Nomrombom

The only thing that is actually effective (unless you really, really care a lot) is immersion. There is no better way to learn most languages.

RIP. We will miss you. The ability to freely illegally download stuff, that is. http://www.gamingbus.com/2011/10/05/united-states-and-seven-other-countries-sign-acta/ Anyone think it'll actually do anything, or just be another useless unenforced law?

Okay, fine, since you asked so nicely, I will block you. You can thank me later.

I'm near the least cool person I know :shades:

He created and sold a product that people wanted and enjoyed and set a price that people were and are willing to pay for said product. Somehow, you have decided that this is a bad thing. Still preying on the average US consumer. That's my opinion, you don't have to share it (nor does anyone else). Your opinion doesn't make any sense though. To you, I guess not.

She does that at age 18? I would expect that from a 13 year old...

He created and sold a product that people wanted and enjoyed and set a price that people were and are willing to pay for said product. Somehow, you have decided that this is a bad thing. Still preying on the average US consumer. That's my opinion, you don't have to share it (nor does anyone else).

and its [cabbage] really. I am WAAAAAAAAAAY more experience and qualified then the people I see go for the same job, but just because one friend works there, they can just say "yeah he's good. you wont go wrong picking him". there really is no point in getting your HSC/School Cert, or Uni degrees or College/TAFE Certs anymore. NOTHING is based on qualifications or experience, its ONLY who you know. It's really tempting to take my story to Today/Tonight news because it'll show the country just how messed up our job system is now. Well let's not get crazy now. I don't think every single person/company hires solely on connections.

Mind if I ask your/her age?

Do you do anything besides complain all the [bleep]ing time?

I was biking at night and a car turned into my path without signaling (it was turning right, I was going straight on the sidewalk). Fortunately it passed in front of me, but I yelled at them "don't turn your [bleep]ing signal on or anything". Pretty sure they heard it too :-)

I know, I wouldn't say it's all on him. But Apple does push hard.

Connections are worth more than actual qualification much of the time. Unfortunately.

Shrewd: He was undeniably a visionary - advanced personal technology and shaped our culture. And his business model was amazingly successful. Devious: Still a bastard. Not perfect. Deftly manipulated consumers to make money and grow his company. Increased US culture of consumerism, created one of the first and most popular "must have items". Moneymongering: He ran Apple. Business model - make people buy the same [cabbage], just repackaged to be thinner and better looking. How many different generations of ipods are there, 6? He was very obviously after a lot of money and he was successful. Rest in hell: I don't like him, just my personal opinion. sweet prince: Still a major loss. He will be missed by many. He was not the devil, and he was very intelligent - his death is regrettable, regardless of your opinion of him. I don't even know what the internet thinks of him, nor do I care.

Rest in hell, sweet prince. The most shrewd, devious, moneymongering CEO of our time.

Was going to math and we went to take the elevator (teachers rarely know or care). I wasn't looking at which button I was hitting and it turned out to be the call for help button. I immediately left and went up the stairs, like 6 others stayed in the elevator. :ohnoes:

Would you mind thinking about Stephanie Meyer next? Or Bieber. Why do people hate him so much? Can't you just... not pay attention to him? It's not like he's permanently on the front page of the news...

Rage.

The potential person part doesn't even matter, I think. As a fetus has no consciousness, it does not know that you denied it a life. It is not "itself" yet. Not to mention another one of the exact same thing can be made at effectively any time people please. I would say it is accurate to call a fetus a "blank" human - like a blank object used in manufacturing, it is physically the same type of thing, but it is not completely finished. Think a blank bullet.

Did the teacher share? I would demand that they do if I was going to.

Fixed. But seriously, money makes the world turn. Don't just blame it on corporations, blame it on humanity. SHHHH! You'll alert the liberals! :-#

The fact that everything in big business and government is about the benjamins, baby.

2. Is it human? Yes. Again, Pro Choice defenders stick their feet in their mouths when they defend abortion by claiming the zygote-embryo-fetus isn't human. It is human. Its DNA is that of a human. Left to grow, it will become a full human person. And again, anti-abortion activists often mistakenly use this fact to support their cause. They are fond of saying, "an acorn is an oak tree in an early stage of development; likewise, the zygote is a human being in an early stage of development." And they would be right. But having a full set of human DNA does not give the zygote full human rights - including the right not to be aborted during its gestation. Don't believe me? Here, try this: reach up to your head, grab one strand of hair, and yank it out. Look at the base of the hair. That little blob of tissue at the end is a hair follicle. It also contains a full set of human DNA. Granted it's the same DNA pattern found in every other cell in your body, but in reality the uniqueness of the DNA is not what makes it a different person. Identical twins share the exact same DNA, and yet we don't say that one is less human than the other, nor are two twins the exact same person. It's not the configuration of the DNA that makes a zygote human; it's simply that it has human DNA. Your hair follicle shares everything in common with a human zygote except that it is a little bit bigger and it is not a potential person. (These days even that's not an absolute considering our new-found ability to clone humans from existing DNA, even the DNA from a hair follicle.) Your hair follicle is just as human as the zygote, but we would never defend its human rights based solely on that fact. http://www.elroy.net/ehr/abortionanswers.html#human

What?

SAW is okay for firing continuously, but for controlled fire the RPK or whatever is much better.