Thank you so much. I had some points the other day and thought I was mis-marking posts or something because my points disappeared when I scored a post but I never hit "moderate."
Same here. I mainly follow about 30 or 40 sports writers and bloggers who use twitter to fire off quick hits of info and comments. I'm not interested in anyone following me and my only tweets are usually in reply to those I'm following about something they have tweeted.
As to the question below about setting up an RSS feed, I don't know. It never crossed my mind and truthfully, twitter does all I need, which is really very little.
Sergeant: I can get you delayed entry, your own uniforms, grenades, and ammo. I can probably get you stationed over at Fort Dix. Butthead: Fort Dix? Is that anywhere near Fort Nuts?
Because he's in the military. If an order is unlawful, he has a duty to disobey it. But, he'd better be right that the order, in this case, following operational security, is unlawful. He will have his day in court. If that order is found to not have been unlawful, he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
IMO, it's not really for a 22 yr old E-4 to go about deciding which information should truly be secret and which shouldn't. That decision is way above his pay grade and a lot more than 1 guy decides what is secret and what isn't. If Manning didn't want to be in the Army and do wtf he's told, he shouldn't have joined.
I agree with a lot of that. Probably my biggest peeve is Lucas' tin ear for dialogue. I almost threw up when Obi Wan said to Anakin in AotC, "Good call, my young padawan." WTF is that?
OK, why else do it? If it's not to look more busy, i.e., a positive spin, please enlighten me with potential negative reactions they may have been seeking.
'Shopping out glare is one thing. Adding in screens so you, according to you, look somehow busier, is a continuation of the slimy pattern of lies and half-truths these assholes have exhibited all along. No one is claiming this has anything to do with their environmental record directly. It is, however, another data point that reminds us we can't trust anything they say or do.
Sometimes doing SOMETHING is worse than not doing anything. Don't be pissed at ecologists who have legit concerns about the turtles. Save that for BP and the gov't response.
The oil deposits are about 20000 ft below the sea floor. If there were an earthquake that could unleash a significant amount of oil from 4 miles down, i.e., similar to this or other man-made oil disasters, we might have bigger problems to worry about.
The signals it sends back to Earth are data. Those data usually occur in a certain decodable pattern. That pattern changed and is not decodable at this time.
At this point it's unclear how much of an environmental threat oil spreading from the BP spill will cause
Actually, it's pretty clear. This likely will go down as the worst environmental disaster in US history, in terms of its environmental and financial impacts. Estimates say it's leaking 1 million gal per day. That means we're just about at EVE already. It will take at least a few months to get another well drilled and this one capped.
In that time, LA and other Gulf oyster and shrimping fisheries are going away. That's $2.5-3 billion to LA per year. Coastal wetlands are going to be devastated - can't scrub the plants, have to burn the wetlands to clean it up. Hundreds of species of wildlife will be impacted. Their marine and estuarine habitats will be severely harmed. And we haven't even discussed the impact to beaches and Florida's $3 billion Gulf Coast tourism industry, yet. Hope the slick/tar balls don't hit the Loop current and end up in Miami Beach or even Daytona.
After the community manager unbanned everyone, the follow-up posts in that thread are all fan-boyish groveling which I totally don't understand. "We shouldn't use adblockers anyway!! Thanks for unbanning! Much respect!!" Respect for what? Taking the boot off your throat? Here's some bannable "browsing preference advice:" don't read The Escapist.
WB UK doesn't want to get their hands soiled, so they get a bunch of job-hungry college kids to do their dirty work. I guess it wouldn't look seemly for a real -AA employee to "maintain accounts at private BitTorrent sites, develop link-scanning bots, [and] make trap purchases."
It's a noble cause, but there are questions as to whether or not Brain Age and its ilk work as advertised. Some have found success in improving math scores. Still, results are inconclusive. Given how strapped our schools are for cash right now, it's hard see them snapping up a bunch of DS' and software for questionable benefits.
I think we all know it won't. Sure, a few companies here and there seem to get it, but most don't or won't. Not until we make them quit by refusing to buy their products and telling them why. If they can sell that many copies of ACII despite this crud DRM being announced beforehand, then there's very little incentive for them to not include it, even with the problems.
Awesome. Give me a fuckton of knowledge about stuff I'll never buy. Show me, a guy, all the tampon ads you got since just informing me of the product is the point. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Full disclosure: I'm the son of a long-time high school English teacher who recognizes there are a lot of shitty teachers out there.
More of the blame needs to be placed at the feet of administrators and Boards of Education, IMO. They often kowtow to parents because parents hold the purse strings. Nobody has the good teachers' backs in disputes with parents and students. If a parent complains enough or is a big donor, their kid will pass on the district superintendent's or BoE's orders.
There are plenty of bad teachers that deserve blame, but we can't forget the failings of those with real power in the system.
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Thank you so much. I had some points the other day and thought I was mis-marking posts or something because my points disappeared when I scored a post but I never hit "moderate."
The lack of real expertise on some (many?) subjects, the petty squabbles to protect inconsequential fiefdoms, zero accountability.
I fail to see how a wiki model could remove all that from universities.
Boom. Roasted.
I can only assume you've never seen how thieves steal ATM's here in Florida.
Same here. I mainly follow about 30 or 40 sports writers and bloggers who use twitter to fire off quick hits of info and comments. I'm not interested in anyone following me and my only tweets are usually in reply to those I'm following about something they have tweeted.
As to the question below about setting up an RSS feed, I don't know. It never crossed my mind and truthfully, twitter does all I need, which is really very little.
Sergeant: I can get you delayed entry, your own uniforms, grenades, and ammo. I can probably get you stationed over at Fort Dix.
Butthead: Fort Dix? Is that anywhere near Fort Nuts?
Because he's in the military. If an order is unlawful, he has a duty to disobey it. But, he'd better be right that the order, in this case, following operational security, is unlawful. He will have his day in court. If that order is found to not have been unlawful, he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
IMO, it's not really for a 22 yr old E-4 to go about deciding which information should truly be secret and which shouldn't. That decision is way above his pay grade and a lot more than 1 guy decides what is secret and what isn't. If Manning didn't want to be in the Army and do wtf he's told, he shouldn't have joined.
I agree with a lot of that. Probably my biggest peeve is Lucas' tin ear for dialogue. I almost threw up when Obi Wan said to Anakin in AotC, "Good call, my young padawan." WTF is that?
Less than 12, if you're good.
OK, why else do it? If it's not to look more busy, i.e., a positive spin, please enlighten me with potential negative reactions they may have been seeking.
'Shopping out glare is one thing. Adding in screens so you, according to you, look somehow busier, is a continuation of the slimy pattern of lies and half-truths these assholes have exhibited all along. No one is claiming this has anything to do with their environmental record directly. It is, however, another data point that reminds us we can't trust anything they say or do.
Sometimes doing SOMETHING is worse than not doing anything. Don't be pissed at ecologists who have legit concerns about the turtles. Save that for BP and the gov't response.
A whole hour and not 1 goatse reference?
This is a day that shall live in infamy.
The oil deposits are about 20000 ft below the sea floor. If there were an earthquake that could unleash a significant amount of oil from 4 miles down, i.e., similar to this or other man-made oil disasters, we might have bigger problems to worry about.
The signals it sends back to Earth are data. Those data usually occur in a certain decodable pattern. That pattern changed and is not decodable at this time.
Glad I could help.
Never been tried > 350 feet of water. And the wellhead is a mile down. Fingers are crossed, tho'.
At this point it's unclear how much of an environmental threat oil spreading from the BP spill will cause
Actually, it's pretty clear. This likely will go down as the worst environmental disaster in US history, in terms of its environmental and financial impacts. Estimates say it's leaking 1 million gal per day. That means we're just about at EVE already. It will take at least a few months to get another well drilled and this one capped.
In that time, LA and other Gulf oyster and shrimping fisheries are going away. That's $2.5-3 billion to LA per year. Coastal wetlands are going to be devastated - can't scrub the plants, have to burn the wetlands to clean it up. Hundreds of species of wildlife will be impacted. Their marine and estuarine habitats will be severely harmed. And we haven't even discussed the impact to beaches and Florida's $3 billion Gulf Coast tourism industry, yet. Hope the slick/tar balls don't hit the Loop current and end up in Miami Beach or even Daytona.
This is bad, folks.
After the community manager unbanned everyone, the follow-up posts in that thread are all fan-boyish groveling which I totally don't understand. "We shouldn't use adblockers anyway!! Thanks for unbanning! Much respect!!" Respect for what? Taking the boot off your throat? Here's some bannable "browsing preference advice:" don't read The Escapist.
Never fear! Our glorious leaders in Tally are trying to fix that! See HB 325 and SB 2166.
WB UK doesn't want to get their hands soiled, so they get a bunch of job-hungry college kids to do their dirty work. I guess it wouldn't look seemly for a real -AA employee to "maintain accounts at private BitTorrent sites, develop link-scanning bots, [and] make trap purchases."
We like racing where the drivers and crew matter more than the computers.
It's a noble cause, but there are questions as to whether or not Brain Age and its ilk work as advertised. Some have found success in improving math scores. Still, results are inconclusive. Given how strapped our schools are for cash right now, it's hard see them snapping up a bunch of DS' and software for questionable benefits.
When Facebook goes down, they'll do the same thing. Deleting your info doesn't help, either. As soon as you post it, they have it.
I think we all know it won't. Sure, a few companies here and there seem to get it, but most don't or won't. Not until we make them quit by refusing to buy their products and telling them why. If they can sell that many copies of ACII despite this crud DRM being announced beforehand, then there's very little incentive for them to not include it, even with the problems.
Awesome. Give me a fuckton of knowledge about stuff I'll never buy. Show me, a guy, all the tampon ads you got since just informing me of the product is the point. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!
Full disclosure: I'm the son of a long-time high school English teacher who recognizes there are a lot of shitty teachers out there.
More of the blame needs to be placed at the feet of administrators and Boards of Education, IMO. They often kowtow to parents because parents hold the purse strings. Nobody has the good teachers' backs in disputes with parents and students. If a parent complains enough or is a big donor, their kid will pass on the district superintendent's or BoE's orders.
There are plenty of bad teachers that deserve blame, but we can't forget the failings of those with real power in the system.