She was as safe as she could *ever* be in any crowd in that room.
Yes, because men have such a long-standing and renowned respect for women's opinions, particularly when being told that they might be a bit disrespectful.
Money doesn't appear to bring addional happiness once a level of sufficiency is reached.
Which, if memory serves, has been measured at about $75K a year (as in, that's the point where making more money stops equating to additional "happiness", just more toys.
Not always an option - some universities/college require students to live in the dorm (at least for the first couple years).
Couple tips from my past dorm-life (where I remember being able to sing along with the music playing in the rec room... four floors down from me).
I'd try music again - personally I found jazz with no singing was the right balance of white-noise without being attention grabbing. Some other genre might work for you. There's also some nice white-noise generators out there that aren't crazy expensive.
If you're looking for plain silence, perhaps invest in a decent pair of noise-cancelling headphones (the nice big over-the-ears kind), and just don't plug it in to anything.
Double-check your dorm rules - there might be limits on noise at particular hours. Alternately, there might be other floors/areas of the dorm with stricter rules that might be a better fit for you.
Barring that, find a library or study room that works more to your liking. Do a bit of exploring - a lot of campuses have study areas in hard-to-find places (either intentionally or accidentally) that are usually far quieter than the popular areas.
Taxes pay for the things that are silly to pay for separately.
Why is it silly to pay for them separately? You pay for any number of other services and facilities separately. Even if they're to the mutual benefit of the public, like a museum ticket.
Guess what - your museum almost certainly is *also* funded by taxes. Otherwise some businessman would open up Bob's Museum and Smokeshop and make a profit.
The third is to see it as the surcharge you pay because your favored capitalistic system doesn't actually work for everyone.
Sure, but why do you support paying that surcharge? If you do it out of fear or social pressure then it reduces to something like extortion. If you do it out of empathy or a sense of justice then it's basically a moral issue for you.
Neither - I support taxes because it's cheaper than paying for my own firefighters and teachers and doctors and nurses, and far cheaper than building my own library or playground or swimming pool or skating rink. It's no different than splitting the cost of the fence with your neighbor instead of building two back-to-back - if we all pitch in we can have a library AND a playground AND a pool AND a rink (and firehalls, etc, etc.)
And to round back to the original argument, it's cheaper to help folks get back on their feet than to pay for the social ills that come from ignoring them. (And there's no lack of studies backing *that* up)
I would think after reading the handbook the answer is obvious - we haven't seen new Half-Life because Valve isn't happy with where the project is.
Maybe it's nearly done and they just can't tweak it to their satisfaction, maybe it's nothing but a bunch of whiteboard drawings because they can't come up with a pitch that excites them. But there's something to be said for having the freedom to *not* do a project until it's something you're excited about (and doing those other projects in the meantime).
99% of the case, people will eventually bored and find something to do.
Sure. But will it be useful? Give me $2000/month and no social stigma, why shouldn't I just read and post to slashdot all day? I'll learn a lot, but won't be of much practical use. "Something to do" isn't the same as "something valuable".
Define "valuable". If you go volunteer at the local foodbank/school/orphanage/senior's home, is that "value"? What if you start creating art or writing plays or busking in the street? Or homeschooling your kid (or help homeschool someone else's kid?) There's any number of things that are appreciated but don't get a "value" attached to it.
The flip side of this is the common anarchist and/or anti-capitalist comment I've heard, that "if all the physicists had to do mining or garbage collecting now and then, we'd quickly have robots to do all that labor." Of course it's a bit silly, but there's a nugget of truth buried in there.
The flip side is that if they spend all day mining and garbage collecting, where do they find time to build robots?
A solution IMO is a shorter work week - I know a lot of creative types that don't mind working for a living; they'd just prefer to have a bit more time to do the things they love (that doesn't yet pay enough to make a living from).
Agreed - I have no interest in the 7" size (it's great for Kindles and the "light reading" crowd, but too small to do any real work on). I would happily upgrade to one at full letter/a4 size - everything is printed on that size of paper, so why wouldn't I want my digital paper to be that size?
No the point is that attrition works, but the writer stupidly called it "math" when it is no such thing.
Well, it is "math", just not complicated math:
(number of missiles that will hit target) - (number of interceptors * interception rate) = (number of explosions you have to explain to the PM in the morning)
Or, in English - it's fantastic that Israel has the ability to tell where a missile will hit and conserve interceptors. The counter to that is to throw a whole *lotta* missiles in the air and see just how fast it can do that math. It's the primitive form of the Macross Missile Massacre.
This would be like a college basketball small forward chosen number 10 or so in the NBA draft beating Lebron James 1on1 9 times in a row.
Of course, when a sports player (or team) starts winning when they're not supposed to, it's called an "underdog story" and Hallmark makes TV movies out of it.
It wasn't just his unexpected high performance, but also the expected drop in performance once the internet broadcast of the game was disabled.
Alternate explanation - guy is having the day of his life, and suddenly there's people around and commotion and people staring at him, and he loses his groove.
I'm all for the suspicion (he did have a Very Good Day), but someone should at least have a proper theory of how he did it before throwing accusations around.
Not to put too fine a point on things, but if the goal is "test it until it breaks", do you really want to be next to it when that happens, regardless of what you hope or expect it will do?
I don't tell people not to go to college because the odd Silicon Valley guy made it big.
I tell people to think twice about college because you can't walk into a coffee shop without being served by someone who *did* go to college and can't find a job in their field.
Really? Geez...I've downsized with moves post Katrina, but I've easily had 20 or more computers in my house on various projects...resurrecting some older servers I bought on the cheap, laptops in every room (being replaced in some cases with tablets), mac workstations, freeNAS set up, an old desktop for learning and running IPtables to run from ISP into an old cisco switch I bought...etc.
Hell, I'm not a hardware geek and I have six PCs, plus phones/iWidgets and other things that law enforcement will call a "computer" to make me look like a Vewwy Bad Man. Everything's not in working order, but I wouldn't expect the cops to notice or care.
Maybe this was another type of list entirely. It may not have come from the police department. The fact that it made it into the confetti is odd. Perhaps whomever made the list wanted to get rid of it in a way that would not be noticed. If so, they miscalculated.
And I was thinking the reverse - if we believe Macy's claim that they buy commercial confetti (and I haven't seen anything to say otherwise yet), then this might be someone who wanted it to be found, but not traced back to them.
"Is your boss tracking you with an RFID chip? Would you like it if he did? "
Yes, actually, in the form of a pass card. How is this different from those cards most people use every day at work? It's not even as if she has to bring it anywhere away from school or anything like that.
Where I am, the pass is a key. Once I'm in the building, it doesn't track me at all. (Or if it does, they've done an amazing job of hiding that fact for years). Not to mention that current policy is that swipes are confidential, along with the security cameras and internet usage - you don't get to see those records without a compelling reason.
How does it not benefit the students? Would you really prefer to sit through a role call every class? In my school we only had a roll call first thing in the morning. If the US schools are doing it every class, it must be incredibly annoying for both students and teachers, not to mention a waste of something like 30 minutes of every day.
And yet, schools have somehow managed to teach in spite of having to do roll call for decades. Even back in the 90s I had roll call every class. It doesn't take long:
Count up $KIDS_IN_CLASS_TODAY
IF $KIDS_IN_CLASS_TODAY != $KIDS_ENROLLED_IN_CLASS THEN
LOG (MISSING KIDS)
END
Not to mention the badges only work if your human security confirms that the kid matches the badge.
My old college dorm used to require ID to get in after hours, but the human aspect was so lax that people made a game out of swapping badges to see if they'd notice.
The "winner" was when a 4' white redhead woman and a 6 1/2 ' black bald man swapped badges and were waved through without a second glance.
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So, I'm not allowed to wear Glasses while driving. Yet, I'm *required* to wear glasses while driving (due to my prescription).
So, if my prescription glasses have Google Glass installed, am I supposed to or prohibited from wearing them?
She was as safe as she could *ever* be in any crowd in that room.
Yes, because men have such a long-standing and renowned respect for women's opinions, particularly when being told that they might be a bit disrespectful.
Money doesn't appear to bring addional happiness once a level of sufficiency is reached.
Which, if memory serves, has been measured at about $75K a year (as in, that's the point where making more money stops equating to additional "happiness", just more toys.
And/or leave the fucking dorms.
Not always an option - some universities/college require students to live in the dorm (at least for the first couple years).
Couple tips from my past dorm-life (where I remember being able to sing along with the music playing in the rec room... four floors down from me).
Either way, best of luck to you!
Why is it silly to pay for them separately? You pay for any number of other services and facilities separately. Even if they're to the mutual benefit of the public, like a museum ticket.
Guess what - your museum almost certainly is *also* funded by taxes. Otherwise some businessman would open up Bob's Museum and Smokeshop and make a profit.
Sure, but why do you support paying that surcharge? If you do it out of fear or social pressure then it reduces to something like extortion. If you do it out of empathy or a sense of justice then it's basically a moral issue for you.
Neither - I support taxes because it's cheaper than paying for my own firefighters and teachers and doctors and nurses, and far cheaper than building my own library or playground or swimming pool or skating rink. It's no different than splitting the cost of the fence with your neighbor instead of building two back-to-back - if we all pitch in we can have a library AND a playground AND a pool AND a rink (and firehalls, etc, etc.)
And to round back to the original argument, it's cheaper to help folks get back on their feet than to pay for the social ills that come from ignoring them. (And there's no lack of studies backing *that* up)
I would think after reading the handbook the answer is obvious - we haven't seen new Half-Life because Valve isn't happy with where the project is.
Maybe it's nearly done and they just can't tweak it to their satisfaction, maybe it's nothing but a bunch of whiteboard drawings because they can't come up with a pitch that excites them. But there's something to be said for having the freedom to *not* do a project until it's something you're excited about (and doing those other projects in the meantime).
Would you still pay taxes?
Unless you're going to tell me roads, schools, parks, police and fire service, etc. also grow on trees, yep.
Taxes pay for the things that are silly to pay for separately.
Sure. But will it be useful? Give me $2000/month and no social stigma, why shouldn't I just read and post to slashdot all day? I'll learn a lot, but won't be of much practical use. "Something to do" isn't the same as "something valuable".
Define "valuable". If you go volunteer at the local foodbank/school/orphanage/senior's home, is that "value"? What if you start creating art or writing plays or busking in the street? Or homeschooling your kid (or help homeschool someone else's kid?) There's any number of things that are appreciated but don't get a "value" attached to it.
The third is to see it as the surcharge you pay because your favored capitalistic system doesn't actually work for everyone.
The flip side of this is the common anarchist and/or anti-capitalist comment I've heard, that "if all the physicists had to do mining or garbage collecting now and then, we'd quickly have robots to do all that labor." Of course it's a bit silly, but there's a nugget of truth buried in there.
The flip side is that if they spend all day mining and garbage collecting, where do they find time to build robots?
A solution IMO is a shorter work week - I know a lot of creative types that don't mind working for a living; they'd just prefer to have a bit more time to do the things they love (that doesn't yet pay enough to make a living from).
Agreed - I have no interest in the 7" size (it's great for Kindles and the "light reading" crowd, but too small to do any real work on). I would happily upgrade to one at full letter/a4 size - everything is printed on that size of paper, so why wouldn't I want my digital paper to be that size?
No the point is that attrition works, but the writer stupidly called it "math" when it is no such thing.
Well, it is "math", just not complicated math:
(number of missiles that will hit target) - (number of interceptors * interception rate) = (number of explosions you have to explain to the PM in the morning)
Or, in English - it's fantastic that Israel has the ability to tell where a missile will hit and conserve interceptors. The counter to that is to throw a whole *lotta* missiles in the air and see just how fast it can do that math. It's the primitive form of the Macross Missile Massacre.
This would be like a college basketball small forward chosen number 10 or so in the NBA draft beating Lebron James 1on1 9 times in a row.
Of course, when a sports player (or team) starts winning when they're not supposed to, it's called an "underdog story" and Hallmark makes TV movies out of it.
It wasn't just his unexpected high performance, but also the expected drop in performance once the internet broadcast of the game was disabled.
Alternate explanation - guy is having the day of his life, and suddenly there's people around and commotion and people staring at him, and he loses his groove.
I'm all for the suspicion (he did have a Very Good Day), but someone should at least have a proper theory of how he did it before throwing accusations around.
Or in Business Speak, reinvent the wheel on your own time.
Not to put too fine a point on things, but if the goal is "test it until it breaks", do you really want to be next to it when that happens, regardless of what you hope or expect it will do?
I don't tell people not to go to college because the odd Silicon Valley guy made it big.
I tell people to think twice about college because you can't walk into a coffee shop without being served by someone who *did* go to college and can't find a job in their field.
Really? Geez...I've downsized with moves post Katrina, but I've easily had 20 or more computers in my house on various projects...resurrecting some older servers I bought on the cheap, laptops in every room (being replaced in some cases with tablets), mac workstations, freeNAS set up, an old desktop for learning and running IPtables to run from ISP into an old cisco switch I bought...etc.
Hell, I'm not a hardware geek and I have six PCs, plus phones/iWidgets and other things that law enforcement will call a "computer" to make me look like a Vewwy Bad Man. Everything's not in working order, but I wouldn't expect the cops to notice or care.
Maybe this was another type of list entirely. It may not have come from the police department. The fact that it made it into the confetti is odd. Perhaps whomever made the list wanted to get rid of it in a way that would not be noticed. If so, they miscalculated.
And I was thinking the reverse - if we believe Macy's claim that they buy commercial confetti (and I haven't seen anything to say otherwise yet), then this might be someone who wanted it to be found, but not traced back to them.
If you read the article, you'll find out that the school wants the children to wear the ID badge all the time, not just at school.
The article doesn't explain why, though - does anyone know?
"Is your boss tracking you with an RFID chip? Would you like it if he did? "
Yes, actually, in the form of a pass card. How is this different from those cards most people use every day at work? It's not even as if she has to bring it anywhere away from school or anything like that.
Where I am, the pass is a key. Once I'm in the building, it doesn't track me at all. (Or if it does, they've done an amazing job of hiding that fact for years). Not to mention that current policy is that swipes are confidential, along with the security cameras and internet usage - you don't get to see those records without a compelling reason.
How does it not benefit the students? Would you really prefer to sit through a role call every class? In my school we only had a roll call first thing in the morning. If the US schools are doing it every class, it must be incredibly annoying for both students and teachers, not to mention a waste of something like 30 minutes of every day.
And yet, schools have somehow managed to teach in spite of having to do roll call for decades. Even back in the 90s I had roll call every class. It doesn't take long:
Count up $KIDS_IN_CLASS_TODAY IF $KIDS_IN_CLASS_TODAY != $KIDS_ENROLLED_IN_CLASS THEN LOG (MISSING KIDS) END
Not to mention the badges only work if your human security confirms that the kid matches the badge.
My old college dorm used to require ID to get in after hours, but the human aspect was so lax that people made a game out of swapping badges to see if they'd notice.
The "winner" was when a 4' white redhead woman and a 6 1/2 ' black bald man swapped badges and were waved through without a second glance.
She was offered a badge without an RFID chip in it. She refuses to wear a badge of any sort.
She was offered a disabled badge, as long as she and her family publicly endorsed the program - bit of a difference there.