My mother is on facebook.

Over the last few years she her views have been trending more and more towards "christian fundamentalism".

Every-time she posts one of those ... lets get a revolution started...repost if you agree... links I want to flame her.

But its my own mother... what do I do?

There's a great short story about this that I read many years back...I don't recall the name but basically

11 of the 12 Jurors immediately want to vote guilty...

The 12th is actually interested in the case/process etc. and begins to convince some of the others of his "reasonable doubts".

In the climax the 12th juror provokes one of the others into saying "I'm going to kill you!" ...echoing a statement made by the defendant. This was a key part of the case against the defendant so demonstrating that that statement doesn't always precede the act of homicide is enough to cause many of the other juror's to have "reasonable doubt".

I think the story also deals with jury sequestration, and allergic reactions (peanut butter? or maybe a bee?)

Anyone remember the Title?

-Jainith

They do. Thats why they pay people to lobby on their behalf.

In addition there is the fun difference between the enlisted ranks and the Officer Corps.

For even more fun the Officer Corps is made up in parts of
Military Academy Grads
ROTC Grads
OCS (Former enlisted or other willing college grads)

I don't know the relative percentages of each, but I can tell you each group has their own demographics.

You'll notice similar trends in other "Americanized" martial arts diciplins.

Typically "Americanized" systems will have

10 Belts...Black ... 5 Ranks of Black

Whereas more traditional systems will have.

5 Belts...Black ... 10 Ranks of Black

This makes comparing belt colors kind of usless between systems (individual teachers are very different in some systems making them even harder to compare)

Many Dojo's treat Martial Arts as a business, and they realize that

        -People like things where they are more frequently rewarded
        -Kids are your big profit center

and adapt their training methods to suit.

Which was specially surprising to me...

I would think that any Alaskan voter would react negatively to a recommendation from a former governor who resigned.

Besides the obvious hubris..."Second to none" could be considered and equivocation in and of itself.

"Second to none" ~= "Subject is superior to all others in this regard"

or alternatively

all others subject (an inequality instead of an equivalency I know...)

Actually 'Nobody Cares' is could be considered insightful. It doesn't really matter what source HS or Undergraduate students use for their papers because 'Nobody Cares' it is unlikely they are ever going to be published or read by anyone. It is not particularly useful to have someone studying a topic at this level write a report because they really don't have anything meaningful to say on the topic.

This is one of the things about our current education system that needs to change. We utilize the 'written report' format far to often. I've never had call to write out anything over 2 full pages in my working career. Even then anything that is written more than a paragraph or two stands a fair chance of being glanced at and dismissed.

That sir is genius...Other people have suggested paint/markers, tinfoil etc...

But just imagine walking though the thing with a plain white tshirt and the confusion it could cause...Especially if nothing odd with the shirt could be detected by feel.

As you said the first company to market these will make a killing.

Sweet...then I get the chance for a Chev Chelio's style spree. Right?

Im thinking that would be way more fun then the next 65 years of my "normal" life...

That show was Penn and Tellers "Bullshit" and I was extremely dissapointed with that demonstration. Thier "Hero" marine appeared to give the child no instruction in the proper technique for the use of the firearm. And he specifically failed to correct the child who was holding the weapon in an inproper firing position. As a result it appears that he was struck in the face or glasses by the charging handle, or triangular projection on the left side of the weapon (sorry I havent used that (or any model) since my army days so I dont remember the proper name of that part.

Mmm...no.

What Pirate Bay does could be called contributing to, conspiring to, inducing, abetting or some other variation of helping other parties engage in copyright infringement.

They host a file which in turn points to servers which maintain a list of people sharing parts of a given file (which may be subject to copyright protections in some jurisdictions). If someone chooses to use this information for the purposes of copyright infringement that is not Pirate Bay's problem.

Yeah I just got a great deal from the Dell Outlet.

I've spent more on games from Steam (on sales) than I did on the computer itself.

There is also a ridicoulsy long article (1/2 the mag) in this months National Geographic.

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/07/middle-awash/shreeve-text