All categories - 12 December 2007

how come black people dominate most phsical activity and sports in America, football, basketball etc. are blacks simply more physically inclined? is it a natural thing, they make 13% of US population but 70% of professional sports. why is this??

2007-12-12 17:51:37 · 8 answers · asked by J D 1 in Sociology

I have had some that had more stars than answers lol.

2007-12-12 17:51:27 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

List 5-10 (or more) things you would want to have in your perfect society. Please include a form of government. Thanks for your responses.

2007-12-12 17:51:17 · 4 answers · asked by The Wild Cycle 2 in Philosophy

Yeah, I know, 95% of you have probably never heard of this place.

Here are my stats:
(currently a high school junior, some of these are predictions)
GPA (Unweighted): 3.91

Class Rank: top 5%

ACT: 24-28

Honors classes: Math&Science Fresh/Soph (current school does not offer them)

APs: AP US government (did not take test; current school does not offer them)

Homeschooled

Credits:
Math:4
Science:4
English:6
Social Studies:6+
Other:15+
(Yes, I have to graduate with a TONN of credits)

ECs:
2003-2009: Assistant Hospitality Coordinator, Church
2006-?: Founder and President of of Educators, Students, and Parents Against Scholastic Bribery (grassroots movement dedicated to financially equal opportunity in the public school system; website coming soon)
2006-2009: Voluenteer maid at senior housing project
2007-2008: Active Voluenteer for Obama for America (top 10% of voluenteers)

Major: Political Science

Thanks!

2007-12-12 17:51:09 · 2 answers · asked by ... 4 in Higher Education (University +)

2007-12-12 17:50:41 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous in Higher Education (University +)

Can you help me annotate this poem? It is called "Pain for My Daughter". Any info is fine (theme, connotation&denotation, hidden meanings, etc). I truly appreciate it (:
here is the poem if you need it:
http://www.bagatellen.com/cgi-bin/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=1224
scroll down about halfway
thanks!

2007-12-12 17:50:33 · 3 answers · asked by MissLC 2 in Poetry

I'm a little confused. People are playing "My Favorite Things" from The Sound of Music around the holidays, but it doesn't talk about Christmas, and the movie isn't Christmas related... has the song somehow been co-opted as if it were talking about Christmas presents?

2007-12-12 17:50:24 · 3 answers · asked by drshorty 7 in Christmas

2007-12-12 17:50:19 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - General Health Care

2007-12-12 17:50:13 · 27 answers · asked by richie 7 in Polls & Surveys

2007-12-12 17:50:03 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Personal Finance

He prays all the time, i mean he'll kneel down in the street and cross himself. I dont think that prayer is a bad thing but is this a little excesive?

2007-12-12 17:49:46 · 31 answers · asked by Orion B 1 in Singles & Dating

In Chief of the USA? So she was First Lady? Big Deal...I know many "First Ladies of Business" they wouldn't think twice about taking their husband's jobs.

Would she even be a Senator of NY had she not been First Lady?

Be honest with yourselves....

Now tell me what qualifies her to be the Leader of the Free World....Are you counting on Bill to guide her? What if he Dies?

2007-12-12 17:49:25 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Elections

2007-12-12 17:49:17 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Movies

Many of us has held onto one special toy or item that meant
enough that we have kept it, rather pristine for maybe even
our lifetimes. Do you have anything that special? I had a big
doll, that I put into my parents attic. And discovered one day
its' legs and feet had rotted LOL.

2007-12-12 17:49:16 · 11 answers · asked by Lynn 7 in Senior Citizens

put your own hands down your pants? Come on don't lie...I'll admit that I have.

2007-12-12 17:48:55 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-12-12 17:48:18 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Philosophy

You know how most shampoos are of a clear nature? Is there a hair conditioner that is also of a clear nature and not creamy?

2007-12-12 17:48:16 · 4 answers · asked by one blue eye 3 in Hair

2007-12-12 17:48:13 · 7 answers · asked by Keith M 2 in PlayStation

hE THINKS WE ASHOULD TAKE IT SLOW AND WORKINT OUT, NONONO@

2007-12-12 17:47:54 · 13 answers · asked by want2flybye 5 in Marriage & Divorce

I have this screw that's stuck a garden light. If I can't remove the screw, I can't change the light bulb. Help!

2007-12-12 17:47:46 · 10 answers · asked by eda 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

2007-12-12 17:47:44 · 1 answers · asked by sundeep 9732 1 in Philosophy

I have a gateway MX6128

1.50 GHz
Intel Celeron M
248MB of RAM
XP Home

I tried a bunch of hardware cleaners/antispyware/antivirus(ccleaner, windows defender, adaware, windirstat, auslogics disk defrag, avg, spyware doctor, ect.)

I think the problem is my RAM. Should I upgrade it? and if yes, 1GB or 2GB?

2007-12-12 17:47:21 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Laptops & Notebooks

Here's the story from the UK 'telegraph' newspaper web site:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=A1YourView&xml=/money/2007/12/11/cnusa111.xml
Who else is covering this significant story?
CNN-no
MSNBC-no
New York Times- no
Wall Street Journal for Christ sake!- no
Fox-Hahaha!
This is very strange. Maybe they don't want to spook holiday shoppers? Hardly the first story about America I've had to seek out in the foreign press, just a particularly egregious one...

2007-12-12 17:47:15 · 2 answers · asked by AmigaJoe 3 in Media & Journalism

Hello my fellow jury members. As you jury members might know we are here to prosecute a criminal who endangered two lives and unfortunately one of them died. I, Jeffrey Franco am here to put Alex in jail where hopefully he won’t commit any other crimes. You have heard the arguments from both sides and I hope you are going to make the right decision. If you still don’t know your decisions about the trial, here are my final arguments to support you on making the right decision. The following paragraphs are given to show you why Alex is fault of the crimes. Please pay attention because every detail counts, and when you make your decision I hope that you are 110% sure that your decision is correct.
In the trial that we are arguing over, Alex Flin is 100% guilty; we have gathered information from the witnesses that were at the party who saw everything. That day when Alex arrived at the party everything was going well. Alex seemed well at first when the drinks were just soda and juices. Chris states that when they were eating, beer was brought from the basement to the kitchen by Ken. Ken Conroy is a popular student who organized the party which happened on Saturday night. I suppose that Ken told most of the people that he invited that there was going to be alcoholic beverages at the party. All the people that were at the party, stated that when Ken invited them he gave them a notice to them saying that alcohol was to take place at the party. It seems to me that Alex was told that alcohol was going to take place at the party as well.
As soon as Alex started drinking beer, I know that he didn’t remember that he had to drive back home and drop off Anita. As we started questioning to him what happened on the night of the party he didn’t remember anything, obviously he was already drunk at that time. Alex was warned by his Health teacher that drinking is bad and how drunk driving is dangerous for the driver which in this case was him and how it also could endanger other people in the car. He clearly knew these procedures since he scored A’s on all his Health Class tests and he had an A on that class. He knew by that time that minors aren’t allowed to drink by law so why did he drink and take his chances on going to jail.
Monica stated that she asked Alex for the keys because she had a feeling that he was in danger because he was already drunk. Monica says that he screamed back to her and didn’t give him the keys to the car so she started to cry. Chris and Erinn briefly describe that as soon as Alex left the parking space he knocked something down which was a mailbox. When they were already on the road, Chris says that Alex was weaving all over the road. He also says that he was speeding up and slowing down as they moved along Old Maine St. To prove that he wasn’t drunk he accelerated eve more when Chris started yelling and Anita started crying with great effort to make him stop the car. Alex ignored these efforts and eventually crashed the car into a tree which was off the course of the street. This crash happened because both Alex and Anita were fighting for the steering wheel, but it was clearly Alex’s fault because he was drunk and because he should have listened to them when they started urging him to stop the car.


Alex’s parents have let him go to previous parties before, but they have never seen him drink beer or look drunk at all. My hypothesis is that every time Alex comes back from a party, his parents are either sleeping or aren’t present when he arrives because of the time he arrives at home. The police say that he was driving at 75 miles per hour when the speed limit was 45mph. The police also gathered evidence that his BAC level-Blood Alcohol Concentration was 0.07. Alex maximum BAC level should be 0.0 because he is a minor and isn’t allowed to drink. The police officers also saw that Alex had blood and vomit on his clothes due to the concussion from the beer. From this party he arrived between 3:40 A.M. to 4:30 A.M to his house because the crash happened at 3:20 A.M which is proved by the police officers.
When the police arrived at his house at 5:00A.M in the morning, his parents had no idea what was going on and didn’t expect Alex to be in deep trouble. Alex at that time was also confused and didn’t know that he had crash and that one of his friends was dead because of his carelessness.
Alex was behaving very negligent so he should be charged with the following crimes; criminally negligent homicide, vehicle manslaughter, and DWI. Criminally negligent homicide is when a person is guilty of a person’s death and the person was acting very irresponsibly. Vehicle manslaughter is when a person is acting irresponsibly, therefore he causes the death of a person and this happens when he is intoxicated, in this trial Alex was drunk. DWI is when someone is driving while intoxicated, in this case Alex was drunk because of the alcohol he consumed, that person won’t be able to control the vehicle properly and safely because alcohol is running throughout their body. This brings a lot of danger to them and anyone who is inside of the vehicle.
So please my fellow jury members I ask for you to make a wise decision and put yourself in our shoes. Do you think an irresponsible senior should be in the streets maybe causing another crash or killing someone because of his negligence? Please make the right choice for the safety of the city, you, and everyone else that is outside there living a safe life. Thank all of you for your patience and time.

2007-12-12 17:47:08 · 5 answers · asked by H0llywoodzZ Star (: 2 in Law & Ethics

2007-12-12 17:47:06 · 44 answers · asked by ~♥BLU3YED_SUICIDE~♥ 3 in Polls & Surveys

My Interviewee majored in Chemestry which I do not really like. So how I can get on our Interview from elsewhere?
Thanks

2007-12-12 17:46:50 · 3 answers · asked by wang l 1 in Higher Education (University +)

How do you solve (3/5)^x = 7^(1-x)?

2007-12-12 17:46:37 · 3 answers · asked by Hala 2 in Mathematics

I'm a high school student and looking to buy a laptop. A fairly cheap one, in the $700 - 1100 range (NZ currency) but not a mac.

It would be for playing some games, a medium amount of music but mainly stories and assignments.

What are things that I should look out for when deciding?
And could someone explain some of the basic techinical language?
Lol I feel like a noob.. :P

Whats the minimum amount of space I should buy, in your opinion?

Oh! And what's the difference between a notebook and a laptop?

Please and Thank You [:

2007-12-12 17:46:01 · 3 answers · asked by ♥ 3 in Laptops & Notebooks

Where would I find a laptop for under the 800 dollar mark for courier delivery to QLD brisbane, I want to buy it online for the best price and i want a 200gb hard drive or more and it should be cheap cheap cheap!!!

Also why are laptops called notebooks sometimes ??

2007-12-12 17:45:15 · 4 answers · asked by Elsanto diablo policeman 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

Did she seem rude to you? She was so rigid you'd think she had a stick up her back. The questions were bland and the same stuff, over and over. Maybe it's because I'm a Democrat, but I thought the whole thing was really dull.

2007-12-12 17:44:00 · 3 answers · asked by ArRo 6 in Other - Politics & Government