.Nonetheless, I've been convinced that when I do have kids (young children seem to require a frighteningly large amount of support equipment) a minivan will be the way to go.
Don't buy into the hype. My kid's seven, and we're still doing fine in a 2002 four-door Echo. (They call 'em Yaris these days). And that's counting a week long camping trip this year. Far more important than Massive Cargo Space is simply a back door to get the kid in-and-out of the seat. But what we save in fuel more than pays for the odd time we need to rent a larger vehicle.
Babies need a stroller and a diaper bag - bag goes next to kid, stroller goes in the trunk. (And after about a week you'll get one of those little umbrella strollers for the car because you don't actually need a Baby Suburban Stroller anyway.) Once they're toddler age you're down to just the bag for snacks and such, and that's about the same size as those big purses you see everywhere.
Are pooly socialized men bad at dating? YES. Are poorly socialized women bad at dating? YES. Next topic.
One small difference - when's the last time a poorly socialized woman went on a killing spree because men wouldn't date her? Or start spouting crap about "alphas" and "betas"?
Only one of the genders gets violently offended when things don't go their way. And the other gender gets blamed.
Well, he is getting advice from "cyber engineers", so you gotta consider the source.
In all seriousness - I get that we want to make a differentiation between this and electrical or civic engineering, but please pick something better than "cyber". Otherwise don't be surprised when everyone expects you to look like a Borg drone in a suit.
Cochlear implants are not restoring hearing as an hearing person believes it is. I have a friend with two deaf daughters and both of them are having cochlear implants since they are young and they cannot communicate normally even with cochlear implants. Many people believe the cochlear implants are correcting the audition like glasses are correcting vision. The correction glasses can be made to exactly compensate for the vision defect. The cochlear implants cannot be adjusted to compensate the hearing loss exactly.
Fair enough. But are you truly suggesting that hearing something is worse than hearing nothing?
Reading the article (I know, I'm terrible, I read TFA), the message I get is that the implants give options. Maybe they'll be unlucky and it won't help much, and they'll go the signing route. Maybe they'll be lucky and have little or no issues. But either way, they have *choices*. If it was my kid, I wouldn't have blinked before going for the implants.
Culture is entered, not inherited. Tell me my infant kid "belongs" to your culture? I'll show you where to shove your culture - my kid will decide for herself, thank you very much.
That's not a "fix this bug first" message... That's a much more general and sweeping "you suck, so you're fired," message.
Bit of both, I'd say. There's the obvious layer of "I'm tired of other people having to patch your crap, so I'm not taking more of your code until you show that you're willing to do your own homework".
And then there's the subtext of "Redhat isn't likely to keep paying you to develop if none of your code ever sees daylight again. So, if you're enjoying your cushy open source job you might want to get your shit together."
And I'll add my voice to the "I will happily work for a boss who tells me when I fucked up *and* when he fucked up, over a boss who whitewashes everything" club. Life's too short for three hour warm-fuzzy meetings.
FTFY. (Show me anywhere where Survivor is "reality", and then I'll start thinking about calling them reality shows. Best you'll get from me today is "long form game show")
But agreed - The Mole was a high-water mark of what the format could do. Anderson was also a brilliant host for the format.
Same here. I have many more interesting things to watch than game development, even with added drama by Pepsi. Between TV and web series, there's already more available to keep me entertained than I can possibly watch.
The irony is that if Mr. Pepsi would have likely got his arguments if he had just kept the cameras rolling. Give them several days, and you'll easily get a half-hour of "good parts" while they argue over some detail.
Hell, dude shoulda ran in, shouted "emacs sucks!" and then run out before the bullets started flying...
A little gender diversity (and diversity of any and all kinds, really) goes a long way to not only keeping group-think out, but keeping the worst impulses of humanity out.
Up here in Alberta, distracted driving laws say I'm not allowed to watch video while driving. So I'm not sure what good a video feed that I can't legally watch is.
Barring that, judging from how few licence plates I can read once the snow falls, I imagine that video camera is gonna show a lovely white screen. Wonder if that sets off the alarms?
A Minnesota school district has agreed that the taxpayer will pay $70,000
FTFY.
Pity it won't come out of the individuals' pockets.
Well, it might have. The principal who is quoted in the article isn't the one who was there at the time, and the article doesn't talk about what happened to the Previous Administration. So in my happy world, the jackass who did this got quietly disappeared into a research taskforce on ant populations in kindergarten sandboxes.
And when you consider that a well-funded lawyer would still be pocket change for the Internet Tycoons?
I've said it before, I'll say it again - if I ever come into Crazy Stupid Money like those folks, I will keep a room full of Trained Attack Lawyers on call, solely for these sorts of "public service opportunities".
There's an argument that certain off-campus behaviours should be covered by school rules; cheating (i.e. hiring someone to do a school project, etc), kids on a school team using performance enhancing drugs, possibly bullying.
Most of those still involve on-school activities.
Hiring someone to do your homework is fine. Handing *in* said homework (in class) is plagarism. (There's nothing inherently wrong with paying someone to write an essay for you on Hamlet; it's passing that work as your own that is a problem, and you do that at school.)
If you're doping while in competition, you're under the effect of drugs on school property.
There's plenty of bullying happening on school grounds. If someone is beating the kid up after school, that's a matter for the police (can you say "assault", boys and girls). If schools spent half as much energy keeping the school grounds safe as they want to spend monitoring the rest of the world, kids would feel safer at school than anywhere else.
Once my kid leaves the school ground, that's not the school's problem anymore.
"One of the items they wanted us to sign stated that we waive the right to sue if our child was killed during a field trip. Only three parents refused to sign, and those students stayed at school while the rest of the class went on the field trip."
As a parent, my first question would be - what the hell are you doing wrong that your first concern on a permission form is "don't sue us"?
My kid's permission slips are things like "I agree to pay the cab fare if she's a little shit and we send her home early" (and useful things like permission to administer first aid and call doctors and things). I'd be asking questions if they wanted blanket immunity before taking my kid to the park too.
Most school boards have a mandate to prevent bullying, and the facebook comments probably fall under this category since it was made by a student of the school about an employee of the school. That it occurred outside the school is irrelevant, because the school must provide a mentally healthy workplace for both the employee and the student. I agree that the specific incident is overreach and not a good way to resolve anything, but there is very likely some legal responsibility on the school's part to deal with the conflict.
So, if the *parent* had posted the comment, would the school be justified in sending over the cops to get *their* password? Call you into the CEO's office?
Then you find out if they're actually serious about it or not.
If it's just stupid boilerplate, they might never notice. If it's something they're slipping under the radar (my daughter's school tried a "we can use your daughter's image and name in our promotional materials" sheet this year), then they'll either quietly put a note in her file to Not Mess With This One, or they'll try and push it as a requirement (and then put the note in her file when they realize they're SOL here).
If it's an honest to goodness Actual Legal Thing, then you'll start hearing from the school board lawyers.
Yet another person who doesn't seem to understand what the word holistic means. How did the natives know about these properties? How did natives use them in treatments. Oh, that's right, you have no clue.
You should probably wait till DaveV2.0 before opening your mouth again.
And I know a few "alternative practitioners" who try desperately to get the attention of Mainstream Medicine to help discover why things work, and can't get their attention.
These days, if you found a tree bark that did something, you'd never get a doctor to admit it - he doesn't get a kickback from Big Tree, after all.
This is easy; in Australia the ticket is issued to the owner of the vehicle.
In Canada it's even funnier - since the photo is of the rear of the car (and thus you can't see who's driving), photo radar is fined to the vehicle as a non-moving violation. Yup, same category as parking tickets and the like.
They literally don't care who was behind the wheel - your car was going too fast, you're the owner, you get the fine. Only difference is that you don't get demerits (since they don't even try to prove you were the driver).
As the Boston bombing shows, the NSA is really not reading facebook. They're storing all this shit. but it's not used for any actual intelligence work. I can only speculate what it is used for, but chances are that's it's about money. So feel free to post on facebook, that's the last place they'll look.
More accurately, they're storing it so that once they decide you're the guilty one, they can easily backtrack through everything you've ever said or did to "prove" it. Six lines from an honest man, and all that.
and one that should really be able to be solved by HR.
From reading between the lines it sounds as if she feels that HR was somewhere between ineffectual and complicit in all of this.
Which is most likely true.
Protip, employees: HR is not on your side.
HR is in the business of keeping the company out of trouble. If you're lucky, keeping the company out of trouble will include solving your problem. But that's nowhere near a guarantee. If the letter of the law says the boss can screw you over, it's a safe bet that HR is going to side with the boss.
Yet will allow people to continue to muck with their car radios and CD collections while driving.
One day someone will be able to explain to me why tapping "next" on my tethered ipod is dangerous, but fussing with the radio buttons (or better yet, those new multimedia displays on new cars) is somehow not.
But having massive highly lit billboards on busy roads and intersections (and by "highly lit", I mean "we're displaying a massive white background that's drowning out the street lights at night and ruining every driver's night vision" level bright) isn't distracting?
I think the survey was 1. Male 2. Female 3. Do not want to disclose. 90-94% said they were male, and of the remaining 6-10%, half said they were female. The other half preferred not to say. But that does mean between 3-5% actually did identify as female.
If that is so, then it is incorrect to infer the sex of those who preferred not to disclose it.
The 90/10 number is male:not-male, so the number is accurate as far as the reporting goes. But considering it's no big secret that many women check the "male" box (to keep the Nice Shoes Brigade away), so I'm skeptical that that 90% is actually 90% in reality.
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.Nonetheless, I've been convinced that when I do have kids (young children seem to require a frighteningly large amount of support equipment) a minivan will be the way to go.
Don't buy into the hype. My kid's seven, and we're still doing fine in a 2002 four-door Echo. (They call 'em Yaris these days). And that's counting a week long camping trip this year. Far more important than Massive Cargo Space is simply a back door to get the kid in-and-out of the seat. But what we save in fuel more than pays for the odd time we need to rent a larger vehicle.
Babies need a stroller and a diaper bag - bag goes next to kid, stroller goes in the trunk. (And after about a week you'll get one of those little umbrella strollers for the car because you don't actually need a Baby Suburban Stroller anyway.) Once they're toddler age you're down to just the bag for snacks and such, and that's about the same size as those big purses you see everywhere.
Are pooly socialized men bad at dating? YES. Are poorly socialized women bad at dating? YES. Next topic.
One small difference - when's the last time a poorly socialized woman went on a killing spree because men wouldn't date her? Or start spouting crap about "alphas" and "betas"?
Only one of the genders gets violently offended when things don't go their way. And the other gender gets blamed.
What if they "come to you first" about the neighbours daughter? Absolute statements are absolutely always wrong :-)
Then say nothing, and call in an anonymous tip afterwards.
Well, he is getting advice from "cyber engineers", so you gotta consider the source.
In all seriousness - I get that we want to make a differentiation between this and electrical or civic engineering, but please pick something better than "cyber". Otherwise don't be surprised when everyone expects you to look like a Borg drone in a suit.
Cochlear implants are not restoring hearing as an hearing person believes it is. I have a friend with two deaf daughters and both of them are having cochlear implants since they are young and they cannot communicate normally even with cochlear implants. Many people believe the cochlear implants are correcting the audition like glasses are correcting vision. The correction glasses can be made to exactly compensate for the vision defect. The cochlear implants cannot be adjusted to compensate the hearing loss exactly.
Fair enough. But are you truly suggesting that hearing something is worse than hearing nothing?
Reading the article (I know, I'm terrible, I read TFA), the message I get is that the implants give options. Maybe they'll be unlucky and it won't help much, and they'll go the signing route. Maybe they'll be lucky and have little or no issues. But either way, they have *choices*. If it was my kid, I wouldn't have blinked before going for the implants.
Culture is entered, not inherited. Tell me my infant kid "belongs" to your culture? I'll show you where to shove your culture - my kid will decide for herself, thank you very much.
That's not a "fix this bug first" message... That's a much more general and sweeping "you suck, so you're fired," message.
Bit of both, I'd say. There's the obvious layer of "I'm tired of other people having to patch your crap, so I'm not taking more of your code until you show that you're willing to do your own homework".
And then there's the subtext of "Redhat isn't likely to keep paying you to develop if none of your code ever sees daylight again. So, if you're enjoying your cushy open source job you might want to get your shit together."
And I'll add my voice to the "I will happily work for a boss who tells me when I fucked up *and* when he fucked up, over a boss who whitewashes everything" club. Life's too short for three hour warm-fuzzy meetings.
There was one good game show: The Mole.
FTFY. (Show me anywhere where Survivor is "reality", and then I'll start thinking about calling them reality shows. Best you'll get from me today is "long form game show")
But agreed - The Mole was a high-water mark of what the format could do. Anderson was also a brilliant host for the format.
Same here. I have many more interesting things to watch than game development, even with added drama by Pepsi. Between TV and web series, there's already more available to keep me entertained than I can possibly watch.
The irony is that if Mr. Pepsi would have likely got his arguments if he had just kept the cameras rolling. Give them several days, and you'll easily get a half-hour of "good parts" while they argue over some detail.
Hell, dude shoulda ran in, shouted "emacs sucks!" and then run out before the bullets started flying...
The latter.
A little gender diversity (and diversity of any and all kinds, really) goes a long way to not only keeping group-think out, but keeping the worst impulses of humanity out.
Up here in Alberta, distracted driving laws say I'm not allowed to watch video while driving. So I'm not sure what good a video feed that I can't legally watch is.
Barring that, judging from how few licence plates I can read once the snow falls, I imagine that video camera is gonna show a lovely white screen. Wonder if that sets off the alarms?
FTFY.
Pity it won't come out of the individuals' pockets.
Well, it might have. The principal who is quoted in the article isn't the one who was there at the time, and the article doesn't talk about what happened to the Previous Administration. So in my happy world, the jackass who did this got quietly disappeared into a research taskforce on ant populations in kindergarten sandboxes.
And when you consider that a well-funded lawyer would still be pocket change for the Internet Tycoons?
I've said it before, I'll say it again - if I ever come into Crazy Stupid Money like those folks, I will keep a room full of Trained Attack Lawyers on call, solely for these sorts of "public service opportunities".
There's an argument that certain off-campus behaviours should be covered by school rules; cheating (i.e. hiring someone to do a school project, etc), kids on a school team using performance enhancing drugs, possibly bullying.
Most of those still involve on-school activities.
Once my kid leaves the school ground, that's not the school's problem anymore.
When you're that old, you're entitled to a second round of being insufferable.
"One of the items they wanted us to sign stated that we waive the right to sue if our child was killed during a field trip. Only three parents refused to sign, and those students stayed at school while the rest of the class went on the field trip."
As a parent, my first question would be - what the hell are you doing wrong that your first concern on a permission form is "don't sue us"?
My kid's permission slips are things like "I agree to pay the cab fare if she's a little shit and we send her home early" (and useful things like permission to administer first aid and call doctors and things). I'd be asking questions if they wanted blanket immunity before taking my kid to the park too.
Most school boards have a mandate to prevent bullying, and the facebook comments probably fall under this category since it was made by a student of the school about an employee of the school. That it occurred outside the school is irrelevant, because the school must provide a mentally healthy workplace for both the employee and the student. I agree that the specific incident is overreach and not a good way to resolve anything, but there is very likely some legal responsibility on the school's part to deal with the conflict.
So, if the *parent* had posted the comment, would the school be justified in sending over the cops to get *their* password? Call you into the CEO's office?
The summary said she gave them her password. That sounds like permission.
And the article says that she gave them the password after being told to, in the principal's office, with a police officer present.
Which is pretty much the school-age equivalent of being arrested. It's a fairly safe bet that it was not meant to be interpreted as a request.
Then you find out if they're actually serious about it or not.
If it's just stupid boilerplate, they might never notice. If it's something they're slipping under the radar (my daughter's school tried a "we can use your daughter's image and name in our promotional materials" sheet this year), then they'll either quietly put a note in her file to Not Mess With This One, or they'll try and push it as a requirement (and then put the note in her file when they realize they're SOL here).
If it's an honest to goodness Actual Legal Thing, then you'll start hearing from the school board lawyers.
Yet another person who doesn't seem to understand what the word holistic means. How did the natives know about these properties? How did natives use them in treatments. Oh, that's right, you have no clue.
You should probably wait till DaveV2.0 before opening your mouth again.
And I know a few "alternative practitioners" who try desperately to get the attention of Mainstream Medicine to help discover why things work, and can't get their attention.
These days, if you found a tree bark that did something, you'd never get a doctor to admit it - he doesn't get a kickback from Big Tree, after all.
This is easy; in Australia the ticket is issued to the owner of the vehicle.
In Canada it's even funnier - since the photo is of the rear of the car (and thus you can't see who's driving), photo radar is fined to the vehicle as a non-moving violation. Yup, same category as parking tickets and the like.
They literally don't care who was behind the wheel - your car was going too fast, you're the owner, you get the fine. Only difference is that you don't get demerits (since they don't even try to prove you were the driver).
As the Boston bombing shows, the NSA is really not reading facebook. They're storing all this shit. but it's not used for any actual intelligence work. I can only speculate what it is used for, but chances are that's it's about money. So feel free to post on facebook, that's the last place they'll look.
More accurately, they're storing it so that once they decide you're the guilty one, they can easily backtrack through everything you've ever said or did to "prove" it. Six lines from an honest man, and all that.
and one that should really be able to be solved by HR.
From reading between the lines it sounds as if she feels that HR was somewhere between ineffectual and complicit in all of this.
Which is most likely true.
Protip, employees: HR is not on your side.
HR is in the business of keeping the company out of trouble. If you're lucky, keeping the company out of trouble will include solving your problem. But that's nowhere near a guarantee. If the letter of the law says the boss can screw you over, it's a safe bet that HR is going to side with the boss.
Yet will allow people to continue to muck with their car radios and CD collections while driving. One day someone will be able to explain to me why tapping "next" on my tethered ipod is dangerous, but fussing with the radio buttons (or better yet, those new multimedia displays on new cars) is somehow not.
But having massive highly lit billboards on busy roads and intersections (and by "highly lit", I mean "we're displaying a massive white background that's drowning out the street lights at night and ruining every driver's night vision" level bright) isn't distracting?
I think the survey was 1. Male 2. Female 3. Do not want to disclose. 90-94% said they were male, and of the remaining 6-10%, half said they were female. The other half preferred not to say. But that does mean between 3-5% actually did identify as female.
If that is so, then it is incorrect to infer the sex of those who preferred not to disclose it.
The 90/10 number is male:not-male, so the number is accurate as far as the reporting goes. But considering it's no big secret that many women check the "male" box (to keep the Nice Shoes Brigade away), so I'm skeptical that that 90% is actually 90% in reality.