In my experience school districts consider students under their jurisdiction no matter where they are - on or off school grounds. How about the kids who were suspended for playing with airsoft guns - not at school, not on the bus, but near, (NEAR, ffs!) a school bus stop.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/ot...
The fact that labor wants compensation of any kind will spur automation, as soon as automation costs less than the minimum pay that labor will accept. The $15/hr min wage is just a convenient excuse. And using it as an excuse makes reasonable conversation about the ideas of minimum wage, living wage, corporations' roles in society, and automation in the workplace nearly impossible.
Your Money or Your Life by Robin & Dominguez. This is one to read sooner rather than later. If I had read it years ago I would probably not now be living paycheck to paycheck & working in a job I hate.
"may have been annihilated by humans"? They were most assuredly annihilated by humans. And though we don't know exactly what they were, we have to trust that Noah had good reasons to leave them off of the ark.
Let the guy ramble on and make an ass of himself. Then let Kerry give whatever answer he chooses.
Even if "proper police procedure" was "being followed", I see no good reason for police action in the first place. So he was a loudmouth attention whore who was basking in the glory of the senator's presence for a minute or two. Big deal. Maybe Kerry would have gotten an answer out; maybe the crowd would have shouted him down until he shut up; maybe everybody would've collectively shrugged at the guy and walked out of the hall.
The cops' excuse that he was inciting a riot is nonsense: it takes a lot more than that to make people get up and riot. And the charge of "resiting arrest" is also crap. If a group of cops walks up and begins surrounding you and you back away, asking them what they want, should they now be able to take you down and restrain you for "resisting arrest"?
I think the cops acted without cause & without a clear goal. Then when they thought they had lost control of the situation, they overreacted. On top of that, they cut the guy off right when he was asking about Kerry's membership in Skull & Bones. The conspiracy theorists will get a lot of mileage out of that.
The parent poster's headphones may be good but I can say from experience that these (also a Sony product) suck. Wearing them through a workday felt like having a c-clamp slowly tightened on my head and they filtered out mostly mid- and low-range noise. That left me listening to the high, shrill part of the of the cooling fan noise.
Maybe its just me but piping white noise into my head was as bad as listening to the server noise - and cost an additional fifty bucks.
That brings back fond memories. Once a year my chemistry teacher would fill a balloon with hydrogen, tie it with a string to a chair in the hall and touch it with a lighted match at the end of a yard stick. The resulting boom was accentuated by the high ceilings, plaster walls and terrazzo floor of my school. Awesome.
Man, they don't make 'em like they used to - teachers or school buildings.
I agree to a point - more nuclear power is one of the things that might keep the US from grinding to a poor, hungry and riotous halt in a few years. But for it to do so we need to start building those plants now. It takes a tremendous amount of petroleum products to build, operate anad maintain those plants.
Just being the right thing to do won't make a thing happpen. If we wait too long we'll find ourselves on the downhill side of the oil production curve with oil & gas prices skyrocketing.
If that happens will the utility company be able to afford all the materials like concrete mix, rebar and the various nuclear-grade alloys? Will the construction workers be able to afford driving to work or will the contractors have to build on-site workers' barracks and mess halls just so the crews can even show up every day? It is easy to imagine scenarios where the upfront cost of a plant would be as much or more than the possioble revenue generated by it.
FWIW a friend emailed the following list to me. Sorry about the formatting. I put a break after each entry so it would be an easy to read single column list but the slashcode pissed & moaned about too few characters per line.
Democrats
* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71.
* David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72.
* Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72.
* Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade.
* Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam.
* Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII.
* John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, Purple Hearts.
* Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea.
* Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam.
* Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53.
* Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74.
* Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91.
* Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons.
* Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze Stars, and Soldier's Medal.
* Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star and Legion of Merit.
* Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart.
* Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam; Bronze Star with Combat V.
* Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star.
* Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57
* Chuck Robb: Vietnam
* Howell Heflin: Silver Star
* George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII.
* Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but received #311.
* Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy.
* Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953
* John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18 Clusters.
* Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg.
Republicans
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage.
* Dennis Hastert: did not serve.
* Tom Delay: did not serve.
* Roy Blunt: did not serve.
* Bill Frist: did not serve.
* Mitch McConnell: did not serve.
* Rick Santorum: did not serve.
* Trent Lott: did not serve.
* John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business.
* Jeb Bush: did not serve.
* Karl Rove: did not serve.
* Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism.
* Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve.
* Vin Weber: did not serve.
* Richard Perle: did not serve.
* Douglas Feith: did not serve.
* Eliot Abrams: did not serve.
* Richard Shelby: did not serve.
* Jon Kyl: did not serve.
* Tim Hutchison: did not serve.
* Christopher Cox: did not serve.
* Newt Gingrich: did not serve.
* Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor.
* George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty.
* Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat role making movies.
* B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea.
* Phil Gramm: did not serve.
* John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross.
* Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve.
* John M. McHugh: did not serve.
* JC Watts: did not serve.
* Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem," although continued in NFL for 8 years.
* Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard.
* Rudy Giuliani: did not serve.
* George Pataki: did not serve.
* Spencer Abraham: did not serve.
* John Engler: did not serve.
* Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer.
* Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.
Pundits & Preachers
* Sean Hannity: did not serve.
* Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst.')
* Bill O'Reilly: did not serve.
* Michael Savage: did not serve.
* George Will: did not serve.
* Chris Matthews: did not serve.
* Paul Gigot: did not serve.
* Bill B
... on a 29' (10m) sailboat and from Charleston, SC to St. Thomas on a 41-footer. There is nothing more mentally refreshing than reducing your entire existence to a small boat, a small circle of the ocean and a big dome of sky. The highest tech thing aboard was the handheld GPS and we were well enough equipped with charts and sextant that we didn't really need the GPS.
Oh, and the islands are kinda cool - but in a different way.
It does sound unlikely to me too but a member of the tinfoil hat squad in a UUG nearby posted very vehemently and almost convincingly (i'm looking for the message now) that once messages had been stored for some period of time they would be accessible from the outside. I was kinda hoping that my bringing it up would prompt someone more clueful to chime in and clear it up for us all.
Gmail backup is a good idea. But why bother with GmailFS? It sounds like a cool hack but it says at least twice in the documentation that Google could shut it out at any time.
Just send to your gmail address a text attachment containing each night's changes to the work and there it is - a running back up of your book, accessible from anywhere.
You might also look into encrypting it. Isn't Google going to open the email up to its search engine after some period of time?
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Greetz, fellow bubblehead. I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one that had that thought. It has probably occured to every nuke (and some of the nuke-wastes) and even to the more thoughtful forward pukes. And when you think of the prototype training plants around the country, I'd like to know why it never occured to the DOE until now.
Of course, there is one advantage that subs have, but that land-based units would not have. The ultimate failsafe: the Frame 57 Explosive Bolts. I imagine 688s had them too, I just don't know the frame number. You know, the bolts that are set off to separate (and sink) everything aft of the fwd reactor compartment bhd if there is an accident bad enough to warrant it.
And now a word from Captain Obvious...
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I cannot believe that, after over fifty years of tinkering with this crap; after experiences like
TMI and WPPSS
they are just now thinking about autonomous, portable reactors.
When I learned about the reactors aboard submarines, how they're built and how they're run my next thought was that we should make civilian power plants the same way. I'm not exactly a cheerleader for the Navy but, from what I've seen, I do think that they are a good example of how to run a nuclear power program.
Small, standardized, modular, portable, self-contained plants that could be added easily to a power grid, refueled at one central location and disposed of in its own container seem to be the most obvious sway to proceed with nuclear energy. Yes, the front end cost may be higher but in the long run, its a better way to go.
My first post-functionalist use of computer components was as shelf blocks: I put two AT cases on the floor against the wall, about seven feet apart, then put a 1x8" plank on top of them. I put two PC or XT cases on top of one of the ATs, and a monitor on top of the other. Then I added another plank, then two more PC/XT cases on one end and another monitor on the other end, and so on until there were six PC/XT cases on one end & three monitors on the other, holding up four wooden shelves.
Then I began making lamps out of translucent parts. ISA cards, some PCI cards and mobos up to around the early pentium era tend to have lots of open, translucent area on them which gives a nice green (sometimes yellow, somethimes orange) glow when a light is behind them. One type of lamp uses four identical cards bolted to a small metal plate to form a five-sided box. I mount a light on the metal plate, then it can be either a hanging lamp (metal plate on top w/ light shining down) or a table lamp (metal plate on bottom, light shining up). For the table lamps I use 5-1/4" floppy drives as the mounting base.
For a wall sconce I cut a sheet of sheet metal from an old case, bend it to form a three-sided box and bolt on a mobo to from a four-sided box that's open at the top & bottom. A flourescent tube mounted on the metal back of the box shines through the mobo and casts lights out the top and bottom of the lamp.
Another kind of lamp I make from CDs. I get about a seven inch tall stack of CDs, bore out the center hole to 1-1/2 to 2" in diameter, epoxy the whole stack together and mount a small flourescent tube inside the stack. This gives an interesting effect as the light shines out radially from the edge of each disk.
Just for giggles I put several of them into an art show at a cafe. They have long ago taken the pictures down but here is a link to a story that describes some of the pieces better than I do.
>> But we must remember that no company is under any moral obligation to anyone.
How so? Moral and ethical obligations don't go away just because you incorporate. They apply to everyone singly and collectively.
I'm not saying incorporation = carte blanche. The statement that you quote just reflects my belief that no qualities are inherent in any object, entity or idea. All qualities exist soley in the mind of observers of the object/entity/idea and only exist when some action is performed on or with the o/e/i. You do not need to agree with that belief, just understand that it exists in my head and affects how I see the world.
So if we look at a basic definition of a corporation: A legal entity that has rights, privleges and responsibilities distinct from those of its members (yourdictionary.com), and subject it to my belief in projected - not inherent - qualities, we arrive at my statement.
From there the next conclusion is that moral obligations of corporations can exist in other contexts; in the laws governing corporations, the founding documents of each corp. and in peoples' perception of corporations. But unless they are explicitly detailed in the law or a corporation's charter they do not, for all practical purposes, exist.
I'm not saying that I think it's right. I think there are a lot of problems with the way business is done now. In fact, I even find the idea of a
corporate death penalty intriguing. But what a company's responsibilites should be and how we can enact them is a topic for another day.
I agree; I hate it when anyone tries to sell me something by using obvious doublespeak, obfuscation or exaggerations that border on lies. But we must remember that no company is under any moral obligation to anyone.
Corporations have one overarching purpose and obligation: to increase share value. Any and all actions taken by a company must be examined in terms of what specific or intangible effects they will have on the share price; and that effect determines whether or not the action will be taken. Some call that immoral, some call it amoral - some even call it moral. I just call it the way business is done now.
While idea this may not be literally true in every case, it is close enough to help make sense of many things that go on in the business world. And it helps me remember that that things that I care about, (truth in advertising, quality of a product, customer service, etc) are the last things that a company's mangers care about.
I'm not really as bitter as that sounds - it just makes me more careful in how I spend money.
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In my experience school districts consider students under their jurisdiction no matter where they are - on or off school grounds. How about the kids who were suspended for playing with airsoft guns - not at school, not on the bus, but near, (NEAR, ffs!) a school bus stop. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/ot...
The fact that labor wants compensation of any kind will spur automation, as soon as automation costs less than the minimum pay that labor will accept. The $15/hr min wage is just a convenient excuse. And using it as an excuse makes reasonable conversation about the ideas of minimum wage, living wage, corporations' roles in society, and automation in the workplace nearly impossible.
Not just no: fuck no.
Your Money or Your Life by Robin & Dominguez. This is one to read sooner rather than later. If I had read it years ago I would probably not now be living paycheck to paycheck & working in a job I hate.
Then you should read The Book of the Subgenius. When the sex goddess space aliens finally arrive, you'll want to have reservations on their saucers.
by which I mean, NO!
Its called Military Keynesianism and it is a net loss to the GDP if you ask me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_keynesianism
"may have been annihilated by humans"? They were most assuredly annihilated by humans. And though we don't know exactly what they were, we have to trust that Noah had good reasons to leave them off of the ark.
Even if "proper police procedure" was "being followed", I see no good reason for police action in the first place. So he was a loudmouth attention whore who was basking in the glory of the senator's presence for a minute or two. Big deal. Maybe Kerry would have gotten an answer out; maybe the crowd would have shouted him down until he shut up; maybe everybody would've collectively shrugged at the guy and walked out of the hall.
The cops' excuse that he was inciting a riot is nonsense: it takes a lot more than that to make people get up and riot. And the charge of "resiting arrest" is also crap. If a group of cops walks up and begins surrounding you and you back away, asking them what they want, should they now be able to take you down and restrain you for "resisting arrest"?
I think the cops acted without cause & without a clear goal. Then when they thought they had lost control of the situation, they overreacted. On top of that, they cut the guy off right when he was asking about Kerry's membership in Skull & Bones. The conspiracy theorists will get a lot of mileage out of that.
- Migrating to Debian for users who have no idea how to burn an ISO
and/or how to configure their BIOS for CD boot.
really the people we want to invite to the party?
Maybe its just me but piping white noise into my head was as bad as listening to the server noise - and cost an additional fifty bucks.
Man, they don't make 'em like they used to - teachers or school buildings.
Just being the right thing to do won't make a thing happpen. If we wait too long we'll find ourselves on the downhill side of the oil production curve with oil & gas prices skyrocketing.
If that happens will the utility company be able to afford all the materials like concrete mix, rebar and the various nuclear-grade alloys? Will the construction workers be able to afford driving to work or will the contractors have to build on-site workers' barracks and mess halls just so the crews can even show up every day? It is easy to imagine scenarios where the upfront cost of a plant would be as much or more than the possioble revenue generated by it.
Democrats
* Richard Gephardt: Air National Guard, 1965-71. * David Bonior: Staff Sgt., Air Force 1968-72. * Tom Daschle: 1st Lt., Air Force SAC 1969-72. * Al Gore: enlisted Aug. 1969; sent to Vietnam Jan. 1971 as an army journalist in 20th Engineer Brigade. * Bob Kerrey: Lt. j.g. Navy 1966-69; Medal of Honor, Vietnam. * Daniel Inouye: Army 1943-47; Medal of Honor, WWII. * John Kerry: Lt., Navy 1966-70; Silver Star, Bronze Star with Combat V, Purple Hearts. * Charles Rangel: Staff Sgt., Army 1948-52; Bronze Star, Korea. * Max Cleland: Captain, Army 1965-68; Silver Star & Bronze Star, Vietnam. * Ted Kennedy: Army, 1951-53. * Tom Harkin: Lt., Navy, 1962-67; Naval Reserve, 1968-74. * Jack Reed: Army Ranger, 1971-1979; Captain, Army Reserve 1979-91. * Fritz Hollings: Army officer in WWII; Bronze Star and seven campaign ribbons. * Leonard Boswell: Lt. Col., Army 1956-76; Vietnam, DFCs, Bronze Stars, and Soldier's Medal. * Pete Peterson: Air Force Captain, POW. Purple Heart, Silver Star and Legion of Merit. * Mike Thompson: Staff sergeant, 173rd Airborne, Purple Heart. * Bill McBride: Candidate for Fla. Governor. Marine in Vietnam; Bronze Star with Combat V. * Gray Davis: Army Captain in Vietnam, Bronze Star. * Pete Stark: Air Force 1955-57 * Chuck Robb: Vietnam * Howell Heflin: Silver Star * George McGovern: Silver Star & DFC during WWII. * Bill Clinton: Did not serve. Student deferments. Entered draft but received #311. * Jimmy Carter: Seven years in the Navy. * Walter Mondale: Army 1951-1953 * John Glenn: WWII and Korea; six DFCs and Air Medal with 18 Clusters. * Tom Lantos: Served in Hungarian underground in WWII. Saved by Raoul Wallenberg.
Republicans
* Dick Cheney: did not serve. Several deferments, the last by marriage. * Dennis Hastert: did not serve. * Tom Delay: did not serve. * Roy Blunt: did not serve. * Bill Frist: did not serve. * Mitch McConnell: did not serve. * Rick Santorum: did not serve. * Trent Lott: did not serve. * John Ashcroft: did not serve. Seven deferments to teach business. * Jeb Bush: did not serve. * Karl Rove: did not serve. * Saxby Chambliss: did not serve. "Bad knee." The man who attacked Max Cleland's patriotism. * Paul Wolfowitz: did not serve. * Vin Weber: did not serve. * Richard Perle: did not serve. * Douglas Feith: did not serve. * Eliot Abrams: did not serve. * Richard Shelby: did not serve. * Jon Kyl: did not serve. * Tim Hutchison: did not serve. * Christopher Cox: did not serve. * Newt Gingrich: did not serve. * Don Rumsfeld: served in Navy (1954-57) as flight instructor. * George W. Bush: failed to complete his six-year National Guard; got assigned to Alabama so he could campaign for family friend running for U.S. Senate; failed to show up for required medical exam, disappeared from duty. * Ronald Reagan: due to poor eyesight, served in a non-combat role making movies. * B-1 Bob Dornan: Consciously enlisted after fighting was over in Korea. * Phil Gramm: did not serve. * John McCain: Silver Star, Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. * Dana Rohrabacher: did not serve. * John M. McHugh: did not serve. * JC Watts: did not serve. * Jack Kemp: did not serve. "Knee problem," although continued in NFL for 8 years. * Dan Quayle: Journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard. * Rudy Giuliani: did not serve. * George Pataki: did not serve. * Spencer Abraham: did not serve. * John Engler: did not serve. * Lindsey Graham: National Guard lawyer. * Arnold Schwarzenegger: AWOL from Austrian army base.
Pundits & Preachers
* Sean Hannity: did not serve. * Rush Limbaugh: did not serve (4-F with a 'pilonidal cyst.') * Bill O'Reilly: did not serve. * Michael Savage: did not serve. * George Will: did not serve. * Chris Matthews: did not serve. * Paul Gigot: did not serve. * Bill B
Oh, and the islands are kinda cool - but in a different way.
Just send to your gmail address a text attachment containing each night's changes to the work and there it is - a running back up of your book, accessible from anywhere.
You might also look into encrypting it. Isn't Google going to open the email up to its search engine after some period of time?
Of course, there is one advantage that subs have, but that land-based units would not have. The ultimate failsafe: the Frame 57 Explosive Bolts. I imagine 688s had them too, I just don't know the frame number. You know, the bolts that are set off to separate (and sink) everything aft of the fwd reactor compartment bhd if there is an accident bad enough to warrant it.
When I learned about the reactors aboard submarines, how they're built and how they're run my next thought was that we should make civilian power plants the same way. I'm not exactly a cheerleader for the Navy but, from what I've seen, I do think that they are a good example of how to run a nuclear power program.
Small, standardized, modular, portable, self-contained plants that could be added easily to a power grid, refueled at one central location and disposed of in its own container seem to be the most obvious sway to proceed with nuclear energy. Yes, the front end cost may be higher but in the long run, its a better way to go.
Then I began making lamps out of translucent parts. ISA cards, some PCI cards and mobos up to around the early pentium era tend to have lots of open, translucent area on them which gives a nice green (sometimes yellow, somethimes orange) glow when a light is behind them. One type of lamp uses four identical cards bolted to a small metal plate to form a five-sided box. I mount a light on the metal plate, then it can be either a hanging lamp (metal plate on top w/ light shining down) or a table lamp (metal plate on bottom, light shining up). For the table lamps I use 5-1/4" floppy drives as the mounting base.
For a wall sconce I cut a sheet of sheet metal from an old case, bend it to form a three-sided box and bolt on a mobo to from a four-sided box that's open at the top & bottom. A flourescent tube mounted on the metal back of the box shines through the mobo and casts lights out the top and bottom of the lamp.
Another kind of lamp I make from CDs. I get about a seven inch tall stack of CDs, bore out the center hole to 1-1/2 to 2" in diameter, epoxy the whole stack together and mount a small flourescent tube inside the stack. This gives an interesting effect as the light shines out radially from the edge of each disk.
Just for giggles I put several of them into an art show at a cafe. They have long ago taken the pictures down but here is a link to a story that describes some of the pieces better than I do.
The Corporate Death Penalty
How so? Moral and ethical obligations don't go away just because you incorporate. They apply to everyone singly and collectively.
I'm not saying incorporation = carte blanche. The statement that you quote just reflects my belief that no qualities are inherent in any object, entity or idea. All qualities exist soley in the mind of observers of the object/entity/idea and only exist when some action is performed on or with the o/e/i. You do not need to agree with that belief, just understand that it exists in my head and affects how I see the world.
So if we look at a basic definition of a corporation: A legal entity that has rights, privleges and responsibilities distinct from those of its members (yourdictionary.com), and subject it to my belief in projected - not inherent - qualities, we arrive at my statement.
From there the next conclusion is that moral obligations of corporations can exist in other contexts; in the laws governing corporations, the founding documents of each corp. and in peoples' perception of corporations. But unless they are explicitly detailed in the law or a corporation's charter they do not, for all practical purposes, exist.
I'm not saying that I think it's right. I think there are a lot of problems with the way business is done now. In fact, I even find the idea of a corporate death penalty intriguing. But what a company's responsibilites should be and how we can enact them is a topic for another day.
Corporations have one overarching purpose and obligation: to increase share value. Any and all actions taken by a company must be examined in terms of what specific or intangible effects they will have on the share price; and that effect determines whether or not the action will be taken. Some call that immoral, some call it amoral - some even call it moral. I just call it the way business is done now.
While idea this may not be literally true in every case, it is close enough to help make sense of many things that go on in the business world. And it helps me remember that that things that I care about, (truth in advertising, quality of a product, customer service, etc) are the last things that a company's mangers care about.
I'm not really as bitter as that sounds - it just makes me more careful in how I spend money.