All Blog Posts Tagged 'budgets' (4)

It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!!

It's Hanko de Mayo! We all know Hank loves the James Webb Space Telescope, so hopefully he'll like our gift. In addition to his gift, nerdfighteria is celebrating Hank's birthday by letting our elected officials know that Increasing Awesome through scientific exploration is important to us. You'll find the email I wrote my congressperson and senators below. You can copy it,…

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Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on May 5, 2012 at 8:55am — 2 Comments

Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy

In which John discusses Canada's heroic elimination of the penny and how divisive political discourse--on both sides of the aisle--hurts both the American people and the American economy. Examples of poor policy making include congress's failure to secure long-term funding for the FAA (which should be easy, since it's paid for entirely by a tax that most travelers are more…

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Added by Haua (Projects Ningmaster) on April 3, 2012 at 4:02pm — No Comments

An Economic Observation on the Current State of Modern Cinema

Ever since Leland Stanford asked Eadweard Muybridge to capture his horse Sallie Gardner's motions with 24 separate cameras in one of the earliest experiments in moving pictures, the world has been fascinated by the flickering box. Less than a hundred years later, motion pictures have become arguably the most popular form of art and entertainment on the planet. It seemed as if we'd reached the end of infancy when artists such as Stephen Speilberg, George Lucas, Frances Coppola, and Stanley… Continue

Added by AttitudeAJM on November 4, 2009 at 1:51pm — No Comments

Why My School Sucks

Please Note: I don't hate the activities in this post, I don't like certain people/the situtation involved. I respect what you all are doing.

Also: If you are in band, especially in my school, please don't kill me.

There is two things I hate in my school: the split of budgets, and people not getting how hard theater is. I go to a school where sports gets the most funding. I fully understand that. They have to order new uniforms for new players, and there are about nine… Continue

Added by Mallory on October 17, 2008 at 8:19pm — No Comments