Comment Re: yet if we did it (Score 1) 463
They ran off to enact laws allowing the police to arrest the other two groups based on their color.
[sarcasm]You're right. 8th graders tend to do that. [/sarcasm]
They ran off to enact laws allowing the police to arrest the other two groups based on their color.
[sarcasm]You're right. 8th graders tend to do that. [/sarcasm]
Or it could mean that white people benefited from better education and privilege, there-fore having less reason to riot over perceived ills and taking alternative means of remedying the situation.
Or there could be different cultures at work.
My junior high was 1/3 white, 1/3 Hispanic, and 1/3 black. In 8th grade, a white kid was beaten severely enough to be sent to the hospital by a group of Hispanic kids. The vice principle (a huge black man with a commanding presence) got on the intercom and indicated that any retaliation would be dealt with severely. After school, all the blacks were in one large group, all of the Hispanics were in one large group in another area, and the whites were completely scattered---you couldn't find more than 4 white kids together in one group.
I found it interesting that the whites did not band together like the other races.
First, about half of what I buy on Amazon are gifts that I myself would not have any interest in owning.
IIRC, you can mark an item as a gift when you purchase it (not sure if that impacts recommendations). You can alter the recommendations via "Your Account", "Your Recommendations", "Improve Recommendations", "Don't use for recommendations."
I'm OK with targeted ads. I just wish they would figure out how to target them.
On the desktop version of Amazon, go to "Your Account" on the top right next to the search bar, then "Your Recommendations" from the drop down. Under the search bar there should be a "Improve Your Recommendations" link. Find your "Hello Kitty" purchase and click "Don't use for recommendations."
Note: If anyone cares, I do not work for Amazon any more than any of their other customers do.
Hmm, Kaiser. Where have I heard that name before? Oh, I remember: in the Nixon tapes when he's discussing HMO's, which in turn created the largest rise in healthcare costs in the entire history of the United States! Well now that there is sure an unbiased source, yesiree Bob!
An Anonymous Coward does an ad hominem attack without bothering to see if his nay saying has any credibility. How useful.
We are 29 miles away and it felt stronger than any others I've been through in this same location - but still not very strong. However, my parents live in Napa - trying to contact them now.
Use text messaging.
That's completely untrue. I gave a fuck to your mom during the earthquake. She said it was way better than when you do it.
Did she feel the earth move?
Why do Californians think they can "feel" the strength of a quake?
With the Northridge quake of '94 I was over 150 miles away and knew it was significant. Not by the rolling sensation, but by the duration.
Intelligence isn't a liability.
It certainly can be. With schools aiming for the middle or least common denominator, intelligent kids get bored and don't live up to their potential. The kid that is motivated and has to struggle is far ahead in this system than the kid that is intelligent, finds everything easy, and gets bored with it all.
I don't know if Oregon's suit has merit or not, but that sure sounds like my employer's experience with Oracle.
This is pretty much SOP with any big custom system from a big company.
I know that we all like to paint with broad brushes, but back in the late 80s and 90s I worked for a large computer consulting outfit that did a reasonable job of delivering on time and on budget. But of course, it all depends on the individuals involved. The company had done an excellent job of hiring managers that hired technically competent people--and then trained them to estimate high to keep from causing problems later on.
It's funny how on the one hand we like to criticize pointy haired bosses for treating all employees like interchangeable widgets, but then when painting with such broad strokes, we do the same. But then again, if we're talking about Oracle, even if there are competent, well meaning individuals involved, they get over shadowed by a corporate culture of sleaze that starts at the top.
Place the realm blame where it belongs and leave Oracle alone.
Who? Lotus Notes? Bill Gates? Nixon?
Nixon. I say we blame Nixon. After all, he was the first sitting president to propose national health care (and of all ironies, Ted Kennedy helped spike it.)
Bill Gates openly supports creating an income tax in Washington to pay for education.
Just because Bill Gates is successful at the capitalist game doesn't mean that he is a capitalist. Same goes for Warren Buffet.
Our models suggest that Einstein may still have been right, when he objected against the conclusions drawn by Bohr and Heisenberg. It may well be that, at its most basic level, there is no randomness in nature, no fundamentally statistical aspect to the laws of [quantum] evolution.
The ideas presented in the introduction are quite interesting to read even for non-physicists.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated. -- R. Drabek
