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It has been said that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to get really good at anything.
Even at 10 hours a day this means it will take three years to really learn a language.
No, the alleged 10k hours is to become world-class, like the Stones or Federer. It takes a lot less time to become above average at something, plus in the case of language you get to count all the time you're talking or reading or writing it (I think).
in Atlanta, and most cities, its illegal to give anything to homeless folks.
Can't wait to see the official Atlanta City Gov't HomelessPerson ID badge so we know which panhandlers not to give anything to.
You can have the lawn. It's a pain to mow.
And don't call me "sue"
(hey, why should Shirley have all the fun)
Shawn Thornton kicks its shiny metal ass.
The Chicago Museum of Science and Industry had a 'roads of the future' exhibit in 1960 that suggested both power and control (speed, steering, etc) would come from embedded wiring systems in the roadway.
Twenty years! Hah! I was singing that when I was 6, which was, well, never mind but a lot more than 20 years ago. Now get offa my lawn.
I just don't know who to believe.
A techie who believes what he says enough to basically call out the most secretive, nastiest intelligence agencies of one of the most powerful countries in the world
or
a pack of politicians.
Oh, man, it's difficult. Maybe I should just flip a coin?
Why not use the same criteria that the NSA has openly admitted their ops use when determining whether a communication is "foreign"
Interestingly enough, while the lyrics are copyrighted, you can hum the tune all you want, copyright-free, since the tune itself has fallen out of copyright.
Hmmm, so "To you, a Birthday; Happy,...." would not be under copyright? While I'm semi-joking here, it's regular practice in the sheet music industry to take some old piece, change a couple slur marks, label it "arranged by [Mr. X]" , and slap a brand-new copyright date on it.
Let me axe you a question
MIss Elizabeth Borden, is that you?
People long before TV used to bitch about books (novels and stories) being the Devil's own, distracting people from industriousness
I was going to say something similar. Name any significant technical development which did NOT change people's lives. Phone? Precision timepieces for determining longitude? Steam engine? The wheel?
States that are heavily fracking are playing with fire.
I see what you did there.
The problem w/ bats breaking could have been very easily solved by switching to metal bats. And before you go all "but they're much too powerful" on me, metal (or any composition) bats can be designed with any size sweet spot and coefficient of rebound you want. They currently get designed to maximize output so as to let ballplayers think they're the offspring of Babe Ruth and Ted Williams.
Or better yet, let's design bats out of tempered glass, like Prince Rupert's teardrops, so a mis-hit leads to a shower of dust. Hilarity ensues!
I thought this approach was proven years ago by Apple and their warmer-than-warm laptop machines. Plus I'd rather have a laptop in my lap than gold rods near my rod.... or something like that.
Tales of Cisco-induced semi-psychotic fits are common. Often, people on a Cisco binge end up curled into a fetal ball, shuddering and muttering paranoid rants. Nudity and violence may well be involved too.
Wait a sec, Cisco wine does that, too?
Here we are, deep into the age-determination threads, and nobody's yet posted that it couldn't be a 100k year old tumor because the Earth's only 6k . What's wrong with
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