Still seems like two sides of the same coin to me. Just because you think a teacher is "whacko," shouldn't curtail their right to do what they want with their lives and to be open about it, as long as they are just teaching kids about religion intellectually. To me it doesn't seem so hard to see where the line is between establishing religion and talking about it or expressing it openly.
Likewise, other people will think a teacher is "whacko" for talking about homosexuality or, really, a whole slew of other sexual topics in the classroom. The travesty of US education is that we don't seem able to distinguish the free flow of information in a free society from indoctrination. The anecdote you give is obviously a case of indoctrination and establishment of religion, in that the teacher was using his or her position of authority to influence the students.
In a free society we can't just pretend the bogeys aren't there. Controversy and discussion are essential to free society, and it is counterproductive to restrict it. We should encourage debate of these topics precisely because they are controversial, and because our preoccupation with them is destroying any real progress in politics (away from corruption). That's why restricting teachers too much in either regard encourages divisiveness and political bickering.
It's always refreshing to see reaffirmed the bigotry so inherent in the US. But hey, it's fun to make generalizations about all Tennesseans. They're all racist fucks, right? Even if people aren't so vocal about their bigotry in the noble part of the country from which you obviously hail, there are still plenty of bigots willing to classify people based on where they live or the color of their skin.
If you can't see it, you needn't look very far or very long to find it.
It's hard to talk about religion, specifically Christianity, in public schools, much harder in some places than others. To me this is the same type of censorship. It seems that very few people understand the line between learning about something and sponsoring it. This is just the other shoe falling. It's about time that the US started to value true freedoms again. Otherwise we will remain caught up in these stupid arguments about whether it's OK for a student to know his teacher is a devotee of some religion, or whether a student should know that there are gay people in the world.
I have a right to be offended by your joke. I appreciate the point you are making, but you are also sort of making the point that you are a bit crude and willfully offensive. Now, that's well within your rights, but I don't think it helps the cause of free speech much. I imagine you are righteously pissed-off about the state of civil liberties in America and much else of the world, and I can't say that I blame you. But, given that few people even seem to understand freedom of speech and its implications for a free society (as much as they understand that), it might help to present your arguments in a way that would be accessible to more people.
The second paragraph of the "Incidence and Importance" section of the relevant Wikipedia article (Iatrogenesis) lists some interesting references and numbers...
People think I'm crazy having only gone to the doctor a few times in the past decade and a half, and I see people in the comments here looking askance at herbalism and other folk healing traditions, but I feel much safer relying on these for everyday problems.
Obviously, garam masala can't perform heart surgery and lovage can't treat epilepsy, and I'm not saying to forgo science in favor of tradition, in fact it would be great if there were more studies on the properties of herbs and their essential oils, etc.
The fact is that there are safer alternatives to running to the doctor every time something seems slightly amiss with one's health!
The divisiveness of calling others "sheep" aside, making money is a goal of business. Business that does not serve those people who pay them will fail, unless of course they are backed by law (and therefore physical force) that is interested in protecting business over the very people law is meant to protect.
I hope you would not say that "muslim women anonymously complaining about stoning" are cowardly. (Don't take offense, but I think you understand the word "cowardice" too broadly.) There is bravery in many acts that do not put one's person unduly at risk. There are brave people who die unnamed.
I would also question your assumption that you have the right to be given the source of a communication addressed to you or anyone else. Now, I agree that there are situations when you have that right, such as the examples you give of unjust anonymity.
So... I am not sure where that leaves our conversation:)
No, they are pretty much the same. A choice between two parties that suck the cocks of different corporate interests, while spouting their own brand of divisive rhetoric (that they rarely act on) is not a choice.
The article says that one pound of nanocellulose can be used to produce 100 pounds of the plastic. So what else is in it? Maybe it's a journalistic error, but it would seem that that violates physical law...
he citizen that has a right to vote, is infinitely more powerful
That is, unless you are convicted of a felony.
Voting is a way to reach consensus between those who agree to heed its outcome. Corporations are at the mercy of the government less and less. Government is at the mercy of the corporations more and more. Let us also note that what is true in the US is not true or not as true in some other countries. I mean, most of the world's top economies are corporations rather than countries.
Don't forget that things change. Because the majority of those in power today are pampered, lazy pigs doesn't mean that tomorrow they won't be pampered pigs with intentions of institutionalizing corporate feudalism for the next 300 years.
Man, those were the days. It's funny to think of hanging out on BBSs and how slow even raw ASCII was. Going to the campus or the library because it was the only place with "blazing fast" internet. War dialing and playing moria in VMS. Endless stacks of floppies...
Almost everything you say seems to be a misunderstanding of the best features of NHibernate.
These guys would write foreach loops that would suck most of the database into RAM.
NHibernate provides modular caching, so this is what you want. Generally, the data in the database is used by the application, so the more that is in memory the better.
I found that it just makes data access more complicated
It is perhaps the only library that allows true OO for database driven apps in.NET You may think it is "more complicated" than the ad-hoc data widgets provided by Microsoft, but those are tools ill fitted for any serious application. The benefits of a well defined object model are not to be sniffed at.
To make matters worse, when I used NHibernate, there was a bug in runtime code generation, which was very hard to track down and impossible to fix.
I sort of doubt this. Can you provide a ticket number for this bug?
Stick with a simple ADO -> Object mapper and write queries as-needed.
Perhaps if you are writing one-off homepages and photo albums and can't be bothered to learn how to write decent programs (or maybe you are a VB programmer anyway).
Don't rely on a more complicated library to handle things like transactions
As the author of several 10,000 to 100,000 user web applications, I can tell you that NHibernate's transactions and the lock construct from C# are amazing. Furthermore lazy loading and relationship mapping work great in NHibernate... It is very easy to specify when you want a relationship to be lazily loaded and when not, a simple attribute value needs to change.
Be very careful introducing relationships into the business objects, especially automatically-populated ones
(This is what lazy loading is for and it is very easy to set it on or off.)
As a final thought, I would ask why to use NOSQL databases with C# when you can use NHibernate and memcached to persist objects without a need for another data layer? There are plenty of valid reasons either way. And I'm sorry to take the piss out of you, but you don't know what you are talking about.
I agree, but I wonder if it is true no device can be irreversibly locked down. No one has done it yet, but I fear it may one day be possible to do so completely. I would love to be proven wrong.
Yes, y7ou are exactly right. The solution to a bad problem is to make it worse.
Beyond that, hardware and software are entirely different beasts. It would be great if there were viable open source chips, but that doesn't mean I can build one. I could buy one from someone with enough money to manufacture them, but that is not a whole Hell of a lot different from buying a chip from Intel or AMD or Sun or Motorola....
You know it is not imperative to be specific in casual speech. Since everyone knows more or less what the writer meant, I see little merit in your argument.
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Still seems like two sides of the same coin to me. Just because you think a teacher is "whacko," shouldn't curtail their right to do what they want with their lives and to be open about it, as long as they are just teaching kids about religion intellectually. To me it doesn't seem so hard to see where the line is between establishing religion and talking about it or expressing it openly.
Likewise, other people will think a teacher is "whacko" for talking about homosexuality or, really, a whole slew of other sexual topics in the classroom. The travesty of US education is that we don't seem able to distinguish the free flow of information in a free society from indoctrination. The anecdote you give is obviously a case of indoctrination and establishment of religion, in that the teacher was using his or her position of authority to influence the students.
In a free society we can't just pretend the bogeys aren't there. Controversy and discussion are essential to free society, and it is counterproductive to restrict it. We should encourage debate of these topics precisely because they are controversial, and because our preoccupation with them is destroying any real progress in politics (away from corruption). That's why restricting teachers too much in either regard encourages divisiveness and political bickering.
It's always refreshing to see reaffirmed the bigotry so inherent in the US. But hey, it's fun to make generalizations about all Tennesseans. They're all racist fucks, right? Even if people aren't so vocal about their bigotry in the noble part of the country from which you obviously hail, there are still plenty of bigots willing to classify people based on where they live or the color of their skin.
If you can't see it, you needn't look very far or very long to find it.
It's hard to talk about religion, specifically Christianity, in public schools, much harder in some places than others. To me this is the same type of censorship. It seems that very few people understand the line between learning about something and sponsoring it. This is just the other shoe falling. It's about time that the US started to value true freedoms again. Otherwise we will remain caught up in these stupid arguments about whether it's OK for a student to know his teacher is a devotee of some religion, or whether a student should know that there are gay people in the world.
I have a right to be offended by your joke. I appreciate the point you are making, but you are also sort of making the point that you are a bit crude and willfully offensive. Now, that's well within your rights, but I don't think it helps the cause of free speech much. I imagine you are righteously pissed-off about the state of civil liberties in America and much else of the world, and I can't say that I blame you. But, given that few people even seem to understand freedom of speech and its implications for a free society (as much as they understand that), it might help to present your arguments in a way that would be accessible to more people.
+1 Insightful
(I'm not sure what the ratio is now.)
The second paragraph of the "Incidence and Importance" section of the relevant Wikipedia article (Iatrogenesis) lists some interesting references and numbers...
People think I'm crazy having only gone to the doctor a few times in the past decade and a half, and I see people in the comments here looking askance at herbalism and other folk healing traditions, but I feel much safer relying on these for everyday problems.
Obviously, garam masala can't perform heart surgery and lovage can't treat epilepsy, and I'm not saying to forgo science in favor of tradition, in fact it would be great if there were more studies on the properties of herbs and their essential oils, etc.
The fact is that there are safer alternatives to running to the doctor every time something seems slightly amiss with one's health!
I'd rather cry in a city bus than a Mercedes...
The divisiveness of calling others "sheep" aside, making money is a goal of business. Business that does not serve those people who pay them will fail, unless of course they are backed by law (and therefore physical force) that is interested in protecting business over the very people law is meant to protect.
I hope you would not say that "muslim women anonymously complaining about stoning" are cowardly. (Don't take offense, but I think you understand the word "cowardice" too broadly.) There is bravery in many acts that do not put one's person unduly at risk. There are brave people who die unnamed.
:)
I would also question your assumption that you have the right to be given the source of a communication addressed to you or anyone else. Now, I agree that there are situations when you have that right, such as the examples you give of unjust anonymity.
So... I am not sure where that leaves our conversation
No, they are pretty much the same. A choice between two parties that suck the cocks of different corporate interests, while spouting their own brand of divisive rhetoric (that they rarely act on) is not a choice.
There is anonymity, and there is cowardice. While they sometimes collide, they are very, very different.
The article says that one pound of nanocellulose can be used to produce 100 pounds of the plastic. So what else is in it? Maybe it's a journalistic error, but it would seem that that violates physical law...
It's a bit more complicated than that. In American English, "the police" is a plural noun. Whereas, "the police department" is a singular noun.
he citizen that has a right to vote, is infinitely more powerful
That is, unless you are convicted of a felony.
Voting is a way to reach consensus between those who agree to heed its outcome. Corporations are at the mercy of the government less and less. Government is at the mercy of the corporations more and more. Let us also note that what is true in the US is not true or not as true in some other countries. I mean, most of the world's top economies are corporations rather than countries.
Don't forget that things change. Because the majority of those in power today are pampered, lazy pigs doesn't mean that tomorrow they won't be pampered pigs with intentions of institutionalizing corporate feudalism for the next 300 years.
Tell us another story grandpa! Please?
Man, those were the days. It's funny to think of hanging out on BBSs and how slow even raw ASCII was. Going to the campus or the library because it was the only place with "blazing fast" internet. War dialing and playing moria in VMS. Endless stacks of floppies...
Dammit! I wanted to be the most pedantic! I want my frist pedancy!
These guys would write foreach loops that would suck most of the database into RAM.
NHibernate provides modular caching, so this is what you want. Generally, the data in the database is used by the application, so the more that is in memory the better.
I found that it just makes data access more complicated
It is perhaps the only library that allows true OO for database driven apps in .NET You may think it is "more complicated" than the ad-hoc data widgets provided by Microsoft, but those are tools ill fitted for any serious application. The benefits of a well defined object model are not to be sniffed at.
To make matters worse, when I used NHibernate, there was a bug in runtime code generation, which was very hard to track down and impossible to fix.
I sort of doubt this. Can you provide a ticket number for this bug?
Stick with a simple ADO -> Object mapper and write queries as-needed.
Perhaps if you are writing one-off homepages and photo albums and can't be bothered to learn how to write decent programs (or maybe you are a VB programmer anyway).
Don't rely on a more complicated library to handle things like transactions
As the author of several 10,000 to 100,000 user web applications, I can tell you that NHibernate's transactions and the lock construct from C# are amazing. Furthermore lazy loading and relationship mapping work great in NHibernate... It is very easy to specify when you want a relationship to be lazily loaded and when not, a simple attribute value needs to change.
Be very careful introducing relationships into the business objects, especially automatically-populated ones
(This is what lazy loading is for and it is very easy to set it on or off.)
As a final thought, I would ask why to use NOSQL databases with C# when you can use NHibernate and memcached to persist objects without a need for another data layer? There are plenty of valid reasons either way. And I'm sorry to take the piss out of you, but you don't know what you are talking about.
I agree, but I wonder if it is true no device can be irreversibly locked down. No one has done it yet, but I fear it may one day be possible to do so completely. I would love to be proven wrong.
One might say that those are forms of technology, at least in the loose sense of advancement or innovation.
For me? Considering I'm not British...
Yeah, the British need you to tell them how to be taken seriously.
Yes, y7ou are exactly right. The solution to a bad problem is to make it worse.
Beyond that, hardware and software are entirely different beasts. It would be great if there were viable open source chips, but that doesn't mean I can build one. I could buy one from someone with enough money to manufacture them, but that is not a whole Hell of a lot different from buying a chip from Intel or AMD or Sun or Motorola....
You know it is not imperative to be specific in casual speech. Since everyone knows more or less what the writer meant, I see little merit in your argument.
GUI and CLI aren't mutually exclusive.