Having a wife who is a teacher it sounds like you have things nailed. Lots of new fads most of which are little better than hope. Granted part of the problems in education is from parents who don't give a shit, as well as children who don't give a shit, but there is still a lot of BS from the education administration. With my kids it has been let the schools teach what they can, then spend the time to actually really teach them things properly and fill in the large quantity of gaps left by teaching to the test.
My oldest who is now in first grade has a surprisingly good understanding of how things work and even some very abstract concepts, all of which were not covered in school. For example they covered some very basic geology in school, and he got interested so I entertained that for a while and we went out and collected some fossils, checked out some strata of land on exposed rock faces, went into detail on the different types of rocks, etc all to provide a better education. I even melted some rocks and made some new ones in some experiments to show what happens when they cool at different rates (besides if you have a forge any excuse to use it is a good excuse).
When people bring this up the forget that the market was trying really hard to punish those bad actors but the government stepped in and prevented the invisible hand from bitch slapping them back to the stone age. Granted the invisible hand was probably going to destroy a bunch of non bad actors as well but with the government's interference we don't know if that would have been worse, or if it would have even happened.
I'm curious what you would use to kill a Samsung device if someone decides work around the security, especially since I would assume that they would be WiFi only devices not cellular ones? I have found getting around KNOX and MaaS360 on a Samsung device to be not all that difficult if one doesn't care about preserving the data on the device. You are correct in that you would know which device fell off pretty quickly so you would know who to blame but still if I was a kid having access to a now unlocked device would be the end goal, especially if the device belonged to someone else.
You assume that people are a good shot, especially in a crisis situation. Hell a lot of people can barely hit the paper 21 feet in a controlled environment like a shooting range. Also even a clean shot to the vitals with a high powered rifle isn't guaranteed to drop someone. As evidence I offer every deer I have ever shot, all through the heart, heart + one lung, or both lungs, none tipped over dead and while they didn't run much they still ran. Granted the farthest I ever had to track one was about 40 meters and the blood trail has always been like someone dumped a bucket of red paint on the ground but they all still ran. By high powered rifle I mean one that shoots 203gr soft point boat tail 7.62x54r ammunition that leaves a silver dollar sized exit wound and destroys any soft tissue in the general vicinity of the wound channel from cavitation.
My thoughts exactly. What is more shocking is that there was someone at Accenture who was looking from someone whit experience and knowledge. The running joke were I work when writing test books or manuals is to write them so even someone from Accenture could do the install or test.
Unfortunately that would be easily recognized as a glitch. Really what people should do is rig it so that 3rd party candidates start winning entire precincts and make the existing 2 major parties minor parties. For example in Minnesota if your party falls below 5% of the vote in a statewide election it looses major party status. This means it doesn't get automatic ballot access (state law), and also won't be included in any debates(rules setup up by the local media).
If you are going to hack democracy why not really hack it.
Yet here in Minnesota we can still use paper ballots where one just fills in the bubble and sends them through the scantron like machine. We are able to get results shortly after polls close unless a hand recount is needed, the machine is very accurate at counting ballots, and there are paper ballots that in case of a recount or other questions can be manually inspected by anyone with at least one functioning eye.
I will take that as a complement as it is usually sign of good sarcasm if it is hard to initially pick up on. Far too few people catch ones like that and similar sarcastic comments of mine have often ended up modded troll.
It was and that I have used line on those who are very jingoistic and spout the lines of: if you haven't done anything wrong... It is for [our safety | the children]. It usually stops them in their rants and for a moment cause them to pause and contemplate.
Do you actually get a physical signed letter or just the electron BS that is bulk e-mailed out to all who signed one? If it is a physical signed letter that would be neat, I think I now have an idea for a petition.
Hell it is hard to get the Mormons to not give me a copy of their book. Also I have found that with what most would consider a real religion I can go to one of their priests, clergy, what ever, and ask any non patronizing question of them about their religion and get an answer. Most will even entertain some patronizing questions so long as one isn't belligerent, degrading, or a complete ass hole. With CoS you get a sales pitch.
With most religions they are more than willing to give me copies of their holy books some are quite persistent (look at you Mormons) so I don't think they would care about the copyright thing as they just want more people to have their stuff. Scientology on the other hand basically is the BMG CD club of religion.
My thoughts exactly. In high school and half of my college I worked at a gas station. Started as a regular employee, worked up to where the last year I was there I was offered the chance to manage my own store a number of times. This was over the course of about 4.5 years and when I left my base pay was $13.50/hr this was also almost 20 years ago. I never took the manager positions as I was going to college so I wouldn't have to manage a gas station, and my understanding is that McDonalds is very similar in that manner.
There was an old joke about choosing secretaries where despite qualifications the job was offered to the one with the biggest tits. This may be a real life example but if it includes CS then it still might be a tossup between the sexes.
Yup. Just about everyone who would be considered a car person is well aware of that one. In the general population it is lesser known than the conspiracy surrounding fixing the Ford Pinto which had far fewer long term effects, but was much more visible. Also the need wasn't there for an antiknock agent in regular vehicle engines it was just cheaper to to a piss poor job in refining the fuel and add an octane booster (methanol also works just about as well as ethanol). Granted there were places where octane boosters were actually needed like in av-gas, and high performance forced induction or extremely high compression engines where they wanted to be running a fuel with an octane between 105 and 115 but those weren't normal engines and consumed a very small percentage of all leaded fuel. FYI a lot of those engines still run leaded fuel.
It wasn't oil companies that prevented the electric car it was that the internal combustion engine advanced quicker than electric and steam cars. For a while they were competitive but by the mid 1920s they just really couldn't compete anymore in terms of range, power, and convenience. Also you seem to be a bit off on your date as it looks like the best estimates for an actual practical electric car put it at 1884 or 1888 and the technology that enabled them didn't come about until 1859.
Out of curiosity was one of your dad's [ friends | uncles | friend of a friend ] disappeared by [oil sheiks | the CIA | Exxon | GM ] after completing a road trip from New York to LA in a [1970 Cadillac Eldorado | 1968 Lincoln Continental ] that he modified [with a carburetor built in his own garage | to run on water] and only used [a tank | half a tank | a quarter tank] of gas?
Yes. Things that are woody (like bamboo) work better than say things like grass clippings as you get more charcoal but any plant matter would work. Even things like oil can be made from them using various thermal depolymerization processes like the Fischer-Tropsch process. There are other processes as well that produce liquid fuels from similar feed stocks. Also from what I can tell a lot of waste from the initial process is carbon compounds like may be useful as a soil amendment
But everyone basically agrees that Nixon was an asshole and is trotted out to divert attention away from the fact that current policies would have been a wet dream for Nixon. New rule to judge a government policy, if Nixon would have used against those on his enemies list then it is a really shitty unconstitutional action and those proposing or pushing for it should impeached for failing to uphold their oath of office and duty to the constitution.
I really don't have any sympathy for CA's water problems. When looking at farming use of water(page 4) the largest crop consumer of water isn't one people eat but is one used to feed other animals in that state that is basically a fucking desert. Sadly it would appear that in addition to low value alfalfa forages of other grasses and grains are other major crop water users. When I hear about the drought in CA I am reminded of the late Sam Kinison:
YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it's gonna be 100 years from now? IT'S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!
If you want to fix CA then remove all of the beef and dairly subsidies that make it economical to raise cattle in a desert. Same thing for the ranchers up in the high desert of Oregon and Washington who bitch about water rights. Boo hoo beef is going to cost more, good then maybe we won't have so much cheap shitty beef around.
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Having a wife who is a teacher it sounds like you have things nailed. Lots of new fads most of which are little better than hope. Granted part of the problems in education is from parents who don't give a shit, as well as children who don't give a shit, but there is still a lot of BS from the education administration. With my kids it has been let the schools teach what they can, then spend the time to actually really teach them things properly and fill in the large quantity of gaps left by teaching to the test.
My oldest who is now in first grade has a surprisingly good understanding of how things work and even some very abstract concepts, all of which were not covered in school. For example they covered some very basic geology in school, and he got interested so I entertained that for a while and we went out and collected some fossils, checked out some strata of land on exposed rock faces, went into detail on the different types of rocks, etc all to provide a better education. I even melted some rocks and made some new ones in some experiments to show what happens when they cool at different rates (besides if you have a forge any excuse to use it is a good excuse).
When people bring this up the forget that the market was trying really hard to punish those bad actors but the government stepped in and prevented the invisible hand from bitch slapping them back to the stone age. Granted the invisible hand was probably going to destroy a bunch of non bad actors as well but with the government's interference we don't know if that would have been worse, or if it would have even happened.
I'm curious what you would use to kill a Samsung device if someone decides work around the security, especially since I would assume that they would be WiFi only devices not cellular ones? I have found getting around KNOX and MaaS360 on a Samsung device to be not all that difficult if one doesn't care about preserving the data on the device. You are correct in that you would know which device fell off pretty quickly so you would know who to blame but still if I was a kid having access to a now unlocked device would be the end goal, especially if the device belonged to someone else.
You assume that people are a good shot, especially in a crisis situation. Hell a lot of people can barely hit the paper 21 feet in a controlled environment like a shooting range. Also even a clean shot to the vitals with a high powered rifle isn't guaranteed to drop someone. As evidence I offer every deer I have ever shot, all through the heart, heart + one lung, or both lungs, none tipped over dead and while they didn't run much they still ran. Granted the farthest I ever had to track one was about 40 meters and the blood trail has always been like someone dumped a bucket of red paint on the ground but they all still ran. By high powered rifle I mean one that shoots 203gr soft point boat tail 7.62x54r ammunition that leaves a silver dollar sized exit wound and destroys any soft tissue in the general vicinity of the wound channel from cavitation.
I got the joke, just carried it a bit farther.
My thoughts exactly. What is more shocking is that there was someone at Accenture who was looking from someone whit experience and knowledge. The running joke were I work when writing test books or manuals is to write them so even someone from Accenture could do the install or test.
Some a-hole hopped up on PCP won't even notice pepper spray.
It had better be a pretty big handgun, maybe something like this, otherwise they likely would just shake it off if they are on PCP.
Unfortunately that would be easily recognized as a glitch. Really what people should do is rig it so that 3rd party candidates start winning entire precincts and make the existing 2 major parties minor parties. For example in Minnesota if your party falls below 5% of the vote in a statewide election it looses major party status. This means it doesn't get automatic ballot access (state law), and also won't be included in any debates(rules setup up by the local media).
If you are going to hack democracy why not really hack it.
Yet here in Minnesota we can still use paper ballots where one just fills in the bubble and sends them through the scantron like machine. We are able to get results shortly after polls close unless a hand recount is needed, the machine is very accurate at counting ballots, and there are paper ballots that in case of a recount or other questions can be manually inspected by anyone with at least one functioning eye.
I will take that as a complement as it is usually sign of good sarcasm if it is hard to initially pick up on. Far too few people catch ones like that and similar sarcastic comments of mine have often ended up modded troll.
It was and that I have used line on those who are very jingoistic and spout the lines of:
if you haven't done anything wrong...
It is for [our safety | the children].
It usually stops them in their rants and for a moment cause them to pause and contemplate.
Do you actually get a physical signed letter or just the electron BS that is bulk e-mailed out to all who signed one? If it is a physical signed letter that would be neat, I think I now have an idea for a petition.
Hell it is hard to get the Mormons to not give me a copy of their book. Also I have found that with what most would consider a real religion I can go to one of their priests, clergy, what ever, and ask any non patronizing question of them about their religion and get an answer. Most will even entertain some patronizing questions so long as one isn't belligerent, degrading, or a complete ass hole. With CoS you get a sales pitch.
With most religions they are more than willing to give me copies of their holy books some are quite persistent (look at you Mormons) so I don't think they would care about the copyright thing as they just want more people to have their stuff. Scientology on the other hand basically is the BMG CD club of religion.
So sort of like the Car and Drive Long term road tests.
My thoughts exactly. In high school and half of my college I worked at a gas station. Started as a regular employee, worked up to where the last year I was there I was offered the chance to manage my own store a number of times. This was over the course of about 4.5 years and when I left my base pay was $13.50/hr this was also almost 20 years ago. I never took the manager positions as I was going to college so I wouldn't have to manage a gas station, and my understanding is that McDonalds is very similar in that manner.
So Bush was right, they do hate us for our freedom and thus the solution was to take it away until they stopped attacking us.
It would be just like doing it at home except the added excitement of it being a first date.
There was an old joke about choosing secretaries where despite qualifications the job was offered to the one with the biggest tits. This may be a real life example but if it includes CS then it still might be a tossup between the sexes.
Yup. Just about everyone who would be considered a car person is well aware of that one. In the general population it is lesser known than the conspiracy surrounding fixing the Ford Pinto which had far fewer long term effects, but was much more visible. Also the need wasn't there for an antiknock agent in regular vehicle engines it was just cheaper to to a piss poor job in refining the fuel and add an octane booster (methanol also works just about as well as ethanol). Granted there were places where octane boosters were actually needed like in av-gas, and high performance forced induction or extremely high compression engines where they wanted to be running a fuel with an octane between 105 and 115 but those weren't normal engines and consumed a very small percentage of all leaded fuel. FYI a lot of those engines still run leaded fuel.
It wasn't oil companies that prevented the electric car it was that the internal combustion engine advanced quicker than electric and steam cars. For a while they were competitive but by the mid 1920s they just really couldn't compete anymore in terms of range, power, and convenience. Also you seem to be a bit off on your date as it looks like the best estimates for an actual practical electric car put it at 1884 or 1888 and the technology that enabled them didn't come about until 1859.
Out of curiosity was one of your dad's [ friends | uncles | friend of a friend ] disappeared by [oil sheiks | the CIA | Exxon | GM ] after completing a road trip from New York to LA in a [1970 Cadillac Eldorado | 1968 Lincoln Continental ] that he modified [with a carburetor built in his own garage | to run on water] and only used [a tank | half a tank | a quarter tank] of gas?
Yes. Things that are woody (like bamboo) work better than say things like grass clippings as you get more charcoal but any plant matter would work. Even things like oil can be made from them using various thermal depolymerization processes like the Fischer-Tropsch process. There are other processes as well that produce liquid fuels from similar feed stocks. Also from what I can tell a lot of waste from the initial process is carbon compounds like may be useful as a soil amendment
I have always preferred:
"Go fuck yourself with a spindle sander"
But everyone basically agrees that Nixon was an asshole and is trotted out to divert attention away from the fact that current policies would have been a wet dream for Nixon. New rule to judge a government policy, if Nixon would have used against those on his enemies list then it is a really shitty unconstitutional action and those proposing or pushing for it should impeached for failing to uphold their oath of office and duty to the constitution.
YOU LIVE IN A DESERT!! UNDERSTAND THAT? YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!! NOTHING GROWS HERE! NOTHING'S GONNA GROW HERE! Come here, you see this? This is sand. You know what it's gonna be 100 years from now? IT'S GONNA BE SAND!! YOU LIVE IN A FUCKING DESERT!
If you want to fix CA then remove all of the beef and dairly subsidies that make it economical to raise cattle in a desert. Same thing for the ranchers up in the high desert of Oregon and Washington who bitch about water rights. Boo hoo beef is going to cost more, good then maybe we won't have so much cheap shitty beef around.