Actually, religion just demands religious new information. If God comes down and says that giant worms live in the Earth's core everyone will believe Him.
It won't be long before the kids learn that As on tests let you skip homework assigments.
What!? WHAT!? WHAT!?WHAT!?
My God, how do I go to your school? Everywhere I've ever gone, people have been infected with this bizarre notion of grading students on having done homework (and often on the answers to the homework, wtf?) regardless of exam grades. How do I get your deal?
Well that's just bloody-stupid. Why does nobody ever explain t little children what the times tables actually represent: repeated addition? In my day we started learning skip-counting in first grade and by the end of second grade it just clicked for me while I walked home one day that if I counted by 4s three times I'd get twelve, and that this was the definition of multiplication.
After that, all it took was practice problems to get the more common "times tables" memorized, but with the benefit that I understood what they meant. Nobody ever had to put an actual table of numbers in front of me.
My argument is that having rigorous liberal arts requirements for undergrad science kids (and vice versa) is a necessity. At worst, you could have slept through those classes (or skipped 'em...most LA classes have loose attendance policies) and gotten an easy A to pad your GPA.
Ummm... what? You can't sleep through liberal-arts courses and get an A. I've tried. It doesn't work.
I resent liberal-arts requirements on grounds that they drag my GPA down, and haven't actually taught me anything useful so far. Art appreciation class blew chunks without actually teaching anything, and economics was watered down because they didn't want to rely on introductory economics students having taken calculus.
I think if you look at the stated political orientations of journalists, you'll find lots of liberals. I also think that if you look at the political tilt of the actual reporting those journalists do, you'll find it very centrist, occasionally a little bit right-wing, and usually bloody irrelevant.
Well of course the story was merely "all right". It was basically the same story: wake up, do test chambers, escape from test chambers, make way through facility, fight GLaDOS, leave facility.
I've played the real Flash version, but I generally find it annoyingly difficult to aim the portal-gun in Flash.
The story was alright, but the puzzles were definitely better than the originals, I almost beat it Monday night, but had to call it quits at 6am,
All, those carefree days when an all-nighter was spent playing video games instead of working.
That may be because American teenagers are irresponsible asswipes and trying to minimize alcohol use helps us protect society as a whole from said teenagers. Being taxed, voting, f*cking, and dying only affects the individual taking part in those activities. Drinking and driving on the other hand can cause more people to die than just the person who was drinking.
Wow, generalizing much? Not everyone who drinks drives. In fact, 90% of the people I've seen drink underage don't drive afterwards.
Orrrr.......they are symptomatic of a country whose religious foundation has eroded away over the decades such that it is more desired by society as a whole to teach kids how to have sex, to advertise sex in every imaginable way using teenagers, and teach them about Islam in schools than it is to teach them about Christianity, how to respect others instead of killing them, and to not act like a slut by age 15.
Religious foundation... truly a funny proposition. If the United States is such a Christian country, why did it let my ancestors in? We're Jews, the lot of us. Or do I not belong here? Should I move to Israel?
After hearing so many like you, that's the conclusion I've come to.
Seems you either have issues with the United States providing more freedom than your own country (which you neglected to mention in your rant about us) or you just have issues with Christians and feel that the U.S. is failing because of their sheer existence rather than their decreasing visibility and influence in American society. You failed to mention the correlation between the latter and the U.S's current situation.
Considering fewer Americans every year believe that homosexuality is sin, that abortion is wrong, that religion is important, and that proper parenting (setting rules for children to follow, keeping a watchful eye on them, caring for them, and an even distribution of male/female organs) is important, it is hard to imagine there are people like you who think that the laws of this nation are actually causing our downfall. You obviously haven't looked at the situation entirely. Maybe you have biases that prevent you from doing so?
And you think that the United States should subjugate the other religions to a Christian government. Maybe you have biases that prevent you from looking at the situation entirely?
Though the spice being in everything was an intentional detail of Arrakeen culture. The Fremen lived on a world where the only non-terraform life was the worms, which created the spice (apparently) as a form of photosynthesis (pre-spice mass comes to surface filled with water and organic matter and absorbs sunlight, producing spice that the sand-plankton can feed on).
My question about the book is: what in God's name created an ecosystem in which the only native life form survived entirely by feeding upon either its own byproducts or the lower stages of its own species?
What scares me more is these are kids and we refer to school as a job. No wonder many kids don't want to work 9-5 after high school or college, they've already been doing it for at least 13 years with no pay or pension and thrust into a social hell they have no control over, why would they want to do it any longer?
I'm in university now. I like what I do. But I agree in the uttermost. As far back as I can remember, someone always had a job for me to do. And it never actually ended, and nobody ever rewarded any of it.
Of course, now I'm in university where I pay for the privilege of trying to learn from whoever the school decides has to do the tedious chore of actually teaching students.
Since I helped my mom configure her new machine to have an Intel wireless card (Linux compatible natively), my mom's gotten used to Ubuntu Linux and now takes time from her computer work to tell me how awesome it is compared to Windoze.
Not sure why you would want a BIOS that boots into protected mode for you. The whole point of a BIOS nowadays is that it contains real-mode drivers for certain hardware, thus granting the user (and any operating system that allows V86 mode) access to a minimum level of functionality.
Actually, AFAIK a BIOS is completely useless on non-x86 systems, but that's another story.
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No, Mac users kvetch about X11 because it requires sending every little damned pixel across the connection rather than sending sensible drawing instructions like one does in Quartz. Oh, and X11's godawful color modes.
Please hand in your geek card. It's sapho juice that stains the lips cranberry and it's "by my will alone that I set my mind in motion" (which only actually appeared in the shitty David Lynch film version!).
So when is Ubuntu Linux (or one of the other eye-candy filled Linux distros) going to come with SimDock, Kiba-Dock, or Cairo-Dock (my favorite) installed by default? And sensible key-bindings for Compiz functions?
Is that all the Linux leaders today can think of, is copying or matching what has already been done? "When we catch up to OS X..." "If only we targeted netbooks..." - Why can't they think of anything original? By the time they've reach their their target it will have already moved.
On an overall level, Linux distributions (ie: Linux operating systems) are designed by community consensus. And community consensus behaves like a gigantic committee. And we all know what happens when you leave software design to a committee.
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You mean kind of like if I wanted to move to France without being French?
Oh wait, I shouldn't feed the troll.
Actually, religion just demands religious new information. If God comes down and says that giant worms live in the Earth's core everyone will believe Him.
It won't be long before the kids learn that As on tests let you skip homework assigments.
What!? WHAT!? WHAT!? WHAT!?
My God, how do I go to your school? Everywhere I've ever gone, people have been infected with this bizarre notion of grading students on having done homework (and often on the answers to the homework, wtf?) regardless of exam grades. How do I get your deal?
Why should we teach kids to make their thoughts more rational if they don't even know what the goal that they're rationally working towards is?
Well that's just bloody-stupid. Why does nobody ever explain t little children what the times tables actually represent: repeated addition? In my day we started learning skip-counting in first grade and by the end of second grade it just clicked for me while I walked home one day that if I counted by 4s three times I'd get twelve, and that this was the definition of multiplication.
After that, all it took was practice problems to get the more common "times tables" memorized, but with the benefit that I understood what they meant. Nobody ever had to put an actual table of numbers in front of me.
My argument is that having rigorous liberal arts requirements for undergrad science kids (and vice versa) is a necessity. At worst, you could have slept through those classes (or skipped 'em...most LA classes have loose attendance policies) and gotten an easy A to pad your GPA.
Ummm... what? You can't sleep through liberal-arts courses and get an A. I've tried. It doesn't work.
I resent liberal-arts requirements on grounds that they drag my GPA down, and haven't actually taught me anything useful so far. Art appreciation class blew chunks without actually teaching anything, and economics was watered down because they didn't want to rely on introductory economics students having taken calculus.
Not exactly phenomenal money, either.
I think if you look at the stated political orientations of journalists, you'll find lots of liberals. I also think that if you look at the political tilt of the actual reporting those journalists do, you'll find it very centrist, occasionally a little bit right-wing, and usually bloody irrelevant.
Well of course the story was merely "all right". It was basically the same story: wake up, do test chambers, escape from test chambers, make way through facility, fight GLaDOS, leave facility.
I've played the real Flash version, but I generally find it annoyingly difficult to aim the portal-gun in Flash.
The story was alright, but the puzzles were definitely better than the originals, I almost beat it Monday night, but had to call it quits at 6am,
All, those carefree days when an all-nighter was spent playing video games instead of working.
Exactly. They live in the test chambers.
Wow, this one actually got modded Troll. You struck a nerve there.
That may be because American teenagers are irresponsible asswipes and trying to minimize alcohol use helps us protect society as a whole from said teenagers. Being taxed, voting, f*cking, and dying only affects the individual taking part in those activities. Drinking and driving on the other hand can cause more people to die than just the person who was drinking.
Wow, generalizing much? Not everyone who drinks drives. In fact, 90% of the people I've seen drink underage don't drive afterwards.
Orrrr.......they are symptomatic of a country whose religious foundation has eroded away over the decades such that it is more desired by society as a whole to teach kids how to have sex, to advertise sex in every imaginable way using teenagers, and teach them about Islam in schools than it is to teach them about Christianity, how to respect others instead of killing them, and to not act like a slut by age 15.
Religious foundation... truly a funny proposition. If the United States is such a Christian country, why did it let my ancestors in? We're Jews, the lot of us. Or do I not belong here? Should I move to Israel?
After hearing so many like you, that's the conclusion I've come to.
Seems you either have issues with the United States providing more freedom than your own country (which you neglected to mention in your rant about us) or you just have issues with Christians and feel that the U.S. is failing because of their sheer existence rather than their decreasing visibility and influence in American society. You failed to mention the correlation between the latter and the U.S's current situation.
Considering fewer Americans every year believe that homosexuality is sin, that abortion is wrong, that religion is important, and that proper parenting (setting rules for children to follow, keeping a watchful eye on them, caring for them, and an even distribution of male/female organs) is important, it is hard to imagine there are people like you who think that the laws of this nation are actually causing our downfall. You obviously haven't looked at the situation entirely. Maybe you have biases that prevent you from doing so?
And you think that the United States should subjugate the other religions to a Christian government. Maybe you have biases that prevent you from looking at the situation entirely?
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So buy the damn kids some beer.
Now which God is this again?
No. Sapho juice came from an actual sapho plant.
Though the spice being in everything was an intentional detail of Arrakeen culture. The Fremen lived on a world where the only non-terraform life was the worms, which created the spice (apparently) as a form of photosynthesis (pre-spice mass comes to surface filled with water and organic matter and absorbs sunlight, producing spice that the sand-plankton can feed on).
My question about the book is: what in God's name created an ecosystem in which the only native life form survived entirely by feeding upon either its own byproducts or the lower stages of its own species?
What scares me more is these are kids and we refer to school as a job. No wonder many kids don't want to work 9-5 after high school or college, they've already been doing it for at least 13 years with no pay or pension and thrust into a social hell they have no control over, why would they want to do it any longer?
I'm in university now. I like what I do. But I agree in the uttermost. As far back as I can remember, someone always had a job for me to do. And it never actually ended, and nobody ever rewarded any of it.
Of course, now I'm in university where I pay for the privilege of trying to learn from whoever the school decides has to do the tedious chore of actually teaching students.
Since I helped my mom configure her new machine to have an Intel wireless card (Linux compatible natively), my mom's gotten used to Ubuntu Linux and now takes time from her computer work to tell me how awesome it is compared to Windoze.
But I wanted strawberries!
Not sure why you would want a BIOS that boots into protected mode for you. The whole point of a BIOS nowadays is that it contains real-mode drivers for certain hardware, thus granting the user (and any operating system that allows V86 mode) access to a minimum level of functionality.
Actually, AFAIK a BIOS is completely useless on non-x86 systems, but that's another story.
No, Mac users kvetch about X11 because it requires sending every little damned pixel across the connection rather than sending sensible drawing instructions like one does in Quartz. Oh, and X11's godawful color modes.
Please hand in your geek card. It's sapho juice that stains the lips cranberry and it's "by my will alone that I set my mind in motion" (which only actually appeared in the shitty David Lynch film version!).
Well, hand over the geek card.
Look. People in America who actually like coffee don't buy the stuff anywhere. We brew or boil our own damn coffee.
For example, I enjoyed an intensely flavorful, slightly sweet Arrakeen Spice-Coffee just this morning.
So when is Ubuntu Linux (or one of the other eye-candy filled Linux distros) going to come with SimDock, Kiba-Dock, or Cairo-Dock (my favorite) installed by default? And sensible key-bindings for Compiz functions?
Is that all the Linux leaders today can think of, is copying or matching what has already been done? "When we catch up to OS X..." "If only we targeted netbooks..." - Why can't they think of anything original? By the time they've reach their their target it will have already moved.
On an overall level, Linux distributions (ie: Linux operating systems) are designed by community consensus. And community consensus behaves like a gigantic committee. And we all know what happens when you leave software design to a committee.