Amen, brother. Especially item #2. I don't quite understand how, starting with Slackware in 1995, I can have all these years of Linux experience, and not be qualified for a "Linux" position because I'm more versed in SuSE than RH.
Perhaps more "expensive" in up-front costs, but definitely less expensive over the long run - assuming these kids aren't using the machines to pound nails into walls. Since I started using a Mac, full time - almost four years ago - I've had 0, none, zilch down-time due to system problems. I had one hardware fault, which can happen on any platform. I don't have to futz with this to get it to do what I want; I don't have to be my own sys admin. I just do my thing. The same goes for the other half-dozen people that I converted to Macs. Where they'd often call me for support, I now only hear from them when they have something else to say.
So, maybe it's a few extra dollars out of pocket, immediately. I'll take the peace of mind and ease of use over the long run.
I'm waiting for the actual cost data. I really want this phone, but I saw the "fine print" in the e-mail announcement, and now I'm not so sure.
$199 - after rebate, Ok. It's tolerable. $69 for "Anything" basic service - which does or does not include SMS? I tend to text more than call, lately. $30 for "wireless hub" service - ouch. $? for a data plan -- ?... and whatever else they want to throw in.
> Suicide of a person of a mainstream western culture is the ultimate act of selfishness.
On whose part: the person who wants to die, or the people who, because they would feel bad if said person were no longer around, want this individual to continue his or her suffering?
Knowledge _is_ better than ignorance. Maybe the chopper and ground forces should've exerted a little more effort to gain that knowledge rather than just shoot everything that moved.
To bring it home for you: Maybe a coterie of government agents should just come out to your house and shoot the fuck out of you - just in case you _might_ be a terrorist, or other undesirable sort - rather than actually investigate whether you're a terrorist sympathizer.
They could have had the ground troops come in and scope it out before blasting the bejezus out of everything. They didn't. That they tried to bury this speaks to their guilt.
Yes, but at the same time, law-makers can say, "I took a stand against this, and voted for your safety!!!1one!" The alternative is to stand around, impotently, and say, "We _have_ laws on the books; it's tha po-lice that ain't doin' their jobs." Law-makers have to consider "Directive #1": get re-elected.
I agree with the majority of your points, but if you want "safe driving," take humans out of the equation. Put "Hal" in charge of transportation and let the "system" get you there. A side benefit is that it might actually speed things up.
Clue them in to captioning. I use it all the time, even though I could probably hear the TV well enough with my cochlear implant. I find that I usually get the dialogue quicker, except in real-time situations, like Jay Leno, or other talk shows.
I went 13 years completely deaf until I was hired by a company with a great insurance plan that finally allowed me to get a cochlear implant. That device has essentially given me back my life. Maybe Nebraska is better about these things, but I doubt NY Dept. of Vocation would've paid for my implant. They did get a hearing aid for me, but it was effectively useless.
Can I ask what good this will do? Seriously. I'm completely deaf without my cochlear implant, but even before I got that, I don't know what good it would have done to tell a potential employer about my lack of hearing. Is there some law of which I'm unaware that somehow favors deaf people in employment situations?
I used to be really anal about how many windows I had open and how they were positioned, simply to avoid the problem of clutter and trying to find what window I wanted. Then I started using a Mac, with Expose, and now I have windows opened all over the place and don't care. Finding the one I want is either F8, F9 or F10 away. I don't know how I functioned without Expose, before.
I had to lip-read for 13 years before I got my cochlear implant. If we were talking about such things as vacuums, I'd probably understand what you were saying. If it were just out of the blue, though, yeah, I might misunderstand and punch you for it. In fact, it was considered great fun to say things to me and have me repeat them as I understood them. "Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts?" Stuff like that.
It depends on the person who's speaking. As a deaf person - though just "hard of hearing" with my cochlear implant - I can read some people very easily, and others not at all. Without my implant, I can carry on a conversation with my son - who grew up having to speak to me without my implant - as if I could hear him perfectly well. He's just that easy to read. My parents, on the other hand, make me really appreciate my implant.
Oh, and not to start a flame-war, but ASL is the "Ebonics" of sign language. Learn Signed English, instead. Yes, they're different.
Lose a tire at 35? I've done that. Lost all - literally, not figuratively - of the skin on my chest. Still have scars from it, though it happened 30+ years ago. Skin makes a terrible brake pad. Keep the rubber side down, as they say.:-)
The bigger problem is that kids are considered "property", or "wards" of their parents, and have no rights, themselves, until they reach the age of majority. However, that's wrong. Children under the age of 18 are still considered citizens and the courts have rules that they do, in fact, have rights unto their own, including the right not to be searched without a warrant, and the right to free speech.
This particular case is just an example of a power-tripping ego-centric principal who thinks he can get away with it because he's The Man. That the courts have slapped him down is just as it should be. That it happened in the first place is just testament to the fact that the district hired the wrong person in the first place. Will they learn their lesson? One would hope. Will other district's learn from this district's lesson? Probably not.
This is/., so, no, I didn't RTFA, but what about athletic eligibility for high school sports? Not all AP kids are athletic rejects; some excel in both academics _and_ sports. So, if Johnny skips 11th and 12th grade to go to college, can he still come back and wrestle on the high school team?
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Amen, brother. Especially item #2. I don't quite understand how, starting with Slackware in 1995, I can have all these years of Linux experience, and not be qualified for a "Linux" position because I'm more versed in SuSE than RH.
My uncle has a country place,
No one knows about.
He says it used to be a farm,
before the Motor Law.
Perhaps more "expensive" in up-front costs, but definitely less expensive over the long run - assuming these kids aren't using the machines to pound nails into walls. Since I started using a Mac, full time - almost four years ago - I've had 0, none, zilch down-time due to system problems. I had one hardware fault, which can happen on any platform. I don't have to futz with this to get it to do what I want; I don't have to be my own sys admin. I just do my thing. The same goes for the other half-dozen people that I converted to Macs. Where they'd often call me for support, I now only hear from them when they have something else to say.
So, maybe it's a few extra dollars out of pocket, immediately. I'll take the peace of mind and ease of use over the long run.
I'm waiting for the actual cost data. I really want this phone, but I saw the "fine print" in the e-mail announcement, and now I'm not so sure.
$199 - after rebate, Ok. It's tolerable. ... and whatever else they want to throw in.
$69 for "Anything" basic service - which does or does not include SMS? I tend to text more than call, lately.
$30 for "wireless hub" service - ouch.
$? for a data plan -- ?
> Suicide of a person of a mainstream western culture is the ultimate act of selfishness.
On whose part: the person who wants to die, or the people who, because they would feel bad if said person were no longer around, want this individual to continue his or her suffering?
Are you implying that it's just today...? I thought it was _every_ day.
Yeah, it's not like we ever had the Scopes Trial.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial
How did this guy press the "submit" button...?
Knowledge _is_ better than ignorance. Maybe the chopper and ground forces should've exerted a little more effort to gain that knowledge rather than just shoot everything that moved.
To bring it home for you: Maybe a coterie of government agents should just come out to your house and shoot the fuck out of you - just in case you _might_ be a terrorist, or other undesirable sort - rather than actually investigate whether you're a terrorist sympathizer.
They could have had the ground troops come in and scope it out before blasting the bejezus out of everything. They didn't. That they tried to bury this speaks to their guilt.
Yes, but at the same time, law-makers can say, "I took a stand against this, and voted for your safety!!!1one!" The alternative is to stand around, impotently, and say, "We _have_ laws on the books; it's tha po-lice that ain't doin' their jobs." Law-makers have to consider "Directive #1": get re-elected.
I agree with the majority of your points, but if you want "safe driving," take humans out of the equation. Put "Hal" in charge of transportation and let the "system" get you there. A side benefit is that it might actually speed things up.
Mine owners would never let something like this happen, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma
http://www.abandonedok.com/picher/
You might also contact your local Lions Club, too. They often provide funds for hearing and sight-handicapped folks for hearing aids and glasses, etc.
Clue them in to captioning. I use it all the time, even though I could probably hear the TV well enough with my cochlear implant. I find that I usually get the dialogue quicker, except in real-time situations, like Jay Leno, or other talk shows.
I went 13 years completely deaf until I was hired by a company with a great insurance plan that finally allowed me to get a cochlear implant. That device has essentially given me back my life. Maybe Nebraska is better about these things, but I doubt NY Dept. of Vocation would've paid for my implant. They did get a hearing aid for me, but it was effectively useless.
Can I ask what good this will do? Seriously. I'm completely deaf without my cochlear implant, but even before I got that, I don't know what good it would have done to tell a potential employer about my lack of hearing. Is there some law of which I'm unaware that somehow favors deaf people in employment situations?
I used to be really anal about how many windows I had open and how they were positioned, simply to avoid the problem of clutter and trying to find what window I wanted. Then I started using a Mac, with Expose, and now I have windows opened all over the place and don't care. Finding the one I want is either F8, F9 or F10 away. I don't know how I functioned without Expose, before.
I had to lip-read for 13 years before I got my cochlear implant. If we were talking about such things as vacuums, I'd probably understand what you were saying. If it were just out of the blue, though, yeah, I might misunderstand and punch you for it. In fact, it was considered great fun to say things to me and have me repeat them as I understood them. "Pear pimples for hairy fishnuts?" Stuff like that.
It depends on the person who's speaking. As a deaf person - though just "hard of hearing" with my cochlear implant - I can read some people very easily, and others not at all. Without my implant, I can carry on a conversation with my son - who grew up having to speak to me without my implant - as if I could hear him perfectly well. He's just that easy to read. My parents, on the other hand, make me really appreciate my implant.
Oh, and not to start a flame-war, but ASL is the "Ebonics" of sign language. Learn Signed English, instead. Yes, they're different.
Lose a tire at 35? I've done that. Lost all - literally, not figuratively - of the skin on my chest. Still have scars from it, though it happened 30+ years ago. Skin makes a terrible brake pad. Keep the rubber side down, as they say. :-)
> The only problem with the Republican viewpoint on government spending is that it doesn't make any fucking sense.
Palin, or one of her supporters, will be along shortly to ask why you hate America.
The bigger problem is that kids are considered "property", or "wards" of their parents, and have no rights, themselves, until they reach the age of majority. However, that's wrong. Children under the age of 18 are still considered citizens and the courts have rules that they do, in fact, have rights unto their own, including the right not to be searched without a warrant, and the right to free speech.
This particular case is just an example of a power-tripping ego-centric principal who thinks he can get away with it because he's The Man. That the courts have slapped him down is just as it should be. That it happened in the first place is just testament to the fact that the district hired the wrong person in the first place. Will they learn their lesson? One would hope. Will other district's learn from this district's lesson? Probably not.
This is /., so, no, I didn't RTFA, but what about athletic eligibility for high school sports? Not all AP kids are athletic rejects; some excel in both academics _and_ sports. So, if Johnny skips 11th and 12th grade to go to college, can he still come back and wrestle on the high school team?
This hit me like I just opened my eyes for the first time.
No, I'm talking about your sig. Explains a lot...
That's Ok. You just keep on hatin'. The only one losing out on this is you.