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i don't know if this counts because its "only undergrad" but i choose the school im at now specifically because of the degree path i am in. computer security, with a another major in networking. and considering throwing in criminal justice for and extra 2 classes. look here http://www.tecs.ecu.edu/departments/technology_systems/undergraduate_programs/information_and_computer_technology/plan_of_study/

Ever hear of Ubermensch? I pretty sure the philosopher Nietsche coined it in the 1880's or around that time, but I could be wrong.

From the German, it literally translates to "Super" "Person".

http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/great/projects/Kn owles.htm

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From: Michael J Lutz
Subject: Finals Scam: Revenge of the Profs.

The Finals Week item, with 50 things to do during a final you know you will flunk, inspires me to pass along this true story from RIT. Acknowledgements are due my colleague Ken Reek, and former graduate student Ed Ford, who together pulled the scam off with aplomb.

Several years ago, Ken was assigned two sections of a large service course taken primarily by business students. The final exam was multiple choice, and had a well-deserved reputation for being easy to cheat on (one proctor, 250-300 students). Ken was determined to plug this hole, at least for one term.

One nice thing about such a large class is that no student knows everyone else who is enrolled. Using this, Ken asked Ed to attend the final and pretend to take it like everyone else. Ken also told Ed to be as blatent as possible about cheating.

At the start of the exam, Ken announced that anyone caught cheating off another student's paper would have his or her exam confiscated and would fail the course. As the exam progressed, Ed was peering all around, while Ken periodically called out "eyes on your own paper." After about three such warnings, Ken bounded up the stairs, crossed to Ed's seat, grabbed the exam, tore it to shreds, and shouted "You're outta here!" According to Ken, Ed's facial expression was a perfect combination of shock and terror.

For the rest of the exam, the room resembled a monastery where monks were carefully and studiously working on sacred scrolls.

Mike Lutz
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY 14623

Its time for calendar reform.
http://personal.ecu.edu/mccartyr/world-calendar.ht ml
Once for all!
And while we are at it how about going metric too!

That Iraq was the most secular country in the Middle East after Turkey only makes your statement all the more ridiculous.
Are you reffering perhaps to the Wahhabis? Or the Mujahadeen? You know that those people are not from Iraq right?
I never said or eluded from the fact the war in Iraq was not about Islamic extremists. The whole point about the Iraq war was twofold. The main reason was strategic in ensuring stability in the Middle East by promoting democracy. The second was to get rid of a thug no other nation was willing to do. In fact, Russia, France and Germany were the main countries opposed to this war because they were knee shit-deep in dubious activities such as the selling of arms and maintaining huge oil and construction contracts with Saddam. America might be the first country to come to your mind. Hence, I find so much irony in these political conflicts of interests.
Yes, Osama Bin Laden called a press conference in 1998 of mostly Pakistani journalists and give them some good old demogougery, and the video was not shown in the US until after Sept2001. Amazingly convenient that.
al Qaida bombed the the World Trade Center towers in 1993 using a van packed with explosives and detonated it in the parking garage. If that's not an official declaration of war, I don't know what is!.
What really pisses me off is that Clinton did nothing about this threat durring his two terms in office. Had he had the balls to do something about it rather then protecting his legacy, there would be a very good chance we douldn't be in this mess. But I digress.
Sure it is. The fanatical muslim hordes are about to overrun your country at any minute. Better start buying some ammo and canned beans.
You might want to check out "The War on Terrorism: Osama bin Laden and al-Qa'ida" webpage. It contains over 130+ links regarding official reports and research regarding the subject. Of course, you will find none of that Michael Moore propaganda BS there. Sorry to disappoint...
http://www.lib.ecu.edu/govdoc/terrorism.html
Yes, but just because that's what you are seeing doesn't mean it's true. You probably think that all of the homicides in the US are committed by black men too. But don't let the facts get in the way of sky falling on your head.
I don't think, I KNOW it to be true. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics; blacks were seven time more likely to commit homicides then whites in the year 2002. As for why this is the case, I don't have solid answer. It could be black culture, genetics, or a mix of both. Who knows for sure? But the facts do state none the less. Just click on the offical link to see for yourself.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm
I'm wondering. Do you know who supplied Iran with weapons for 8 years during the Iran/Iraq war?
Without question, it was Israel. But the political landscape changed dramatically after the war. And soon, that status of Iran went from "friend" to "foe". At the time it seemed like a good idea in the best interest of Israel to ally with Iran against Iraq. But again, the 80s are over and shit happens. Sometimes you just got to deal with events as the happen in real-time.
Yada, yada, yada. You heard that on talk back radio right? Iran had a democracy before the UK/US interfered and there is internal pressure on the theocracy to move back to a democracy again. Besides which, any election in Iraq is almost sure to be won by the Shia majority, which would suit Tehran just fine. This is really enjoyable! It's like arguing with the bullshit they broadcast on television.
Democrocy = Mullas losing their grip of theocratic control. It's clearly a conflict of interest. But time will tell as it's too early for me to comment. I'll just stand aside and pay close attention in the mean time as the events unfold.
Would that be the views

13 months of 28 days each (4 weeks), with one day tacked on to the end of the last month (two on leap year)

Yup. I remember seeing that suggestion ages ago ("ages" as in "probably between 35 and 40 years") in some magazine, probably Life. It was proposed as August Comte's Positivist Calendar back in 1849; it's also been proposed as the Tranquility Calendar and elsewhere. Google for "13 months" "28 days" and then rest assured that great minds think alike. :-)

It is funny though that we are being slowly transitioned and nobody notices.

I think we can survive without a complete transition on the consumer level -- which is where most of the resistance is. What's unforgivable is the degree to which English Measure (the original name; the system predates the Revolution!) is still used in science and technology. It's most conspicuous and painful when we lose a space probe. But think was this lack of standardization does day-to-day to U.S. competitiveness!

It's also important to note that the metric system took over not because it's "more rational" but because it was a system everybody could agree on. Before the metric system, you saw different units of measure for different countries and even different professions.

Which brings us back to our original discussion. The same people who invented the metric system tried to fix the calendar too. Never caught on outside of France. Nor have dozens of other "reform" measures ever attracted more than a few overenthusiastic proponents. It's just not worth the trouble.

Also, a good website about calendar reform in general.

That's stupid.

For more information on calendar reform in general check Calendar Reform. I'm partial to the World Calendar.

That's stupid.

For more information on calendar reform in general check Calendar Reform. I'm partial to the World Calendar.

This is for all the responding posts to the parent asking for corroboration. 10 minutes of Googling later, here (requires registration) are some related links.

No one has been able to fully enumerate the five Congressional members and their offspring who are serving in Iraq. However, some facts pointed out in this discussion:

1. Moore never asserted in his movie that the children of US Congressmen are under-represented in US forces in Iraq. See the movie transcript to verify from primary source. Instead, he asked the people that authorized the Iraq war (members of Congress) if they would send thier kids to Iraq.
2. Equally factual is that in the United States, you can only enlist in the armed forces when you are of the age of majority. Meaning your parents (the Congressmen Moore was posing his question to) cannot do what he posits. They can no more send their children to Iraq than violate some fundamental precepts of the Constitution.
3. Quote: Senators and Congressmen (and Pentagon workers, and the President himself) ARE on the front lines of this war, and have been since its opening salvo. They don't need their children to be put in harm's way to show their bravery and resolve. They need only show up for work. If you don't think Washington, D.C. is a target, you haven't been listening to Osama.
4. The Congressional members who are known to have children serving in the Enduring Freedom theatre of operations or are expected to be there soon are: Sen. Tim Johnson, D-SD, son Brooks Johnson, 31, a staff sergeant with the Army's 101st Airborne Division; Rep. John Kline, R-MN, son, Dan Kline who is slotted for shipping out.
5. For anyone who still wants to play the statistics game and still assert that Congress members' families are under-represented, fine. Let's see where the numbers take us. Quote: The correct comparison would be to compare the total number of parents in the US with children of military age over the total number of troops and then the same comparison in the Congress - number of Reps with children of military age vs. number serving...assume that all people from the age of 40 to 79 have children of military age and likewise all Congressional Reps. - the errors are likely to be in the same direction (overstated in both cases) and so even out. There are around 130 million in the 40 to 79 age group. So the rate of service is around 1 per thousand potential parents. Applying this to Congress, you'd expect less than 1 child in Iraq. Instead, we can count one for certain, possibly another four depending upon your sources. So the representation, in known terms from primary sources, is at least the enlistment rate of the general population.
6. This is just immediate family members. Including first relations, representation of Congress members' families is likely to go much, much higher. If you are a Moore fan, would you care to chase down primary sources on that, which will only widen the gap further, o

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"It as a milestone of sorts when Shanghai, China's biggest city, banned bicycles on its largest avenues last month, but also a belated acknowledgment of a change that has already transformed many large cities in China."

"Automobile sales in China, which reached two million last year, are growing at an annual rate of more than 50 percent. The growth of private car ownership has brought with it a car culture that increasingly resembles the American one, but with even worse traffic jams, especially in Beijing. Downtown parking spaces have become precious."

How did YOU get to work yesterday, my little AC troll?

Shanghai is (as of Dec 2003) restricting bikes on its major streets.

"Bicycles have gone from carrying more than 70 percent of travelers in Shanghai as recently as 1990 to from 15 to 17 percent now, according to the Shanghai Urban Planning Bureau."

Upward mobility indeed.

on your willpower... would that more people had the same drive to stay fit.

However, instead of willpower, people are going the bariatric surgery route... I've seen more TV news magazine reports recently about this trend than I've ever seen before. Danger, Will Robinson.

Apart from the obvious complications of surgery (bleeding, wound dehissence, infection, obstruction, etc, etc), stomach stapling changes your lifestyle permanently. Some of these things would be real burden for slashdotters... for instance:

You become nable to drink during meals (your stomach is so small after the surgery, it cannot hold both food AND drink)

Carbonated beverages are to be avoided (same reason as above... no Mountain Dew, no Jolt, no Bawls.)

No alcohol (beer will stretch your now-tiny stomach as much as regular carbonated beverages). Also, about half of consumed alcohol is broken down in the stomach via alcohol dehydrogenase... theoretically, you could find that your whiskey sours pack about double the punch as before (not necessarily a good thing).

You are also not necessarily done with surgery after your stapling. Ever see a person who has lost 150lbs or so? They have skin folds just hanging off of them... plastic surgery is required to get rid of the redundant skin. The potential also exists for nutritional deficiencies, like B-12. To be fair, the liver stores a fair quantity of B-12, so this might only show up 10-15 years down the road. Bottom line: The true long-term effects of this operation are not known.

I don't even know what to say to the people who purposely make themselves fatter so they can qualify for the surgery... it's madness.

While I understand you were joking, there have been suggestions of a perpetual 366 day "World Calendar" for quite some time now.

Sorry, I took Data Structures in college last year. We didn't cover hash tables, and the term "B-tree" never came up. We did linked lists, binary trees, ordered binary trees, stacks, and heaps.

The 13 month calendar is one of the cooler calendar reform movements.

I'm just guessing here - but I would say that if you're serious about your description of your work area, then that's a large source of your wrist pain.

Here are a couple of links describing a good workstation:
cornell ergo
east carolina u

I just got a new job, and I have a very nice workstation - which itself aleviated most of my typing-related pain problems. Aside from my desk, which has a seperate keyboard tray part that I can angle away from myself - my Aeron chair is quite comfy.

I also recently purchased a Kinesis. I adapted quickly, and am not experiencing anywhere near as much strain. Combined with the new workstation, I almost don't have any pain. If I could only get away from the mouse more...

My only two gripes with the Kinesis are that I often overshoot when going for c,v,n & m because they require so little motion to reach (which is really a feature of the board), and Ctrl and Alt could be a bit closer to my thumbs.

As for this newfangled pyramid thing - I don't know. I never imagined that sideways motion was a Good Thing; this thing reminds me of the DataHand.

There is currently a technology centered project under way at ECU, called Online Wireless Learning Solutions (OWLS), which attempts to integrate PDA's and interactive cdroms into the curriculum.

There is currently a technology centered project under way at ECU, called Online Wireless Learning Solutions (OWLS), which attempts to integrate PDA's and interactive cdroms into the curriculum.

OK, so he may have gone a bit far in his Ulysses allegory, but what about the Zarathustra side? There seem to be an awful lot of links between 2001 and Thus Spake Zarathustra, by Nietzsche.
There's the tone poem of the same name by Strauss played at the beginning, the whole Superman theory of those who have 'overcome' humanity to evolve to a higher consciousness.

Surely these analogies were better discussed in the book?

Check this page out...
"The 13-month calendar was devised by Auguste Comte in 1849"

According to the Home Page for Calendar Reform, the 13-month calendar was devised by Auguste Comte in 1849.

According to the Home Page for Calendar Reform, the 13-month calendar was devised by Auguste Comte in 1849.

...way back in 1926. See his essay. I think Kodak even used this calendar for accounting purposes for a while, but eventually gave up on it.
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