Oh, for Christ's sake. Reagan did what he could to slow the growth of the number one enemy of anyone who works for a living in this country.
Oh, I see. It totally makes sense that saddling the middle class with additional tax burdens to pay for a tax cut for the wealthy would be beneficial to the middle class. And besides, it's not like the real buying power of the middle class has any bearing on the economy or anything.
Face the facts: Reaganomics was a disaster for the vast majority of this country.
I have a Blackberry with AT&T, and I'm frequently in Encinitas taking advantage of my uncle's large collection of surfboards. Yup, AT&T service is crap there. It's also crap in San Gabriel where I live, Yorba Linda where my daughter's school is, and Grass Valley where most of my family lives. It's ok in Fullerton as long as I'm not in the middle of a large building (like, say, in the bathroom in the Math and Science building at CSUF). Next paycheck will likely see me switching to Verizon, for both the coverage and to swap this crappy Blackberry for an Android phone.
Yes, multiverses are taught in public school science classes. It's a fairly well known model that's easy to explain to kids with a very basic understanding of probability. All that's required for it to show up is a high school physics teacher who finds it interesting, and those aren't too hard to find since it is interesting.
How valid or useful it might be scientifically is another topic entirely, and one that too many public school teachers are ill-equipped to participate in
You would think that would be the case, but then again, how long have Linux WoW players been asking for OpenGL mouse acceleration. They have it in the Mac version. One would think that the work has already been done, so what's the big deal with enabling it in the Windows version for us Wine users? I haven't played since December, but as far as I know it still isn't there.
I have several Mac using friends who are quite excited about Steam for OSX. It's very cool of Valve to do that, but the selection of games is very limited. I see no reason the situation on Linux should be any better. Indeed, it will likely be worse, as developers at least make an effort to target OSX.
Of course, Steam-Linux could integrate with Wine to support Windows only games, which would be very cool IMO.
Would it be better to put the onus on publishers tending for California's schools?
Financially, yes that would be preferable. In terms of results, not so much.
Corporations can only be trusted to do one thing: maximize shareholder value. That means reducing costs and increasing profit margins. Publishing multiple versions of a textbook increases costs, and thus the publisher cannot be trusted to make the decision that is best for the students' education. Honestly, if there is one thing that we should have learned from the last two years, it's that corporations cannot be trusted to regulate themselves.
FWIW, I am a Californian, and in general I think Yee is a jackass, but the only thing I can find fault with him on here is his claim that current textbooks are apolitical (though, to be fair, I think there has been an honest effort on the parts of authors and publishers).
I only call myself "conservative" because you took-away the word "liberal" and used it to describe communism, corporatism, and other top-down tyrannies/monarchies/oligarchies.
Say what?
OK, I can see "Communism" being liberal, but Corporatism? Sorry, but as a Republican, that one's all yours. The Republican party has been solidly Corporatist for decades. Reaganomics (aka "Trickle Down" or "Supply Side") is pure Corporatism, and is the cornerstone of Republican economic policy.
As for lumping in "other top-down tyrannies/monarchies/oligarchies," I'm afraid you've really gone off the deep end here. If you bother to listen to what liberals actually say (as opposed to the words Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh put in their mouths), I think you'll find that liberals are generally concerned with the welfare and liberty of of the people. Not just certain individuals, mind you, but all of the people. From that perspective, Socialism makes sense, but you display a serious ignorance of political reality when you conflate that with Communism. There are no significant American liberal pundits or politicians advocating Soviet-style Communism, as it goes against the fundamental liberal/progressive beliefs.
RE You're sig: I'd say Comp Sci, unless you're specifically interested in chip design. My impression of Comp Eng is that it's basically a faster way to get a CS/EE double major done, but you've already got half of that. CS will give you a wider knowledge base, and thus should open up more opportunities.
I want autonomous driving now. There are all kinds of things I would rather do for 2 hours a day than stare at the bumper of the guy in front of me. So what if it's not practical on surface streets right now? The small amount of surface street driving I do is not sucking away significant portions of my life.
In R&D, the main factor to consider is how inventive and innovative a researcher is. That doesn't come from being "book smart". It comes from being able to think flexibly and creatively. This is a trait that is encouraged in the academia of the West, but denounced and suppressed in the East.
This is a popular belief. There are plenty of past and active Indian researchers who have published and publish good papers, or Indian researchers in large companies who work on very innovative products. So, citation needed please for your beliefs.
All of my friends from China, Vietnam, and Japan have said pretty much the same thing as the GP. Eastern schools are all about rote memorization, and any "analysis" pretty much has to be exactly what the teacher told you to say. It goes back to the civil service exams that were implemented in China over 2k years ago. I doubt India follows the Confucian system, and while I do know several Indians, I've never discussed education in their home country with any of them, so I'm not going to comment on how things are done there.
IR? So I have to have the controlling device within my field of view? What would be the point then? Just put your 8x8 pixel array on the controller and forget the contacts.
Try bluetooth. For that matter, with so few pixels, something like RFID might even work, especially if they can get passive pixels going.
The only argument I can think of to justify the money going to the state is that it might encourage government regulators to do a better job. There would certainly be more political pressure on them to do so, since it would potentially have a direct effect on the budget.
Yeah, I've seen a few that I like as well, I just happen to be in the wrong district to vote for them.
And yeah, I've heard that "lacks popular support" talking point bandied about by the Republicans plenty, but not where it comes from. The actual poll results I have heard show strong support for a public option and increased regulation of the insurance companies, and a general feeling that the current version, if it retains the mandatory coverage part, is essentially selling us all up the river. In other words, we don't like the concessions made for the obstructionist Republicans.
It's not that I dislike all politicians, just that I have dislike all the incumbents I've been able to vote for in the last 10 years or so since I implemented this policy. And note that my policy is that they have to have done something that has impressed me. I said nothing about that being canceled out by doing something I disagree with, and in fact I generally don't do that unless it's something I consider particularly egregious. My standards for voting for an incumbent are actually pretty low.
Essentially, it just boils down to them doing something that is actually good for the people, rather than to their personal/ideological advantage. So, I must conclude that more people adopting my tactic would, at least in theory, reward politicians who did the right thing, while promoting a high turnover rate for those who were in it for personal gain. Term limits would actually be counter-productive in that situation. Unfortunately, I can only say "in theory" since there isn't enough consensus on what the "right thing" is, and we have an entire industry of lobbyists, pundits, PR flaks, and media lapdogs devoted to convincing us to support policies that are actually to our (meaning the average citizen's) disadvantage.
In general, I advocate people actually voting their conscience. If a third party candidate better fits your ideals, you should vote for them, regardless of the fact that "they can't possibly win." Imagine the difference it would make in the American political landscape if everyone did that. And by the way, I do support reforms that would change how we vote and whom we vote for, such as instant runoff voting and redistricting methods that don't involve the politicians.
Yeah, I'd want that too, but I haven't voted for a single incumbent even under the low standards I've set, so it seems a bit silly to be any more picky than I already am.
I for one would take this with a pinch of salt. Especially if it comes from an astrologer, or from one who can't tell one from an astronomer.
It could be that they do know the difference, but their language doesn't discriminate between the two. Chinese astrology isn't anywhere near as much concerned with stars and planets as Western astrology is.
Reminds me of a lot of the arguments against prostitution (that the women are forced into it by being poor, which clearly leads to the conclusion that making prostitution illegal will stop people being poor).
That reminds me of an interview I once read with an ex-lawyer who had become a prostitute at one of the brothels near Las Vegas. IIRC, she said the money was about the same, and at least it was honest work.
A good friend of mine is Chinese. She was out supporting herself at age 14, digging ditches on a road crew. China has levels of poverty that can't really be comprehended by most westerners. Her family couldn't afford to feed her, much less pay for her schooling, so what should she have done? Sat at home and starved until she reached whatever age Steve Jobs deems acceptable for her to work? A lot of Chinese kids are in that same boat.
Me, I started working summers in construction at age 12. Later I went into electronics, and worked my way up the ladder as a technician. I took a 30% pay cut when I did that, but I knew in the long run it was a better choice. Whatever job those kids are now getting fired from, it's probably a lot better than the alternatives available to them. So, is Apple really doing The Right Thing here, or is this nothing but a bunch of ignorant white folks sitting on moral high horses?
I have a friend that is so disgusted with our government that he now votes against every incumbent that comes up for reelection Perhaps if we all took to this strategery, we could eventually rid ourselves of this scum that has fubar'd the country
I've been doing the same thing for years. Actually, at first my rule was I'd only vote for them if I could think of at least three things they'd done that I thought were actually beneficial. At this point though, I might even settle for one.
No where contained in Buddhism is anything attached to the creation of the universe, what happens when you die, or the dire consequences of eternal torment if you don't follow the Buddha's advice.
Buddha was a Hindu, so there was no need to deal with those topics as they were already amply dealt with, and Buddha himself was only concerned with the parts that were directly applicable to everyday life. His big idea was that it was possible to achieve Nirvana in a single lifetime, and there is most definitely a dire consequence of eternal torment if you don't follow his advice: you keep getting reincarnated into this world of suffering.
I also have to say that your situation sounds a lot like the one I was in, with the exception of the marriage counselling. I tried to get that going, but that would have meant she had to pretend she cared enough about our marriage to put forth the effort of going to the sessions, so it was a no-go. I will say that it sounds like your counsellor needs to be sued for malpractice, or at least reported to whatever governing board is supposed to watch over her profession (I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it's a woman).
I have to say, divorce was the best thing that ever happened to me. I'm still not getting laid, but at least it's my choice now, and I'm not laying next to a woman every night who's allegedly supposed to be sexually available to me. I've done some dating, sometimes relatively long term, but just haven't felt like taking it beyond the platonic stage. That's just me though, I learned a long time ago that, for me, casual sex is a gigantic waste of time.
The final decision-maker for me was when I stopped asking myself what was "best" for my daughter, and started asking myself what advice I would give if she were in my situation. Once I framed the question that way, getting out was a no-brainer.
I should maybe throw in the caveat that I had what was possibly the least painful divorces ever. My ex is actually a fairly reasonable person, and wanted out more than I did, plus there were several factors that would have made hiring lawyers and going to court disadvantageous for her. We also didn't own our home, so asset division was much easier. YMMV, obviously.
A few things I learned from my parents and their friends when they went through divorces: make sure you get joint physical AND legal custody of your kids (not sure if Canadian law makes the distinction, but not having both is a problem), and don't talk about the shitty way your wife is treating you with your kids unless they are at least high school age, and even then be very careful to not sound like you're talking trash about her. She is their mom, and nobody likes to hear anyone talk trash about their mom.
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>Ronald Reagan's assault on the working class
Oh, for Christ's sake. Reagan did what he could to slow the growth of the number one enemy of anyone who works for a living in this country.
Oh, I see. It totally makes sense that saddling the middle class with additional tax burdens to pay for a tax cut for the wealthy would be beneficial to the middle class. And besides, it's not like the real buying power of the middle class has any bearing on the economy or anything.
Face the facts: Reaganomics was a disaster for the vast majority of this country.
I have a Blackberry with AT&T, and I'm frequently in Encinitas taking advantage of my uncle's large collection of surfboards. Yup, AT&T service is crap there. It's also crap in San Gabriel where I live, Yorba Linda where my daughter's school is, and Grass Valley where most of my family lives. It's ok in Fullerton as long as I'm not in the middle of a large building (like, say, in the bathroom in the Math and Science building at CSUF). Next paycheck will likely see me switching to Verizon, for both the coverage and to swap this crappy Blackberry for an Android phone.
Yes, multiverses are taught in public school science classes. It's a fairly well known model that's easy to explain to kids with a very basic understanding of probability. All that's required for it to show up is a high school physics teacher who finds it interesting, and those aren't too hard to find since it is interesting.
How valid or useful it might be scientifically is another topic entirely, and one that too many public school teachers are ill-equipped to participate in
I think we can safely say that a field filled with land mines is effectively "destroyed" for most practical purposes already.
You would think that would be the case, but then again, how long have Linux WoW players been asking for OpenGL mouse acceleration. They have it in the Mac version. One would think that the work has already been done, so what's the big deal with enabling it in the Windows version for us Wine users? I haven't played since December, but as far as I know it still isn't there.
I have several Mac using friends who are quite excited about Steam for OSX. It's very cool of Valve to do that, but the selection of games is very limited. I see no reason the situation on Linux should be any better. Indeed, it will likely be worse, as developers at least make an effort to target OSX.
Of course, Steam-Linux could integrate with Wine to support Windows only games, which would be very cool IMO.
Would it be better to put the onus on publishers tending for California's schools?
Financially, yes that would be preferable. In terms of results, not so much.
Corporations can only be trusted to do one thing: maximize shareholder value. That means reducing costs and increasing profit margins. Publishing multiple versions of a textbook increases costs, and thus the publisher cannot be trusted to make the decision that is best for the students' education. Honestly, if there is one thing that we should have learned from the last two years, it's that corporations cannot be trusted to regulate themselves.
FWIW, I am a Californian, and in general I think Yee is a jackass, but the only thing I can find fault with him on here is his claim that current textbooks are apolitical (though, to be fair, I think there has been an honest effort on the parts of authors and publishers).
I only call myself "conservative" because you took-away the word "liberal" and used it to describe communism, corporatism, and other top-down tyrannies/monarchies/oligarchies.
Say what?
OK, I can see "Communism" being liberal, but Corporatism? Sorry, but as a Republican, that one's all yours. The Republican party has been solidly Corporatist for decades. Reaganomics (aka "Trickle Down" or "Supply Side") is pure Corporatism, and is the cornerstone of Republican economic policy.
As for lumping in "other top-down tyrannies/monarchies/oligarchies," I'm afraid you've really gone off the deep end here. If you bother to listen to what liberals actually say (as opposed to the words Glen Beck and Rush Limbaugh put in their mouths), I think you'll find that liberals are generally concerned with the welfare and liberty of of the people. Not just certain individuals, mind you, but all of the people. From that perspective, Socialism makes sense, but you display a serious ignorance of political reality when you conflate that with Communism. There are no significant American liberal pundits or politicians advocating Soviet-style Communism, as it goes against the fundamental liberal/progressive beliefs.
RE You're sig: I'd say Comp Sci, unless you're specifically interested in chip design. My impression of Comp Eng is that it's basically a faster way to get a CS/EE double major done, but you've already got half of that. CS will give you a wider knowledge base, and thus should open up more opportunities.
As far as I know you are required to have ID in California.
I want autonomous driving now. There are all kinds of things I would rather do for 2 hours a day than stare at the bumper of the guy in front of me. So what if it's not practical on surface streets right now? The small amount of surface street driving I do is not sucking away significant portions of my life.
I solved that problem by being a self-centered douchebag.
Fixed that for you.
This is a popular belief. There are plenty of past and active Indian researchers who have published and publish good papers, or Indian researchers in large companies who work on very innovative products. So, citation needed please for your beliefs.
All of my friends from China, Vietnam, and Japan have said pretty much the same thing as the GP. Eastern schools are all about rote memorization, and any "analysis" pretty much has to be exactly what the teacher told you to say. It goes back to the civil service exams that were implemented in China over 2k years ago. I doubt India follows the Confucian system, and while I do know several Indians, I've never discussed education in their home country with any of them, so I'm not going to comment on how things are done there.
IR? So I have to have the controlling device within my field of view? What would be the point then? Just put your 8x8 pixel array on the controller and forget the contacts.
Try bluetooth. For that matter, with so few pixels, something like RFID might even work, especially if they can get passive pixels going.
The only argument I can think of to justify the money going to the state is that it might encourage government regulators to do a better job. There would certainly be more political pressure on them to do so, since it would potentially have a direct effect on the budget.
Yeah, I've seen a few that I like as well, I just happen to be in the wrong district to vote for them.
And yeah, I've heard that "lacks popular support" talking point bandied about by the Republicans plenty, but not where it comes from. The actual poll results I have heard show strong support for a public option and increased regulation of the insurance companies, and a general feeling that the current version, if it retains the mandatory coverage part, is essentially selling us all up the river. In other words, we don't like the concessions made for the obstructionist Republicans.
It's not that I dislike all politicians, just that I have dislike all the incumbents I've been able to vote for in the last 10 years or so since I implemented this policy. And note that my policy is that they have to have done something that has impressed me. I said nothing about that being canceled out by doing something I disagree with, and in fact I generally don't do that unless it's something I consider particularly egregious. My standards for voting for an incumbent are actually pretty low.
Essentially, it just boils down to them doing something that is actually good for the people, rather than to their personal/ideological advantage. So, I must conclude that more people adopting my tactic would, at least in theory, reward politicians who did the right thing, while promoting a high turnover rate for those who were in it for personal gain. Term limits would actually be counter-productive in that situation. Unfortunately, I can only say "in theory" since there isn't enough consensus on what the "right thing" is, and we have an entire industry of lobbyists, pundits, PR flaks, and media lapdogs devoted to convincing us to support policies that are actually to our (meaning the average citizen's) disadvantage.
In general, I advocate people actually voting their conscience. If a third party candidate better fits your ideals, you should vote for them, regardless of the fact that "they can't possibly win." Imagine the difference it would make in the American political landscape if everyone did that. And by the way, I do support reforms that would change how we vote and whom we vote for, such as instant runoff voting and redistricting methods that don't involve the politicians.
Yeah, I'd want that too, but I haven't voted for a single incumbent even under the low standards I've set, so it seems a bit silly to be any more picky than I already am.
I for one would take this with a pinch of salt. Especially if it comes from an astrologer, or from one who can't tell one from an astronomer.
It could be that they do know the difference, but their language doesn't discriminate between the two. Chinese astrology isn't anywhere near as much concerned with stars and planets as Western astrology is.
Reminds me of a lot of the arguments against prostitution (that the women are forced into it by being poor, which clearly leads to the conclusion that making prostitution illegal will stop people being poor).
That reminds me of an interview I once read with an ex-lawyer who had become a prostitute at one of the brothels near Las Vegas. IIRC, she said the money was about the same, and at least it was honest work.
A good friend of mine is Chinese. She was out supporting herself at age 14, digging ditches on a road crew. China has levels of poverty that can't really be comprehended by most westerners. Her family couldn't afford to feed her, much less pay for her schooling, so what should she have done? Sat at home and starved until she reached whatever age Steve Jobs deems acceptable for her to work? A lot of Chinese kids are in that same boat.
Me, I started working summers in construction at age 12. Later I went into electronics, and worked my way up the ladder as a technician. I took a 30% pay cut when I did that, but I knew in the long run it was a better choice. Whatever job those kids are now getting fired from, it's probably a lot better than the alternatives available to them. So, is Apple really doing The Right Thing here, or is this nothing but a bunch of ignorant white folks sitting on moral high horses?
I have a friend that is so disgusted with our government that he now votes against every incumbent that comes up for reelection
Perhaps if we all took to this strategery, we could eventually rid ourselves of this scum that has fubar'd the country
I've been doing the same thing for years. Actually, at first my rule was I'd only vote for them if I could think of at least three things they'd done that I thought were actually beneficial. At this point though, I might even settle for one.
No where contained in Buddhism is anything attached to the creation of the universe, what happens when you die, or the dire consequences of eternal torment if you don't follow the Buddha's advice.
Buddha was a Hindu, so there was no need to deal with those topics as they were already amply dealt with, and Buddha himself was only concerned with the parts that were directly applicable to everyday life. His big idea was that it was possible to achieve Nirvana in a single lifetime, and there is most definitely a dire consequence of eternal torment if you don't follow his advice: you keep getting reincarnated into this world of suffering.
Women? Plural? Are you calling her fat?
You say sandpaper, I say exfoliant.
I also have to say that your situation sounds a lot like the one I was in, with the exception of the marriage counselling. I tried to get that going, but that would have meant she had to pretend she cared enough about our marriage to put forth the effort of going to the sessions, so it was a no-go. I will say that it sounds like your counsellor needs to be sued for malpractice, or at least reported to whatever governing board is supposed to watch over her profession (I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that it's a woman).
I have to say, divorce was the best thing that ever happened to me. I'm still not getting laid, but at least it's my choice now, and I'm not laying next to a woman every night who's allegedly supposed to be sexually available to me. I've done some dating, sometimes relatively long term, but just haven't felt like taking it beyond the platonic stage. That's just me though, I learned a long time ago that, for me, casual sex is a gigantic waste of time.
The final decision-maker for me was when I stopped asking myself what was "best" for my daughter, and started asking myself what advice I would give if she were in my situation. Once I framed the question that way, getting out was a no-brainer.
I should maybe throw in the caveat that I had what was possibly the least painful divorces ever. My ex is actually a fairly reasonable person, and wanted out more than I did, plus there were several factors that would have made hiring lawyers and going to court disadvantageous for her. We also didn't own our home, so asset division was much easier. YMMV, obviously.
A few things I learned from my parents and their friends when they went through divorces: make sure you get joint physical AND legal custody of your kids (not sure if Canadian law makes the distinction, but not having both is a problem), and don't talk about the shitty way your wife is treating you with your kids unless they are at least high school age, and even then be very careful to not sound like you're talking trash about her. She is their mom, and nobody likes to hear anyone talk trash about their mom.