Thanks for finding that case. I was going to post a ref to it but I didn't know the name of it, and I was not in the mood to search for that case at work:)
I agree man. 20 years ago we did not have this crap. I remember when I was in high school a kid kept stealing another guys seat and bullying him. So the kid got tired and knocked the crap out of him...after that day the kid never got bullied.
Parents wonder why their kids act so bad could it be that the entertainment sector keeps pushing the envelope because kids keep loosing interest in last years thing to have interest in the latest thing.
I mean think about it, we have a weight problem in America, why is this? We are stuck in front of our computers, our TVs, etc. This is because they are parenting devices and entertainment devices. We as adults make a choice to use these entertainment devices and because we are lazy we use these same entertainment devices on our children. Hence the reason why we have obese 5th graders. In the US we need to get back to basics and learn to turn off the electronic device and go outside.
How can they be sure a child will know how to identify a sexual predator? Since when is trolling a crime? Also where are the parents? Are parents okay with an unknown adult be it a police officer or a social worker getting into their child's business? Since when did it become the governments job to parents peoples children? Why not allow the parents to make the choice on if the police should be called. Leaving that decision to a child is just opening the door to all sorts of problems.
Also why is it that we now need programs like this? Kids will always be kids. Children have always been bullied in one form or another why is now that this day in age it is a crime and a huge problem? Why not focus on the problem of why now in this day in age when a kid is bullied they shoot up a school or try to commit suicide. Lets find out why kids today are "soft" and let things like name calling or different opinions send kids over the edge where 20 years ago this sort of thing would not happen. If we do not solve that problem kids of today will be in for a rude surprise when they hit the real world.
I am not saying if a child is being sexually assaulted by a 50 year old in yahoo chat that the authorities should not be notified, I think they should and in regards to that I think the parents should make the decision to notify the police. In regards to bullying I think in some cases kids of today should grow up a little and prepare for real life and accept that sometimes people are assholes.
I am new to any open GL or Direct X for that matter. Lets say I wanted to learn open GL, the latest version from the ground up, what would you guys recommend?
Prove we are overpopulated. Did someone find an Earth manual someplace that says only 7billion humans can be supported? I am sure wise ass will come back and say "We are overpopulated because people are starving in ". Well people starve in American and Americans are considered some of the fattest. So I think maybe we are not overpopulated we just have a food delivery problem.
I think it is going to depend on the classes she takes. I ran Linux at UNT and had little to no problems connecting to the internet. I had no problems with papers, vpn, etc. The problems I did run into where the classes that have a little course application that came with the book that needed windows or mac only. My wife ran into an issue like that where her statistics software would only run on Windows or Mac. The school IT department is not going to know about that. Most of the wi-fi is DHCP, or if it is like UNT you have to register your mac address but it was just a browser based application.
Yes it would cause a stir in America. If Americans knew Microsoft had changed the picture it would send the message that African Americans do not know how to use software or a computer. If the picture was just two white people and an Asian guy the Asian guy would be out of place and people would complain. All people do now days is complain about pointless stuff.
Well I don't listen to Rush, dont care for the guy. But what does your comment say about you?
Rush probably makes more then you
He has his own radio show
Most people in the US know who he is
Of that list I bet you cannot check any of those off for yourself? So in other words if Rush Limbaugh is the bar to be above, since his is the center of your joke, you are below that bar.So how worthless are you? Maybe your brain has less tissue compared to Rush?
Well you would think that Palm would have written the OS in such a way that, like Windows, and *nix, that the OS does not care what the application is or what it is doing so long as it stays within its own memory.
Provide an API of functions an application can access, make sure an app stays in its own memory, via the API do not allow the application to have access to say the contacts with out a system message being displayed to the user first, etc.
As long as you have a computing system that can have more than one item in memory at one time, it starts to get very important how these things interact. Microsoft learned this a long time ago that applications could interact in destructive ways.
Microsoft did learn this, they gave each process its own memory space and required that each application say within its own allocated space.
Would you rather the attitude be that if you install software this removes any support obligation from Palm?
Dell, HP, and Microsoft do not void the warranty if you install software on your computer. They tell you that you have to first restore your system to its factory settings. Why not do the same thing with a palm pre?
I am not sure I would want them knowing what apps I have installed either. Why do they need to know? If it is a 3rd party application and it crashes have a filed stored on the phone so the crash handling application knows where to send the dump file or whatever. Palm does not need to know that my google maps application crashed, google needs to know. So send the error report directly to google.
What good is a plug in car if you live in an apartment? Do I hang a 100ft electrical cord out the window and around the corner and hope no one trips on it? How do I charge it at work if I park in a parking garage I doubt my employer will gladly just fit the bill for that.
I think something like the Volt will be nice for someone with a house and some extra cash to spend since this car cost 40k. How long will the batteries last? How much does it cost to replace the batteries?
I do not think the US market is ready for a mass explosion of electric cars. A few kinks need to be worked out:
Shorten charge times, OR increase access to charging stations
Decrease cost so the low to mid middle class can afford this car
Increase the battery performance and reliability so the car can be used/driven for 10+ years
Because mommy and daddy will take little Timmy's side on everything. So they will take the school to court because a teach took Timmy's phone away because he was playing with it in class.
Students know that the teacher can not do anything to them, and that in some cases the parents don't care if they misbehave in school, or misbehave at all. So they do not respect authority figures.
It is one think to not respect authority when your rights are being violated, it is another thing to not respect authority when other people around you are trying to learn.
How about you just teach your child what bus to get on. Or pick your child up from school. In 20 years are you going to want your child to think it is ok to track a person? Will your child be one of the ones that says "Well my parents tracked me as a child and I was fine, so lets let the government track us". The buses have numbers written on them just teach your child what number theirs. Once you advocate tracking people as a valid solution to a problem everyone is doing it.
Ok so someone defaced a website used by the US Army. How do we know that the website is not hosted by a 3rd party provider? Also how are we sure that sensitive information and the website are on the same network? Also the army may not have codded the website so it could have just been piss poor coding by a 3rd party web developer and not the contractor who codes the programs that control the sensitive information.
In other words just because the front end website for the Army got defaced that means nothing. It is like defacing the IRS website. It means nothing till you have peoples tax returns being rerouted to your personal bank account.
AS always, you boiled the argument down to one irrelevant example that has nothing to do with the topic at hand, well done.
Aww, do I have a fan?:)
Either way I posted a link to a study that was done saying that fat people cost less because they die early. Also how does my comment and example have nothing to do with the topic at hand? NY is thinking about taxing people who eat fast food, play video games, watch TV, etc. I posted a comment talking about what right does the government have to tell me what to do in regards to my weight. People think being fat is bad so NY is taxing them and I am simply saying that being fat is not bad because it cost the system less in the long run. So in a nutshell pull the stick out of your ass.
A single mother working 2-3 part-time jobs or maybe a full time job and a part-time cashier job at Wall-mart from 5pm-10pm every night to make ends meet. She picks her kids up from school everyday and rather then cooking a meal at home. She picks up fast food because:
It cost less
She does not have time to cook dinner
Fast food provides a variety, chicken nuggets for the kids and a salad for her
Now she is going to be taxed more. So she now has to make a choice to have less income due to taxes or have less income because rather then working at Wall-Mart from 5pm-10pm she now comes in to work at 5:30pm to 10pm, assuming her boss will offer her that schedule.
I think some people eat fast food out of necessity and others eat fast food out of stupidity both are valid reasons.
The stupid person who eats it because they like it and they are just too lazy to cook healthy food has a right as a person to eat what they want. The government has no right to tell people what they can and can not eat.
Yes, and airplanes, trains, cab rides, city buses, and schools. Especially schools because a child spends 7:45-3:45 in school. They sit at lunch and eat, they sit in the room for 6 hours a day!
What happened to free will and free choice? If sitting on your ass watching TV, drinking cokes makes you fat who cares. Why should the government have the right to tell someone they need to not do/consume certain things via a tax.
Someone could argue that fat people cost more in medical expenses and because of this they cause the cost of medical procedures to rise. This may be true. However, if someone is over weight they have a higher chance of death via heart attack, or diabetes. Healthy people end up living longer, and costing more money. So what is the problem with someone being fat? In the long run they cost less.
On the other hand could fit people also cause medical expenses to rise? Running is bad for your knees you could twist a knee or ankle in basketball or baseball. You could get a concussion in football or loose tooth in hockey.
So being both health or fat increase the cost of insurance and medical expenses on a whole, so why just target fat people? Is this just a political/social vendetta against over weight people?
Yes but lets assume you run to the window of your office. You see a 747 with 2 f-16's behind it. Now can you tell me how long those two f-16's have been behind that jet? No you can't because you just got to the window. So now you are left to think "They are now over a city, will they shoot it down over a city?". So now everyone is left to wonder what to governments "plans" are when it comes to a low flying aircraft followed by fighter gets. Will the government give the fighters the green light to shoot down a plane over a city? I am sure most people figured the Bush administration would. But would the Obama administration? Has Obama said what he would or would not do on the subject?
So you are left with a plane flying low followed by fighter jets and your not sure if they are authorized to shoot down a plane or not. Do you think think it would just be a little bit safer to get out of your building just in case? Who knows just because it was Air Force One does not mean they could not hit a building by mistake.
Think of it as a hurricane warning. You know a hurricane is coming and your think says do not fearmonger and stay where you are. However other peoples thinking says "Hey lets go out of here just in case". Both are acceptable ways to think about the situation neither is right nor wrong. A choice is only wrong after your have all of the facts.
Also if TFA said "747 followed by two F-16's flew low over NYC. People evacuated buildings as a precaution." I do not think you would bring up your fearmongering comment. However, you know that it was a photo opt. They did not.
flown by a 15-year-old student pilot who took off minutes earlier without permission from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport.
So after 9/11 a random plane flew into a building. And this plane took off without permission.
It's one of those once-in-a-lifetime events.
Just because you do not think a terrorist will takeover a plane and crash it does not mean you do not have a drunk pilot or a suicidal pilot or maybe a disabled plane. You also have to take into account that 9/11 happened in New York.
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Thanks for finding that case. I was going to post a ref to it but I didn't know the name of it, and I was not in the mood to search for that case at work :)
Well I have a feeling the price of lead is going to shoot way up :)
Why is this not considered an illegal search? How can the government get away with just x-raying people now?
I agree man. 20 years ago we did not have this crap. I remember when I was in high school a kid kept stealing another guys seat and bullying him. So the kid got tired and knocked the crap out of him...after that day the kid never got bullied.
Parents wonder why their kids act so bad could it be that the entertainment sector keeps pushing the envelope because kids keep loosing interest in last years thing to have interest in the latest thing.
I mean think about it, we have a weight problem in America, why is this? We are stuck in front of our computers, our TVs, etc. This is because they are parenting devices and entertainment devices. We as adults make a choice to use these entertainment devices and because we are lazy we use these same entertainment devices on our children. Hence the reason why we have obese 5th graders. In the US we need to get back to basics and learn to turn off the electronic device and go outside.
How can they be sure a child will know how to identify a sexual predator? Since when is trolling a crime? Also where are the parents? Are parents okay with an unknown adult be it a police officer or a social worker getting into their child's business? Since when did it become the governments job to parents peoples children? Why not allow the parents to make the choice on if the police should be called. Leaving that decision to a child is just opening the door to all sorts of problems.
Also why is it that we now need programs like this? Kids will always be kids. Children have always been bullied in one form or another why is now that this day in age it is a crime and a huge problem? Why not focus on the problem of why now in this day in age when a kid is bullied they shoot up a school or try to commit suicide. Lets find out why kids today are "soft" and let things like name calling or different opinions send kids over the edge where 20 years ago this sort of thing would not happen. If we do not solve that problem kids of today will be in for a rude surprise when they hit the real world.
I am not saying if a child is being sexually assaulted by a 50 year old in yahoo chat that the authorities should not be notified, I think they should and in regards to that I think the parents should make the decision to notify the police. In regards to bullying I think in some cases kids of today should grow up a little and prepare for real life and accept that sometimes people are assholes.
I am new to any open GL or Direct X for that matter. Lets say I wanted to learn open GL, the latest version from the ground up, what would you guys recommend?
Prove we are overpopulated. Did someone find an Earth manual someplace that says only 7billion humans can be supported? I am sure wise ass will come back and say "We are overpopulated because people are starving in ". Well people starve in American and Americans are considered some of the fattest. So I think maybe we are not overpopulated we just have a food delivery problem.
I think it is going to depend on the classes she takes. I ran Linux at UNT and had little to no problems connecting to the internet. I had no problems with papers, vpn, etc. The problems I did run into where the classes that have a little course application that came with the book that needed windows or mac only. My wife ran into an issue like that where her statistics software would only run on Windows or Mac. The school IT department is not going to know about that. Most of the wi-fi is DHCP, or if it is like UNT you have to register your mac address but it was just a browser based application.
Yes it would cause a stir in America. If Americans knew Microsoft had changed the picture it would send the message that African Americans do not know how to use software or a computer. If the picture was just two white people and an Asian guy the Asian guy would be out of place and people would complain. All people do now days is complain about pointless stuff.
Of that list I bet you cannot check any of those off for yourself? So in other words if Rush Limbaugh is the bar to be above, since his is the center of your joke, you are below that bar.So how worthless are you? Maybe your brain has less tissue compared to Rush?
Provide an API of functions an application can access, make sure an app stays in its own memory, via the API do not allow the application to have access to say the contacts with out a system message being displayed to the user first, etc.
As long as you have a computing system that can have more than one item in memory at one time, it starts to get very important how these things interact. Microsoft learned this a long time ago that applications could interact in destructive ways.
Microsoft did learn this, they gave each process its own memory space and required that each application say within its own allocated space.
Would you rather the attitude be that if you install software this removes any support obligation from Palm?
Dell, HP, and Microsoft do not void the warranty if you install software on your computer. They tell you that you have to first restore your system to its factory settings. Why not do the same thing with a palm pre?
I am not sure I would want them knowing what apps I have installed either. Why do they need to know? If it is a 3rd party application and it crashes have a filed stored on the phone so the crash handling application knows where to send the dump file or whatever. Palm does not need to know that my google maps application crashed, google needs to know. So send the error report directly to google.
I think something like the Volt will be nice for someone with a house and some extra cash to spend since this car cost 40k. How long will the batteries last? How much does it cost to replace the batteries?
I do not think the US market is ready for a mass explosion of electric cars. A few kinks need to be worked out:
Because mommy and daddy will take little Timmy's side on everything. So they will take the school to court because a teach took Timmy's phone away because he was playing with it in class.
Students know that the teacher can not do anything to them, and that in some cases the parents don't care if they misbehave in school, or misbehave at all. So they do not respect authority figures.
It is one think to not respect authority when your rights are being violated, it is another thing to not respect authority when other people around you are trying to learn.
If this was a government program and posting the details of the program online would render the program useless....we would not be having this debate.
So I say post away.
How about you just teach your child what bus to get on. Or pick your child up from school. In 20 years are you going to want your child to think it is ok to track a person? Will your child be one of the ones that says "Well my parents tracked me as a child and I was fine, so lets let the government track us". The buses have numbers written on them just teach your child what number theirs. Once you advocate tracking people as a valid solution to a problem everyone is doing it.
Ok so someone defaced a website used by the US Army. How do we know that the website is not hosted by a 3rd party provider? Also how are we sure that sensitive information and the website are on the same network? Also the army may not have codded the website so it could have just been piss poor coding by a 3rd party web developer and not the contractor who codes the programs that control the sensitive information.
In other words just because the front end website for the Army got defaced that means nothing. It is like defacing the IRS website. It means nothing till you have peoples tax returns being rerouted to your personal bank account.
AS always, you boiled the argument down to one irrelevant example that has nothing to do with the topic at hand, well done.
Aww, do I have a fan? :)
Either way I posted a link to a study that was done saying that fat people cost less because they die early. Also how does my comment and example have nothing to do with the topic at hand? NY is thinking about taxing people who eat fast food, play video games, watch TV, etc. I posted a comment talking about what right does the government have to tell me what to do in regards to my weight. People think being fat is bad so NY is taxing them and I am simply saying that being fat is not bad because it cost the system less in the long run. So in a nutshell pull the stick out of your ass.
Think about this for a second.
A single mother working 2-3 part-time jobs or maybe a full time job and a part-time cashier job at Wall-mart from 5pm-10pm every night to make ends meet. She picks her kids up from school everyday and rather then cooking a meal at home. She picks up fast food because:
Now she is going to be taxed more. So she now has to make a choice to have less income due to taxes or have less income because rather then working at Wall-Mart from 5pm-10pm she now comes in to work at 5:30pm to 10pm, assuming her boss will offer her that schedule.
I think some people eat fast food out of necessity and others eat fast food out of stupidity both are valid reasons.
The stupid person who eats it because they like it and they are just too lazy to cook healthy food has a right as a person to eat what they want. The government has no right to tell people what they can and can not eat.
Yes, and airplanes, trains, cab rides, city buses, and schools. Especially schools because a child spends 7:45-3:45 in school. They sit at lunch and eat, they sit in the room for 6 hours a day!
Yep and the Atkins diet guy died of a heart attack.
What happened to free will and free choice? If sitting on your ass watching TV, drinking cokes makes you fat who cares. Why should the government have the right to tell someone they need to not do/consume certain things via a tax.
Someone could argue that fat people cost more in medical expenses and because of this they cause the cost of medical procedures to rise. This may be true. However, if someone is over weight they have a higher chance of death via heart attack, or diabetes. Healthy people end up living longer, and costing more money. So what is the problem with someone being fat? In the long run they cost less.
On the other hand could fit people also cause medical expenses to rise? Running is bad for your knees you could twist a knee or ankle in basketball or baseball. You could get a concussion in football or loose tooth in hockey.
So being both health or fat increase the cost of insurance and medical expenses on a whole, so why just target fat people? Is this just a political/social vendetta against over weight people?
If I were a terrorist, and I REALLY wanted to strike fear into the hearts of Americans, I'd try to figure out a way use the same method to attack.
With the name Red Flayer and a comment like that...just stay where you are the feds are on the way.
Yes but lets assume you run to the window of your office. You see a 747 with 2 f-16's behind it. Now can you tell me how long those two f-16's have been behind that jet? No you can't because you just got to the window. So now you are left to think "They are now over a city, will they shoot it down over a city?". So now everyone is left to wonder what to governments "plans" are when it comes to a low flying aircraft followed by fighter gets. Will the government give the fighters the green light to shoot down a plane over a city? I am sure most people figured the Bush administration would. But would the Obama administration? Has Obama said what he would or would not do on the subject?
So you are left with a plane flying low followed by fighter jets and your not sure if they are authorized to shoot down a plane or not. Do you think think it would just be a little bit safer to get out of your building just in case? Who knows just because it was Air Force One does not mean they could not hit a building by mistake.
Think of it as a hurricane warning. You know a hurricane is coming and your think says do not fearmonger and stay where you are. However other peoples thinking says "Hey lets go out of here just in case". Both are acceptable ways to think about the situation neither is right nor wrong. A choice is only wrong after your have all of the facts.
Also if TFA said "747 followed by two F-16's flew low over NYC. People evacuated buildings as a precaution." I do not think you would bring up your fearmongering comment. However, you know that it was a photo opt. They did not.
flown by a 15-year-old student pilot who took off minutes earlier without permission from St. Petersburg-Clearwater International Airport.
So after 9/11 a random plane flew into a building. And this plane took off without permission.
It's one of those once-in-a-lifetime events.
Just because you do not think a terrorist will takeover a plane and crash it does not mean you do not have a drunk pilot or a suicidal pilot or maybe a disabled plane. You also have to take into account that 9/11 happened in New York.