Dress code is less intrusive. In fact it's not intrusive at all. Also, home schooling is an option but it is a very difficult option. The government shouldn't be placing parents in the difficult position of having to quit their jobs and take up full-time education or else have their child's privacy massively intruded upon.
I think out definition of "massively intruded upon" may be different. I don't see having to wear an RFID badge while in school as an intrusion. Attendance is already taken in classes, but it is time consuming; all RFID does is reduce the workload. If RFID based attendance increases teaching time, then I'm all for it.
A dress code doesn't *have* to be overly restrictive. I've worked for companies where there is a dress code that explicitly stated that shorts or jeans were perfectly acceptable. You may be limiting your employment options if you dismiss companies with a dress code without actually knowing what it is.
>This is no different than if an employer requires an employee to wear an RFID badge at work. If you choose not to wear the badge you are fired for not following policy. Same thing at this school; if you don't wear the badge you are expelled (virtually the same as getting fired).
No, they are exact opposites. Employer pays you - and you show up by choice (you have a legal right to quit). You pay the school (through taxes and fees). They are the ones serving YOU.
The school taxes you pay do not pay for YOUR child, as you pay them only if you own property, regardless of if you have children attending the school. So saying that the fact that you pay school taxes gives your child the right to ignore the dress code doesn't really make much sense.
However, students do not voluntarily enter school. They are required by law to be there. Requiring students to give up rights because they entered your property, when you forced them to enter the property, isn't fair.
Yes, they do. The are not required to attend a physical school building. They can be home schooled. I see this as no different from a dress code that virtual every school has.
This is no different than if an employer requires an employee to wear an RFID badge at work. If you choose not to wear the badge you are fired for not following policy. Same thing at this school; if you don't wear the badge you are expelled (virtually the same as getting fired).
They do not modify customer data; only the software that runs the customer's sites. Which to me is totally cool as of the reasons to use a shared hosting site would be to not have to worry about the software that runs it.
If you modify the code that writes the data you could be indirectly modifying the data.
Give the robot reflexes fast enough that you don't calculate it. You just scan for it and shoot back.
Time is not the same for computers as it is for us. What is an instance for a human is a very very long time for a computer. We have computers that can visually pick out a bad product from a free fall of products and use a small puff of air to move just that one bad product out of the way. To a human the whole thing looks like a solid fall of stuff.
Things like that are used for french fries for instance.
The point is the world is very slow for a computer. Since we don't' care if the robot is shot let it take the first shot and then shoot back. We could also program it with various parameters to protect things classified as nonhostile.
Perhaps my question should have been worded differently. What characteristics do you use to determine hostility? Do you think the reliability of the detection of those characteristics is high enough to end someone's life without human oversight? Automation is fine for detecting bad french fries, where a mistake doesn't kill someone, but if you going to kill a "hostile" person, you better damn well make sure it isn't some guy carrying a broom instead of a gun.
I would trust the robot more. You could program it to not take things like emotions into account. You can have it judge if someone is hostile or a combatant and only exercise the force required. Humans are far more likely to overreact.
Why, oh why, do coders think it's a good idea to waste time pretending that every computer page is a paper page by making the corner flip up and move over? It's slow and distracting and adds nothing to the user experience except aggravation.
Odds are that the coders (the majority of them any way) don't feel that way, their managers and application designers do.
You cut out a tonne of junk food. In Vegan's case it's usually fast food. That's literally why I went vegetarian -> It' keeps me away from Fast Food hamburgers, which I can eat and eat and eat.
You know what else keeps you from eating fast food burgers, yet still allows you to eat meat? Not going to fast food restaurants.
I've received several class action post-cards or emails over the past several years. They always go in the trash (real or virtual). Most of them are for some imagined offense that a company has committed, and amount to little more than a shakedown by some law firm trying to make a quick buck. I'm sure there are legitimate class actions, I've just never seen any that have benefitted me.
If all these companies are so scared of being sued in a class-action lawsuit then clearly they are working the way they are supposed to. A class action isn't supposed to benefit you directly, it's supposed to be a punishment to the company to correct bad behavior.
If he just wanted to be mean and layoff people while raising pizza prices he could have done that regardless of who was elected. If laying off people and raising pizza prices would result in higher profit margins anyway (without or without Obamacare), he could have done that regardless of who was elected.
Except now he gets to raise prices and blame it on Obama instead of taking the heat for being greedy. Which do you think is better PR?
Better PR would be not announcing that he's laying off people and raising prices - just do it quietly like most other corporations will.
This has the side benefit if scoring political points.
If he just wanted to be mean and layoff people while raising pizza prices he could have done that regardless of who was elected. If laying off people and raising pizza prices would result in higher profit margins anyway (without or without Obamacare), he could have done that regardless of who was elected.
Except now he gets to raise prices and blame it on Obama instead of taking the heat for being greedy. Which do you think is better PR?
I just did the math. At 8.5k cost per year the cost would only go up by $1 per pizza as long as 23 pizzas are delivered per day; that doesn't sound at all unreasonable to me. The more pizzas per day the lower that cost increase would be. Even in your worse case it would raise the price of a pizza by $3.
I thought there were certain species of fireflies that mimicked the patterns of other sub-species to lure unsuspecting victim fireflies to eat. Is there some special reason this doesn't count?
and nerds geeks and slashdotters will grumble as dogs will bark. we will adapt as we always have technology to suit our needs. windows keys will be co-opted into our operating systems as a pivotal extension of our will through tools like AwesomeWM, to never again be considered anything more than a simple stroke or clack on the way to greatness. ACPI will kneel to our demands as our resources are governed by our inherent lust for knowledge and achievement. and this "device" that so rudely begged a pittance of our precious bandwidth in the service of its master will its back have been broken, its mighty spirit crushed under the inexorable weight of our technological expertise as we have so pulverized most any attempt by a salesman with a greasegun to convince us otherwise that the PC is not personal. It will kneel, as VRRP, DVD, Blu-Ray, SCSI RAID, wireless cards, and a sea of countless E and I prefixed devices have in the service of their true master, the Nerd.
How long have you been saving that speech? I feel ready to charge across the battle field ala Brave Heart now.
Really - 150 FPS versus 300? No one could ever tell the difference - not even your monitor! I don't get this whole obsession with FPS, especially when monitors can't even do it this fast.
Higher frames per second translate in to more frames for physics engines to run, which brings much finer simulation detail.
No, a hurricane trashing the Florida coast would have been exactly the sort of storm that appears in the alternate universe where there is no correlation between global warming and storm severity. A Hurricane hitting the Northeast was atypical in the former climate, and that's why it's getting so much press. We are not accustomed to seeing hurricanes and flooding shut down the most heavily industrialized region of our nation.
And it's still atypical NOW. This storm was an outlier. If we have a storm like this several times in the next 10 or so years THEN you can can start talking about the "normal" changing.
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Dress code is less intrusive. In fact it's not intrusive at all. Also, home schooling is an option but it is a very difficult option. The government shouldn't be placing parents in the difficult position of having to quit their jobs and take up full-time education or else have their child's privacy massively intruded upon.
I think out definition of "massively intruded upon" may be different. I don't see having to wear an RFID badge while in school as an intrusion. Attendance is already taken in classes, but it is time consuming; all RFID does is reduce the workload. If RFID based attendance increases teaching time, then I'm all for it.
A dress code doesn't *have* to be overly restrictive. I've worked for companies where there is a dress code that explicitly stated that shorts or jeans were perfectly acceptable. You may be limiting your employment options if you dismiss companies with a dress code without actually knowing what it is.
>This is no different than if an employer requires an employee to wear an RFID badge at work. If you choose not to wear the badge you are fired for not following policy. Same thing at this school; if you don't wear the badge you are expelled (virtually the same as getting fired).
No, they are exact opposites. Employer pays you - and you show up by choice (you have a legal right to quit). You pay the school (through taxes and fees).
They are the ones serving YOU.
The school taxes you pay do not pay for YOUR child, as you pay them only if you own property, regardless of if you have children attending the school. So saying that the fact that you pay school taxes gives your child the right to ignore the dress code doesn't really make much sense.
Sure, it's the same thing. Except it's not the same.
You are going to have to explain this one.
However, students do not voluntarily enter school. They are required by law to be there. Requiring students to give up rights because they entered your property, when you forced them to enter the property, isn't fair.
Yes, they do. The are not required to attend a physical school building. They can be home schooled. I see this as no different from a dress code that virtual every school has.
This is no different than if an employer requires an employee to wear an RFID badge at work. If you choose not to wear the badge you are fired for not following policy. Same thing at this school; if you don't wear the badge you are expelled (virtually the same as getting fired).
They do not modify customer data; only the software that runs the customer's sites. Which to me is totally cool as of the reasons to use a shared hosting site would be to not have to worry about the software that runs it.
If you modify the code that writes the data you could be indirectly modifying the data.
Give the robot reflexes fast enough that you don't calculate it. You just scan for it and shoot back.
Time is not the same for computers as it is for us. What is an instance for a human is a very very long time for a computer. We have computers that can visually pick out a bad product from a free fall of products and use a small puff of air to move just that one bad product out of the way. To a human the whole thing looks like a solid fall of stuff.
Things like that are used for french fries for instance.
The point is the world is very slow for a computer. Since we don't' care if the robot is shot let it take the first shot and then shoot back. We could also program it with various parameters to protect things classified as nonhostile.
Perhaps my question should have been worded differently. What characteristics do you use to determine hostility? Do you think the reliability of the detection of those characteristics is high enough to end someone's life without human oversight? Automation is fine for detecting bad french fries, where a mistake doesn't kill someone, but if you going to kill a "hostile" person, you better damn well make sure it isn't some guy carrying a broom instead of a gun.
I would trust the robot more. You could program it to not take things like emotions into account. You can have it judge if someone is hostile or a combatant and only exercise the force required. Humans are far more likely to overreact.
How do you code to detect hostility?
Why, oh why, do coders think it's a good idea to waste time pretending that every computer page is a paper page by making the corner flip up and move over? It's slow and distracting and adds nothing to the user experience except aggravation.
Odds are that the coders (the majority of them any way) don't feel that way, their managers and application designers do.
You cut out a tonne of junk food. In Vegan's case it's usually fast food. That's literally why I went vegetarian -> It' keeps me away from Fast Food hamburgers, which I can eat and eat and eat.
You know what else keeps you from eating fast food burgers, yet still allows you to eat meat? Not going to fast food restaurants.
How is that going to fix Class Actions?
Class action are not meant to enrich you, they are meant to punish the offending party.
I've received several class action post-cards or emails over the past several years. They always go in the trash (real or virtual). Most of them are for some imagined offense that a company has committed, and amount to little more than a shakedown by some law firm trying to make a quick buck. I'm sure there are legitimate class actions, I've just never seen any that have benefitted me.
If all these companies are so scared of being sued in a class-action lawsuit then clearly they are working the way they are supposed to. A class action isn't supposed to benefit you directly, it's supposed to be a punishment to the company to correct bad behavior.
If he just wanted to be mean and layoff people while raising pizza prices he could have done that regardless of who was elected. If laying off people and raising pizza prices would result in higher profit margins anyway (without or without Obamacare), he could have done that regardless of who was elected.
Except now he gets to raise prices and blame it on Obama instead of taking the heat for being greedy. Which do you think is better PR?
Better PR would be not announcing that he's laying off people and raising prices - just do it quietly like most other corporations will.
This has the side benefit if scoring political points.
If he just wanted to be mean and layoff people while raising pizza prices he could have done that regardless of who was elected. If laying off people and raising pizza prices would result in higher profit margins anyway (without or without Obamacare), he could have done that regardless of who was elected.
Except now he gets to raise prices and blame it on Obama instead of taking the heat for being greedy. Which do you think is better PR?
I just did the math. At 8.5k cost per year the cost would only go up by $1 per pizza as long as 23 pizzas are delivered per day; that doesn't sound at all unreasonable to me. The more pizzas per day the lower that cost increase would be. Even in your worse case it would raise the price of a pizza by $3.
Fireflies are beetles, which the article already uses as a comparison.
I thought of that, but It compares beetles, of which fireflies are in the same family.
I thought there were certain species of fireflies that mimicked the patterns of other sub-species to lure unsuspecting victim fireflies to eat. Is there some special reason this doesn't count?
and nerds geeks and slashdotters will grumble as dogs will bark. we will adapt as we always have technology to suit our needs. windows keys will be co-opted into our operating systems as a pivotal extension of our will through tools like AwesomeWM, to never again be considered anything more than a simple stroke or clack on the way to greatness. ACPI will kneel to our demands as our resources are governed by our inherent lust for knowledge and achievement. and this "device" that so rudely begged a pittance of our precious bandwidth in the service of its master will its back have been broken, its mighty spirit crushed under the inexorable weight of our technological expertise as we have so pulverized most any attempt by a salesman with a greasegun to convince us otherwise that the PC is not personal. It will kneel, as VRRP, DVD, Blu-Ray, SCSI RAID, wireless cards, and a sea of countless E and I prefixed devices have in the service of their true master, the Nerd.
How long have you been saving that speech? I feel ready to charge across the battle field ala Brave Heart now.
Really - 150 FPS versus 300? No one could ever tell the difference - not even your monitor! I don't get this whole obsession with FPS, especially when monitors can't even do it this fast.
Higher frames per second translate in to more frames for physics engines to run, which brings much finer simulation detail.
No, a hurricane trashing the Florida coast would have been exactly the sort of storm that appears in the alternate universe where there is no correlation between global warming and storm severity. A Hurricane hitting the Northeast was atypical in the former climate, and that's why it's getting so much press. We are not accustomed to seeing hurricanes and flooding shut down the most heavily industrialized region of our nation.
And it's still atypical NOW. This storm was an outlier. If we have a storm like this several times in the next 10 or so years THEN you can can start talking about the "normal" changing.
Yes, it was. The guy in the South Park episode could permanently kill other players, which normally is impossible.
You need to watch that episode again.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Love,_Not_Warcraft
He can kill anyone, but it isn't not permanent.
Wasn't South Park's WoW episode like this?
No