A pair of '90s cargo pants with giant pockets does the same thing without any accessories. My husband can fit my Kindle in his ancient cargo khakis, although not his Surface Pro.
I can still think Microsoft is evil, curse Windows 8 with all my might and shake my fist at Redmond, and also think OneNote is the shit. A broken clock is right twice a day.
Perfectly matches the systematic inactivity of the legislative branch these days. (Symbolic attempts to repeal the ACA in the House don't count since they're DOA in the Senate.) They don't want to pass any laws, and the executive branch doesn't want to enforce them. The only one doing anything these days is the judicial branch, and that's mostly just pissing people off.
In IT, at least, they're given two different job titles. I think in other professions it isn't as clear cut. I'm great at visualizing interconnected systems and jiggering logic, but ask me to code and I get stuck in my own personal infinite loop. That's why I'm an analyst and not a programmer.
There are some legit medical reasons not to vaccinate certain diseases at very young ages, and even kids whose parents do plan to vaccinate are susceptible until they are old enough for their first round of shots. (For example, children won't get their first shots until six weeks. Until then, they can catch anything. I don't think survival of the fittest is fair when the offspring in question is a month old.
The sad thing is, those same folks who are unable to uninstall their AV and finally give up and pay $60 for the subscription are the ones who are going to open up that attachment that seems to be from Aunt Sally that says "omg you have to see this so funny!!!" which will probably brick their machine when they don't head the warnings from the AV that the file is unsafe.
Other countries and organizations are trying to hack into the US (so they say.)
We are fighting them on our own electronic turf - "they" being primarily North Korea, China, and Russia (so they say.)
The objectives are to protect the personal data of the citizens of the United States (the NSA is doing quite enough spying already, after all) and state secrets (which is why they're so pissed at Snowden since they spent all that money trying to stop China from getting shit and he just handed them a laptop. Doh!)
Not even piracy is to blame - Redbox is. Why should I pay $24 to take my husband and myself to a movie today, when we can wait two months and get the same movie from Redbox along with our groceries for a tenth of the cost - and not have to deal with a hundred other human beings, their cell phones, and screaming children in a smelly movie theater?
I pay subscription fees for two websites. One is a forum that costs me around $3 a month (I pay a year in advance.) The other is di.fm which is $5 a month for ad-free. Since the ads are auditory and cannot be ignored, the $5 a month for me is very much worth it to improve the music listening experience. The forum gives me an avatar, no ads, and many other perks for paying them - plus I spend enough time on there to justify it.
I'd pay at most a dollar a month just to get rid of ads on Facebook - if AdBlock didn't already do that for me. Now, give me a feature to block any and all invitations to Facebook game aps and we might have a healthy conversation about it.
If it's a medical clinic, they can't just pick up and move off site with no electricity. (That's why we were nagging our client to get an 8 hour backup generator.) One poor schmuck will have to move to a place with power and then call several dozen patients to tell them the appointment is canceled. Nobody else can do their work without any patients.
They're right - it's not caught on any of the standardized tests in schools, especially now that all the stupid standardized testing has drilled down to basic math, English, and some limited science and history. I didn't find out until I went through a battery of psychological testing in 8th grade (20 years ago) because I was borderline for the EIP program and my teacher sponsor requested it.
I guess I'm lucky I just started a new job where I'll get to happily make flow charts and diagrams all day long.
One of my old office's clients had to go to dual ISPs after the switch to the Magic Cloud (tm). Otherwise, a brief Internet outage would grind the entire office to a halt. They now have their primary fiber connection, and then a secondary DSL connection that will automatically kick in when the fiber is offline (which is, like, once a week. Agh.)
Looking back, every science teacher I had in both middle school and high school was fantastic. They loved their subject material, they loved teaching. They put together fun and interesting labs (my high school anatomy teacher, Mrs. Pousman, was famous for using different food and candies to illustrate difference cells - Necco wafers became skin cells, marshmallows became fat cells, Twizzlers became striated muscle cells... hey look Mrs. Pousman, I remembered that term!)
The math teachers just didn't have the same enthusiasm or tools. A high school calculus teacher tried - we got Hershey Kisses during the lesson on parabola osculations - but lab time in math classes was not often enough.
The issue is that for a very bright kid, they CAN get away with just "learning from the lecture" for most early math. I didn't have to start really thinking about math outside of the classroom until I hit geometry, and then I didn't have to really start doing homework until trig and calculus.
We had that class at my uni. It was "Honors (Math X) with Theory." The nickname for it was "math for math masochists." I took a a stab at Honors Calculus I with Theory and got a B. Honors Calculus II with Theory netted me a D, and I gave up.
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A pair of '90s cargo pants with giant pockets does the same thing without any accessories. My husband can fit my Kindle in his ancient cargo khakis, although not his Surface Pro.
I can still think Microsoft is evil, curse Windows 8 with all my might and shake my fist at Redmond, and also think OneNote is the shit. A broken clock is right twice a day.
I'm a recent convert myself. It's just amazing for keeping crap organized at work.
Perfectly matches the systematic inactivity of the legislative branch these days. (Symbolic attempts to repeal the ACA in the House don't count since they're DOA in the Senate.) They don't want to pass any laws, and the executive branch doesn't want to enforce them. The only one doing anything these days is the judicial branch, and that's mostly just pissing people off.
In IT, at least, they're given two different job titles. I think in other professions it isn't as clear cut. I'm great at visualizing interconnected systems and jiggering logic, but ask me to code and I get stuck in my own personal infinite loop. That's why I'm an analyst and not a programmer.
There are some legit medical reasons not to vaccinate certain diseases at very young ages, and even kids whose parents do plan to vaccinate are susceptible until they are old enough for their first round of shots. (For example, children won't get their first shots until six weeks. Until then, they can catch anything. I don't think survival of the fittest is fair when the offspring in question is a month old.
That's all good and well if you like crunchy things. If you don't, then you're stuck eating larvae or not eating them at all.
I hate to break it to you, but as a vegetarian you're probably getting more insect protein in your diet than the omnivores are.
Apparently they're doing construction on the runway there, according to the comments in the linked story. That would explain a lot of things.
LA the city, not LA the state.
Otherwise Louisiana is going to be rearing an entire generation of hunt and peck typists.
The sad thing is, those same folks who are unable to uninstall their AV and finally give up and pay $60 for the subscription are the ones who are going to open up that attachment that seems to be from Aunt Sally that says "omg you have to see this so funny!!!" which will probably brick their machine when they don't head the warnings from the AV that the file is unsafe.
The OS is damn well important if you're trying to play a current gen video game. *sigh*
Other countries and organizations are trying to hack into the US (so they say.)
We are fighting them on our own electronic turf - "they" being primarily North Korea, China, and Russia (so they say.)
The objectives are to protect the personal data of the citizens of the United States (the NSA is doing quite enough spying already, after all) and state secrets (which is why they're so pissed at Snowden since they spent all that money trying to stop China from getting shit and he just handed them a laptop. Doh!)
It will never end.
Not even piracy is to blame - Redbox is. Why should I pay $24 to take my husband and myself to a movie today, when we can wait two months and get the same movie from Redbox along with our groceries for a tenth of the cost - and not have to deal with a hundred other human beings, their cell phones, and screaming children in a smelly movie theater?
Hush. This answer is too sensible for Slashdot.
I pay subscription fees for two websites. One is a forum that costs me around $3 a month (I pay a year in advance.) The other is di.fm which is $5 a month for ad-free. Since the ads are auditory and cannot be ignored, the $5 a month for me is very much worth it to improve the music listening experience. The forum gives me an avatar, no ads, and many other perks for paying them - plus I spend enough time on there to justify it.
I'd pay at most a dollar a month just to get rid of ads on Facebook - if AdBlock didn't already do that for me. Now, give me a feature to block any and all invitations to Facebook game aps and we might have a healthy conversation about it.
If it's a medical clinic, they can't just pick up and move off site with no electricity. (That's why we were nagging our client to get an 8 hour backup generator.) One poor schmuck will have to move to a place with power and then call several dozen patients to tell them the appointment is canceled. Nobody else can do their work without any patients.
They're right - it's not caught on any of the standardized tests in schools, especially now that all the stupid standardized testing has drilled down to basic math, English, and some limited science and history. I didn't find out until I went through a battery of psychological testing in 8th grade (20 years ago) because I was borderline for the EIP program and my teacher sponsor requested it.
I guess I'm lucky I just started a new job where I'll get to happily make flow charts and diagrams all day long.
One of my old office's clients had to go to dual ISPs after the switch to the Magic Cloud (tm). Otherwise, a brief Internet outage would grind the entire office to a halt. They now have their primary fiber connection, and then a secondary DSL connection that will automatically kick in when the fiber is offline (which is, like, once a week. Agh.)
But then Microsoft wouldn't have anything to whine about.
I hope he runs for Senate and fails miserably. I'm tired of being in his district.
Looking back, every science teacher I had in both middle school and high school was fantastic. They loved their subject material, they loved teaching. They put together fun and interesting labs (my high school anatomy teacher, Mrs. Pousman, was famous for using different food and candies to illustrate difference cells - Necco wafers became skin cells, marshmallows became fat cells, Twizzlers became striated muscle cells... hey look Mrs. Pousman, I remembered that term!)
The math teachers just didn't have the same enthusiasm or tools. A high school calculus teacher tried - we got Hershey Kisses during the lesson on parabola osculations - but lab time in math classes was not often enough.
The issue is that for a very bright kid, they CAN get away with just "learning from the lecture" for most early math. I didn't have to start really thinking about math outside of the classroom until I hit geometry, and then I didn't have to really start doing homework until trig and calculus.
We had that class at my uni. It was "Honors (Math X) with Theory." The nickname for it was "math for math masochists." I took a a stab at Honors Calculus I with Theory and got a B. Honors Calculus II with Theory netted me a D, and I gave up.