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I'm not sure what the process was for renouncing one's citizenship during that time, but the vast majority of the Confederate soldiers were born in the Union, making them citizens.

The political designation of where they were fighting is less significant, and actually makes this a better analogy for an American Citizen fighting in a foreign land against the American Govt.

Small nitpick: Buddha(563 BCE-483 BCE (aged 80) or 411 and 400 BCE) predates Heraclitus(535 BC-475 BC), but your point definitely stands, as I'm sure that realization predates recorded history.

If you want to add a "PC" note, it should include an acknowledgement that the term "Retard" is highly offensive to many even tangentially associated with the mentally challenged community.

Also:

>Be comforted, that in the face of all irridity and disillusionment, and despite the changing fortunes of time, there is always a big future in computer maintenance.

Lists don't harm people. People harm people.

Ok....

So are you saying that the current methods of education can't be improved?

I'm not referring to an intervention, which, like dieting, will not be useful in the long term. I'm giving you credit for hitting upon the idea that education itself can be altered in a manner which is not only far more effective, but evenly distributed improvements across all tested populations.

That's a great idea, and we all look forward to hearing of your progress in this endeavor.

You and I are agreeing while we explain this state of affairs to nfg, which is why I've been upvoting you.

It's far from an academic distinction to me, and that fight could have just as easily occurred if an African American had been called a Haitian, or any number of similar errors...

Quite the pessimist!

So you're going w/ B) A subtle entreaty to focus the brunt of America's educational efforts on specific ethnic subgroups so that the entire nation can have better results. The upside is that it's possible that whatever procedural improvements are made will probably improve all of the student body, so it's a win-win!

Unless, of course, you're also positing that these sub-groups can't be taught??

That's the point. Americans don't usually call Spaniards and Portuguese "Hispanic" any more then they call a Blond haired, blue eyed person born in America, but who's parents were born in South Africa "African American", which is to say rarely and usually in a comedic or anecdotal manner.

When he's referring to "Hispanics and African Americans" he is trying to refer to specific "racial" (insomuch as the concept exists) groups.

Oddly enough, there aren't that many (statistically significant) African Americans anywhere outside of America either... :)

Just out of curiosity, what is the relevance of this observation?

Are you saying that nations are irrelevant, and ethnicity is what really matters? Is this a subtle entreaty to focus the brunt of America's educational efforts on specific ethnic subgroups so that the entire nation can have better results?

Instead of blindly downvoting, I really am interested in the point of this statement.

It does, just not by default. I went to options and at the bottom, there is a checkbox to force https.

I'd posit that the fear of death is really the fear of change.

You don't truly want to live forever, and lose everyone you know and will ever know. If everyone lives forever, then children will never grow.

Once you truly accept that change in not only inevitable, but extremely desirable, the fear of death is greatly diminished.

I always wanted to have a lcd plate cover that would blank out alternate sides at a high enough frame rate that the naked eye would see nothing, but a camera would never catch all of the numbers... then I realized that it's a lot easier to just put a bike carrier or something on the back of the car.

In Washington DC, they give the owner the option of specifying who the driver was, and they forward the ticket.

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  Which, of course, is why they are promoted as protection!

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    That's what they want you to think!

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Is this a pun?

The fact that you (and probably she) are presuming that a stone is required in the first place means that DeBeers has won the larger victory.

It was "complementary" with an "e"...

I think the downvotes are because you're missing the critical point of the argument.

The question isn't _whether_ students have any skin in the game, it's _why_ does an education cost X in the first place.

Or, if you're being really precise, you'd say 24/7/52... </pedantry>

What if the poster had an option to restrict the ability to comment on a submission to members with a certain threshold of karma or account age, not to exceed the poster's own level?

From the study: On the other hand, LTNF is effective against the venoms of all species of snakes. Therefore, LTNF can become a universal treatment for snakebites. Furthermore, LTNF is effective against scorpion and bee venoms, plant-derived ricin and bacterial toxin botulinum. Therefore, LTNF can become a universal treatment for toxins derived from animals, plants, and bacteria.

He denormalized the data.

That has been disabled in their build. As have various other things such as incognito window, autofill, sign in, extensions...

Hear hear.

I had to work around this insidious creation http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/8205

It creates a memory leak (it hit my getJSON calls) that slowly strangled one of my apps until it crashed the browser.

I list a lot of hours on that one...

"A Single Death is a Tragedy; a Million Deaths is a Statistic"

Hey! I went the exact same route, except I put it in front of a treadmill.

About half the time I don't even turn it on, but when I do, I find that .7mph (the lowest setting) is just enough to keep me moving without having to think about it.

I keep my cpu's on a cart on the floor, and if I ever get tired of the arrangement, I still have a shelving unit. I'm about 1 month into this arrangement, but no problems yet, and it definitely helps to keep me alert and focused.

This seems in direct competition with their investment in Clear, but with a much better use case.

It will also cut into my mobile bill, because if this can operate on batteries for ~2hrs, how often do I really need to use my cell phone?