Exactly. I just turned a friend on to Open Office simply because he didn't want to pay $200, or whatever it is now, for OfficeXP. I know he would have bought OfficeXP if it cost $50, it's not like he's poor, but why when you can get what you nedd for free.
It's not slow drivers, and it's not fast drivers. both are equal parts to blame for the problem. I see it as poor lane discipline being the problem. If you're driving slowly, stay the fuck to the right. If you're speeding, stay left. It's that simple. Accidents are caused by people traveling DIFFERENT speeds. If everyone just stayed in their lane and traveled at the prevailing speed there would be less accidents. Notice traffic backing up behind you and people passing you on the left? You are a problem, speed up. Notice that everyone is going much slower than you? You are a problem, slow down. This isn't brain surgury.
and if you really want to see people drive like complete douschebags, I reccomend you drive a station wagon for a week or two. and I'm not even talking about some 30 year old, wood paneled vista cruiser. This is in my wifes brand new subaru. People speed up so that you don't pass them, people cut you off coming up to traffic lights, nobody will let you merge.
I've had Fios for a bit more than a month now and I'm generally happy with it. As mentioned the picture quality is better, and I have yet to see any of the pixelation or freezing I got from Comsuck. It even makes the 15 - 20 year old TV in my garage with no box look better. No lie. I don't like the channel guide as much but I'll get over that. Either way, it doesn't fix my single biggest gripe with the channel gide, if it's 7:59, and I click on a 8:00 show, just go to the damn channel. The channels are organized in a way that makes sense, not just any old place. Sports are together, discovery/history/learning are all together. my only real gripe is that with comcast there were always free on demand movies. not always new movies but there was a pretty wide selection that rotated from month to month. Fios doesn't have that that I've found. And I'm paying about $10 less a month for more channels.
I've had Fios internet for maybe 3 months now and I can't really tell much differnce from my cable, except when the bill comes. I haven't run much in the way of benchmarks, but it does feel marginally faster. Fios's news server is considerably slower. I guess thats what i get for still using news groups.
I prefer the other MPAA story they have on their site though: MPAA to Thwart Pirates By Making All Movies Suck (It would be funnier if it wasn't so true.)
They've already tried that. It's not working.
I wouldn't steal a car because it has value. Movie piracy is more like dumpster diving.
Seriously, what was the last great movie you saw? Rhetorical question because I don't want to get too OT, but think about it. I now routinely watch movies with the intent of laughing at their ridiculousness, their UCR (Unintentional Comedy Rating). I sat through about as much as I could stand of "A life Aquatic" the other day and it was just aweful. The worst thing is that I know they were sucessful in what they wanted to do. I'm a Bill Murray fan, and so I turned it on simply because he was in it. The studios aren't stupid, they know that there are lots of people like me who will watch it for exactly the same reason.
I have, in fact, seen some research into the effects of pornograpy on rapists. Generally speaking the data is inconclusive. There is evidence to support both sides, and neither side has a real clincher. Part of the problem is that it is difficult to isolate one specific cause. I can't provide any links because it was in a textbook from a class about 10 years ago. I do feel that it just sounds like a bad idea. Like giving axes to conviceted ax murderers, heroin to recovering junkies, and having convicted pedophiles running a day care, I believe it's a bad idea to tempt fate.
as for the rest of your post, I'm going to resist the flamebait.
I'd like to see the statistics of lives being ruined by porn. Also, wouldn't it be better if rapists had an outlet, like, say... porn, instead of people?
while I agree with you that a very small number of lives are ruined by porn, your second point is way off base. Giving porn to a rapist is like giving an arsonist a small fire to play with.
I used to do that - till I started seeing people with agendas even worse than the incumbents as 3rd parties.
I find few things more offensive than the non-statements put forth by the gormless republocrat candidates presented to us by the 2 party machine. Every time you see a candidate come on the idiot box and say something like "I'm for family values, better education, and being tough on crime" they are insulting your intelligence. Of course they are in favor of those things. Essentially, all people are in favor of those things. They believe that you are such a moron, that you need to be told that they are "just like you", and their opponent, might just not be in favor of those things.
Of course now the disgusting trend is to not even talk about about what you are in favor of, just mud-sling about what an awful baby rapist your opponent is.
my fios internet "light" comes to a verizon owned box, outside of my house, and is then converted to good ol' tcp/ip "service" before it comes in to my PC.
My wife takes the metro to work, after she drives 13 miles to get to it. Oh and thats only on the nights she doesn't have class. Seems she (and I) am a bit squeamish about getting off at the Anacostia stop and waiting for a shuttle. Then running out of class, hoping it didn't run over, to catch the last shuttle back to the metro. It's a great system for what it is, but it's just not practical all the time.
Oh and some of us will get quite motion sick trying to read on a metro.
If it can't be taken on an airplane, it will never gain widespread acceptance, and if I can't take bottled water through security, they sure as hell aren't going to allow this.
I can't see why anyone would want to ban these literary icons from schools or libraries, when the dissection of each only lends to the ability to think freely and creatively, and develop critical thinking and reasoning skills.
Apparently the author needs to get outside as much as they claim children do. At least they need to come visit my office and observe all the adult "children" I work with. Inattentive, irresponsible, blaming, unmotivated, distracted, inconsiderate, thankless, selfish, adult, "children". My experiences outside of the office don't exactly fill me with hope for rest of society either.
I think that fundamentally, we're on the same page. The problem starts in the home, and is piled on in elementry school. No question. I'm going say that instead of a problem and a symptom, we actually have 2 problems. the fist one is obvious, make education a priority at home and get past the baby-sitter mentaility. the second one is to get the "pigs" interested. I know we aren't going to reach everyone, and I certainly don't expect that everyone can grow up to be a brain surgeon, but there is an awful lot of wasted potential. I think we are failing if we ignore that fact.
The teachers in many high schools manage to do a decent job of teaching, except that the students do a poor job of learning.
call me crazy, but if students aren't learning, how can you say the schools are doing a good job of teaching?
I will admit, you can't teach a pig to sing, and there are plenty of "pigs" in classrooms. In my mind though, a good teacher is one who gets the pig to at least feign a little bit of intrest in humming along.
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where do you live? There isn't an apartment within 100 miles of my zip code I could rent for that, much less buy a house.
Exactly. I just turned a friend on to Open Office simply because he didn't want to pay $200, or whatever it is now, for OfficeXP. I know he would have bought OfficeXP if it cost $50, it's not like he's poor, but why when you can get what you nedd for free.
I see you've met my co-workers
It's not slow drivers, and it's not fast drivers. both are equal parts to blame for the problem. I see it as poor lane discipline being the problem. If you're driving slowly, stay the fuck to the right. If you're speeding, stay left. It's that simple. Accidents are caused by people traveling DIFFERENT speeds. If everyone just stayed in their lane and traveled at the prevailing speed there would be less accidents. Notice traffic backing up behind you and people passing you on the left? You are a problem, speed up. Notice that everyone is going much slower than you? You are a problem, slow down. This isn't brain surgury.
and if you really want to see people drive like complete douschebags, I reccomend you drive a station wagon for a week or two. and I'm not even talking about some 30 year old, wood paneled vista cruiser. This is in my wifes brand new subaru. People speed up so that you don't pass them, people cut you off coming up to traffic lights, nobody will let you merge.
ample resources are no excuse to waste them.
I've had Fios for a bit more than a month now and I'm generally happy with it. As mentioned the picture quality is better, and I have yet to see any of the pixelation or freezing I got from Comsuck. It even makes the 15 - 20 year old TV in my garage with no box look better. No lie. I don't like the channel guide as much but I'll get over that. Either way, it doesn't fix my single biggest gripe with the channel gide, if it's 7:59, and I click on a 8:00 show, just go to the damn channel. The channels are organized in a way that makes sense, not just any old place. Sports are together, discovery/history/learning are all together. my only real gripe is that with comcast there were always free on demand movies. not always new movies but there was a pretty wide selection that rotated from month to month. Fios doesn't have that that I've found. And I'm paying about $10 less a month for more channels.
I've had Fios internet for maybe 3 months now and I can't really tell much differnce from my cable, except when the bill comes. I haven't run much in the way of benchmarks, but it does feel marginally faster. Fios's news server is considerably slower. I guess thats what i get for still using news groups.
They've already tried that. It's not working.
I wouldn't steal a car because it has value. Movie piracy is more like dumpster diving.
Seriously, what was the last great movie you saw? Rhetorical question because I don't want to get too OT, but think about it. I now routinely watch movies with the intent of laughing at their ridiculousness, their UCR (Unintentional Comedy Rating). I sat through about as much as I could stand of "A life Aquatic" the other day and it was just aweful. The worst thing is that I know they were sucessful in what they wanted to do. I'm a Bill Murray fan, and so I turned it on simply because he was in it. The studios aren't stupid, they know that there are lots of people like me who will watch it for exactly the same reason.
I have, in fact, seen some research into the effects of pornograpy on rapists. Generally speaking the data is inconclusive. There is evidence to support both sides, and neither side has a real clincher. Part of the problem is that it is difficult to isolate one specific cause. I can't provide any links because it was in a textbook from a class about 10 years ago. I do feel that it just sounds like a bad idea. Like giving axes to conviceted ax murderers, heroin to recovering junkies, and having convicted pedophiles running a day care, I believe it's a bad idea to tempt fate.
as for the rest of your post, I'm going to resist the flamebait.
while I agree with you that a very small number of lives are ruined by porn, your second point is way off base. Giving porn to a rapist is like giving an arsonist a small fire to play with.
I find few things more offensive than the non-statements put forth by the gormless republocrat candidates presented to us by the 2 party machine. Every time you see a candidate come on the idiot box and say something like "I'm for family values, better education, and being tough on crime" they are insulting your intelligence. Of course they are in favor of those things. Essentially, all people are in favor of those things. They believe that you are such a moron, that you need to be told that they are "just like you", and their opponent, might just not be in favor of those things.
Of course now the disgusting trend is to not even talk about about what you are in favor of, just mud-sling about what an awful baby rapist your opponent is.
lets go even more basic than that, how many of us were born with poor vision and bad teeth? and have since solved it with orthodontics and lasik?
you should be able to change the frequency that it uses.
my fios internet "light" comes to a verizon owned box, outside of my house, and is then converted to good ol' tcp/ip "service" before it comes in to my PC.
Twisted Metal 2 on Playstation - 2 fixed the problems with one but kept the gameplay simple.
Roller Coaster Tycoon 3 - nothing better than creating the most evil wicked coaster you can dream up
Grand Turismo 3 - A few hot laps and stress just goes away
Techmo Bowl on NES - gotta have a friend but it's always worth the effort to hook the system up
Gauntlet - my first real "favorite" game - wish I could have all the quarters I put in that machine back.........naaahhhhh, no I don't
Honorable mention - Kingdom of Loathing, Pole Position, Sonic, freeciv, Ratchet and Clank
My wife takes the metro to work, after she drives 13 miles to get to it. Oh and thats only on the nights she doesn't have class. Seems she (and I) am a bit squeamish about getting off at the Anacostia stop and waiting for a shuttle. Then running out of class, hoping it didn't run over, to catch the last shuttle back to the metro. It's a great system for what it is, but it's just not practical all the time.
Oh and some of us will get quite motion sick trying to read on a metro.
I was all set to sign up for that show, but then I found out it had NOTHING at all to do with what I thought it did.
now that would have been entertaining.
If it can't be taken on an airplane, it will never gain widespread acceptance, and if I can't take bottled water through security, they sure as hell aren't going to allow this.
I can't see why anyone would want to ban these literary icons from schools or libraries, when the dissection of each only lends to the ability to think freely and creatively, and develop critical thinking and reasoning skills.
you've included the answer in your question.
[1] http://www.amazon.com/100-Banned-Books-Censorship- Literature/dp/0816040591k s/100mostfrequently.htm
[2] http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/bannedbooksweek/bbwlin
A quick glance at these 2 lists only confirms my suspicions. We are well and truely fucked as a nation.
You should maybe know something about MD demographics before you say that. Montgomery county is rich and white.
Apparently the author needs to get outside as much as they claim children do. At least they need to come visit my office and observe all the adult "children" I work with. Inattentive, irresponsible, blaming, unmotivated, distracted, inconsiderate, thankless, selfish, adult, "children". My experiences outside of the office don't exactly fill me with hope for rest of society either.
childhood dead??? try endless childhood instead.
I think that fundamentally, we're on the same page. The problem starts in the home, and is piled on in elementry school. No question. I'm going say that instead of a problem and a symptom, we actually have 2 problems. the fist one is obvious, make education a priority at home and get past the baby-sitter mentaility. the second one is to get the "pigs" interested. I know we aren't going to reach everyone, and I certainly don't expect that everyone can grow up to be a brain surgeon, but there is an awful lot of wasted potential. I think we are failing if we ignore that fact.
call me crazy, but if students aren't learning, how can you say the schools are doing a good job of teaching?
I will admit, you can't teach a pig to sing, and there are plenty of "pigs" in classrooms. In my mind though, a good teacher is one who gets the pig to at least feign a little bit of intrest in humming along.
No shit!? Wrapping paper was messing up your signal? I believe it. My wife has some fancy stuff that looks like a foil of some sort.
Oh, I see you've met my former boss. She was even worse.
her: have you completed X?
me: not yet, but I have Y and Z completed and tested.
her: but X is on the schedule to be complete today.
me: It made more sense to do Y and Z first, X will be trivial now that Y and Z are complete.
her: but X is on the schedule to be compete today. Y and Z are not scheduled to be done until next month. now we are behind schedule.
honestly, I can't make this stuff up. She actually said that as I stood there in slack-jawed amazement.