I would think you would be OK. The person looking at the full body scan sits in a different room, where they can't see you. So all they would see would be that you have a penis. Even if you have had breast implants or hormone therapy, it still probably won't be that interesting to them since they can't see past the skin layer. Unless you have anything strapped to your body, you won't even be stopped.
Also, think of how many super-fat men they are going to be scanning every day who probably have smaller dicks and bigger (saggier) boobs than you. (I mean no offense.) I mean, some poor sap has to essentially look at naked people all day. And not good-looking naked people. All naked people!
Personally, I think that would be the worse job ever. Because when I go to the airport, I don't want to see 99.9% of the people naked. Half of them make me sick with their clothes on.
All that said, I am totally against this full-body scanning. I just don't think that you are any more fucked than the rest of us.
"Every day, 7,000 times a day, Stanford Hospital staff turn to pneumatic tubes, cutting-edge technology in the 19th century, for a transport network that the Internet and all the latest Silicon Valley wizardry can't match: A tubular system to transport a lab sample across the medical center in the blink of an eye."
This article might be interesting if you are, say, 15. But they were (and still are) used in banks, the post office, supermarkets and anywhere else people need to transport small packages and money in a complex. Look around next time you are out in the world and you will likely see a few of these tubes.
How about an article on another archaic, 19th-century piece of technology that works better than any modern Silicon Valley wizardry: the internal combustion engine. I look forward to the one about the bicycle too!
But then again I see nothing wrong with ti US offering grants and other forms of aid to underdeveloped countries so that they can improve their situation with respect to development and improve the local economy. This would come with the explicit expectation that these governments spend the money wisely, and steps are taken so that as little money as possible is wasted by corruption.
The country that wants to retain the doctors should be the one offering grants. These people are choosing not to return to their home countries because of poor living conditions, corruption, and the fear of violence.
It seems like excessive drain on our economy to pay to educate someone and THEN pay them to work in their home country.
IMO, Ethopia, and Africa as a whole, has gotten enough handouts. Their leaders stay rich, the money never makes in into infrastructure and education and the people keep killing each other. It's very similar to Iraq. You can pour money into the country, but unless the people as a whole want to improve their quality of life, the money will just be siphoned away into foreign banks and death.
And that is the crux of the issue. Macs are designed to be appealing to both computer-retards and power users. Apple figures that the retards will be happy with the one-button mouse since they can just pound it with their fist like circus bears to do all basic functions. Power users have their own particular mouse they like to use anyway, which is definitely not shaped like the streamlined suppository that comes with the computer.
If I have the patience to skip the theater showing and wait 6 months for the DVD to come out, I have the patience to wait another month for Netflix to rent it.
Maybe if WB made some movies that were actually great instead of OK, people would buy more DVDs.
... but the native Americans seem to have done much better for themselves than the Australian Aborigines (from what I have seen during my numerous trips to the US, they are quite prosperous on their reserves and have good self-determination and leadership).
I agree with your entire statement except what I quoted above. The American Indians have done well only due to the legalization of gambling. While the influx of money has allowed them cashflow, it has only degraded their culture. Their native culture has only declined, they haven't really integrated in with the rest of the US, and they still have low graduation rates and rampant alcoholism.
The Indians without casinos are doing a heck of a lot worse: A drive through the Four Corners region of the southwest (which is all Navajo and Ute Mountain Indians) is probably one of the most depressing places in the US... While scenically beautiful, there are no casinos, no money, no infrastructure, little electricity, little education. It's an incredibly quality of life, no matter what cultural perspective you evaluate it from.
In my observation, the cultures that eschew assimilation into modern society yet live adjacent to modern populations are doomed for failure. A high percentage of their population is unable to resist modern addictive vices (gambling, drinking). These addictions, coupled with their historical lack of education, money, infrastructure and social support drags them into ruin.
History has shown that you're best bet is to completely integrate into modern society or completely remove yourself from it. Attempting to do anything else tears you apart.
A giant greenhouse, designed to heat massive ammounts of air, and dump it into the cold upper atmosphere...
So we have given up and are going to proactively warm the earth's atmosphere directly now?
Don't confuse controlled convection with global warming. The ground everywhere always absorbs sunlight, which heats it and the air near the ground. That air then ruses upwards. All they are doing is putting a roof over the hot ground to channel the air into a turbine. It's analogous to building a dam in a river to harness potential energy that is normally wasted. The earth doesn't absorb any more energy than it normally would... unless they are lowering the albedo of the ground under the greenhouse. Of course, it would be more efficient for them to paint the ground black.
If they did color the ground, you would have increased global energy absorption. (Much like you get frmo using solar panels...) But you would also be generating CO2 free energy, so you could burn less coal. In the end, lowering CO2 values would win out, since with less greenhouse gases in the air, the more heat would be radiated back out to space. And that is ignoring the carbon savings from not having to mine as many coal or hydrocarbons.
They should put these over parking lots in hot areas of the world. Or maybe we could just put a big one over Texas. They all use air conditioning there anyway, so they would never know the difference.
First blu-ray players didn't start at $50, there was a time when they cost as much or more then a ps3,
Second, and more importantly, Can your $50 Walfart special transfer movies to your psp so you can watch it on the plane, Or do you have to take the disk with you and risk scratching it?
This is a key feature, because it is definitely worth buying a PS3 for the ability to watch high definition blu-ray media on the small, low-resolution psp screen.
I had a roommate who stiffed me out of rent money after he was unemployed for 8 months last year, and I was lucky I could cover the rent at the time. I'll be lucky if I ever see that money again.
Your roommate is really lucky you didn't throw him out. Hopefully you explained the concept of an emergency fund to him so that you don't have to do it in the future.
Well given that they're just down the street from a state with a serious racial prejudice problem and nuclear weapons, I can hardly blame them for that. As far as I''m concerned either both Israel and Iran should have nukes, or neither should. Imbalances in that part of the world usually lead to genocide
By your logic, we should give Iraq nukes too. I can't believe that you think it is a good idea for a state that publicly declares that it is going to wipe Israel off the face of the earth to have a weapon of mass destruction.
Would you give me a knife if I told you that I was going to stab you and your entire family in your sleep?
No one would have a problem with Iran developing nukes if they were promoting Middle Eastern peace, had happy citizens, and respecting human rights. Instead, they are trying to (1) derail Iraq's stability to promote their Shi'ite interests, (2) ignoring their electoral process so that their dictatorship can stay in control, (3) beating and raping their own citizens in the process, AND (4) calling for extermination of a different religion and race.
With that type of behavior, the only type of nuclear weapon Iran currently deserves is one launched AT them, aimed at Tehran when all of their leaders are present. Maybe that will be different in the future if, at a minimum, they can evolve sufficiently as a nation to rise above religious bigotry, because no one is going to let the Holocaust reoccur again anytime soon.
Boring, not at all. This is a revolutionary plane, Boeing are looking at 25% less running costs and 30% less fuel than the 767 it replaces - I would say rather an achievement, if a litttle later than advertised!
Unfortunately, none of those savings will be passed down to the passengers.
Getting out of the car uninvited is an aggressive act
Sorry, getting out of a car is an aggressive act?!?!
_GETTING OUT OF A FUCKING CAR_?!?!?!?!??!
You may not like it, but the police consider it to be one. At least they do in the US. Like the AC who previously replied said, if a law enforcement or border officer stops your car and you do anything other than sit there with your car off, motionless, and with your hands in plain sight, they get very excited. (I know this from personal experience.)
Depending on their level of experience/paranoia and their suspicion for stopping you, I think they either assume that you are going to run, shoot them, blow up the car, etc. This doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen and it obviously something they worry about. People doing illegal things generally don't like to be arrested or detained and some are willing to kill to get away.
Try it from the cop's perspective. Think about how shitty it would be to be a law enforcement officer and have to pull over and inspect a shady-looking car with tinted windows, filled with 4 male silhouettes, at night and be armed with a 9mm pistol that you can't unholster until after you see someone trying to kill you.
Everything goes a lot smoother if you stay in the car, keep your hands on the wheel, and be polite.
My parents couldn't have possibly prevented this from happening.
But her parents could have, if her father told you he would cut off your balls if you tried to have sex with his daughter and showed you the rusty knife he would use to do it.
14 year olds are too young to be having sex, whether they think it is fair or not. They don't have the maturity level to understand the repercussions of the activity.
An obvious difference is that people are interested in seeing a movie exactly once, and as soon as possible.
Music relies on people wanting to hear it multiple times and they are probably more interested in the music well after it exists. And complete knowledge of the contents of the music increases, rather than decreases, their desire to hear it.
Incorrect.
Completely wrong.
So wrong it makes me wonder where on Earth you came up with this idea.
In a lot of ways, a movie is like a novel. There are some you read through once, and then get rid of because they just aren't that amazing. There are some you have to re-read several times simply to understand them. And then there are the favorites that you keep coming back to year after year.
To claim that everyone is only interested in seeing a movie once, and that they're all basically disposable, is simply ignorant.
Sure, if you're talking about some generic action/horror movie aimed at teenfolk that's probably accurate. They're just looking for something to serve as background noise while they hang out with their friends. They'll go see it within days of the opening, they'll see it once, and they won't even pay much attention to it.
But then you've got the G/PG stuff aimed at little kids. You've obviously never witnessed a small child and their favorite movie. They'll drag you to the theater a dozen times while it is showing... They'll make you buy every single solitary piece of merchandise tied into the film... They'll need the DVD the day it becomes available... And they'll watch it over and over again, until the disc literally wears out.
Then you've got movies with some real substance to them. Things like Pulp Fiction. Movies where you literally notice something new each time you watch it. Movies that take multiple viewings to actually understand what is going on.
Then there are the quality movies that just don't get old. This will, of course, vary quite a bit depending on your personal preferences... But I don't know how many times I've watched Alien or Evil Dead II or Cannibal: The Musical.
I used to agree with you, but as general movie quality has slipped, so has my opinion...
Childhood infatuations aside (which I don't think are healthy anyway and are a direct result of advertising and peer pressure, IMO), there are a very low percentage of movies that I would prefer to watch more than once. Maybe 1 movie every two years. The rest of what comes out is complete crap that can be completely understood and remembered after one (sober) viewing.
The three favorite movies you just listed were from 1979, 1987, and 1998, so I gather you agree with me to some extent.
I don't think it is fair to compare movies to books either due to the fact that books are able to offer so much more nuance and storyline complexity.
A technology site filled with Luddites. Irony at its finest.
You've got it totally wrong.
We're not Luddites, but rather paranoids whose fears have been justified by questionable government actions in the last 8 years.
No one here is unhappy about the technology itself (in fact we are excited), we just know that the government will attempt to abuse our rights under their perverted interpretations of "freedom" and "national security."
Owner Peter Frank, a sophomore at Wesleyan University... runs ACB out of his dorm room. The 19-year-old English major... "I'm untouchable," he says.
You don't sound untouchable Pete, you just sound stupid. Especially after letting time.com publish your full name, picture, the city you live in, AND the school you attend. I am thinking that the next year is going to be very educational for you once your site slanders a couple of people to the point that they lose control and decide to take a trip to Middletown with your picture in hand.
Lol. You Californians are always so full of yourselves. One reason why I was so happy to move away from there.
You're learning a valuable lesson though... that your state government sucks. It's amusing that you are out of cash with all the taxes California collects by financially raping its residents every year at tax time. Oh well, maybe all those illegal immigrants will support you.
Although, with no federal military and a peace-loving citizenry, it is more likely that Mexico would take the state back. Cheers!
...that they had to deal with all the crap to make each scene and still had the energy and resources left to focus on the plot to make a good movie. When I watch the movies today, they are still great and the special effects come across as dated, but classy.
In comparison, the last three Star Wars releases could take advantage of advanced computing resources, yet somehow manage to look chinzy and the plots are horrendous to the point that the movies actually make me feel dirty.
And it isn't the fault of the CGI either, because the Lord of the Rings trilogy had excellent and tasteful CGI. Of course, they also didn't butcher the plot. I think Lucas just blew his wad 30 years ago and can't get over it.
There's a reason why even the professionals are trained to shoot CoM first.
Semi-professionals are trained to shoot two-to-three shots CoM and then to reassess the situation. Real professionals put two in the chest and one in the head.
Of course, I do agree with you that real professionals also do not use 9mm ammunition... or handguns for that matter.
Yeah, the Air Marshals use the.357 SIG, as does the Secret Service. The Coast Guard adopted it as well. I believe the FBI is still using the.40 S&W but I could be mistaken.
The 9mm is a joke. It's even worse for the military because they aren't allowed to use expanding ammunition. Buddy of mine who deployed in Iraq tells a story of an insurgent whom wasn't stopped in spite of the fact that he had absorbed no less than six center of mass hits from the M9. Makes you question the wisdom of the military abandoning the Model 1911, doesn't it?
That's because god was on his side, obviously.
That said, if you have time for 6 center of mass hits, you have time for 2 headshots, which works every time.
My dad taught high school too. And after he had his lesson plans worked out for geometry, algebra 1 and 2, and trig, he didn't spend a single summer working on lesson plans. But he did spend a lot of time in the evenings during school nights grading and preping.
I agree 100% on all of your points except the summer work (#2). Both of my parents were teachers and they didn't do an ounce of work during summer break... maybe they had a training day right at the end and beginning of the school year. But they did spend significant after hours time during the school year preparing lesson plans and grading homework.
Remember that many other professionals work in "exempt" status where they often have to spend more than 8 hours to complete the job they were hired for with no additional compensation.
The GP highlights an interesting point though. While the average teacher's salary is $51K/year, they do get 2.5-3 months off. In other jobs, you can make a lot more than that, but you only get 15 days (3 weeks) of vacation a year. It is up to the individual to decide what is best for them.
Maybe we should pay some teachers more and extend their school year by a few months. That would solve a lot of parental stress related to what to do with the kids during the day over summer vacation.
Do you mean decimal time? Metric time uses metric prefixes like "kilo" and "milli" with the existing defined second. Decimal time is based on a different unit of measure, the decimal second.
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I would think you would be OK. The person looking at the full body scan sits in a different room, where they can't see you. So all they would see would be that you have a penis. Even if you have had breast implants or hormone therapy, it still probably won't be that interesting to them since they can't see past the skin layer. Unless you have anything strapped to your body, you won't even be stopped.
Also, think of how many super-fat men they are going to be scanning every day who probably have smaller dicks and bigger (saggier) boobs than you. (I mean no offense.) I mean, some poor sap has to essentially look at naked people all day. And not good-looking naked people. All naked people!
Personally, I think that would be the worse job ever. Because when I go to the airport, I don't want to see 99.9% of the people naked. Half of them make me sick with their clothes on.
All that said, I am totally against this full-body scanning. I just don't think that you are any more fucked than the rest of us.
"Every day, 7,000 times a day, Stanford Hospital staff turn to pneumatic tubes, cutting-edge technology in the 19th century, for a transport network that the Internet and all the latest Silicon Valley wizardry can't match: A tubular system to transport a lab sample across the medical center in the blink of an eye."
This article might be interesting if you are, say, 15. But they were (and still are) used in banks, the post office, supermarkets and anywhere else people need to transport small packages and money in a complex. Look around next time you are out in the world and you will likely see a few of these tubes.
How about an article on another archaic, 19th-century piece of technology that works better than any modern Silicon Valley wizardry: the internal combustion engine. I look forward to the one about the bicycle too!
But then again I see nothing wrong with ti US offering grants and other forms of aid to underdeveloped countries so that they can improve their situation with respect to development and improve the local economy. This would come with the explicit expectation that these governments spend the money wisely, and steps are taken so that as little money as possible is wasted by corruption.
The country that wants to retain the doctors should be the one offering grants. These people are choosing not to return to their home countries because of poor living conditions, corruption, and the fear of violence.
It seems like excessive drain on our economy to pay to educate someone and THEN pay them to work in their home country.
IMO, Ethopia, and Africa as a whole, has gotten enough handouts. Their leaders stay rich, the money never makes in into infrastructure and education and the people keep killing each other. It's very similar to Iraq. You can pour money into the country, but unless the people as a whole want to improve their quality of life, the money will just be siphoned away into foreign banks and death.
And that is the crux of the issue. Macs are designed to be appealing to both computer-retards and power users. Apple figures that the retards will be happy with the one-button mouse since they can just pound it with their fist like circus bears to do all basic functions. Power users have their own particular mouse they like to use anyway, which is definitely not shaped like the streamlined suppository that comes with the computer.
He is talking about putting two buttons on their default mice and more importantly, on their laptops.
If I have the patience to skip the theater showing and wait 6 months for the DVD to come out, I have the patience to wait another month for Netflix to rent it.
Maybe if WB made some movies that were actually great instead of OK, people would buy more DVDs.
... but the native Americans seem to have done much better for themselves than the Australian Aborigines (from what I have seen during my numerous trips to the US, they are quite prosperous on their reserves and have good self-determination and leadership).
I agree with your entire statement except what I quoted above. The American Indians have done well only due to the legalization of gambling. While the influx of money has allowed them cashflow, it has only degraded their culture. Their native culture has only declined, they haven't really integrated in with the rest of the US, and they still have low graduation rates and rampant alcoholism.
The Indians without casinos are doing a heck of a lot worse: A drive through the Four Corners region of the southwest (which is all Navajo and Ute Mountain Indians) is probably one of the most depressing places in the US... While scenically beautiful, there are no casinos, no money, no infrastructure, little electricity, little education. It's an incredibly quality of life, no matter what cultural perspective you evaluate it from.
In my observation, the cultures that eschew assimilation into modern society yet live adjacent to modern populations are doomed for failure. A high percentage of their population is unable to resist modern addictive vices (gambling, drinking). These addictions, coupled with their historical lack of education, money, infrastructure and social support drags them into ruin.
History has shown that you're best bet is to completely integrate into modern society or completely remove yourself from it. Attempting to do anything else tears you apart.
A giant greenhouse, designed to heat massive ammounts of air, and dump it into the cold upper atmosphere...
So we have given up and are going to proactively warm the earth's atmosphere directly now?
Don't confuse controlled convection with global warming. The ground everywhere always absorbs sunlight, which heats it and the air near the ground. That air then ruses upwards. All they are doing is putting a roof over the hot ground to channel the air into a turbine. It's analogous to building a dam in a river to harness potential energy that is normally wasted. The earth doesn't absorb any more energy than it normally would... unless they are lowering the albedo of the ground under the greenhouse. Of course, it would be more efficient for them to paint the ground black.
If they did color the ground, you would have increased global energy absorption. (Much like you get frmo using solar panels...) But you would also be generating CO2 free energy, so you could burn less coal. In the end, lowering CO2 values would win out, since with less greenhouse gases in the air, the more heat would be radiated back out to space. And that is ignoring the carbon savings from not having to mine as many coal or hydrocarbons.
They should put these over parking lots in hot areas of the world. Or maybe we could just put a big one over Texas. They all use air conditioning there anyway, so they would never know the difference.
First blu-ray players didn't start at $50, there was a time when they cost as much or more then a ps3,
Second, and more importantly, Can your $50 Walfart special transfer movies to your psp so you can watch it on the plane, Or do you have to take the disk with you and risk scratching it?
This is a key feature, because it is definitely worth buying a PS3 for the ability to watch high definition blu-ray media on the small, low-resolution psp screen.
I had a roommate who stiffed me out of rent money after he was unemployed for 8 months last year, and I was lucky I could cover the rent at the time. I'll be lucky if I ever see that money again.
Your roommate is really lucky you didn't throw him out. Hopefully you explained the concept of an emergency fund to him so that you don't have to do it in the future.
Well given that they're just down the street from a state with a serious racial prejudice problem and nuclear weapons, I can hardly blame them for that. As far as I''m concerned either both Israel and Iran should have nukes, or neither should. Imbalances in that part of the world usually lead to genocide
By your logic, we should give Iraq nukes too. I can't believe that you think it is a good idea for a state that publicly declares that it is going to wipe Israel off the face of the earth to have a weapon of mass destruction.
Would you give me a knife if I told you that I was going to stab you and your entire family in your sleep?
No one would have a problem with Iran developing nukes if they were promoting Middle Eastern peace, had happy citizens, and respecting human rights. Instead, they are trying to (1) derail Iraq's stability to promote their Shi'ite interests, (2) ignoring their electoral process so that their dictatorship can stay in control, (3) beating and raping their own citizens in the process, AND (4) calling for extermination of a different religion and race.
With that type of behavior, the only type of nuclear weapon Iran currently deserves is one launched AT them, aimed at Tehran when all of their leaders are present. Maybe that will be different in the future if, at a minimum, they can evolve sufficiently as a nation to rise above religious bigotry, because no one is going to let the Holocaust reoccur again anytime soon.
Boring, not at all. This is a revolutionary plane, Boeing are looking at 25% less running costs and 30% less fuel than the 767 it replaces - I would say rather an achievement, if a litttle later than advertised!
Unfortunately, none of those savings will be passed down to the passengers.
Getting out of the car uninvited is an aggressive act
Sorry, getting out of a car is an aggressive act?!?!
_GETTING OUT OF A FUCKING CAR_ ?!?!?!?!??!
You may not like it, but the police consider it to be one. At least they do in the US. Like the AC who previously replied said, if a law enforcement or border officer stops your car and you do anything other than sit there with your car off, motionless, and with your hands in plain sight, they get very excited. (I know this from personal experience.)
Depending on their level of experience/paranoia and their suspicion for stopping you, I think they either assume that you are going to run, shoot them, blow up the car, etc. This doesn't happen all the time, but it does happen and it obviously something they worry about. People doing illegal things generally don't like to be arrested or detained and some are willing to kill to get away.
Try it from the cop's perspective. Think about how shitty it would be to be a law enforcement officer and have to pull over and inspect a shady-looking car with tinted windows, filled with 4 male silhouettes, at night and be armed with a 9mm pistol that you can't unholster until after you see someone trying to kill you.
Everything goes a lot smoother if you stay in the car, keep your hands on the wheel, and be polite.
My parents couldn't have possibly prevented this from happening.
But her parents could have, if her father told you he would cut off your balls if you tried to have sex with his daughter and showed you the rusty knife he would use to do it.
14 year olds are too young to be having sex, whether they think it is fair or not. They don't have the maturity level to understand the repercussions of the activity.
An obvious difference is that people are interested in seeing a movie exactly once, and as soon as possible.
Music relies on people wanting to hear it multiple times and they are probably more interested in the music well after it exists. And complete knowledge of the contents of the music increases, rather than decreases, their desire to hear it.
Incorrect.
Completely wrong.
So wrong it makes me wonder where on Earth you came up with this idea.
In a lot of ways, a movie is like a novel. There are some you read through once, and then get rid of because they just aren't that amazing. There are some you have to re-read several times simply to understand them. And then there are the favorites that you keep coming back to year after year.
To claim that everyone is only interested in seeing a movie once, and that they're all basically disposable, is simply ignorant.
Sure, if you're talking about some generic action/horror movie aimed at teenfolk that's probably accurate. They're just looking for something to serve as background noise while they hang out with their friends. They'll go see it within days of the opening, they'll see it once, and they won't even pay much attention to it.
But then you've got the G/PG stuff aimed at little kids. You've obviously never witnessed a small child and their favorite movie. They'll drag you to the theater a dozen times while it is showing... They'll make you buy every single solitary piece of merchandise tied into the film... They'll need the DVD the day it becomes available... And they'll watch it over and over again, until the disc literally wears out.
Then you've got movies with some real substance to them. Things like Pulp Fiction. Movies where you literally notice something new each time you watch it. Movies that take multiple viewings to actually understand what is going on.
Then there are the quality movies that just don't get old. This will, of course, vary quite a bit depending on your personal preferences... But I don't know how many times I've watched Alien or Evil Dead II or Cannibal: The Musical.
I used to agree with you, but as general movie quality has slipped, so has my opinion...
Childhood infatuations aside (which I don't think are healthy anyway and are a direct result of advertising and peer pressure, IMO), there are a very low percentage of movies that I would prefer to watch more than once. Maybe 1 movie every two years. The rest of what comes out is complete crap that can be completely understood and remembered after one (sober) viewing.
The three favorite movies you just listed were from 1979, 1987, and 1998, so I gather you agree with me to some extent.
I don't think it is fair to compare movies to books either due to the fact that books are able to offer so much more nuance and storyline complexity.
A technology site filled with Luddites. Irony at its finest.
You've got it totally wrong.
We're not Luddites, but rather paranoids whose fears have been justified by questionable government actions in the last 8 years.
No one here is unhappy about the technology itself (in fact we are excited), we just know that the government will attempt to abuse our rights under their perverted interpretations of "freedom" and "national security."
Owner Peter Frank, a sophomore at Wesleyan University... runs ACB out of his dorm room. The 19-year-old English major... "I'm untouchable," he says.
You don't sound untouchable Pete, you just sound stupid. Especially after letting time.com publish your full name, picture, the city you live in, AND the school you attend. I am thinking that the next year is going to be very educational for you once your site slanders a couple of people to the point that they lose control and decide to take a trip to Middletown with your picture in hand.
Lol. You Californians are always so full of yourselves. One reason why I was so happy to move away from there.
You're learning a valuable lesson though... that your state government sucks. It's amusing that you are out of cash with all the taxes California collects by financially raping its residents every year at tax time. Oh well, maybe all those illegal immigrants will support you.
Although, with no federal military and a peace-loving citizenry, it is more likely that Mexico would take the state back. Cheers!
Chicago has been violating the civil rights of it's residents for years in ways that are far more obnoxious than recording public spaces...
No they haven't!!!
Attention Chicago residents, just shoot out every camera lens with your handguns! ...Oh wait a second.
...that they had to deal with all the crap to make each scene and still had the energy and resources left to focus on the plot to make a good movie. When I watch the movies today, they are still great and the special effects come across as dated, but classy.
In comparison, the last three Star Wars releases could take advantage of advanced computing resources, yet somehow manage to look chinzy and the plots are horrendous to the point that the movies actually make me feel dirty.
And it isn't the fault of the CGI either, because the Lord of the Rings trilogy had excellent and tasteful CGI. Of course, they also didn't butcher the plot. I think Lucas just blew his wad 30 years ago and can't get over it.
There's a reason why even the professionals are trained to shoot CoM first.
Semi-professionals are trained to shoot two-to-three shots CoM and then to reassess the situation. Real professionals put two in the chest and one in the head.
Of course, I do agree with you that real professionals also do not use 9mm ammunition... or handguns for that matter.
Yeah, the Air Marshals use the .357 SIG, as does the Secret Service. The Coast Guard adopted it as well. I believe the FBI is still using the .40 S&W but I could be mistaken.
The 9mm is a joke. It's even worse for the military because they aren't allowed to use expanding ammunition. Buddy of mine who deployed in Iraq tells a story of an insurgent whom wasn't stopped in spite of the fact that he had absorbed no less than six center of mass hits from the M9. Makes you question the wisdom of the military abandoning the Model 1911, doesn't it?
That's because god was on his side, obviously.
That said, if you have time for 6 center of mass hits, you have time for 2 headshots, which works every time.
I am going to have to agree with maddskillz.
My dad taught high school too. And after he had his lesson plans worked out for geometry, algebra 1 and 2, and trig, he didn't spend a single summer working on lesson plans. But he did spend a lot of time in the evenings during school nights grading and preping.
I agree 100% on all of your points except the summer work (#2). Both of my parents were teachers and they didn't do an ounce of work during summer break... maybe they had a training day right at the end and beginning of the school year. But they did spend significant after hours time during the school year preparing lesson plans and grading homework.
Remember that many other professionals work in "exempt" status where they often have to spend more than 8 hours to complete the job they were hired for with no additional compensation.
The GP highlights an interesting point though. While the average teacher's salary is $51K/year, they do get 2.5-3 months off. In other jobs, you can make a lot more than that, but you only get 15 days (3 weeks) of vacation a year. It is up to the individual to decide what is best for them.
Maybe we should pay some teachers more and extend their school year by a few months. That would solve a lot of parental stress related to what to do with the kids during the day over summer vacation.
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Do you mean decimal time? Metric time uses metric prefixes like "kilo" and "milli" with the existing defined second. Decimal time is based on a different unit of measure, the decimal second.