Coders make money for their parent businesses. Teachers educate our children. Businesses, if they make poor decisions- like not firing incompetent coders- only suffer lost profits. Parents (and society), on the other hand, suffer from a generation of children (future leaders and workers) who can't use their or they're correctly, can't use the objective and subjective pronouns correctly, and who don't understand math well enough to know why a 26% interest rate on a credit card is a bad thing.
There is a big difference: Adults making poor decisions versus children who need to be taught life skills. Our children are vastly more important than some second-rate web design house.
If Texas, Kansas, et al. want to fire all their good teachers, that's fine by me. We need more smart, ambitious teachers here in Minnesota. In fifteen years when those states can't get anyone to build even a Lincoln Log factory within their state lines, things will change.
I'm sorry the kids have to suffer through this, but frankly I'm starting to feel like the entire country has started a 'no state left behind' program. If an entire state of millions of people wants teachers to be sunday school advisers, who are we to stop them?
Eh. High school AP chemistry- 27 or 28 of the students (out of 32) got either D or F grades by the middle of the year. These students were the smartest kids in my graduating class.
The worst teachers I've ever had were happier to flunk students rather than change their teaching styles. All of my other AP teachers *were* tough- however, there were teachers who taught us to understand difficult material, and there were those who simply taught difficult material. Now that I'm a taxpayer, I expect my money to pay for teachers to *teach*, not just show off in front of teenagers.
>>I hope jobs dies and stock drops and Apple scuttles back into the pile of shit it was birthed.
LOL. I don't really care either way- I sold my stock a year ago and bought a house with the earnings. Anyways, if Apple does go under, another company will fill its niche pretty quickly.
And for the record, my next purchase will be a small netbook, probably Asus.
>>The real evil here is the soccer moms that get to run social policy nowadays.
Businesses exist to *make money*. That is their ONLY purpose! Why do slashdotters expect companies to give stuff away or be "considerate" of their competitors or place the needs of non-paying critics above the needs of their core market?
And it's especially funny to read stuff like that on a decidedly 'libertarian' website... LOL. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Yeah, and don't have kids until we have 100% of birth defects figured out. Don't buy a car until it's 100% safe. Don't work for ANY company, since they all have some skeleton in their closet. Don't vote for any popular politician, since they're all shills. Etc.
Face it, the iPhone is an insanely popular platform *despite or because of* Apple's meddling. It's impossible to say. And it's a private company, so it doesn't work for you to compare Apple to the PC market unless you only talk about Windows and other for-profit OSes.
Or in other words, I don't think you should bash development on the iPhone until the simplest game on the iPhone isn't light-years ahead of open source games in polish and functionality. I'm talking real free open source games, not Quake for linux.
Where did you buy the service plan? From the big box store where you bought the ipod? If so it sounds like you got ripped off. Unless I misunderstood you- if you buy applecare for any device, the device gets sent to apple for repair. They send you a box (free), you throw the ipod in it and mail it out, and in two or three days it comes back fixed. For free. Minus of course the $39 applecare fee (That is how much the real applecare fee costs for an ipod nano).
So to me it sounds like you bought a bogus 'service plan' that had nothing to do with apple and now of course apple is treating you like any random stranger off the street. To them, you bought a product but no service plan and now you're looking for service. Try taking your car in to the dealer for repairs after it's out of warranty.
Hey, do you like the rolling stones? Ever listened to the words from "sparks will fly" (I know you'd recognize it, it's on the radio all the time)?
"You'd better grease up I'm coming back You're going to catch fire (....) You'd better grease up I'm coming back You're going to catch fire (...) When I finally get myself back on you, baby I'm gonna step on the gas I want to get there really fast I want to fuck your sweet ass"
Never noticed that a popular classic rock song is about anal sex? Pay more attention. Rock and roll is ALWAYS about sex on one level or another.
Relax. If you want to go after someone, go after Britney or the dozens of singers *explicitly packaged for children* but with songs about lust and fucking. That is, to me, way more screwed up than NIN. How are you supposed to keep that Disney sex shit away from your kids when it is blasting on the media meant for kids? Ask any parent if they know the lyrics to any flo-rida song.
Fyi, there are many differently-colored copper compounds and even more iron compounds. Iron is especially versatile because of its different oxidation states.
So anyways, TiO2 is white, but it is not something your body could use- it is as inert as glass, basically. simply injecting it into the skin would do nothing except maybe cause some local psoriasis. Getting Ti into the organic side of things would usually require TiCl4, which is colorless, or an ester of Ti (also colorless). TiCl3 is dark red but again, not something your body would be able to do anything with. There simply aren't any biological processes in the body that use Ti.
The one interesting thing about TiO2 that I can come up with would be that if you covered someone with it and imaged them in UV light, they would be almost completely black, as TiO2 (like zinc oxide) converts UV to heat. And that's why it's used in sunblock.
If you want to take over the world I'd focus on lighter, more effective body armor and on capturing the hearts and minds of the young people. Your competition is FOX and Pinnacle Armor.
That may be; I'm just saying that operationally the SIPRnet stays physically separate from all other networks. Maybe in C&C facilities there is a need for ultra-secure wireless but I've never seen it. You need SIPRnet? You go into the locked SIPRnet room.
>>but I've done work with the U.S. Millitary and I never recall seeing a WAP at a sensitive location...
(I work for the DoD and have been around let's say)
SIPRnet will never be wireless. The physical layer of wired SIPRnet is already highly secure, not to mention authentication protocols. Access to terminals, and even the rooms that house terminals, is very restricted.
NIPRnet, on the other hand, since it is designed to carry data below secret-classification, can be connected to through wifi. The portable devices (such as laptops with repair tech data) must still connect via the same authentication/handshake as wired machines. And even on NIPRnet, you will not be able to plug in any computer and get a connection. Everything passes through comm and is scrutinized. I have a large, and as-yet unused, wifi access point right next to my office. At least one base in Iraq has a base-wide wifi network, but to be honest I don't know if it was connected to NIPRnet or the internet since I never used it.
*the S and the N stand for secret and non-secret, for those unfamiliar with the 'nets.
This strain of flu has broken out in the U.S. before- There was an outbreak in Wisonsin and also an outbreak in Fort Dix. Sometime in the '70's and 80's.
So if you're implying that Mexico specifically has something to do with this, please stop.
>>You let it stream to the break point, then rewind and watch it without any stuttering.
Works for youtube, but not the daily show, cobert report, south park, hulu, netflix, or pretty much anything I want to watch. They all use this terrible DRM that only pre-caches like 3 seconds of video- You can pause it, but it will stop downloading the stream when it hits that limit. This makes all of the above services unusable with anything less than 100 kbs (real speed) connection. "Hello and welcome to the" wait 90-120 secs- "Colbert report. No, sit do" wait 90-120 secs- "wn."
The Klingon language caused the translator to just emit a stream of sobbing wails. Afterwards, the unit would refuse to work until it underwent extensive psychotherapy. "It's not even a real language!" it would cry out.
>>As virtual worlds get more popular and their business models more directly affect >>real-life finances, we can expect these legal issues to become more common as well.
These things are becoming *more* popular? Have I been getting out *too* much?
God save us all. Pretty soon the English language will consist only of the letters l,o, R, U, s, t, and f.
I didn't vote for half of my representatives/senators. I didn't vote for my mayor, I didn't vote for my president, I didn't vote for my vice president, I didn't vote for my tax auditor, I didn't vote for ANY supreme court justices or ANY judge, I didn't vote for my sheriff, I didn't vote for my chief of police, I didn't vote for my school superintendent, my chief of staff, my secretary of the air force, my ambassador to the UN, my director of the FCC, my director of the BATF, my director of the FDA, my director of the USDA, my secretary of homeland defense, etc.
Governing ourselves? "governing myself" stops at my front door. Scratch that, it stops at my skull. Things I do inside my own house are regulated.
I'm not a libertarian, either, btw. All politicians in power right now are pieces of shit. Frankly, I'm in favor of enlightened despotism right now instead of this pathetic mish-mash of "populist" partisanship- how can you be "populist" and leave out 50% of the population AND call it representative democracy?
>>people apparently turn into cartoon villains when they start a career in public service
No, they turn into cartoon villains when they *succeed* in attaining public office. Not all of them, of course- only the ones who have any real power. The honest ones who accidentally make it into office are soon blackballed by all the big players. This is not tinfoil hat stuff- it is real, and depressing as hell. I swore my life to defend America, not the industrialists who run things right now.
As other posters have said, this democratic majority is a good thing because all bad things that happen because of it will have 100% ownership with the D party, just as previous debacles have had 100% R ownership. It's about time that Americans realize that republicans and democrats are both terrible leaders.
We need proportionate representative democracy. No more two-party BS.
Yeah, and quick erosion of gun rights. And hopefully some censorship and racist employment/education policy! Yeah I can't wait.
I'm not a republican or a democrat. Everything either party does seems to make the country a worse place for me and especially the next generations who don't even have a say in things yet.
I would vastly prefer that our congress spend every session in petty, vitriolic deadlock, achieving nothing and, in turn, destroying none of my rights or spending my money on stupid shit like mass casualty facilities in a rep's rural home district. I would like the president to mandate an emergency session on the last day of the fiscal year in order to sign off on a bare-bones budget. I would be happy if that happened every year from now on.
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Coders make money for their parent businesses. Teachers educate our children. Businesses, if they make poor decisions- like not firing incompetent coders- only suffer lost profits. Parents (and society), on the other hand, suffer from a generation of children (future leaders and workers) who can't use their or they're correctly, can't use the objective and subjective pronouns correctly, and who don't understand math well enough to know why a 26% interest rate on a credit card is a bad thing.
There is a big difference: Adults making poor decisions versus children who need to be taught life skills. Our children are vastly more important than some second-rate web design house.
-b
If Texas, Kansas, et al. want to fire all their good teachers, that's fine by me. We need more smart, ambitious teachers here in Minnesota. In fifteen years when those states can't get anyone to build even a Lincoln Log factory within their state lines, things will change.
I'm sorry the kids have to suffer through this, but frankly I'm starting to feel like the entire country has started a 'no state left behind' program. If an entire state of millions of people wants teachers to be sunday school advisers, who are we to stop them?
-b
(sorry it's not entirely germane to your post)
Eh. High school AP chemistry- 27 or 28 of the students (out of 32) got either D or F grades by the middle of the year. These students were the smartest kids in my graduating class.
The worst teachers I've ever had were happier to flunk students rather than change their teaching styles. All of my other AP teachers *were* tough- however, there were teachers who taught us to understand difficult material, and there were those who simply taught difficult material. Now that I'm a taxpayer, I expect my money to pay for teachers to *teach*, not just show off in front of teenagers.
-b
>>I hope jobs dies and stock drops and Apple scuttles back into the pile of shit it was birthed.
LOL. I don't really care either way- I sold my stock a year ago and bought a house with the earnings. Anyways, if Apple does go under, another company will fill its niche pretty quickly.
And for the record, my next purchase will be a small netbook, probably Asus.
-b
And yet you wrote *14* apps for the iPhone.
Get a fucking grip. It's either worth it for you or it's not.
Put your money where your mouth is and develop for other companies.
-b
>>The real evil here is the soccer moms that get to run social policy nowadays.
Businesses exist to *make money*. That is their ONLY purpose! Why do slashdotters expect companies to give stuff away or be "considerate" of their competitors or place the needs of non-paying critics above the needs of their core market?
And it's especially funny to read stuff like that on a decidedly 'libertarian' website... LOL. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
-b
Yeah, and don't have kids until we have 100% of birth defects figured out. Don't buy a car until it's 100% safe. Don't work for ANY company, since they all have some skeleton in their closet. Don't vote for any popular politician, since they're all shills. Etc.
Face it, the iPhone is an insanely popular platform *despite or because of* Apple's meddling. It's impossible to say. And it's a private company, so it doesn't work for you to compare Apple to the PC market unless you only talk about Windows and other for-profit OSes.
Or in other words, I don't think you should bash development on the iPhone until the simplest game on the iPhone isn't light-years ahead of open source games in polish and functionality. I'm talking real free open source games, not Quake for linux.
-b
Where did you buy the service plan? From the big box store where you bought the ipod? If so it sounds like you got ripped off. Unless I misunderstood you- if you buy applecare for any device, the device gets sent to apple for repair. They send you a box (free), you throw the ipod in it and mail it out, and in two or three days it comes back fixed. For free. Minus of course the $39 applecare fee (That is how much the real applecare fee costs for an ipod nano).
So to me it sounds like you bought a bogus 'service plan' that had nothing to do with apple and now of course apple is treating you like any random stranger off the street. To them, you bought a product but no service plan and now you're looking for service. Try taking your car in to the dealer for repairs after it's out of warranty.
-b
Hey, do you like the rolling stones? Ever listened to the words from "sparks will fly" (I know you'd recognize it, it's on the radio all the time)?
"You'd better grease up
I'm coming back
You're going to catch fire
(....)
You'd better grease up
I'm coming back
You're going to catch fire
(...)
When I finally get myself back on you, baby
I'm gonna step on the gas
I want to get there really fast
I want to fuck your sweet ass"
Never noticed that a popular classic rock song is about anal sex? Pay more attention. Rock and roll is ALWAYS about sex on one level or another.
Relax. If you want to go after someone, go after Britney or the dozens of singers *explicitly packaged for children* but with songs about lust and fucking. That is, to me, way more screwed up than NIN. How are you supposed to keep that Disney sex shit away from your kids when it is blasting on the media meant for kids? Ask any parent if they know the lyrics to any flo-rida song.
-b
Mr. President, we cannot allow a lithium gap!
Fyi, there are many differently-colored copper compounds and even more iron compounds. Iron is especially versatile because of its different oxidation states.
So anyways, TiO2 is white, but it is not something your body could use- it is as inert as glass, basically. simply injecting it into the skin would do nothing except maybe cause some local psoriasis. Getting Ti into the organic side of things would usually require TiCl4, which is colorless, or an ester of Ti (also colorless). TiCl3 is dark red but again, not something your body would be able to do anything with. There simply aren't any biological processes in the body that use Ti.
The one interesting thing about TiO2 that I can come up with would be that if you covered someone with it and imaged them in UV light, they would be almost completely black, as TiO2 (like zinc oxide) converts UV to heat. And that's why it's used in sunblock.
If you want to take over the world I'd focus on lighter, more effective body armor and on capturing the hearts and minds of the young people. Your competition is FOX and Pinnacle Armor.
-b
That may be; I'm just saying that operationally the SIPRnet stays physically separate from all other networks. Maybe in C&C facilities there is a need for ultra-secure wireless but I've never seen it. You need SIPRnet? You go into the locked SIPRnet room.
-b
>>it sits mostly unused. And the wireless that IS used is almost useless because so
>>many people are trying to use it at once
"Nobody uses that access point anymore- it's too crowded."
-b
>>but I've done work with the U.S. Millitary and I never recall seeing a WAP at a sensitive location...
(I work for the DoD and have been around let's say)
SIPRnet will never be wireless. The physical layer of wired SIPRnet is already highly secure, not to mention authentication protocols. Access to terminals, and even the rooms that house terminals, is very restricted.
NIPRnet, on the other hand, since it is designed to carry data below secret-classification, can be connected to through wifi. The portable devices (such as laptops with repair tech data) must still connect via the same authentication/handshake as wired machines. And even on NIPRnet, you will not be able to plug in any computer and get a connection. Everything passes through comm and is scrutinized. I have a large, and as-yet unused, wifi access point right next to my office. At least one base in Iraq has a base-wide wifi network, but to be honest I don't know if it was connected to NIPRnet or the internet since I never used it.
*the S and the N stand for secret and non-secret, for those unfamiliar with the 'nets.
-b
This strain of flu has broken out in the U.S. before- There was an outbreak in Wisonsin and also an outbreak in Fort Dix. Sometime in the '70's and 80's.
So if you're implying that Mexico specifically has something to do with this, please stop.
-b
>>You let it stream to the break point, then rewind and watch it without any stuttering.
Works for youtube, but not the daily show, cobert report, south park, hulu, netflix, or pretty much anything I want to watch. They all use this terrible DRM that only pre-caches like 3 seconds of video- You can pause it, but it will stop downloading the stream when it hits that limit. This makes all of the above services unusable with anything less than 100 kbs (real speed) connection. "Hello and welcome to the" wait 90-120 secs- "Colbert report. No, sit do" wait 90-120 secs- "wn."
Grrrrr.
-b
The Klingon language caused the translator to just emit a stream of sobbing wails. Afterwards, the unit would refuse to work until it underwent extensive psychotherapy. "It's not even a real language!" it would cry out.
-b
>>As virtual worlds get more popular and their business models more directly affect
>>real-life finances, we can expect these legal issues to become more common as well.
These things are becoming *more* popular? Have I been getting out *too* much?
God save us all. Pretty soon the English language will consist only of the letters l,o, R, U, s, t, and f.
-b
>>And serious kudos to Microsoft for turning off autorun- that blesses me.
You're bootable?
You owe me a new keyboard. And a mouthful worth of rum and coke.
-b
Bacon lung. Genius.
The solution, then, would be to feed the catfood directly to the dog :)
I didn't vote for half of my representatives/senators. I didn't vote for my mayor, I didn't vote for my president, I didn't vote for my vice president, I didn't vote for my tax auditor, I didn't vote for ANY supreme court justices or ANY judge, I didn't vote for my sheriff, I didn't vote for my chief of police, I didn't vote for my school superintendent, my chief of staff, my secretary of the air force, my ambassador to the UN, my director of the FCC, my director of the BATF, my director of the FDA, my director of the USDA, my secretary of homeland defense, etc.
Governing ourselves? "governing myself" stops at my front door. Scratch that, it stops at my skull. Things I do inside my own house are regulated.
I'm not a libertarian, either, btw. All politicians in power right now are pieces of shit. Frankly, I'm in favor of enlightened despotism right now instead of this pathetic mish-mash of "populist" partisanship- how can you be "populist" and leave out 50% of the population AND call it representative democracy?
>>people apparently turn into cartoon villains when they start a career in public service
No, they turn into cartoon villains when they *succeed* in attaining public office. Not all of them, of course- only the ones who have any real power. The honest ones who accidentally make it into office are soon blackballed by all the big players. This is not tinfoil hat stuff- it is real, and depressing as hell. I swore my life to defend America, not the industrialists who run things right now.
As other posters have said, this democratic majority is a good thing because all bad things that happen because of it will have 100% ownership with the D party, just as previous debacles have had 100% R ownership. It's about time that Americans realize that republicans and democrats are both terrible leaders.
We need proportionate representative democracy. No more two-party BS.
-b
Three words:
Extemporaneous Oral Presentation.
PreReq for the class should be public speaking. No excuses- Dyslexic people write papers; "shy" people need to present. Problem solved.
-b
Yeah, and quick erosion of gun rights. And hopefully some censorship and racist employment/education policy! Yeah I can't wait.
I'm not a republican or a democrat. Everything either party does seems to make the country a worse place for me and especially the next generations who don't even have a say in things yet.
I would vastly prefer that our congress spend every session in petty, vitriolic deadlock, achieving nothing and, in turn, destroying none of my rights or spending my money on stupid shit like mass casualty facilities in a rep's rural home district. I would like the president to mandate an emergency session on the last day of the fiscal year in order to sign off on a bare-bones budget. I would be happy if that happened every year from now on.
-b
You're right. I'm more likely to be killed by bees than terrorists. That's a load off my mind. Now I can stop being afraid of everything except bees.
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This is not a binary proposition. You can be scared of bees and attacks. Or more properly, cautious around bees and vigilant of attacks.
Oh snap, cars kill more people than bees! You fearmonger!
-b