They even got the BBC excited with the news of their news conference. Then the big announcement is this? Really? If it isn't going to turn into big piles of $$ for investors by this afternoon, they better have something earth-shattering coming in real soon. Right now they have a lot of shareholders who are nervous about how much money they lost in a hurry on opening day, and I don't see how this will help them (and I am most certainly glad to not be one of those investors).
Training. Something that teachers are proficient at, right?
You're oversimplifying the matter, though.
For one, you are overlooking the age distribution of teachers. Few people begin teaching as fully licensed teachers before they are 30. More importantly in many schools few teachers are less than 50 years old and many are past the average age of retirement for the American workforce in general. How many people in the 50+ group are nimble enough to be trusted with a weapon? And how many who are under 50 are not under such pressure that you would not want to trust them?
In other words, the teachers are generally not the ideal group of people to place weapons in the hands of.
Second, what if a teacher doesn't want to carry a weapon? Would you advocate firing them for it? Not everyone feels that the correct solution is adding more weapons to the mix.
Third, what do you do if the attacker is wearing body armor? We've learned from other attacks that body armor is not prohibitively expensive for a determined attacker. A glock 9 won't do squat against someone holding an AR15 wearing armor. Then the attacker just starts by taking out the teacher and has a room full of defenseless kids, just like before.
"What on earth do those two skills have to do with each other?"
Responsibility.
Except that teaching requires discipline and initiative in order to meet the requirements to obtain licensure. A gun permit in some states is as simple as filling out a form and paying for a background check. And at that, background check says nothing about responsibility - it only states that you have not been convicted of a serious crime or hospitalized for serious mental health ailments. Even in the most stringent states, you need only a short class for a pistol permit, and those same states won't let someone teach elementary school without a master's degree.
The "armed guards" should be the teachers themselves. Offer teachers an incentive. The school system pays for their training. The school system then gives the teacher a fifty to one hundred dollar bonus each pay period in which they carry their weapon, acting as security. Nice, easy work, with a bit of fun training thrown in.
So you want the schools to spend more money, then? Who will pay for this? This is the same problem I already brought up, and if you are handing out more money to the existing teachers you will need to release some of the other teachers as the money just isn't there.
But even more so, Should the teachers really be tasked with this? And besides, if the teachers are all carrying glock 9s, the attackers just need to put on body armor and then the teachers are no longer impediments. If the guy in Colorado could afford armor on grad student pay, then anyone else who could pull together the money for an AR15 likely could as well.
If I can't trust a teacher to handle a weapon properly, then I sure as HELL can't trust that teacher to handle my children properly.
What on earth do those two skills have to do with each other?
No, I meant Holy. As in "Holy trashcans, batman, that conservative nonsense was overrated!"
You also presume that communities aren't willing to foot the bill for armed school guards.
Considering how many communities complain about paying anything to their school districts, why would we expect them to be willing to take a tax increase to pay for armed guards?
It's up to that community to decide how to spend it's budget.
Very few districts anywhere are getting increases in their budgets. Many are facing significant cuts. If the community says the district needs armed guards, but gives them no money for it, then that means someone has to be laid off and most likely that would be a teacher.
an armed baby sitter
Why do you assume that school is for baby sitting? Has it occurred to you that some people actual go to school to learn, rather than to be supervised and directed?
unionized non-armed baby sitter that spews indoctrination
First of all, why would it be beneficial to arm the teachers? Do you really want more guns in the schools? How big of a gun should a teacher have, if they need to be prepared for an attacker with an AR15? What if the next attacker has body armor - should the teachers have even bigger weapons yet in case of that? Should the teachers have body armor for that situation? How about the kids - shouldn't they wear armor as well?
Second, your notion of indoctrination is bullshit, unless you really believe that reading, writing, and math are somehow indoctrination. Did Rush Limbaugh tell you that 1+1 = 2 is only true for liberals or something?
it's their' choice.
Apparently punctuation is part of indoctrination as well? Good to see you were not indoctrinated in punctuation - or logic.
How do we know that gun enthusiasts downloaded the plans 2,200 times? Did they self-identify before downloading the files? Did the company hosting the files check to see that the downloads were even unique? How do they know there weren't people that were just interested in seeing what the plans looked like, and what their printer could do?
I've downloaded files before just because they were available, and never used them - and I suspect I'm not the only person who has.
Apparently the conservatives are running around with mod points today that this nonsense was moderated up.
Where's the school shooting going to happen? At the school with the "Gun Free Zone" sign, or at the school with the "Protected by Armed Guards" sign?
Have you stopped to think about the practicality of that for a moment? The NRA wants armed guards at every school. Conveniently, they have not specified who will pay for these armed guards, meaning it will likely come from the education budget. Being as armed guards make more than teachers, schools will likely lay off at least 1-2 teachers for each guard they hire.
The bigger problem though is the true scale of this. How many schools did you attend that had only one door? I can't think of any from my younger days. The shooter in Newtown used his gun to get in through a locked door, which tells us you would need a guard at every door. This means that rather than 1 guard per school you'll probably need at least 3 or 4. Which means you'll lay off 6-10 teachers.
What happens with this design if the pedals are at TDC and BDC, with a weight hanging off the top pedal? It should go forward as that is the direction of the "Z" arm. By my understanding that is one of his design goals, to eliminate the dead spots as with regular straight arms in the same situation nothing happens (you would need forward motion to move the arm).
Of course, there are plenty of problems with this design that are greater than this problem which it might marginally solve. And in all my years of cycling I never found myself cripplingly stuck in TDC/BDC, you need very little power to get out of it and if you're in the act of pedalling you are likely not going to even notice it.
That is a rather pitiful response, there. Or do you hate professors and janitors?
No, I don't hate either of those
The way you are continuing to lie about the former, and then proceed to sling an insult based on your assumptions about the latter, it seems you are not being honest in response to that question, either.
I hate you
That might be the first honest statement you've made in this discussion.
I hate you because you are dumb,
... and back to unsubstantiated claims we go.
can't use logic
That word, you use it, but you don't seem to know what it means.
don't understand what you read
I understand quite well what I read. I understand that you are making shit up and you are frustrated that I have called you out on it and other people have chimed in with statements agreeing with what I have said and pointing out that you are full of shit.
I'm sorry that while you are running about in your vengeful existence someone has pointed out that you do not have exclusive ownership of reality. It must hurt when such a giant and fragile ego such as yours is so rapidly deflated.
You quoted a person who you did not name, at a time you did not state. You could very well have made up the quote, as it has no reflection on reality.
Yes, and you couldn't even be bothered to do that. You literally wrote a post that was worse than a made up story. You have high skill in writing stupid posts.
Wow, you really suck at defending your made up stories. You should just admit that you made it up, rather than trying to double-down on it. If you despise professors, that is your right to do so, but you could show your feelings towards them with arguments based on fact instead of bullshit. You do yourself no favors to make shit up like this and then subsequently dig in your heels.
I work at a university.
So do janitors.
That is a rather pitiful response, there. Or do you hate professors and janitors?
Have you presented any statistics to back that up? Any data?
You have presented no data whatsoever for your vacuous claim. Why would I expect you to read data if I provide it? I already referred you to look at the NIH funding information, which of course you conveniently did not quote my reference to. They are the largest (in terms of dollars and investigators) granting agency in this country and they have very detailed numbers on grant awards. But you have given ample reason to believe that you would not read any of their information, as you prefer to make things up and base your "argument" on made up shit instead.
All you have is some anecdote from your own university, which is ONE university, not MOST universities
You have errantly assumed that I have worked for only one. That is only one faulty assumption you have made.
You only mentioned what happens at your university, which is surely a poor one if it produces people with such a lousy grasp of basic logic.
Here you are also assuming that universities operate in some sort of vacuum, which is dead wrong with regards to research. I am regularly in contact with researchers from a large number of other research universities from all corners of the US and other countries as well. American universities in particular are with almost no exception in the same boat I have described.
So here's the question: can you back up your statement? No, you can't.
I can, but you won't read it. Your question really should be directed back at you - and it is well known and demonstrated that you cannot back up your statement.
Unlike you, I actually gave a source for my statement.
You quoted a person who you did not name, at a time you did not state. You could very well have made up the quote, as it has no reflection on reality.
It is real
Just because you say so?
Do you have a source
I work at a university. I interact with actual living, breathing, faculty members on a daily basis. I know what they go through to keep their jobs. If you want a source, you can start by looking at the funding numbers at the NIH - particularly the rates of acceptance for grant applications and the rate of awards in dollar amounts.
My guess is you're an idiot
You can keep on guessing. It won't help you to support your reality-free, fact-free claim of professors having "four months" of vacation.
Thank you, sir.
Always happy to point out when someone like you is making shit up.
After I graduated, I worked for a while as a student teacher at the university. When I'd been doing it for a while, a professor came up to me and said, "Isn't this great? It's such a nice job and you get 4 months of the year for vacation!"
Professors don't get 4 months of vacation a year. Not even remotely close. Most professors are on continual cycles of grant writing just to keep their jobs. The top federal agency for research grants runs three cycles per year, and most professors who do work in the relevant areas are submitting at least once or twice per year (twice generally being the most one can do as the review process takes longer than the time that passes between cycles).
In other words, you are making shit up. Professors don't get 4 months of vacation per year. Not even remotely close.
You said he's older than you, so if you're planning to stay with your current employer, just wait for the bad coder to retire. You won't be able to help him, it isn't worth trying really. You might well cause yourself a fair bit of harm by even trying to resolve the problem.
Notice that this is purely voluntary, and is not being run by the government. Hence your "government is taking away my Halo 12!" gripe does not apply here. Those who do not want to give up their violent games are under no obligation to do so.
I wouldn't get the AS first. I'd find a 4yr adult program that takes transfer credits from the community college as part of the degree plan. If you go AS first you may burn time taking classes that won't transfer to the 4yr.
There are pluses and minuses to both strategies. From my reading it seems like the author wants a degree but is not available to go full-time. If he were to start on a program like you describe with the intent of transferring credits rather than taking an AS and then enrolling in a four-year afterwards, he could find that by the time he is ready to start taking 4-year courses his old courses are no longer recognized. If he can take an AS along the way, then at least he will have something to show for his investment if he ends up further delayed or somehow unable to finish.
No, I mean compromise by flying an airline with inflight power
Not available in my market at any price. My market is served pretty well exclusively by regional jets and older 737s.
or compromise by doing the presentations before you fly (like I did in the good ol' days)
Not possible when I am flying at most one day after that last day of data collection.
or compromise by opening and closing apps as you need them
Opening and closing photoshop and illustrator every five minutes is penny-wise and pound-foolish, at best.
or compromise by buying a power pad battery
Good luck getting that through airport security...
or compromise by leaving early so you can work on them in your hotel room when you arrive
For some odd reason the airlines don't ask for my input when they set their time tables. Rarely do I have more than one outgoing flight a day going in the right direction relative to where I need to go.
If your job is reasonably secure, keep looking at community colleges. You should be able to find one with an online AS program for CS. Work your way through that first and by the time you finish that you should find that more options are available (more universities are starting online courses all the time) to finish a BS with.
You likely will find at some point you'll need to change your work hours - or save up a truckload of sick time - to take some day time courses but if you start with an AS you might be able to put that off for a while.
Being as most of my travel is for work - meaning I am likely going somewhere to do a presentation - the flight is a great place to finish putting said presentation together.
As I posted earlier, I'm *Gold, flew 66 segments last year, many of them flights to presentations. I've given hundreds of them and I've never been in a situation where I needed all those apps open at the same time
Well, then, your presentations likely don't involve the types of data that mine do.
Time for a compromise somewhere.
So you suggest I should quit my job and change to a different career path? These applications are key to my life's work. I use all of them, or I have no job.
Slashdot Mirror
They even got the BBC excited with the news of their news conference. Then the big announcement is this? Really? If it isn't going to turn into big piles of $$ for investors by this afternoon, they better have something earth-shattering coming in real soon. Right now they have a lot of shareholders who are nervous about how much money they lost in a hurry on opening day, and I don't see how this will help them (and I am most certainly glad to not be one of those investors).
Training. Something that teachers are proficient at, right?
You're oversimplifying the matter, though.
For one, you are overlooking the age distribution of teachers. Few people begin teaching as fully licensed teachers before they are 30. More importantly in many schools few teachers are less than 50 years old and many are past the average age of retirement for the American workforce in general. How many people in the 50+ group are nimble enough to be trusted with a weapon? And how many who are under 50 are not under such pressure that you would not want to trust them?
In other words, the teachers are generally not the ideal group of people to place weapons in the hands of.
Second, what if a teacher doesn't want to carry a weapon? Would you advocate firing them for it? Not everyone feels that the correct solution is adding more weapons to the mix.
Third, what do you do if the attacker is wearing body armor? We've learned from other attacks that body armor is not prohibitively expensive for a determined attacker. A glock 9 won't do squat against someone holding an AR15 wearing armor. Then the attacker just starts by taking out the teacher and has a room full of defenseless kids, just like before.
"What on earth do those two skills have to do with each other?"
Responsibility.
Except that teaching requires discipline and initiative in order to meet the requirements to obtain licensure. A gun permit in some states is as simple as filling out a form and paying for a background check. And at that, background check says nothing about responsibility - it only states that you have not been convicted of a serious crime or hospitalized for serious mental health ailments. Even in the most stringent states, you need only a short class for a pistol permit, and those same states won't let someone teach elementary school without a master's degree.
The "armed guards" should be the teachers themselves. Offer teachers an incentive. The school system pays for their training. The school system then gives the teacher a fifty to one hundred dollar bonus each pay period in which they carry their weapon, acting as security. Nice, easy work, with a bit of fun training thrown in.
So you want the schools to spend more money, then? Who will pay for this? This is the same problem I already brought up, and if you are handing out more money to the existing teachers you will need to release some of the other teachers as the money just isn't there.
But even more so, Should the teachers really be tasked with this? And besides, if the teachers are all carrying glock 9s, the attackers just need to put on body armor and then the teachers are no longer impediments. If the guy in Colorado could afford armor on grad student pay, then anyone else who could pull together the money for an AR15 likely could as well.
If I can't trust a teacher to handle a weapon properly, then I sure as HELL can't trust that teacher to handle my children properly.
What on earth do those two skills have to do with each other?
I presume you meant "Wholly overrated".
No, I meant Holy. As in "Holy trashcans, batman, that conservative nonsense was overrated!"
You also presume that communities aren't willing to foot the bill for armed school guards.
Considering how many communities complain about paying anything to their school districts, why would we expect them to be willing to take a tax increase to pay for armed guards?
It's up to that community to decide how to spend it's budget.
Very few districts anywhere are getting increases in their budgets. Many are facing significant cuts. If the community says the district needs armed guards, but gives them no money for it, then that means someone has to be laid off and most likely that would be a teacher.
an armed baby sitter
Why do you assume that school is for baby sitting? Has it occurred to you that some people actual go to school to learn, rather than to be supervised and directed?
unionized non-armed baby sitter that spews indoctrination
First of all, why would it be beneficial to arm the teachers? Do you really want more guns in the schools? How big of a gun should a teacher have, if they need to be prepared for an attacker with an AR15? What if the next attacker has body armor - should the teachers have even bigger weapons yet in case of that? Should the teachers have body armor for that situation? How about the kids - shouldn't they wear armor as well?
Second, your notion of indoctrination is bullshit, unless you really believe that reading, writing, and math are somehow indoctrination. Did Rush Limbaugh tell you that 1+1 = 2 is only true for liberals or something?
it's their' choice.
Apparently punctuation is part of indoctrination as well? Good to see you were not indoctrinated in punctuation - or logic.
How do we know that gun enthusiasts downloaded the plans 2,200 times? Did they self-identify before downloading the files? Did the company hosting the files check to see that the downloads were even unique? How do they know there weren't people that were just interested in seeing what the plans looked like, and what their printer could do?
I've downloaded files before just because they were available, and never used them - and I suspect I'm not the only person who has.
Where's the school shooting going to happen? At the school with the "Gun Free Zone" sign, or at the school with the "Protected by Armed Guards" sign?
Have you stopped to think about the practicality of that for a moment? The NRA wants armed guards at every school. Conveniently, they have not specified who will pay for these armed guards, meaning it will likely come from the education budget. Being as armed guards make more than teachers, schools will likely lay off at least 1-2 teachers for each guard they hire.
The bigger problem though is the true scale of this. How many schools did you attend that had only one door? I can't think of any from my younger days. The shooter in Newtown used his gun to get in through a locked door, which tells us you would need a guard at every door. This means that rather than 1 guard per school you'll probably need at least 3 or 4. Which means you'll lay off 6-10 teachers.
What happens with this design if the pedals are at TDC and BDC, with a weight hanging off the top pedal? It should go forward as that is the direction of the "Z" arm. By my understanding that is one of his design goals, to eliminate the dead spots as with regular straight arms in the same situation nothing happens (you would need forward motion to move the arm).
Of course, there are plenty of problems with this design that are greater than this problem which it might marginally solve. And in all my years of cycling I never found myself cripplingly stuck in TDC/BDC, you need very little power to get out of it and if you're in the act of pedalling you are likely not going to even notice it.
... the link to "OSMBugs" in the summary doesn't work.
I'm really not sure if it would be a suitable deal without free shipping.
That is a rather pitiful response, there. Or do you hate professors and janitors?
No, I don't hate either of those
The way you are continuing to lie about the former, and then proceed to sling an insult based on your assumptions about the latter, it seems you are not being honest in response to that question, either.
I hate you
That might be the first honest statement you've made in this discussion.
I hate you because you are dumb,
can't use logic
That word, you use it, but you don't seem to know what it means.
don't understand what you read
I understand quite well what I read. I understand that you are making shit up and you are frustrated that I have called you out on it and other people have chimed in with statements agreeing with what I have said and pointing out that you are full of shit.
I'm sorry that while you are running about in your vengeful existence someone has pointed out that you do not have exclusive ownership of reality. It must hurt when such a giant and fragile ego such as yours is so rapidly deflated.
You quoted a person who you did not name, at a time you did not state. You could very well have made up the quote, as it has no reflection on reality.
Yes, and you couldn't even be bothered to do that. You literally wrote a post that was worse than a made up story. You have high skill in writing stupid posts.
Wow, you really suck at defending your made up stories. You should just admit that you made it up, rather than trying to double-down on it. If you despise professors, that is your right to do so, but you could show your feelings towards them with arguments based on fact instead of bullshit. You do yourself no favors to make shit up like this and then subsequently dig in your heels.
I work at a university.
So do janitors.
That is a rather pitiful response, there. Or do you hate professors and janitors?
Have you presented any statistics to back that up? Any data?
You have presented no data whatsoever for your vacuous claim. Why would I expect you to read data if I provide it? I already referred you to look at the NIH funding information, which of course you conveniently did not quote my reference to. They are the largest (in terms of dollars and investigators) granting agency in this country and they have very detailed numbers on grant awards. But you have given ample reason to believe that you would not read any of their information, as you prefer to make things up and base your "argument" on made up shit instead.
All you have is some anecdote from your own university, which is ONE university, not MOST universities
You have errantly assumed that I have worked for only one. That is only one faulty assumption you have made.
You only mentioned what happens at your university, which is surely a poor one if it produces people with such a lousy grasp of basic logic.
Here you are also assuming that universities operate in some sort of vacuum, which is dead wrong with regards to research. I am regularly in contact with researchers from a large number of other research universities from all corners of the US and other countries as well. American universities in particular are with almost no exception in the same boat I have described.
So here's the question: can you back up your statement? No, you can't.
I can, but you won't read it. Your question really should be directed back at you - and it is well known and demonstrated that you cannot back up your statement.
Unlike you, I actually gave a source for my statement.
You quoted a person who you did not name, at a time you did not state. You could very well have made up the quote, as it has no reflection on reality.
It is real
Just because you say so?
Do you have a source
I work at a university. I interact with actual living, breathing, faculty members on a daily basis. I know what they go through to keep their jobs. If you want a source, you can start by looking at the funding numbers at the NIH - particularly the rates of acceptance for grant applications and the rate of awards in dollar amounts.
My guess is you're an idiot
You can keep on guessing. It won't help you to support your reality-free, fact-free claim of professors having "four months" of vacation.
Thank you, sir.
Always happy to point out when someone like you is making shit up.
After I graduated, I worked for a while as a student teacher at the university. When I'd been doing it for a while, a professor came up to me and said, "Isn't this great? It's such a nice job and you get 4 months of the year for vacation!"
Professors don't get 4 months of vacation a year. Not even remotely close. Most professors are on continual cycles of grant writing just to keep their jobs. The top federal agency for research grants runs three cycles per year, and most professors who do work in the relevant areas are submitting at least once or twice per year (twice generally being the most one can do as the review process takes longer than the time that passes between cycles).
In other words, you are making shit up. Professors don't get 4 months of vacation per year. Not even remotely close.
You said he's older than you, so if you're planning to stay with your current employer, just wait for the bad coder to retire. You won't be able to help him, it isn't worth trying really. You might well cause yourself a fair bit of harm by even trying to resolve the problem.
Notice that this is purely voluntary, and is not being run by the government. Hence your "government is taking away my Halo 12!" gripe does not apply here. Those who do not want to give up their violent games are under no obligation to do so.
I saw a "preorder" thing for it at the local Target but it had pretty well no useful information on it.
And more importantly why on earth did they reuse the original name?
Holy reading comprehension fail, Batman! I can understand why you posted as AC.
I hope your third try at the fourth grade goes well for you, feel free to come back to us when you're done with that.
Does it also cause people to type the same statement twice at the end of a question?
I might never complain about poor seating again, at least the last time I flew I arrived inside the airplane.
I wouldn't get the AS first. I'd find a 4yr adult program that takes transfer credits from the community college as part of the degree plan. If you go AS first you may burn time taking classes that won't transfer to the 4yr.
There are pluses and minuses to both strategies. From my reading it seems like the author wants a degree but is not available to go full-time. If he were to start on a program like you describe with the intent of transferring credits rather than taking an AS and then enrolling in a four-year afterwards, he could find that by the time he is ready to start taking 4-year courses his old courses are no longer recognized. If he can take an AS along the way, then at least he will have something to show for his investment if he ends up further delayed or somehow unable to finish.
No, I mean compromise by flying an airline with inflight power
Not available in my market at any price. My market is served pretty well exclusively by regional jets and older 737s.
or compromise by doing the presentations before you fly (like I did in the good ol' days)
Not possible when I am flying at most one day after that last day of data collection.
or compromise by opening and closing apps as you need them
Opening and closing photoshop and illustrator every five minutes is penny-wise and pound-foolish, at best.
or compromise by buying a power pad battery
Good luck getting that through airport security...
or compromise by leaving early so you can work on them in your hotel room when you arrive
For some odd reason the airlines don't ask for my input when they set their time tables. Rarely do I have more than one outgoing flight a day going in the right direction relative to where I need to go.
If your job is reasonably secure, keep looking at community colleges. You should be able to find one with an online AS program for CS. Work your way through that first and by the time you finish that you should find that more options are available (more universities are starting online courses all the time) to finish a BS with.
You likely will find at some point you'll need to change your work hours - or save up a truckload of sick time - to take some day time courses but if you start with an AS you might be able to put that off for a while.
Being as most of my travel is for work - meaning I am likely going somewhere to do a presentation - the flight is a great place to finish putting said presentation together.
As I posted earlier, I'm *Gold, flew 66 segments last year, many of them flights to presentations. I've given hundreds of them and I've never been in a situation where I needed all those apps open at the same time
Well, then, your presentations likely don't involve the types of data that mine do.
Time for a compromise somewhere.
So you suggest I should quit my job and change to a different career path? These applications are key to my life's work. I use all of them, or I have no job.