He violated the terms of his probation. He should go back to jail. However, just because he was under order not to gamble doesn't mean that the state gets to keep his winnings. If that were the case, then they should pay back every person on probation who bought a lottory ticket. At least now he will have a good chance when he gets out, unlike most other parolees.
Ummm, you can to have a mobius strip in 3 dimensions. Also, the strip portrayed in the video is not one, as the ball would have travelled around the whole strip on both "sides" (a mobius strip only has one side) before returning to tit's starting point.
Actually, my dog came to the window and barked at me for nearly 30 minutes before I realized something was wrong. I went outside and one of the other dogs had been killed by some wild animal on the other side of the yard (it's a big yard). It was fairly obvious afterwards he was trying to get me to help....
The problem with all this high handedness (on the part of EVERYONE involved) is that it ignores the massive problem of strays and those in local dog pounds. Honestly, placing a dog in ANY home (other than the Vick's household) is better than having them be executed en mass.
I have 4 dogs, 3 of which were "adopted" off of the street, and the other was taken from a poor family that had just had 10 puppies (they obviously couldn't afford to feed the pups--there were just too many of them). Just about anything is better than execution or rotting in a shelter.
YOU should research the GI Bill more. After WWII, all veterans were given full rides to any college they could get into. This single action is most responsible for the middle class most of us belong to. These days, the military doesn't even pay enough for 2 years at a community college, and the middle class is being priced out of college (and thus out of existance) by tuition rates rising at least 2x inflation, and book prices increasing at about the same rate.
Americans work harder than any other people on this planet. Sure, it's fun to call the next generatin a bunch of slackers because they don't want to be slaves to their student loans for the rest of their lives, but it isn't very productive. In fact, it is EXACTLY that attitude that is losing us our economic supremecy. It won't be long after that that we lose our military supremecy, and then think of where we'll be. Just another has-been nation wallowing in our own nationalistic BS--in other words, we'll all become FRENCH.
One last note, why is it that foreign students "bring up" the quality of our schools? Maybe it's because the US gets to cherry pick the best and brightest from around the world while the student's government picks up the entire bill. Yes, I know it's a shocker, but those hard working foreigners for the most part aren't paying a dime for their top notch education. I know this, because I have a lot of friends from every continent (except Europe) that I went to school with, and I came out with the short end of the stick, having to flit the bill for my own education. I went hard and fast, taking on average 16 hours per semester, and 6 hours each summer, got out in three years with 35K in debt. Not one of my friends graduated in less than 4 years, and they were all scot free when they graduated.
Actually, having to pay so much for college keeps a lot of people out. If I had known then what I know now, I probably wouldn't have gone to school, and I would be making more than I am now that I am a graduate, probably with a wife and kids to boot.
In many other countries, students don't have to pay to get into college, they just have to score well on a test. The effect in a few years will push the US far down the technological ladder. We need a renewed GI Bill (like it was after WWII), or some other form of broad based free or dirt cheap higher education if we want to stay ahead of the rest of the world.
This is apparently in the pop culture of Japan, as one of them made an appearance on the animated series Inu-Yasha (Saint Hakushin, I believe), a monk who sealed himself into a tomb to purify a mountian of the demons living there.
Of course, popular referance is not conclusive evidence, but at least it is less likely that it is something that was made up by westerners.
Other than that, a pretty neat video.
I'm still waiting.
Come on.
I have 4 dogs, 3 of which were "adopted" off of the street, and the other was taken from a poor family that had just had 10 puppies (they obviously couldn't afford to feed the pups--there were just too many of them). Just about anything is better than execution or rotting in a shelter.
YOU should research the GI Bill more. After WWII, all veterans were given full rides to any college they could get into. This single action is most responsible for the middle class most of us belong to. These days, the military doesn't even pay enough for 2 years at a community college, and the middle class is being priced out of college (and thus out of existance) by tuition rates rising at least 2x inflation, and book prices increasing at about the same rate.
Americans work harder than any other people on this planet. Sure, it's fun to call the next generatin a bunch of slackers because they don't want to be slaves to their student loans for the rest of their lives, but it isn't very productive. In fact, it is EXACTLY that attitude that is losing us our economic supremecy. It won't be long after that that we lose our military supremecy, and then think of where we'll be. Just another has-been nation wallowing in our own nationalistic BS--in other words, we'll all become FRENCH.
One last note, why is it that foreign students "bring up" the quality of our schools? Maybe it's because the US gets to cherry pick the best and brightest from around the world while the student's government picks up the entire bill. Yes, I know it's a shocker, but those hard working foreigners for the most part aren't paying a dime for their top notch education. I know this, because I have a lot of friends from every continent (except Europe) that I went to school with, and I came out with the short end of the stick, having to flit the bill for my own education. I went hard and fast, taking on average 16 hours per semester, and 6 hours each summer, got out in three years with 35K in debt. Not one of my friends graduated in less than 4 years, and they were all scot free when they graduated.
In many other countries, students don't have to pay to get into college, they just have to score well on a test. The effect in a few years will push the US far down the technological ladder. We need a renewed GI Bill (like it was after WWII), or some other form of broad based free or dirt cheap higher education if we want to stay ahead of the rest of the world.
Of course, popular referance is not conclusive evidence, but at least it is less likely that it is something that was made up by westerners.