The story has too many "simple observations" in it to be plausible.
- "The patient was well aware of the fact that she had no vagina" Well, that's a relief!
- "She had never had a period" Am I missing something here? How exactly would this happen given her condition?
You're probably right about the paths, but I doubt if we have much data about the paths hamsters take when pursued by a roaring monster only inches from their butts.
I mean, that's the situation as far as the hamster is concerned, right? It's a lose-lose situation for it. We give it control of a vehicle, but the vehicle itself terrifies them and pursues them wherever they go.
Poor bastards. The smart ones will be paralyzed with fright and poop themselves.
From the headline I read, I thought they were producing a line of cloned dogs for sale. If Lancey (TM) is such a great dog, why shouldn't everyone have a chance to own one? Even a few extra copies would sell out fast.
On the "beloved" point, I can't see loving animals like people. People grow and change and love you in unexpected ways. I love my cats and dogs, but they aren't my family. They don't drive me crazy enough!
Ya know, reading the articles, I'm not that outraged. Fining people who don't pay for the Tube? OK. Using ABSO as a restraining order to keep a suicidal woman from jumping into rivers, dumb but OK. An aggressive cat? Incredibly stupid, yes, but I think the cat's civil rights have been preserved.
If we get computers which act like humans, the first thing they will do will probably start killing each other... unplugging, whatever. Anyway, we don't "have humans" because we're useful, we're here because we value ourselves. All this talk of being taken over is one step away from trolling.
Mandatory schooling was set up long before the advent of the consumer economy. I mean, look at the colonial period. People in Europe didn't want our cotton because they saw ads for it, it was based on need. And the cost benefit of slave labor, of course.
It was recognized at the time of the revolution that an educated populace was necessary for the government to work (populace defined as land-owning white males).
So people are homeschooling their kids so they can use their cell phones... at home?
Some people keep their kids at home to give them a better education, but most of the examples I see are religious people who don't want outside influences, i.e. the modern world, "corrupting" their kids. Often they end up shy and isolated. Couldn't agree more about No Child Left Behind, though. Good teachers are hanging it up because they aren't allowed to teach anymore.
Oh, yes, when I was in school we used to dream of dumpster diving. We had to get up at 2 AM, in the freezing cold, and make our own punch cards out of spittle and our own hair. We had to punch them with pointed sticks, sharpened by rubbing them on our feet. Then we had to walk through the snow, 20 miles each way, to the reader and beg and plead with the operator to put them in. Some days he would throw them on the ground and make us eat them, just to see us grovel. Just as well I suppose, we had nothing else to eat. And if he did, we had to go 40 miles the other way just to get the printout.
And it was all in COBOL.
But if you try to tell that to the kids today, well, they just won't believe you.
Have you talked to people about how to raise your score? If the mortgage company can see you have a history of borrowing money and then paying it back consistently you'll look a lot better than somebody who has no paper trail. They want to see that you have income and can pay consistently, not that you're frugal. Just don't use the damn thing too much. Of course I agree the credit companies want your money, and the rates are complicated and ridiculous. But paying a little extra now and getting a better long-term mortgage rate might be a good trade. I mean, you will be paying 100's of dollars of interest *every month*. Cutting that down a fraction for 20-30 years can help a lot. If you just want a short-term loan, go to a credit union or even a bank. That's what Best Buy is doing, except they'll charge you for it.
It's all in your perspective. The Islamists view us as the aggressors and feel they are defending their faith. Against who? Christians, natch. It's not against Zionists, it's a crusade. Let's face it, the US-Iraq war is Christ vs. Muhammad.
I agree, their views about punishment and women are a few hundred years behind the West. But you can't point to their religion as the problem unless you also claim capitalist multi-nationals as Christian.
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The story has too many "simple observations" in it to be plausible. - "The patient was well aware of the fact that she had no vagina" Well, that's a relief! - "She had never had a period" Am I missing something here? How exactly would this happen given her condition?
That's only for a manned mission. Come down a couple orders of magnitude for unmanned.
yes, sorry, i know, wrong thread. dummy.
Isn't this exactly what TFA said?
You're probably right about the paths, but I doubt if we have much data about the paths hamsters take when pursued by a roaring monster only inches from their butts. I mean, that's the situation as far as the hamster is concerned, right? It's a lose-lose situation for it. We give it control of a vehicle, but the vehicle itself terrifies them and pursues them wherever they go. Poor bastards. The smart ones will be paralyzed with fright and poop themselves.
From the headline I read, I thought they were producing a line of cloned dogs for sale. If Lancey (TM) is such a great dog, why shouldn't everyone have a chance to own one? Even a few extra copies would sell out fast. On the "beloved" point, I can't see loving animals like people. People grow and change and love you in unexpected ways. I love my cats and dogs, but they aren't my family. They don't drive me crazy enough!
Wow, I wonder if I will get labeled as "troll" for this ... I could not care less. Nor could >95% of the rest of the world.
OK, ASBOs. Now I'll be flagged flamebait or something ...
Ya know, reading the articles, I'm not that outraged. Fining people who don't pay for the Tube? OK. Using ABSO as a restraining order to keep a suicidal woman from jumping into rivers, dumb but OK. An aggressive cat? Incredibly stupid, yes, but I think the cat's civil rights have been preserved.
Arnold is much closer to the opposite, a body without a brain ... but I guess you need a brain to have ambition.
If we get computers which act like humans, the first thing they will do will probably start killing each other ... unplugging, whatever. Anyway, we don't "have humans" because we're useful, we're here because we value ourselves. All this talk of being taken over is one step away from trolling.
Mandatory schooling was set up long before the advent of the consumer economy. I mean, look at the colonial period. People in Europe didn't want our cotton because they saw ads for it, it was based on need. And the cost benefit of slave labor, of course.
It was recognized at the time of the revolution that an educated populace was necessary for the government to work (populace defined as land-owning white males).
So people are homeschooling their kids so they can use their cell phones ... at home?
Some people keep their kids at home to give them a better education, but most of the examples I see are religious people who don't want outside influences, i.e. the modern world, "corrupting" their kids. Often they end up shy and isolated.
Couldn't agree more about No Child Left Behind, though. Good teachers are hanging it up because they aren't allowed to teach anymore.
Oh, yes, when I was in school we used to dream of dumpster diving. We had to get up at 2 AM, in the freezing cold, and make our own punch cards out of spittle and our own hair. We had to punch them with pointed sticks, sharpened by rubbing them on our feet. Then we had to walk through the snow, 20 miles each way, to the reader and beg and plead with the operator to put them in. Some days he would throw them on the ground and make us eat them, just to see us grovel. Just as well I suppose, we had nothing else to eat. And if he did, we had to go 40 miles the other way just to get the printout.
And it was all in COBOL.
But if you try to tell that to the kids today, well, they just won't believe you.
Have you talked to people about how to raise your score?
If the mortgage company can see you have a history of borrowing money and then paying it back consistently you'll look a lot better than somebody who has no paper trail. They want to see that you have income and can pay consistently, not that you're frugal. Just don't use the damn thing too much.
Of course I agree the credit companies want your money, and the rates are complicated and ridiculous. But paying a little extra now and getting a better long-term mortgage rate might be a good trade. I mean, you will be paying 100's of dollars of interest *every month*. Cutting that down a fraction for 20-30 years can help a lot.
If you just want a short-term loan, go to a credit union or even a bank. That's what Best Buy is doing, except they'll charge you for it.
It's all in your perspective. The Islamists view us as the aggressors and feel they are defending their faith. Against who? Christians, natch. It's not against Zionists, it's a crusade. Let's face it, the US-Iraq war is Christ vs. Muhammad.
I agree, their views about punishment and women are a few hundred years behind the West. But you can't point to their religion as the problem unless you also claim capitalist multi-nationals as Christian.