Not to worry, the EPA is planning to make the big oil guys produce low sulfer diesel which will clean up diesel emmisions.
Which should be grat on paper, unless the long haul truck drivers go on strike in response to the cost spikes.
Thats interesting logic, if you're smart enough to know X, then you must know Y and Z as well.
But the real world doesn't work that way, or even the mathematical world.
People who know one thing very well almost alwayo have tunnel vision. All there attention is on one very small segment of the big picture. Outside of that they are totally lost.
For all we know this poor kid thought he was hitting the reset button on life.
If you were the guys running the school and had a competant lawyer on the scene, you would by all means STONEWALL. When the civil suit comes up, claim you can't talk about it for legal reasons (like the fact that you don't want to lose the case, your career,lots of money or go to jail)
Public appologies are as good as admissions of guilt. Its a big billboard saying SUE US FOR EVERYTHING WE HAVE OR EVER WILL HAVE.
Just because you work in a school doesn't automatically imply that you have better than a room temp IQ. Noone seems to understand that little fact these days.
So as a result, the kids get messed up, the parents are confused about what is going on in the schools, and the governments who set up the regulations for the school are seeing no pressure from anyone to remove the rotten eggs from the system.
As time goes on a teacher with limited abilities is shifted around to less critical classes, and maybe moved into administration in time.
And then you have people who are as bad at admin duties as teaching duties.
He might have to do time in some sort of "at risk" program or community service unless he had 2-3 prior convictions. In that case, he'd probably end up in a juvie lockup.
As for what juvie stuff carries over, some states are thinking about keeping juvie records on file after 18 if you raped or killed someone as a juvie.
Noones blaming the suspension, everyone is blaming the people involved who gave the kid the suspension.
I'm sure some power tripping school goon tried to "scare the kid straight" with threats of him doing jail time and how his prospects of ever getting into college and having a real future were nil.
Had they said, "ok kid, you screwed up, you have ten days to think it over, see ya." the kid would still be alive.
Well, having worked with this device I know that the cd laser is a legacy model, so it will not recognize the low reflection traits of a CD-R. No big conspiracy, its just economics. They had the old stuff availbale and used it.
The DVD laser is used only for DVDs, so it doesnt factor into the CD equation.
Given the amount of cash san francisco has available, and this rolling blackout thing, people are going to be looking for alternatives so they can at least run their computers.
Great time to be a solar power solution supplier.
Just change the settings at work, if your using Windoze under control panel, keyboards, langauges. Usually it'll list 3 different Dvorak layouts.
You can always use dry erase marker on the keyboard if need to remember the layout. It wears off pretty fast as is. So its easy enough to clean up if you had to
It doesnt take much of a machine to teach someone programming. Most schools are trying to teach common office applications, so you need something quite a bit more modern than a TRS-80 which worked fine for teaching basic coding skills.
When you get into microsoft bloatware applications, like powerpoint or office 2000, THEN you need the P3-733 machine with 128 meg and the 75 gig hard drive.
I love how the elitist nerd types think you need a P3 1GHz machine for a data logger.
A machine 1/10th the speed of that atari would probably do just fine.
I immagine the program is so short that a cassette loads it up in a few minutes. Less time that it takes some linux or windozes machines to shut down and reboot.
I'd have to strongly disagree with you. Its in our nature. Being the top most highly competative predators on earth, to deny ones nature is very foolish. But, that nature is primal. You can acknowledge that, and move on from there. High level processing would say the death of either was tragic since by numbers alone, neither of these people tends to occur more than one out of 500 or higher. Therefor, you'd have to pop out 500 shorties before you'd maybe get a Jon Katz replacement. And the investment in raising each child would be well over $15-45k per, not including college, cars stuff, and kilotons of junkfood. The numbers go even higher for true pioneering world changing sorts like the.zip file Katz guy.
Yes, that could happen easily. In a high compression engine I'm sure the effect would be quite amazing. But if you had a diesel electric hybrid, the engine could go kaboom, but you could still probably make it to the next exit, or sevice depot.
Ok, so you want to nail the SUV crowd, the SUV crowd wants exemptions for power. Why not go to pure ethanol for big assed no emmision control vehicles ? It costs a fortune, takes a big assed tank for long range, which should be no biggie for a big assed vehicle. SUV people would love it. And dumping alcohol vapor all over is no biggie any way you look at it.(which you might have to do to reduce NOx and CO emmisions) Admittiedly, it doesn't have the bite of high energy density fuels, but an SUV owner could always turbo or supercharge. Hell, if you're already $40k in the hole, whats anther $2-8K to get some performance out of an alcohol fuel.
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Not to worry, the EPA is planning to make the big oil guys produce low sulfer diesel which will clean up diesel emmisions. Which should be grat on paper, unless the long haul truck drivers go on strike in response to the cost spikes.
Thats interesting logic, if you're smart enough to know X, then you must know Y and Z as well. But the real world doesn't work that way, or even the mathematical world. People who know one thing very well almost alwayo have tunnel vision. All there attention is on one very small segment of the big picture. Outside of that they are totally lost. For all we know this poor kid thought he was hitting the reset button on life.
If you were the guys running the school and had a competant lawyer on the scene, you would by all means STONEWALL. When the civil suit comes up, claim you can't talk about it for legal reasons (like the fact that you don't want to lose the case, your career,lots of money or go to jail) Public appologies are as good as admissions of guilt. Its a big billboard saying SUE US FOR EVERYTHING WE HAVE OR EVER WILL HAVE.
Just because you work in a school doesn't automatically imply that you have better than a room temp IQ. Noone seems to understand that little fact these days. So as a result, the kids get messed up, the parents are confused about what is going on in the schools, and the governments who set up the regulations for the school are seeing no pressure from anyone to remove the rotten eggs from the system. As time goes on a teacher with limited abilities is shifted around to less critical classes, and maybe moved into administration in time. And then you have people who are as bad at admin duties as teaching duties.
He might have to do time in some sort of "at risk" program or community service unless he had 2-3 prior convictions. In that case, he'd probably end up in a juvie lockup. As for what juvie stuff carries over, some states are thinking about keeping juvie records on file after 18 if you raped or killed someone as a juvie.
Noones blaming the suspension, everyone is blaming the people involved who gave the kid the suspension. I'm sure some power tripping school goon tried to "scare the kid straight" with threats of him doing jail time and how his prospects of ever getting into college and having a real future were nil. Had they said, "ok kid, you screwed up, you have ten days to think it over, see ya." the kid would still be alive.
Well, having worked with this device I know that the cd laser is a legacy model, so it will not recognize the low reflection traits of a CD-R. No big conspiracy, its just economics. They had the old stuff availbale and used it. The DVD laser is used only for DVDs, so it doesnt factor into the CD equation.
Given the amount of cash san francisco has available, and this rolling blackout thing, people are going to be looking for alternatives so they can at least run their computers. Great time to be a solar power solution supplier.
Just change the settings at work, if your using Windoze under control panel, keyboards, langauges. Usually it'll list 3 different Dvorak layouts. You can always use dry erase marker on the keyboard if need to remember the layout. It wears off pretty fast as is. So its easy enough to clean up if you had to
It doesnt take much of a machine to teach someone programming. Most schools are trying to teach common office applications, so you need something quite a bit more modern than a TRS-80 which worked fine for teaching basic coding skills. When you get into microsoft bloatware applications, like powerpoint or office 2000, THEN you need the P3-733 machine with 128 meg and the 75 gig hard drive.
I love how the elitist nerd types think you need a P3 1GHz machine for a data logger. A machine 1/10th the speed of that atari would probably do just fine. I immagine the program is so short that a cassette loads it up in a few minutes. Less time that it takes some linux or windozes machines to shut down and reboot.
Some lunatic did that with RSA done in PERL and had it tattoed on their arm. If human life is cheap, I guess skin in a hell of a lot cheaper.
I'd have to strongly disagree with you. Its in our nature. Being the top most highly competative predators on earth, to deny ones nature is very foolish. But, that nature is primal. You can acknowledge that, and move on from there. High level processing would say the death of either was tragic since by numbers alone, neither of these people tends to occur more than one out of 500 or higher. Therefor, you'd have to pop out 500 shorties before you'd maybe get a Jon Katz replacement. And the investment in raising each child would be well over $15-45k per, not including college, cars stuff, and kilotons of junkfood. The numbers go even higher for true pioneering world changing sorts like the .zip file Katz guy.
Yes, that could happen easily. In a high compression engine I'm sure the effect would be quite amazing. But if you had a diesel electric hybrid, the engine could go kaboom, but you could still probably make it to the next exit, or sevice depot.
Ok, so you want to nail the SUV crowd, the SUV crowd wants exemptions for power. Why not go to pure ethanol for big assed no emmision control vehicles ? It costs a fortune, takes a big assed tank for long range, which should be no biggie for a big assed vehicle. SUV people would love it. And dumping alcohol vapor all over is no biggie any way you look at it.(which you might have to do to reduce NOx and CO emmisions) Admittiedly, it doesn't have the bite of high energy density fuels, but an SUV owner could always turbo or supercharge. Hell, if you're already $40k in the hole, whats anther $2-8K to get some performance out of an alcohol fuel.