Fair enough-
But let me say this-
The car still shouldn't matter. There was athing on the news a few nights ago about how kids (like you said) driving aren't just a danger to themselves behind the wheel, and that in something like 60% of their accidents that are fatal, the other drivers include the fatalities.
One thing that is interesting to me however, is that so often driver inexperience is cited as a factor in young driver's accidents- I wonder how many are actually 100% inexperience, and how many are kids being idiots. For example, in my area, you read all the time about kids doing 100 on a rural road and dying, jumping RR tracks etc and dying and so on. Those aren't in my opinion inexperience, but idiocy.
And it isnt just wealthy parents that blame everyone but their kids when accidents happen...
Not to nitpick, but RTFA, actuallt read the full post- it says they were driving their parents cars.
Also, you sound jealous that these "kids" or 18 year old adults were driving cars with the tristar on the hood. I live in a rural area, and kids are killed all the time in Fords and Chevys. Kids die all the time in crappy cars. In fact, a 95 Escort is a lot more dangerous around 100 (or 90 or whatever the top speed) is than a Mercedes. Also, Mercedes (newer ones) have a ton more safety features than many other cars. Also, keep in mind that they may not have been new Mercedes, they may have been rusted out 1984 Mercedes. It seems like your hatred of the rich, and jealousy of the succesful has clouded your opinion of the facts of this incident. Kids shouldn't die because their parents have German cars.
Not just that, but the fact that financial institutions really don't help you once you get your ID stolen... http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/Better banking/P142361.asp
Banks hang fraud victims high and dry
If a thief uses a stolen ATM card or checks to pilfer your accounts, you may not get much sympathy from your bank -- or any of your money back.
By Liz Pulliam Weston
Lesa Henderson of San Diego was shocked when her husband's paycheck suddenly disappeared from their checking account. But their troubles were just beginning.
An acquaintance who stole both Henderson's debit card and checks from her checkbook had drained every penny from the account. The Henderson's bank initially restored some of the lost money, which the thief promptly stole. The bank then decided the thefts were Lesa's fault because she had allowed the thief into her home. The bank demanded the Hendersons pay back the restored funds, plus all the fees from bounced checks. Furthermore, it refused to let the Hendersons close the compromised account because it was overdrawn.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/Better banking/P142361.asp
I respectfully disagree- I think if the world's governments all got together to find a renewable clean energy source, they could do it quicker. It would certainly lead to more peace on Earth, with China and India clammoring for Oil... (What was that Val Kilmer movie with the cold fusion where he wore the masks, and they gave the technology to the world for free?)
It sucks that we spend so much effort, blood, money etc on fossil fuels. Maybe I'm a dreamer, but if we could solve the energy problem, we could devote so much more time to science and discovery...
You said it before I could- I was thinking the same thing. Wouldn't it be nice if the US launched a science education initiuative in response to this?
Maybe I am an idealist, but what if all the countries of the world got all their best minds together in a sort of Manhatten Project to find alternative sources of clean energy, and had the technology be open source?
Arrgh- Who says the chance of finding life isn't very good? How would we even know what we are looking for as far as intelligent life? The only "intelligent" life that any of us know is on Earth... and we assume that intelligent life will look like us to some degree. Perhaps our imaginations aren't big enough to even have any idea as to what exists out there, and perhaps we are missing tons of it. Who is to say that there isn't intelligent life in the form of a vapor, or a thinking rock somewhere in the universe? Perhpas a scencient star? Maybe we have been spoiled by Star Trek, where the life in the universe wore different colored pajamas and spoke with Russian accents? (I am not digging at Star Trek, I love the shows)
I hate to use a middle manager term, but what we need is a paradigm shift. To assume intelligent life would warm blooded and bipedal may be a mistake. Who knows what forms are out there?
In all seriousness- I am a technical writer and illustrator, and I needed to see diiferent threads on valve nipples. So of course, I ask my boss where to find pics, and she comes into my office, and tells me to search google images for nipples, but to make sure that safe search was on. 7 letters and one enter later, we were both red faced.
I am not AT ALL for censorship, however I wouldn't mind a truely safe for work search engine...
At my company, we each get budgeted a certain amount of money (generous) for training. (We also get an allowance for professional organizations.) We also get paid for the time we are off site at traing events.
We have to get approval before taking a class we want to take, but they are very open to our ideas.
No matter what anyone says, a great strength of a company is its employees. The more we know, and the better we are, the better the company will do. It also has other benefits, as it makes us all feel better about our employer
This has absolutely nothing to do with your coacaine argument. Cocaine is an illegal product under ALL circumstances. There are no prescriptions for cocaine.
Your argument does not "hold water."
Was it game over when GM had their best year ever (1978)? Not for Toyota...
Was it over when the A&P was the largest chain in the world?
etc etc etc....
Was it over when the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor?
A main problem I have seen with hiring from within is that many people who are VERY good at their jobs and have a lot of skills have no management skills.
Like it or not you can be the best (fill in the blank: engineer, developer etc) and still be an awful manager...
On a related note, in one of my first jobs, I was yelled at for not stapling reports with the staple at a 45 degree angle to the side of the sheets.
If you have a retail site for example, you had better support every platform, or else you will miss out on potential customers. Consider this analogy: You own a drive through restaurant, and are unable to accomodate vehicles made prior to 1995 due to their width. That is you own business decision, but how many sales will you lose if part of the population can't get to your drive through window?
If you don't make it easy for all your customers to use your product/service, then you are leaving money on the table...
I still would rather have my cell to my ear, than sitting in my lap while I am using a headset, for obvious male reasons.
The Metro in DC has had Cell service for quite sometime. As much as the NYC subway is nice because it is free from Cell yell, I can'y imagine not being able to use my wireless services while commuting.
Exactly...
In my opinion, the record companies are going to have to find a new way to measure album sales.
For example- I no longer (like I did in the 90's) buy a whole $20 CD when I just want a song or two- I just buy the song. In my opinion. when I buy the one good song on an album (and we all know the albums that have one good song), the record companies should record that as an album sale. ( Of course this would be subjective... But did you ever notice how Vanilla Ice consistantly has one of the top 50 songs on iTunes in the HipHop category- does anyone think this would be the case if you had to buy his entire album to get "Ice Ice Baby?")
It is almost as crazy as paying 50 cents or so per gallon of gas in highway tax, and federal and state taxes, and then having to pay tolls to drive on some roads.
What is this thing of value? If they offer me something that I really want, I would consider it, on my work machine. No way I would let anyone monitor my home habits however. What could monitoring me at work hurt? All they would see is slashdot and various news sites....
Of course, the great debate is whether the Amendment is individual or corporate (i.e. militia)
In my opinion, we must look at what a militia is/was at the founder's time. The Nat'l Guard is closer to the Continental army than than a militia- they are issued uniforms, weapons, are required to drill in peacetime etc etc.
The second amendment is so we (civilians) can have arms so that militias can be formed of men who who will use their own weapons....
I actually wrote a book like that. My agent is currently shopping it around to publishers. What i did was, I used my parents, who are 60ish, and in my mind, perfect specimens. (My dad always had a secretary and NEVER used a computer) I am a technical writer, so I am used to writing processes at a third grade level linguistically, but I am not used to writing at a third grade level technically. The key to writing an intor text, from my experience, is to write it in such a way that you feel it is insulting to the reader in terms of the basicness. Believe me, I know- I have read physics books that the author likely couldn't believe that he/she was putting in such elementary things, when to me, a layperson, these ideas are complex. It is not easy to write for an audience with zero knowledge about a subject that you know a great deal about.
FTA: "It's the shipping business of the digital age," Smith said, arguing that consumers should welcome the pay-for-delivery concept.
I am not sure that this is an apt analogy. I am not sure what a good analogy would be. To use the shipping analogy from the article however, wouldn't it be like a shippee paying UPS or FEDEx a monthly fee for unlimited deliveries, and then having UPS or FEDEx ask the shipper to pay part of the cost?
In the artcile they say that they may ask apple for a nicklle or dime per song downloaded. I pay my cable internet provider $60 a month for access- now they want content providers to pay too? This is ridiculous. What do they think they are, the government? (the gov't charges you tax on gas for roads, and other road taxes, yet you still must pay tolls at times...)
purchase, obtain, view or participate in. These include, but are not necessarily limited to: Alcohol, Tobacco, Pornography or Obscene Material, Gambling, Illegal Drugs, & Firearms
I am confused about the firearms. I hunted with my dad and grandfather looooong before I was 18. I hunted from about 12 on. Many kids hunt. At a young age I would have been very interested in a firearms email.
Slashdot Mirror
Fair enough-
But let me say this-
The car still shouldn't matter. There was athing on the news a few nights ago about how kids (like you said) driving aren't just a danger to themselves behind the wheel, and that in something like 60% of their accidents that are fatal, the other drivers include the fatalities.
One thing that is interesting to me however, is that so often driver inexperience is cited as a factor in young driver's accidents- I wonder how many are actually 100% inexperience, and how many are kids being idiots. For example, in my area, you read all the time about kids doing 100 on a rural road and dying, jumping RR tracks etc and dying and so on. Those aren't in my opinion inexperience, but idiocy.
And it isnt just wealthy parents that blame everyone but their kids when accidents happen...
Not to nitpick, but RTFA, actuallt read the full post- it says they were driving their parents cars.
Also, you sound jealous that these "kids" or 18 year old adults were driving cars with the tristar on the hood. I live in a rural area, and kids are killed all the time in Fords and Chevys. Kids die all the time in crappy cars. In fact, a 95 Escort is a lot more dangerous around 100 (or 90 or whatever the top speed) is than a Mercedes. Also, Mercedes (newer ones) have a ton more safety features than many other cars. Also, keep in mind that they may not have been new Mercedes, they may have been rusted out 1984 Mercedes. It seems like your hatred of the rich, and jealousy of the succesful has clouded your opinion of the facts of this incident. Kids shouldn't die because their parents have German cars.
Do you mean debit or check card? The rules are different for the two.
Not just that, but the fact that financial institutions really don't help you once you get your ID stolen...r banking/P142361.asp r banking/P142361.asp
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/Bette
Banks hang fraud victims high and dry
If a thief uses a stolen ATM card or checks to pilfer your accounts, you may not get much sympathy from your bank -- or any of your money back.
By Liz Pulliam Weston
Lesa Henderson of San Diego was shocked when her husband's paycheck suddenly disappeared from their checking account. But their troubles were just beginning.
An acquaintance who stole both Henderson's debit card and checks from her checkbook had drained every penny from the account. The Henderson's bank initially restored some of the lost money, which the thief promptly stole. The bank then decided the thefts were Lesa's fault because she had allowed the thief into her home. The bank demanded the Hendersons pay back the restored funds, plus all the fees from bounced checks. Furthermore, it refused to let the Hendersons close the compromised account because it was overdrawn.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/Banking/Bette
I never thought that Bendan Frazer's "hit" movie "Blast From the past" could actually be an important scientific work....
I respectfully disagree- I think if the world's governments all got together to find a renewable clean energy source, they could do it quicker. It would certainly lead to more peace on Earth, with China and India clammoring for Oil... (What was that Val Kilmer movie with the cold fusion where he wore the masks, and they gave the technology to the world for free?)
It sucks that we spend so much effort, blood, money etc on fossil fuels. Maybe I'm a dreamer, but if we could solve the energy problem, we could devote so much more time to science and discovery...
You said it before I could- I was thinking the same thing. Wouldn't it be nice if the US launched a science education initiuative in response to this?
Maybe I am an idealist, but what if all the countries of the world got all their best minds together in a sort of Manhatten Project to find alternative sources of clean energy, and had the technology be open source?
Arrgh- Who says the chance of finding life isn't very good? How would we even know what we are looking for as far as intelligent life? The only "intelligent" life that any of us know is on Earth... and we assume that intelligent life will look like us to some degree. Perhaps our imaginations aren't big enough to even have any idea as to what exists out there, and perhaps we are missing tons of it. Who is to say that there isn't intelligent life in the form of a vapor, or a thinking rock somewhere in the universe? Perhpas a scencient star? Maybe we have been spoiled by Star Trek, where the life in the universe wore different colored pajamas and spoke with Russian accents? (I am not digging at Star Trek, I love the shows)
I hate to use a middle manager term, but what we need is a paradigm shift. To assume intelligent life would warm blooded and bipedal may be a mistake. Who knows what forms are out there?
In all seriousness- I am a technical writer and illustrator, and I needed to see diiferent threads on valve nipples. So of course, I ask my boss where to find pics, and she comes into my office, and tells me to search google images for nipples, but to make sure that safe search was on. 7 letters and one enter later, we were both red faced.
I am not AT ALL for censorship, however I wouldn't mind a truely safe for work search engine...
At my company, we each get budgeted a certain amount of money (generous) for training. (We also get an allowance for professional organizations.) We also get paid for the time we are off site at traing events.
We have to get approval before taking a class we want to take, but they are very open to our ideas.
No matter what anyone says, a great strength of a company is its employees. The more we know, and the better we are, the better the company will do. It also has other benefits, as it makes us all feel better about our employer
This has absolutely nothing to do with your coacaine argument. Cocaine is an illegal product under ALL circumstances. There are no prescriptions for cocaine.
Your argument does not "hold water."
Was it game over when GM had their best year ever (1978)? Not for Toyota...
Was it over when the A&P was the largest chain in the world?
etc etc etc....
Was it over when the Germans Bombed Pearl Harbor?
You sound like a straight shooter with upper management written all over you...
(Sorry, required Office Space Reference)
A main problem I have seen with hiring from within is that many people who are VERY good at their jobs and have a lot of skills have no management skills.
Like it or not you can be the best (fill in the blank: engineer, developer etc) and still be an awful manager...
On a related note, in one of my first jobs, I was yelled at for not stapling reports with the staple at a 45 degree angle to the side of the sheets.
If you have a retail site for example, you had better support every platform, or else you will miss out on potential customers. Consider this analogy: You own a drive through restaurant, and are unable to accomodate vehicles made prior to 1995 due to their width. That is you own business decision, but how many sales will you lose if part of the population can't get to your drive through window?
If you don't make it easy for all your customers to use your product/service, then you are leaving money on the table...
The Metro in DC has cell service in Trains. I am not sure how they do it, but that would be a good place to research to see how it is done.
I still would rather have my cell to my ear, than sitting in my lap while I am using a headset, for obvious male reasons.
The Metro in DC has had Cell service for quite sometime. As much as the NYC subway is nice because it is free from Cell yell, I can'y imagine not being able to use my wireless services while commuting.
Um no... I believe in Soviet Russia, they use AllofMP3.com
Exactly...
In my opinion, the record companies are going to have to find a new way to measure album sales.
For example- I no longer (like I did in the 90's) buy a whole $20 CD when I just want a song or two- I just buy the song. In my opinion. when I buy the one good song on an album (and we all know the albums that have one good song), the record companies should record that as an album sale. ( Of course this would be subjective... But did you ever notice how Vanilla Ice consistantly has one of the top 50 songs on iTunes in the HipHop category- does anyone think this would be the case if you had to buy his entire album to get "Ice Ice Baby?")
It is almost as crazy as paying 50 cents or so per gallon of gas in highway tax, and federal and state taxes, and then having to pay tolls to drive on some roads.
What is this thing of value? If they offer me something that I really want, I would consider it, on my work machine. No way I would let anyone monitor my home habits however. What could monitoring me at work hurt? All they would see is slashdot and various news sites....
Of course, the great debate is whether the Amendment is individual or corporate (i.e. militia)
In my opinion, we must look at what a militia is/was at the founder's time. The Nat'l Guard is closer to the Continental army than than a militia- they are issued uniforms, weapons, are required to drill in peacetime etc etc.
The second amendment is so we (civilians) can have arms so that militias can be formed of men who who will use their own weapons....
I actually wrote a book like that. My agent is currently shopping it around to publishers. What i did was, I used my parents, who are 60ish, and in my mind, perfect specimens. (My dad always had a secretary and NEVER used a computer) I am a technical writer, so I am used to writing processes at a third grade level linguistically, but I am not used to writing at a third grade level technically. The key to writing an intor text, from my experience, is to write it in such a way that you feel it is insulting to the reader in terms of the basicness. Believe me, I know- I have read physics books that the author likely couldn't believe that he/she was putting in such elementary things, when to me, a layperson, these ideas are complex. It is not easy to write for an audience with zero knowledge about a subject that you know a great deal about.
FTA: "It's the shipping business of the digital age," Smith said, arguing that consumers should welcome the pay-for-delivery concept.
I am not sure that this is an apt analogy. I am not sure what a good analogy would be. To use the shipping analogy from the article however, wouldn't it be like a shippee paying UPS or FEDEx a monthly fee for unlimited deliveries, and then having UPS or FEDEx ask the shipper to pay part of the cost?
In the artcile they say that they may ask apple for a nicklle or dime per song downloaded. I pay my cable internet provider $60 a month for access- now they want content providers to pay too? This is ridiculous. What do they think they are, the government? (the gov't charges you tax on gas for roads, and other road taxes, yet you still must pay tolls at times...)
purchase, obtain, view or participate in. These include, but are not necessarily limited to: Alcohol, Tobacco, Pornography or Obscene Material, Gambling, Illegal Drugs, & Firearms
I am confused about the firearms. I hunted with my dad and grandfather looooong before I was 18. I hunted from about 12 on. Many kids hunt. At a young age I would have been very interested in a firearms email.