RE: arguements for parents and media at fault
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Why Kids Kill
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Okay, let's say you're my little 16-year-old Trenchcoat Mafia Son. You want me to be part of your life and accepted?
"Hey Son, Guess what? I just bought 4 tickets to Marilyn Manson! Let's go dude"
"Hey Son, Wanna smoke a doobe and go check out some good pr0n?"
"Hey Son, Check this out! it's a pipe-bomb. Cool huh? You've got the coolest dad you know. How 'bout a father-son project, out in the garage. I'll show you how to make a propane-tank-bomb. And trust me, THIS timer will work!"
Again, this is not the simple answer. Getting involved will be perceived as prying and interfering, and will create resentment. You've got to build a much closer relationship with the kid much earlier on. You've got to stand far enough away to let the kid develop his or her own life, and let the kid be a kid, and know when to step in. If you did a good job with the "closer relationship" thing, there won't be resentment, and there won't be boundry testing that leads the kid THIS far astray.
It's not as satisfying to blame them. They're dead. It's easier to identify them as victems. Especially when you have so many tasty targets floating around like - easy access to guns, easy access to information on how to build bombs, violence, "The Moral Breakdown of America and the American Family (TM)", lack of prayer in schools. . .
Right now the media, and America is focussed on finding someone, and making them pay for what happened so it doesn't happen again.
I feel sorry for whatever scapegoat happens to be standing around.
Personally, I think that the chick (former TCM girl) that was interviewed on CNN said the most poignant thing, that people need to open up and accept otheres. I was an outcast in my teen years, and I shudder to think that that could have been me.
Big city schools have security guards and metal detectors.
Is this consistent with common carrier status?
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ISP Sues Spammer
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Not as bad as a death threat?
Forcing me to read a SPAM due to misrepresentation STEALS a few precious seconds from my life. It would be the same if someone saw me fall off of a building, and moments before I hit the ground, fired a shotgun blast at my head. Stole a few seconds from my life, and still guilty of murder.
Same goes for idiots who drive too slow in the left lane, or come to a complete stop before turning right off a busy street, or stop when the traffic light turns yellow.
Same goes for people who design OS-es that take too long to boot.
Legalize SPAM, but we need to change the FORMAT email takes. There should be a "CLASS" field added to the spec, which states whether the email is "SPAM", "BUSINESS", "PERSONAL", "HUMOR", or "ACADEMIC". (others can be added by more imaginative people) ("Commercial" would not do enough to differentiate what I get from a customer or co-worker, in terms of useful communication, from what I get from a SPAMmer).
mis-setting the class field should be punishable by having 20 pounds of monkey shit crammed up the offender's nose.
or, put another way, I work for a tape backup software company, and I have only heard of one instance in my 7 years, of DLT media failing on it's own (not traceable back to a hardware failure), and that was a peice that apparently was defective out of the box.
ANother drawback to Solar - the environmental impact of manufacturing those solar cells. Strong acids and detergents are used in the process, and pollute the fsck out of the environment, as bad as semiconductor manufacturing.
Not to mention the overall economization that goes on in the electrical process (because they produce so little current for such a high cost), you end up with lots of batteries, basically, so there's another huge, huge environmental hazard, disposing of all those lead-acid batteries.
Solar ain't the way to go either.
Evolution, resistance and the Irish Potato Famine
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Gene Leakage
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. . . There IS hope on the antibiotic-resistant bacteria front. It seems that word IS getting to responsible physicians.
Several weeks ago, I took my daughter in for an earache. Many parents, in that desperate situation would plead with the doctor - "please, give her SOMETHING!". This doctor stated quite bluntly, this is a viral infection, antibiotics will not help, tho they may prevent a bacterial infection from occuring from the swelling and inflamation caused by the viral infection, it's not likely to be of any use. Take her home, give her ibuprofin for the pain, it should go away in a day or two. It did.
I sincerely hope that there are more doctors like that out there. Unlike my nephew's pediatrician, who had him on Antibiotics nearly continuously for a year and a half, and had to keep changing types because at one point, the infections develped a resistance. Half the time, it was viral infections anyway. . .
Cha-ching!$$$
He's got it backwards
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Gene Leakage
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The big point about antibiotic-resistant bacteria isn't that the use of antibiotics caused them, it was the MIS-use.
Doctors acting as glorified salesmen for the pharaceutical companies (great when insurance pays for it all). Parents whining about their kids' earaches, forcing "prophylactic" prescriptions of antibiotics for viral infections. Prescriptions not fully administered through their course, or improperly administered. Too low a dosage, (forgetting to take that afternoon pill), or stopping the course early is what encourages bacteria to develop a resistance. Also, feeding antibiotics to livestock in mass quantities on a regular basis is a textbook example of how to literally engineer a resistant strain unintentionally.
I know this discussion was off topic, but I felt that the example of "antibiotic-resistant bacteria" as a point that mankind "tampers too much with nature" was a bit off, and needed some correction.
. . . in five years, this author will be working for ADM, making $100k writing marketing literature promoting genetically altered corn. . .
Destroying the planet
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Gene Leakage
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More like 300 years. . .
Genetically modified food
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Gene Leakage
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Alan. I hate to break this to you, but I just came back from a 1 week trip to London, and frankly, I think the meat there sucks. I know, I know, I'm not supposed to eat beef in the UK. Mad Cow disease. But man, a better imitaion of shoe-leather, I have never tasted. YUK!
I'm VERY happy to be back in the states. (Although I wish I could find Stella Artois here in America. Good Belgian beer).
The so-called "killer bee", now invading North America, as far North in California now as Santa Barbara County.
The result of a genetic experiment gone wrong, is now transforming the entire population of North American Honeybees (which weren't native to North America in the first place, they came from Europe), into Africanized bees.
Lots of news programs have wonderful material for "scare stories" but life goes on. In reality, at most, a few people (probably no more than a dozen worldwide) will die each year from Africanized bee attacks. Far, far less than die from lighning, or hurricanes, or tornadoes, or tainted food, or handgun accidents.
Life goes on.
So close, and yet so far...
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I don't think evolution beats engineering.
I just think that what we're today, calling "engineering", will be laughed at 1000 years from now.
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Okay, let's say you're my little 16-year-old Trenchcoat Mafia Son. You want me to be part of your life and accepted?
"Hey Son, Guess what? I just bought 4 tickets to Marilyn Manson! Let's go dude"
"Hey Son, Wanna smoke a doobe and go check out some good pr0n?"
"Hey Son, Check this out! it's a pipe-bomb. Cool huh? You've got the coolest dad you know. How 'bout a father-son project, out in the garage. I'll show you how to make a propane-tank-bomb. And trust me, THIS timer will work!"
Again, this is not the simple answer. Getting involved will be perceived as prying and interfering, and will create resentment. You've got to build a much closer relationship with the kid much earlier on. You've got to stand far enough away to let the kid develop his or her own life, and let the kid be a kid, and know when to step in. If you did a good job with the "closer relationship" thing, there won't be resentment, and there won't be boundry testing that leads the kid THIS far astray.
You don't "govern" children. You parent them. You raise them.
Should I allow my toddler the privacy she needs to run out into the street unhindered so she can be run over by a truck?
It's not as satisfying to blame them. They're dead. It's easier to identify them as victems. Especially when you have so many tasty targets floating around like - easy access to guns, easy access to information on how to build bombs, violence, "The Moral Breakdown of America and the American Family (TM)", lack of prayer in schools. . .
Right now the media, and America is focussed on finding someone, and making them pay for what happened so it doesn't happen again.
I feel sorry for whatever scapegoat happens to be standing around.
Personally, I think that the chick (former TCM girl) that was interviewed on CNN said the most poignant thing, that people need to open up and accept otheres. I was an outcast in my teen years, and I shudder to think that that could have been me.
The number of suckers born each minute doubles every eighteen months.
I blame the Jocks.
um.
Canis lupus
Canis familliaris
nope. Same, um (kingdom,phylum,class,order,family,genus,species)
Genus. but they can breed?
whussup wid dat?
um.
Divine origins of the Bible?
divide any circumferences by diameters lately?
Big city schools have security guards and metal detectors.
Not as bad as a death threat?
Forcing me to read a SPAM due to misrepresentation STEALS a few precious seconds from my life. It would be the same if someone saw me fall off of a building, and moments before I hit the ground, fired a shotgun blast at my head. Stole a few seconds from my life, and still guilty of murder.
Same goes for idiots who drive too slow in the left lane, or come to a complete stop before turning right off a busy street, or stop when the traffic light turns yellow.
Same goes for people who design OS-es that take too long to boot.
Same goes for "First Post"-ers.
Murderers. Killers. Life-stealers. Time-theives.
Legalize SPAM, but we need to change the FORMAT email takes. There should be a "CLASS" field added to the spec, which states whether the email is "SPAM", "BUSINESS", "PERSONAL", "HUMOR", or "ACADEMIC". (others can be added by more imaginative people)
("Commercial" would not do enough to differentiate what I get from a customer or co-worker, in terms of useful communication, from what I get from a SPAMmer).
mis-setting the class field should be punishable by having 20 pounds of monkey shit crammed up the offender's nose.
or, put another way, I work for a tape backup software company, and I have only heard of one instance in my 7 years, of DLT media failing on it's own (not traceable back to a hardware failure), and that was a peice that apparently was defective out of the box.
I definately can't say the same for DAT or 8mm.
. . . so basically, in computer terms, that's forever.
hows this for a metric?
Stock Options.
If the programmers write good code, make good products, sell lots of CDs, make the company successful, they get rich.
Duh.
PHB?
well, I'm a C newbie too, and I find that one liner much easier to understand.
More verbose comments, and no unnecessary carriage returns and indention. THAT'S what your source code needs!
. . . i wish more programmers documented as well as you do. Sometimes I can't read half the crap.
. . . yeah, those benchmarks suck. The Pentium II is faster than the G3 any day. . .
ANother drawback to Solar -
the environmental impact of manufacturing those solar cells.
Strong acids and detergents are used in the process, and pollute the fsck out of the environment, as bad as semiconductor manufacturing.
Not to mention the overall economization that goes on in the electrical process (because they produce so little current for such a high cost), you end up with lots of batteries, basically, so there's another huge, huge environmental hazard, disposing of all those lead-acid batteries.
Solar ain't the way to go either.
. . .
There IS hope on the antibiotic-resistant bacteria front. It seems that word IS getting to responsible physicians.
Several weeks ago, I took my daughter in for an earache. Many parents, in that desperate situation would plead with the doctor - "please, give her SOMETHING!".
This doctor stated quite bluntly, this is a viral infection, antibiotics will not help, tho they may prevent a bacterial infection from occuring from the swelling and inflamation caused by the viral infection, it's not likely to be of any use. Take her home, give her ibuprofin for the pain, it should go away in a day or two.
It did.
I sincerely hope that there are more doctors like that out there. Unlike my nephew's pediatrician, who had him on Antibiotics nearly continuously for a year and a half, and had to keep changing types because at one point, the infections develped a resistance. Half the time, it was viral infections anyway. . .
Cha-ching!$$$
The big point about antibiotic-resistant bacteria isn't that the use of antibiotics caused them, it was the MIS-use.
Doctors acting as glorified salesmen for the pharaceutical companies (great when insurance pays for it all). Parents whining about their kids' earaches, forcing "prophylactic" prescriptions of antibiotics for viral infections. Prescriptions not fully administered through their course, or improperly administered.
Too low a dosage, (forgetting to take that afternoon pill), or stopping the course early is what encourages bacteria to develop a resistance.
Also, feeding antibiotics to livestock in mass quantities on a regular basis is a textbook example of how to literally engineer a resistant strain unintentionally.
I know this discussion was off topic, but I felt that the example of "antibiotic-resistant bacteria" as a point that mankind "tampers too much with nature" was a bit off, and needed some correction.
. . . in five years, this author will be working for ADM, making $100k writing marketing literature promoting genetically altered corn. . .
More like 300 years. . .
Alan.
I hate to break this to you, but I just came back from a 1 week trip to London, and frankly, I think the meat there sucks.
I know, I know, I'm not supposed to eat beef in the UK. Mad Cow disease. But man, a better imitaion of shoe-leather, I have never tasted. YUK!
I'm VERY happy to be back in the states.
(Although I wish I could find Stella Artois here in America. Good Belgian beer).
Well, here's one that strikes close to home -
The so-called "killer bee", now invading North America, as far North in California now as Santa Barbara County.
The result of a genetic experiment gone wrong, is now transforming the entire population of North American Honeybees (which weren't native to North America in the first place, they came from Europe), into Africanized bees.
Lots of news programs have wonderful material for "scare stories" but life goes on. In reality, at most, a few people (probably no more than a dozen worldwide) will die each year from Africanized bee attacks. Far, far less than die from lighning, or hurricanes, or tornadoes, or tainted food, or handgun accidents.
Life goes on.
I don't think evolution beats engineering.
I just think that what we're today, calling "engineering", will be laughed at 1000 years from now.
Evolution beats what we're doing today.