I was coming in here specifically to point out the Norby Chronicles. I don't believe they're being published now, so you'll have to find them second hand, but I thought they were great when I was younger (still do, as a matter of fact) and they were written towards a younger audience anyway.
As apathetic as American's currently are, I do think they might actually rise up if some group actually tried to steal the Presidency in such a way. Really, I'd almost welcome it. A good second revolutionary war might do us some good.
I just wanted to thank you. I'm currently a CS major, and the closer I come to graduating the more nervous I'm becoming. I don't really have any real world programming experience (hoping to either get a programming position this summer or try to work on some open source project) and I'm always worried that when I graduate I'll find I don't know anything that I need to know. Turns out data structures and object oriented programming were a lot more useful than I realized. I know I'm going to need to know a lot more than that, and I have a lot of work ahead of me, but it is nice to know that I do know something useful.
I think that's why Go has interested me so much lately.
Lately I've been thinking about picking up the board game Othello, but I just can't bring myself to buy it. Knowing that it has been successfully solved such that a program could always beat me, it just doesn't seem worth it. It's just like in video games, where once I have used cheat codes I lose all interest in the game. Knowing that there is some way to do something perfectly seems to rob my joy of it.
That's why Go, where the computer can't even beat a lesser player, interests me so much. However, at this time I still suck so much at it that the computer can beat me.
I'm sorry, are you trying to argue that she copied his work? You mean that a young boy mysteriously finding out about his unknown destiny, involving involving some power, isn't entirely her own work? And then contests of that power!
I'm sorry, but stories of these sorts can all be reduced to such a derivative description. Such stories have been popular for thousands of years. If you wanted to claim she copied I'm sure you could have found works much older than that to use for your claim.
I think in this case that, while Troll might not have been the correct marking for that post, it was closest to what was called for, which would be Stupid. He responded to an obvious joke post as if it was serious, and then began to point out that people like things on sale.
Not inciting any flaming, perhaps, but still not at all helpful.
Cynthia McKinney is an idiot. Please don't hold her up as an example of a Democrat crying wolf, just hold her up as an example of a stupid human being.
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I was coming in here specifically to point out the Norby Chronicles. I don't believe they're being published now, so you'll have to find them second hand, but I thought they were great when I was younger (still do, as a matter of fact) and they were written towards a younger audience anyway.
Easy: Print off a ballot, take the picture, then rip it up and print a new one with your own choices on it.
As apathetic as American's currently are, I do think they might actually rise up if some group actually tried to steal the Presidency in such a way. Really, I'd almost welcome it. A good second revolutionary war might do us some good.
I just wanted to thank you. I'm currently a CS major, and the closer I come to graduating the more nervous I'm becoming. I don't really have any real world programming experience (hoping to either get a programming position this summer or try to work on some open source project) and I'm always worried that when I graduate I'll find I don't know anything that I need to know. Turns out data structures and object oriented programming were a lot more useful than I realized. I know I'm going to need to know a lot more than that, and I have a lot of work ahead of me, but it is nice to know that I do know something useful.
I think that's why Go has interested me so much lately. Lately I've been thinking about picking up the board game Othello, but I just can't bring myself to buy it. Knowing that it has been successfully solved such that a program could always beat me, it just doesn't seem worth it. It's just like in video games, where once I have used cheat codes I lose all interest in the game. Knowing that there is some way to do something perfectly seems to rob my joy of it. That's why Go, where the computer can't even beat a lesser player, interests me so much. However, at this time I still suck so much at it that the computer can beat me.
I'm sorry, are you trying to argue that she copied his work? You mean that a young boy mysteriously finding out about his unknown destiny, involving involving some power, isn't entirely her own work? And then contests of that power! I'm sorry, but stories of these sorts can all be reduced to such a derivative description. Such stories have been popular for thousands of years. If you wanted to claim she copied I'm sure you could have found works much older than that to use for your claim.
I think in this case that, while Troll might not have been the correct marking for that post, it was closest to what was called for, which would be Stupid. He responded to an obvious joke post as if it was serious, and then began to point out that people like things on sale. Not inciting any flaming, perhaps, but still not at all helpful.
Cynthia McKinney is an idiot. Please don't hold her up as an example of a Democrat crying wolf, just hold her up as an example of a stupid human being.