I think that while other countries are striving to reward outstanding performance by the student, our country is racing to define and categorize more medicatable learning disabilities than anyone else.
I don't assume that all the currently labelled learning challenges in the US cropped up in the past 25 years out of nowhere. I was once told I have ADHD. Of course the doctors couldn't figure out why I could focus when and where I wanted to for hours at a time. I tend to think it's because they're making a lot up as they go. When I was a kid, there were older kids who got academic awards for this and that. They phased a lot of that stuff out because someone's kid was feeling left out. Welcome in No Child Left Behind. A system that makes sure your smart kid doesn't intimidate tomorrow's ditchdigger. No offense to ditchdiggers, you guys make a home for our fiber internet ocnnections, luv yas, but I've been told that in most European countries they still reward success. If we went to a system where we could put more academic-jockdom statistics into play and somehow redirect the social dynamic of what is "cool" as it stands in those European countries we might be able to reverse what I call the "slow-cheetahs prevail" system in place now.
Don't slow the gazelles down, make the cheetahs faster!
I think that given the current economic battles that trouble IT departments, disc based NAS has taken a short-term backseat til budgets recover. I mean sure they're getting cheaper (a buffalo tera station with 2.5Tb and RAID5 is around 300 bucks), but companies are still tightening the belts and since IT is kinda invisible to management, we're the last to get the budget for stuff that isn't broken.
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the larger a company, the more intensive going to a new operating system becomes. They have to retrain thousands of unskilled staff just to remain afloat. the more technical staff are fewer but are often more able to acclimate themselves. If you have 1000 sales associates who's average age is 47 years (just below baby boomers) then changing a computer system companywide can bring numbers to a grinding halt. I also remember when a company I did MSP with was trying to upgrade to XP and no vendor software contracts supported it yet. what if your company is using a somewhat customized business app that hasn't been sufficiently tested on the new OS yet to allow the software vendor to support it on windows 7 or XP or the newest flavor.
Wait until the Corexit 9500 pollutes the whole damn food chain! Try to remember back to your parents talking about Acid Rain in the 70s because of energy production runoff hitting the water cycle.. wait until the entire food supply north and east of the gulf of mexico is drinking rain laced with Corexit and Louisiana crude..
Obama approved corexit for use despite hundreds of scientific docs proving it is
a: less effective as a dispersant of oil than many less harmful solvents
b: highly toxic to hundreds of microorganisms and filterfeeders that are eaten by animals we in turn eat
and (i love this part) was developed by some of his cronies in ILLINOIS.
guess this is Bush's fault too eh?
children receiving primate organs to save their lives (they tried this once or twice), I have to say this type of law scares me. First of all, it's hollywood. Do Ohioans elect uneducated children? Next on the trailer is a ban on Ghostbuster proton packs right? Please tell me your leadership has the common sense of my border collie.
I read about the "restaurants and swimming pools" but who gets to use them? If I work under a magnifying glass with tweezers (or whatever) for 12 hours, last thing i want is to stay in the office to float in a pool or order a mcflurry. And Don't respond with cost-of-living comparisons but 90pounds a month??? really steve??? spell it in dollars, rubles or rands, that's still shit pay.
"Segment the network according to where the traffic is, not where the politics are"--good luck with that. Most bureacracies aren't having it.. Mr-EVP of flatulence-testing needs his high bandwidth youtube connection more than that congested logistics or sales department.
personally, i think running windows is criminally insane, but i'm certain to incite a flame war among the microsoftskulls. I know it isn't perfect but i have never had to panick over a critical patch on one of my Linux based machines.
and the repair of these poorly maintained PCs paid for my tuition and beer in college. Long live idiots, for without them, being smart means nothing, and pays less.
as someone who knows a lot of musicians, i have been told that riaa, ascap, and the like have made themself Judge Jury and Executioner for the suspects, and never has forwarded a penny to the artists they supposedly represent the rights of. If that's the case, where do i donate to help the class-action?
These cartoons were fine when we were kids and we turned as normal as our parents, if not moreso.
Does anyone else think the execs are running out of things to do with the writers strike in effect?
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I think that while other countries are striving to reward outstanding performance by the student, our country is racing to define and categorize more medicatable learning disabilities than anyone else. I don't assume that all the currently labelled learning challenges in the US cropped up in the past 25 years out of nowhere. I was once told I have ADHD. Of course the doctors couldn't figure out why I could focus when and where I wanted to for hours at a time. I tend to think it's because they're making a lot up as they go. When I was a kid, there were older kids who got academic awards for this and that. They phased a lot of that stuff out because someone's kid was feeling left out. Welcome in No Child Left Behind. A system that makes sure your smart kid doesn't intimidate tomorrow's ditchdigger. No offense to ditchdiggers, you guys make a home for our fiber internet ocnnections, luv yas, but I've been told that in most European countries they still reward success. If we went to a system where we could put more academic-jockdom statistics into play and somehow redirect the social dynamic of what is "cool" as it stands in those European countries we might be able to reverse what I call the "slow-cheetahs prevail" system in place now. Don't slow the gazelles down, make the cheetahs faster!
yeah and I thought Pluto was a planet. Times they are a changin'
to quote a fellow atheist... I don't hate god but his followers scare the SHIT out of me!
My Networking teachers' jobs! haha just kidding thanks Mr Straccione.
Orion left holding pants up with no belt
I think that given the current economic battles that trouble IT departments, disc based NAS has taken a short-term backseat til budgets recover. I mean sure they're getting cheaper (a buffalo tera station with 2.5Tb and RAID5 is around 300 bucks), but companies are still tightening the belts and since IT is kinda invisible to management, we're the last to get the budget for stuff that isn't broken.
the larger a company, the more intensive going to a new operating system becomes. They have to retrain thousands of unskilled staff just to remain afloat. the more technical staff are fewer but are often more able to acclimate themselves. If you have 1000 sales associates who's average age is 47 years (just below baby boomers) then changing a computer system companywide can bring numbers to a grinding halt. I also remember when a company I did MSP with was trying to upgrade to XP and no vendor software contracts supported it yet. what if your company is using a somewhat customized business app that hasn't been sufficiently tested on the new OS yet to allow the software vendor to support it on windows 7 or XP or the newest flavor.
the investment community has a saying about "not trying to catch falling knives" I'm no Buffet but in my experience it's held true.
Wait until the Corexit 9500 pollutes the whole damn food chain! Try to remember back to your parents talking about Acid Rain in the 70s because of energy production runoff hitting the water cycle.. wait until the entire food supply north and east of the gulf of mexico is drinking rain laced with Corexit and Louisiana crude.. Obama approved corexit for use despite hundreds of scientific docs proving it is a: less effective as a dispersant of oil than many less harmful solvents b: highly toxic to hundreds of microorganisms and filterfeeders that are eaten by animals we in turn eat and (i love this part) was developed by some of his cronies in ILLINOIS. guess this is Bush's fault too eh?
children receiving primate organs to save their lives (they tried this once or twice), I have to say this type of law scares me. First of all, it's hollywood. Do Ohioans elect uneducated children? Next on the trailer is a ban on Ghostbuster proton packs right? Please tell me your leadership has the common sense of my border collie.
I read about the "restaurants and swimming pools" but who gets to use them? If I work under a magnifying glass with tweezers (or whatever) for 12 hours, last thing i want is to stay in the office to float in a pool or order a mcflurry. And Don't respond with cost-of-living comparisons but 90pounds a month??? really steve??? spell it in dollars, rubles or rands, that's still shit pay.
"Segment the network according to where the traffic is, not where the politics are"--good luck with that. Most bureacracies aren't having it.. Mr-EVP of flatulence-testing needs his high bandwidth youtube connection more than that congested logistics or sales department.
personally,
i think running windows is criminally insane, but i'm certain to incite a flame war among the microsoftskulls. I know it isn't perfect but i have never had to panick over a critical patch on one of my Linux based machines.
and the repair of these poorly maintained PCs paid for my tuition and beer in college.
Long live idiots, for without them, being smart means nothing, and pays less.
as someone who knows a lot of musicians, i have been told that riaa, ascap, and the like have made themself Judge Jury and Executioner for the suspects, and never has forwarded a penny to the artists they supposedly represent the rights of. If that's the case, where do i donate to help the class-action?
These cartoons were fine when we were kids and we turned as normal as our parents, if not moreso. Does anyone else think the execs are running out of things to do with the writers strike in effect?