least i know that it is indeed possible"
Someone's off googling for local yoga classes, I'd wager.
"if people's civil rights were being violated by drug busts, wouldn't there be a much louder outcry over it?"
Just look at the totally insane property seizure laws regarding drug arrests to get an idea of how fucked the laws are, and how they've used accusation under the drug laws to deprive people of their property rights.
That is, of course, only one aspect of the problem, but it's pretty blatant. At this point, they might as well just drop the whole "eminent domain" process and use the drug laws to take whatever they want.
Maybe we're just poor, but we save a substantial amount of money on our taxes due to interest payments.
With that taken into account, I don't think we could rent this place for the cost of mortgage payments.
Well, maybe after this whole "fat phase" we're going through, it won't be so bad.
I mean, nearly anyone can have a reasonably nice looking body, ugly or not. You just have to take care of yourself. At least God wasn't a total prick.
Your analysis is a little hard to follow, but are you accounting for the fact that mortgage interest is tax deductible? that's a pretty major factor when comparing the actual monthly costs, since so much of your mortgage payments, esp early on, are interest.
Hey, if this gives you a way to get your employer to buy you an ipod as a rescue device, why the hell not?
I think this should be carried to the extreme, can someone figure out a way to use one of the new Mustangs as a backup device? Maybe a RAID array designed to fit in the trunk, and the fast car keeps your data out of harm's way (ie impending fire, flood, etc.)
Yeah, well, I credit my longevity to my prescience. In that case, I had a feeling war was coming, so I headed west, and lo and behold...
"This is in fact the most damning thing you could note about the .com speculation; when it blew up, and then blew down - it might as well have NEVER HAPPENED."
That depends, if you played the game and played well, you could have made a bundle, both on the rise and fall. If you played poorly, you could have lost your shirt.
If you didn't play (ie only investments were safe and non-tech) then yeah, it hardly mattered.
In the SF bay area, the only areas in which housing prices dropped noticeably rather than just going flat during the dot com bubble were in the very richest/overpriced areas. So, at least in that case, buying in those areas was the riskiest, which makes sense. It's one thing to pay a bit more so you aren't in the ghetto, but on the extreme end stuff was/is way overpriced for what you're getting, and much like the stock market at the time, was more about perception of value than real value.
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Yeah, unfortunately I was in school at the time. I actually had thoughts about stopping out and trying to make a quick buck while I could, realizing that the atmosphere wasn't going to last forever. Like they say, you make money during a gold rush by selling shovels (or something like that).
Yeah, I'd say that the choice of the place to debut the trailer would be a bad sign, as if we needed another one on top of the two big ones known as eps I and II.
Good thing I've never been a big SW fan, I know some people who've been practically crushed.
"Those sites serve out different content for the Googlebot than they do for my browser, but obviously Google "makes an exception" in their case"
Or, it could be the case that the googlebot has a login/pass for that site.
Certainly not going to happen in the full on google web search, but i'm assuming the news crawler is its own entity, and with a finite, reasonable number of sources it's conceivable (but still not likely)
"And that would be fine by me, if I have the option to disable reporting of such sites in my news.google.com cookie."
I actually emailed them about this, asking for an option in google news that would exclude subscription news sources, and I got a retarded form letter response. Given that most news stories have hundreds of sources, it's pretty annoying when the few they show are all subscription.
Maybe it's changed, this was some time ago, but that really cooled me on google news.
Feel free to provide a better reference AC!
The hilarious thing is that when you google it, the term seems to be most commonly used by fringe crackpots, so it really says something about the guy who originally used it here.
The point is that the criteria you were quoting are UTTERLY RETARDED when applied to the general case of the worthiness of life.
Also, having human DNA isn't an automatic "you're worthy" pass, or i'd be a lot more worried about the dead skin cells i'm leaving about. Yes, I have about as much concern for a few celled embryo as i do for dandruff. After a few months, it's a different story.
So this few celled organism has human DNA? There's more DNA in the dust on my desk. It's intelligent? I guarantee it's not as intelligent as a pig in the first few months, and pigs are tasty. There are counter examples for every argument you'll make but the one you truly believe and won't say - you believe it has a soul given to it by God and therefore deseves to live. I can't counter your faith other than to say keep it to yourself.
I thought your criteria wasn't just for life but for whether we should be allowed to end the life in question.
I mean, it's inarguable that an embryo is alive, it's just a question of whether we should be allowed to kill them or not. It's pretty tough to argue that killing ANYTHING is morally wrong, or we'd all starve to death.
Abiogenesis, in its most general sense, is the hypothetical generation of life from non-living matter. Today, the term is primarily used in the context of biology and the origin of life. Some confusion exists on this topic, because early concepts of abiogenesis were later proven to be incorrect. These early concepts of spontaneous generation (referred to here as "Aristotelian abiogenesis" for clarity) held that living organisms could be "born" out of decaying organic substances, et cetera, which we now know does not occur.
The modern definition of abiogenesis is concerned with the formation of the simplest forms of life from primordial chemicals. This is a significantly different thing from the concept of Aristotelian abiogenesis, which postulated the formation of complex organisms. Different hypotheses for modern abiogenetic processes are currently under debate; see, for example, RNA world hypothesis, proteinoid, Miller experiment.