I may be in the minority here, but I do have kids. When my 9-year old discovers whatever passes for MySpace at the time we begin to give him access to the web, he's not going to be using it independently of the direct oversight of my wife and myself. I have a nine-year old son, too. You really give him no web access whatsoever? Adrian uses Miriam Webster's site for his spelling/vocabulary homework, and he enjoys PBS Kids and Nickelodean's web sites as well as Kitten War, Two Lumps (web comic about two cats -- a few aren't 100% appropriate, but I'm willing to talk those over with him), and the occasional article about Star Wars or YouTube video that I show him because I think he'll like it. Kids legally can't create accounts on sites that require logins until they're 13; we'll see what Adrian's like by then, but that seems like a fairly reasonable age to start allowing a little privacy. It's not like he can't say things I might not like to his friends through other methods.
will continue to be locked to system changes Good luck. There's still too much software that needs to be on an administrator account to run, especially games. Of course, the way his Sims keep starving to death bothers me a lot more than anything I've seen him look for on the internet.
Yes, I am a fanatic, in that I'm absolutely convinced of my beliefs (including trusting that God will change my mind if I'm wrong). That last bit is really something you'd be better off keeping to yourself if you want anyone to listen to you.
Have you actually looked at a PDF file in a text editor? Yes, and I wrote a Java library for creating PDF files as my senior project.
It's a meaningless pile of spaghetti. That depends on the PDF. An object inside a PDF file can be all sorts of things; the most basic are text and plain-text formatting commands. However, that kind of PDF object can also be compressed inside the PDF file, and you can also have images and font definitons inside the PDF; all of those will look like gobbledygook.
The interesting part about constitutional interpretation back then was that the framers were alive. You could have actually asked them what they meant. Though that only matters if you care about original intent.
If you look at the constitutional convention and at what the framers were using as their own guidelines (republican theory in general, The Spirit of the Laws specifically), it's pretty clear that they realized they needed another check on the direct will of the people, but couldn't think of how to accomplish it. Most of them probably went along with Marbury vs. Madison because it completed what they were trying to accomplish in the first place. Just realize that John Marshal is just as much a founding father due to that as anyone else except perhaps James Madison.
Luxembourg Luxembourg is smaller than Rhode Island (the smallest U.S. state), and it takes about an hour and a half to drive across Rhode Island the long way. Is it really that big a deal to go to France, Germany or Belgium to shop?
I can't think of the last time a destroyer was used in any meaningful way in combat since WW2. If I remember correctly, the only reason the navy even keeps destroyers is because congress forces them to. The distinction between destoyers and cruisers is pretty fuzzy these days. Largely, both exist to shoot down missles and sink submarines (usually via their helicopters, but they sonar on the ship is needed) that threaten other ships. They also do some shore bombardment, but they don't have the firepower or range for that to be a major role right now.
I guess you could put it on a tank or something A tank doesn't have the electrical power for it.
It's being shown in Iraq and Afghanistan that all the fancy new technology that the military keeps buying doesn't really mean squat when it comes to fighting a war. It depends what part of a war you're talking about. Recall the beginning of the Afghanistan war, where the various factions the Taliban had kept under their thumb for years were able to take over the country in a few days simply because they had American air support. The beginning of the Iraq war was fairly impressive, too.
It's occupation where high-tech tools don't gain you nearly as much, and I'm leaning towards the opinion that the U.S. military shouldn't really have occupation as one of its roles. If there aren't local ground forces who are willing to do the fighting with some air support and maybe things like tanks from us, perhaps we have no business being there.
on carriers because it makes for a ready source of steam (think catapults), hot water, etc. And not having the hot exhaust gases rising behind the ship makes landings safer.
I was reading somewhere that I now can't find that they're changing the catapults over to electric on new carriers shortly. I'm not sure if that's on the George H. W. Bush, or the Gerald Ford (Dammit, I wanted the new class to be the Enterprise!).
Seems our DD(X) class is going to need a fleet of tanker escorts shoud a real war break out. I'm not sure how big these rail guns are, aside from power sources, but it seems like these would make more sense on a submarine. Those are already nuclear (at least American submarines are), and you could just poke a few feet of the sail above water, fire your shot, and be back underwater maybe ten seconds later.
I think those who modded this as "funny" rather than "insightful" either don't use CFLs, or don't get up before dawn. My house is full of CF bulbs, and I get up before dawn all winter, but this had never occurred to me. Probably because when I get up I usually sit down at a computer before I ever turn any lights on.
The rest of BellSouth isn't that valuable to the new AT&T. Except they pretty clearly want to be an ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) nationwide, like they nearly were before. I would be shocked if Qwest remained independant for long, and after that, I think they'll buy the non-wireless portions of Verizon (since the own Cingular, they probably can't buy Verizon Wireless). That will give them all of the old American Bell area back, plus the old GTE areas.
these stats do not include the half dozen dead cheap dvd players I have sitting in the garage. It was households, not players, so if you replaced the dead ones, it doesn't matter.
Have you had any better luck with VHS? After our third VCR in a year died (and the third was an expensive one to avoid rewiring everything when a cheaper one died), we gave up and carted all of our VHS tapes to my parents' house.
what is wrong with "our" parents. Don't they teach reading at home? Do you have any idea how to teach beginning reading? I certainly don't, and I refuse to feel guilty for only helping my son out with hard words and making sure he reads a lot since he was taught at school. He reads well and has very good spelling now (just turned nine), and I'm not all that concerned that he couldn't do so at four.
Harry is the anti-geek: he isn't smart, isn't the best in school, doesn't give a rat's ass about magic, etc. The only thing he is good at is flying his stick; Harry is a JOCK!
Yeah, probably. Just like in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, though, the main character isn't really one of the more interesting. Many of us are far more interested in Snape, Hermione, Lupin, Willow, Giles and Oz.
However, then came "The Bear and the Dragon" He needed to stop after "The Sum of All Fears". That was a really great book, but it diverged too far from reality to continue the series further without wandering off into Lala Land.
One of the best comments ever was in a long thread about the technicalities of RAID hardware. Someone wrote four long paragraphs, and halfway through the second, tacked on to the end of one sentence "and besides, Hermione dies in the last book anyways."
Wash with warm water. Use mild soap. Dry flat. Do not use bleach. Do not dry in the dryer. Do not iron. We are sorry that Our President is an idiot. We did not vote for him.
The same can be said of the U.S. military in US. the only difference is that you can enjoy harry potter. Now, now, I know several women who have enjoyed the U.S. military. The line "liberated from the tyranny of my pants" was relayed by one friend of mine.
Admittedly, I haven't a clue what I would do with a 20-amp blender, but it looks impressive. Blow a fuse? I don't know about you, but my house has 15 amp circuits.
In the US, in most localities, both the physical phone and cable networks are monopolies, so you only have a single supplier for each. If you haven't noticed, the phone and cable networks are starting to compete with each other on telephone and TV (plus, there's satellite for TV and pure cellular for phone), and they've been competing with each other on data services for a while now.
Can you discipline an employee for buying sub-standard tools that are required to do their job? Yes, absolutely. That's not a terribly stringent requirement these days. You would need to provide tech support to a wider variety of machines, though, and that is a downside.
Who pays for the software? I think you could work out a license so that X number of your employees can install software on their own computers.
Who pays for the court costs if pirated software is found (probably the employee). I would expect the employee, unless they were directed to do it by their manager.
The closest corollary I can think of is mechanic's tools. Mechanics supply their own tools (I think) but I think there are also monthly allowances for the replacement/purchase of new tools. Do you mean car mechanics? I don't know that field so well, but a good friend of mine is a machinist, and he had to struggle early on to build the large set of tools he had to own for work, and no, there was no assistance from any of the 3-4 companies he worked at through that period.
if the company needs to buy a laptop every few years, pay for broadband, pay for other communication tools, etc Why would they need to do that? For most positions that companies would consider allowing telecommuting for, I think it's reasonable to expect the employee to have their own computer. Just don't bother them about having porn on the same computer they do work on.
Each "smart" bomb dropped in Iraq is over a years salary and benefits for a typical American family. Maybe in the first gulf war (actually, that would've been understating it a bit), but they've gotten much cheaper. It makes sense when you consider that a smart bomb is basically just the original bomb, a PC, a GPS unit, and a few motors to move the fins on the bomb. Now that we've mostly stopped using dumb bombs, we're getting reasonable volumes on the smart bombs, so they're not much more than the $1000 or so they should level off at.
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By "The Dawn of Time" you mean midnight, January 1, 1970, right?
The Internet is also known as the "World Wide Web"
Not quite.
I may be in the minority here, but I do have kids. When my 9-year old discovers whatever passes for MySpace at the time we begin to give him access to the web, he's not going to be using it independently of the direct oversight of my wife and myself.
I have a nine-year old son, too. You really give him no web access whatsoever? Adrian uses Miriam Webster's site for his spelling/vocabulary homework, and he enjoys PBS Kids and Nickelodean's web sites as well as Kitten War, Two Lumps (web comic about two cats -- a few aren't 100% appropriate, but I'm willing to talk those over with him), and the occasional article about Star Wars or YouTube video that I show him because I think he'll like it. Kids legally can't create accounts on sites that require logins until they're 13; we'll see what Adrian's like by then, but that seems like a fairly reasonable age to start allowing a little privacy. It's not like he can't say things I might not like to his friends through other methods.
will continue to be locked to system changes
Good luck. There's still too much software that needs to be on an administrator account to run, especially games. Of course, the way his Sims keep starving to death bothers me a lot more than anything I've seen him look for on the internet.
Yes, I am a fanatic, in that I'm absolutely convinced of my beliefs (including trusting that God will change my mind if I'm wrong).
That last bit is really something you'd be better off keeping to yourself if you want anyone to listen to you.
Have you actually looked at a PDF file in a text editor?
Yes, and I wrote a Java library for creating PDF files as my senior project.
It's a meaningless pile of spaghetti.
That depends on the PDF. An object inside a PDF file can be all sorts of things; the most basic are text and plain-text formatting commands. However, that kind of PDF object can also be compressed inside the PDF file, and you can also have images and font definitons inside the PDF; all of those will look like gobbledygook.
The interesting part about constitutional interpretation back then was that the framers were alive. You could have actually asked them what they meant. Though that only matters if you care about original intent.
If you look at the constitutional convention and at what the framers were using as their own guidelines (republican theory in general, The Spirit of the Laws specifically), it's pretty clear that they realized they needed another check on the direct will of the people, but couldn't think of how to accomplish it. Most of them probably went along with Marbury vs. Madison because it completed what they were trying to accomplish in the first place. Just realize that John Marshal is just as much a founding father due to that as anyone else except perhaps James Madison.
3? It was 2 last week! Who's the sucker?
Don't worry, he's running a Linux file server on it.
Luxembourg
Luxembourg is smaller than Rhode Island (the smallest U.S. state), and it takes about an hour and a half to drive across Rhode Island the long way. Is it really that big a deal to go to France, Germany or Belgium to shop?
Am I missing something here?
Several things.
I can't think of the last time a destroyer was used in any meaningful way in combat since WW2. If I remember correctly, the only reason the navy even keeps destroyers is because congress forces them to.
The distinction between destoyers and cruisers is pretty fuzzy these days. Largely, both exist to shoot down missles and sink submarines (usually via their helicopters, but they sonar on the ship is needed) that threaten other ships. They also do some shore bombardment, but they don't have the firepower or range for that to be a major role right now.
I guess you could put it on a tank or something
A tank doesn't have the electrical power for it.
It's being shown in Iraq and Afghanistan that all the fancy new technology that the military keeps buying doesn't really mean squat when it comes to fighting a war.
It depends what part of a war you're talking about. Recall the beginning of the Afghanistan war, where the various factions the Taliban had kept under their thumb for years were able to take over the country in a few days simply because they had American air support. The beginning of the Iraq war was fairly impressive, too.
It's occupation where high-tech tools don't gain you nearly as much, and I'm leaning towards the opinion that the U.S. military shouldn't really have occupation as one of its roles. If there aren't local ground forces who are willing to do the fighting with some air support and maybe things like tanks from us, perhaps we have no business being there.
on carriers because it makes for a ready source of steam (think catapults), hot water, etc.
And not having the hot exhaust gases rising behind the ship makes landings safer.
I was reading somewhere that I now can't find that they're changing the catapults over to electric on new carriers shortly. I'm not sure if that's on the George H. W. Bush, or the Gerald Ford (Dammit, I wanted the new class to be the Enterprise!).
Seems our DD(X) class is going to need a fleet of tanker escorts shoud a real war break out.
I'm not sure how big these rail guns are, aside from power sources, but it seems like these would make more sense on a submarine. Those are already nuclear (at least American submarines are), and you could just poke a few feet of the sail above water, fire your shot, and be back underwater maybe ten seconds later.
I think those who modded this as "funny" rather than "insightful" either don't use CFLs, or don't get up before dawn.
My house is full of CF bulbs, and I get up before dawn all winter, but this had never occurred to me. Probably because when I get up I usually sit down at a computer before I ever turn any lights on.
Did you notice that that blog appears to be satire? "Jon Swift" was my first clue...
The rest of BellSouth isn't that valuable to the new AT&T.
Except they pretty clearly want to be an ILEC (Incumbent Local Exchange Carrier) nationwide, like they nearly were before. I would be shocked if Qwest remained independant for long, and after that, I think they'll buy the non-wireless portions of Verizon (since the own Cingular, they probably can't buy Verizon Wireless). That will give them all of the old American Bell area back, plus the old GTE areas.
What were you expecting her wife to do?
these stats do not include the half dozen dead cheap dvd players I have sitting in the garage.
It was households, not players, so if you replaced the dead ones, it doesn't matter.
Have you had any better luck with VHS? After our third VCR in a year died (and the third was an expensive one to avoid rewiring everything when a cheaper one died), we gave up and carted all of our VHS tapes to my parents' house.
what is wrong with "our" parents. Don't they teach reading at home?
Do you have any idea how to teach beginning reading? I certainly don't, and I refuse to feel guilty for only helping my son out with hard words and making sure he reads a lot since he was taught at school. He reads well and has very good spelling now (just turned nine), and I'm not all that concerned that he couldn't do so at four.
Harry is the anti-geek: he isn't smart, isn't the best in school, doesn't give a rat's ass about magic, etc. The only thing he is good at is flying his stick; Harry is a JOCK!
Yeah, probably. Just like in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, though, the main character isn't really one of the more interesting. Many of us are far more interested in Snape, Hermione, Lupin, Willow, Giles and Oz.
However, then came "The Bear and the Dragon"
He needed to stop after "The Sum of All Fears". That was a really great book, but it diverged too far from reality to continue the series further without wandering off into Lala Land.
One of the best comments ever was in a long thread about the technicalities of RAID hardware. Someone wrote four long paragraphs, and halfway through the second, tacked on to the end of one sentence "and besides, Hermione dies in the last book anyways."
Different topic, but this washing instructions tag has the same style.
Wash with warm water.
Use mild soap.
Dry flat.
Do not use bleach.
Do not dry in the dryer.
Do not iron.
We are sorry that Our President is an idiot.
We did not vote for him.
The same can be said of the U.S. military in US. the only difference is that you can enjoy harry potter.
Now, now, I know several women who have enjoyed the U.S. military. The line "liberated from the tyranny of my pants" was relayed by one friend of mine.
Admittedly, I haven't a clue what I would do with a 20-amp blender, but it looks impressive.
Blow a fuse? I don't know about you, but my house has 15 amp circuits.
In the US, in most localities, both the physical phone and cable networks are monopolies, so you only have a single supplier for each.
If you haven't noticed, the phone and cable networks are starting to compete with each other on telephone and TV (plus, there's satellite for TV and pure cellular for phone), and they've been competing with each other on data services for a while now.
Can you discipline an employee for buying sub-standard tools that are required to do their job?
Yes, absolutely. That's not a terribly stringent requirement these days. You would need to provide tech support to a wider variety of machines, though, and that is a downside.
Who pays for the software?
I think you could work out a license so that X number of your employees can install software on their own computers.
Who pays for the court costs if pirated software is found (probably the employee).
I would expect the employee, unless they were directed to do it by their manager.
The closest corollary I can think of is mechanic's tools. Mechanics supply their own tools (I think) but I think there are also monthly allowances for the replacement/purchase of new tools.
Do you mean car mechanics? I don't know that field so well, but a good friend of mine is a machinist, and he had to struggle early on to build the large set of tools he had to own for work, and no, there was no assistance from any of the 3-4 companies he worked at through that period.
if the company needs to buy a laptop every few years, pay for broadband, pay for other communication tools, etc
Why would they need to do that? For most positions that companies would consider allowing telecommuting for, I think it's reasonable to expect the employee to have their own computer. Just don't bother them about having porn on the same computer they do work on.
Each "smart" bomb dropped in Iraq is over a years salary and benefits for a typical American family.
Maybe in the first gulf war (actually, that would've been understating it a bit), but they've gotten much cheaper. It makes sense when you consider that a smart bomb is basically just the original bomb, a PC, a GPS unit, and a few motors to move the fins on the bomb. Now that we've mostly stopped using dumb bombs, we're getting reasonable volumes on the smart bombs, so they're not much more than the $1000 or so they should level off at.