I agree the problem is telco monopoly (due to fact that laying cable is expensive, and we don't want 20 cables going to the same place:), but slow broadband is enough for most stuff (not for having your server:)
I have cheap DSL (really cheap now, with more competition:), $15/mo) with (I think) 1.5M down/ 256 up, and it is enough to do netflix and vonage at the same time; do I really *need* more ? (of course, I *want* more:)
If you think about it, Beck would be hilarious as a parody of the extreme right ; the problem is that he *tries* to be taken seriously (or at least many of his viewers actually believe it). In a way, Colbert is a parody of Beck
And, the screen is way smaller, but, OTOH, I keep the iPad much closer than my laptop. Don't get me wrong, I use my laptop for real work, but the iPad is great for casual browsing, especially on the couch (that is, if I can take it away from my kids:)
Actually, if it worked with no problems whatsoever, the mystique wouldn't go away, as MacOSX *is* all that, or at least much better than other OSs I've tried (Win XP,Vista,7, Linux) for basic usage. Although a big advantage is that you always run it on good HW:)
I agree that 'In general, the police have better things to do than walk around randomly asking people for their papers.'; however, I see a big potential for abuse; some US citizens will encounter some cops who happen to be SOBs, and they will have trouble if they don't carry enough documentation (or they want to mess up with those cops:). I don't live in Arizona, and don't plan to visit it; if I lived there, I'd make sure to carry my license, but I'd also try to look for other places to move to:)
The main problem is that, in the US, people are NOT required to carry Ids, or even to obtain them (of course, having them makes your life much easier); it is considered (I think) one of the guarantees in the constitution; in many other countries you have to register with the govt, and carry a national Id; not here, and that's the big issue.
It does not just makes an effort to enforce the law, it (appears to me, will see how it actually gets applied) adds penalties, at least detention/arrest, even for US citizens !
B. FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE WHERE REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTS THAT THE PERSON IS AN ALIEN WHO IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES, A REASONABLE ATTEMPT SHALL BE MADE, WHEN PRACTICABLE, TO DETERMINE THE IMMIGRATION STATUS OF THE PERSON. THE PERSON'S IMMIGRATION STATUS SHALL BE VERIFIED WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PURSUANT TO 8 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1373(c).
So an American could be detained for 'reasonable suspicion' unless they carry their papers (at least until the status is verified); moreover
E. A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, WITHOUT A WARRANT, MAY ARREST A PERSON IF THE OFFICER HAS PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE PERSON HAS COMMITTED ANY PUBLIC OFFENSE THAT MAKES THE PERSON REMOVABLE FROM THE UNITED STATES.
It would seem to me that an *American* could be arrested just for not having/presenting their papers, since that could be construed as probable cause... that hasn't been in federal law.
My kids are not there yet (my oldest is in 1st grade), but I've helped many friends and kids of friends, and I've always been able to read their textbook and understand what they wanted.
BTW, the fact that numbers have those properties is incredibly useful; the commutative property tells me that 3+15 = 15+3 (the later being much easier to calculate by counting with my fingers) and that 3*9 = 9*3 (the later being much easier to calculate by repeated addition). Making it explicit gives it a name, but also helps with the kids who haven't got it yet (my kids don't know the name, but they know the commutative property and can apply it)
Delphi was a cool tool, but VB was already entrenched when Delphi came out, which is (at least partly) why Delphi never became popular; Delphi was a response to VB, not the other way around.
1. Requirement that 85% of insurance money is spent on care. 2. Insurance exchanges are regulated; not all policies qualify 3. They won't, but everybody will get a *minimal* level of care, much higher than the current one.
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Don't know where you live, but I think it's amazing that you can send a snail mail for less than 50c; the roads are ok where I live and my public schools are great. In the US, government is reasonably efficient and it provides a different price/performance/access point that private industry.
You want next day delivery ? use FedEx, but pay $20 (or more ?). Have you seen private toll roads ? I grew up in Mexico, where they're common; you pay about $40 to go from Merida to CanCun (about 200 miles). You want to go into a good private school ? be prepared to spend $15000/yr, and make sure your kid is really good, or he/she won't get in. I'm not saying private companies offer bad choices, but they're *different* choices, I like that the govt provides decent basic services.
I've always interpreted the living part as meaning that it can be changed; we have specific procedures to change the constitution (and I think the last amendment was passed in 1992 !), that's what living means, not that you can interpret it any way you want.
There's many talented and hard working people (much more talented and much harder working than myself), but only some of them are gazillionaires; the external environment (that I summarize as luck) counts a lot; both who are your parents (which heavily influences how you develop your talents, which schools you go to etc) and being at the right place at the right time.
If you think about it, Bill Gates was probably going to be a millionaire (his parents were very well off, he was (is?) driven, very smart and an SOB:), however, if IBM hadn't messed up, the timing hadn't been right etc he'd probably just be one more millionaire.
The problem with cheating is NOT reuse, but dishonesty; the right analogy is not to reuse *your company's* code or report, but *somebody else's* report or code, which leads to lawsuits against your company and firing. In many (most?) programming assignments in school, you are given starting code (like this one except for....)
I don't know the exact numbers, but let's assume you change your roof every 20 years, so 5% of houses will get their roof replaced this year, lets ask/push people to use lighter shades (or white), probably same cost (just replaced my roof, color didn't affect price to me, so I assume doesn't affect supply cost), in 20 years, it's all replaced (not centuries !)
Science has taught us (me?:) many things, but I haven't got that conclusion and can't recall one example; do you ? BTW, this is how we learn in science, we tamper with things we don't understand so we understand them
As mentioned above, there's still a net gain, since there's much more sunlight in Summer than in Winter (of course, it all depends on where you are, but the research says that it works:)
Back of the envelope, if roofs last an average of 20 years, we're replacing 5% of the roofs every year; lets replace with lighter shades. I just did that (they didn't have the good shingles in white, so I chose the lighter possible shade of gray they had). Only about a month in, AC runs noticeably less now (but we'll see when the real Summer is in:)
I'm in Atlanta, and our CS undergrads start at around $45 or more (now). Also, notice that the *average* salary includes NYC and San Francisco and such:)
Yes, teachers have more vacation than most, but they're definitely underpaid (with rare exceptions)
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I agree the problem is telco monopoly (due to fact that laying cable is expensive, and we don't want 20 cables going to the same place :), but slow broadband is enough for most stuff (not for having your server :)
I have cheap DSL (really cheap now, with more competition :), $15/mo) with (I think) 1.5M down/ 256 up, and it is enough to do netflix and vonage at the same time; do I really *need* more ? (of course, I *want* more :)
If you think about it, Beck would be hilarious as a parody of the extreme right ; the problem is that he *tries* to be taken seriously (or at least many of his viewers actually believe it). In a way, Colbert is a parody of Beck
GameMaker is similar to GameSalad (but older and more mature), but Windows only. It has a free (beer) version, and a cheap ($30 or so) pro version.
Many students in private unis do not care either, and many in public unis do care. There is a lot of variation on students all over.
And, the screen is way smaller, but, OTOH, I keep the iPad much closer than my laptop. Don't get me wrong, I use my laptop for real work, but the iPad is great for casual browsing, especially on the couch (that is, if I can take it away from my kids :)
Actually, if it worked with no problems whatsoever, the mystique wouldn't go away, as MacOSX *is* all that, or at least much better than other OSs I've tried (Win XP,Vista,7, Linux) for basic usage. Although a big advantage is that you always run it on good HW :)
I agree that 'In general, the police have better things to do than walk around randomly asking people for their papers.'; however, I see a big potential for abuse; some US citizens will encounter some cops who happen to be SOBs, and they will have trouble if they don't carry enough documentation (or they want to mess up with those cops :). I don't live in Arizona, and don't plan to visit it; if I lived there, I'd make sure to carry my license, but I'd also try to look for other places to move to :)
The main problem is that, in the US, people are NOT required to carry Ids, or even to obtain them (of course, having them makes your life much easier); it is considered (I think) one of the guarantees in the constitution; in many other countries you have to register with the govt, and carry a national Id; not here, and that's the big issue.
It does not just makes an effort to enforce the law, it (appears to me, will see how it actually gets applied) adds penalties, at least detention/arrest, even for US citizens !
B. FOR ANY LAWFUL CONTACT MADE BY A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL OR AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR A COUNTY, CITY, TOWN OR OTHER POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE WHERE REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTS THAT THE PERSON IS AN ALIEN WHO IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES, A REASONABLE ATTEMPT SHALL BE MADE, WHEN PRACTICABLE, TO DETERMINE THE IMMIGRATION STATUS OF THE PERSON. THE PERSON'S IMMIGRATION STATUS SHALL BE VERIFIED WITH THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT PURSUANT TO 8 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1373(c).
So an American could be detained for 'reasonable suspicion' unless they carry their papers (at least until the status is verified); moreover
E. A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, WITHOUT A WARRANT, MAY ARREST A PERSON IF THE OFFICER HAS PROBABLE CAUSE TO BELIEVE THAT THE PERSON HAS COMMITTED ANY PUBLIC OFFENSE THAT MAKES THE PERSON REMOVABLE FROM THE UNITED STATES.
It would seem to me that an *American* could be arrested just for not having/presenting their papers, since that could be construed as probable cause ... that hasn't been in federal law.
Nooo ! cookies are an evil security risk and ..... oh, never mind
My kids are not there yet (my oldest is in 1st grade), but I've helped many friends and kids of friends, and I've always been able to read their textbook and understand what they wanted.
BTW, the fact that numbers have those properties is incredibly useful; the commutative property tells me that 3+15 = 15+3 (the later being much easier to calculate by counting with my fingers) and that 3*9 = 9*3 (the later being much easier to calculate by repeated addition). Making it explicit gives it a name, but also helps with the kids who haven't got it yet (my kids don't know the name, but they know the commutative property and can apply it)
Delphi was a cool tool, but VB was already entrenched when Delphi came out, which is (at least partly) why Delphi never became popular; Delphi was a response to VB, not the other way around.
Seriously ! I'm paying (when you add my employer's contribution) about 14k for a family of 4
1. Requirement that 85% of insurance money is spent on care.
2. Insurance exchanges are regulated; not all policies qualify
3. They won't, but everybody will get a *minimal* level of care, much higher than the current one.
Don't know where you live, but I think it's amazing that you can send a snail mail for less than 50c; the roads are ok where I live and my public schools are great. In the US, government is reasonably efficient and it provides a different price/performance/access point that private industry.
You want next day delivery ? use FedEx, but pay $20 (or more ?). Have you seen private toll roads ? I grew up in Mexico, where they're common; you pay about $40 to go from Merida to CanCun (about 200 miles). You want to go into a good private school ? be prepared to spend $15000/yr, and make sure your kid is really good, or he/she won't get in. I'm not saying private companies offer bad choices, but they're *different* choices, I like that the govt provides decent basic services.
While the article is a bit biased as well as the people it covers, a lot of the things these people tout amount to plain ignorance.
More elementally, they hold that the United States was founded by devout Christians ...
True.
NOT quite; it was founded by many people, many (most ? ) of them being devout Christians but NOT all;
I've always interpreted the living part as meaning that it can be changed; we have specific procedures to change the constitution (and I think the last amendment was passed in 1992 !), that's what living means, not that you can interpret it any way you want.
There's many talented and hard working people (much more talented and much harder working than myself), but only some of them are gazillionaires; the external environment (that I summarize as luck) counts a lot; both who are your parents (which heavily influences how you develop your talents, which schools you go to etc) and being at the right place at the right time.
If you think about it, Bill Gates was probably going to be a millionaire (his parents were very well off, he was (is?) driven, very smart and an SOB :), however, if IBM hadn't messed up, the timing hadn't been right etc he'd probably just be one more millionaire.
The problem with cheating is NOT reuse, but dishonesty; the right analogy is not to reuse *your company's* code or report, but *somebody else's* report or code, which leads to lawsuits against your company and firing. In many (most?) programming assignments in school, you are given starting code (like this one except for ....)
I don't know the exact numbers, but let's assume you change your roof every 20 years, so 5% of houses will get their roof replaced this year, lets ask/push people to use lighter shades (or white), probably same cost (just replaced my roof, color didn't affect price to me, so I assume doesn't affect supply cost), in 20 years, it's all replaced (not centuries !)
Science has taught us (me? :) many things, but I haven't got that conclusion and can't recall one example; do you ? BTW, this is how we learn in science, we tamper with things we don't understand so we understand them
As mentioned above, there's still a net gain, since there's much more sunlight in Summer than in Winter (of course, it all depends on where you are, but the research says that it works :)
Back of the envelope, if roofs last an average of 20 years, we're replacing 5% of the roofs every year; lets replace with lighter shades. I just did that (they didn't have the good shingles in white, so I chose the lighter possible shade of gray they had). Only about a month in, AC runs noticeably less now (but we'll see when the real Summer is in :)
Google will give you a free incoming number, and transfer (actually, reroute/repeat) to any number you choose (and many more goodies)
I'm in Atlanta, and our CS undergrads start at around $45 or more (now). Also, notice that the *average* salary includes NYC and San Francisco and such :)
Yes, teachers have more vacation than most, but they're definitely underpaid (with rare exceptions)