Yeah, I'm even further. I'm a freelancer, so I have to go all over for jobsites, not the same commute everyday, but I would say about 90% of my jobsites I go to are 60+ miles each way. Meaning a round trip is at least 120mi. Sometimes I have to make it to more than one jobsite on the same day and can really put some miles on. (At least I don't have to do it everyday, most of my work is done at my home office ahead of time).
There is no way most of these electric vehicles would work for my purposes. Maybe a Tesla with it's range, but if I ever have $80K to buy a car (which I don't), I would be getting something better than a Tesla.
Agreed. The typical redbox has a VERY limited selection of DVD movies to rent, all of which are just a small subset of new releases and "popular" movies for the given time. This works if you don't rent older movies or the less popular indy movies, or movies in any other Genre but the mega-summer-blockbuster-no-plot-pointless movies.
I keep Netflix around for the fact that any movie, even ones I haven't seen in years, or since I was kid are available as a DVD rental. Most everyone else I talk to about Netflix use it only for Streaming, which is not Netflix's best part. I wouldn't pay for streaming only service (without DVD rental) since their streaming selection for movies sucks, and their streaming selection for shows are mostly shows I don't watch (with a few exceptions). Even if they did have shows I watch, I'd have to wait 2-3 seasons before they would be released on Netflix (depending on the show this might be more/less).
Last time there was a mass exodus of Netflix (when they tried to split the streaming and DVD rental into 2 different sites), I was the only person I knew that dropped the streaming side, rather than the DVD side of Netflix. After a long time I finally added streaming back on, and low and behold, their selection was not any better.
Now I'm starting to use a Raspberry Pi running XBMC and MashUp and am starting to like it. I still pay for TV, and Netflix, but screw it, if these companies want to charge so much for every subscription. Most of us can get the content for free at this point. If they get too greedy, they won't get any of our money. The only subscribers they'll end up are going to be the few who are the ones recording and posting the shows up on bit-torrent sites for the rest.
Don't get me started on CableTV... as a person who only watches about 5 channels regularly, why I have to pay big bucks for mostly channels I don't want is ridiculous. I think channels should be a-la-cart selection, and the channels that can't stay on the air because they suck, need to go out of business. I watch no sports, and half the channels I pay for are in a languages that I can't speak. Why am I paying for all this? Because in order to get the 5 channels I want, I have to subscribe to the second to highest channel tier, that's why, and then the cable company takes my big bill, and evenly distributes it to all the channels I don't want.
It's so frustrating, it ALMOST makes cutting off all my services and living with YouTube cat video's as my only entertainment start to seem enticing.
This is a good idea, yes, but unfortunately, many makes/models of popular routers are not supported by DD-WRT or Tomato yet. There are some chipsets that they don't have builds for, or at least the last time I checked. (note to self: need to check the list again to see if my router has been added to the compatibility list recently...)
Yeah, because ISP's all use Cisco/Linksys and Netgear products much??? Most of the ones ATT used for years were all 2-Wire POS's. The cable company uses Motorola or a couple other types, most of which are all modem/routers-in-one. But from the sound of it the brands affected are the type you would buy off-the-shelf yourself for your own use, not leased from an ISP.
Regardless, a firewall is just that. Whether leased from an ISP, or purchased from a box-store, or custom ordered through a business account with Cisco or Juniper, one would expect a firewall to be a firewall without back doors, and if back doors are present, it is at best "false advertising" and trending toward equipment sabotage. If this really wasn't a "NSA conspiracy" type of back door, and was put in to "help the tech guys in india" out as you are inferring, then one would expect there to be a big admission of this so call 'feature' included with the product itself, or they're opening themselves up for a lot of law suits.
I believe he also gets permission, because in most cases he is copying the music as well, which is also copyrighted by who ever composed it, and media companies hold the rights to the music, even without the lyrics. So simply changing the lyrics doesn't change the fact that he is using the underlying copyrighted music.
I agree, this is how I pay. I am self employed, and have to save up for "tax day", where at the end of the year, I have to write lump sums to both Fed and State. Sucks every time, and you see how much friggin' money is going out to them. I could practically buy a car every year (outright!) with the money that goes to the IRS, that is SAD and depressing and enough to make anyone angry.
For those who say you're supposed to file quarterly, yes I know, and don't, I'd rather keep the money all year and have at my disposal if business dies down for cash, not to mention I don't want to do my taxes 4 times a year...and you only pay a $200 penalty for not paying quarterly, which is peanuts to what what the actual bill is.
I think everyone should have to pay like this, and the tax system would end up getting overhauled, and taxes cut very fast if everyone did this as they would be more aware.
The thing that drives me most nuts (and I used to do this too when I worked for an employer), is hearing people actually get happy about a "refund". I think the "refund" is just a way for the IRS to make you get excited about all the money they are taking from you...and it works in most cases. While most people don't like taxes and the IRS, those same people get uber excited about their tax refund of $2-$5K, and forget about the other $15-$30K that the IRS is keeping of their money. (actual numbers used just estimated ranges for decent wage earners obviously).
You do realize that people have been hacking and reprogramming normal car ECU's for quite awhile, probably since shortly after cars got ECU's. Not only are there aftermarket "chips", and "reprogrammers" (which really only alter basic parameters), but there are also more sofisticated "Piggyback ECU's" that go inline between normal ECU and engine, and can change received signals to the ECU, and/or alter sent signals to the engine, to override much of the built-in programming on them.
They even sell completely tunable aftermarket ECU's (for racing purposes) which completely replace the factory computer and you program to suit your needs. The Hydra and Link come to mind.
I have one of the more advanced "Piggyback" type ECU on my Subaru (UTEC), and it lets me program and run custom Fuel, Timing, and boost maps. Is programmed with a normal laptop and a RS232 cable (or USB on newer models) and even adds features to the car that weren't there originally, like launch control, multi-stage redlines (for flat foot shifting). It even has addtional relay output to aid in control of nitrous or water injection systems. You can also raise/change some of the limits, like RPM and boost limiters.
Not to mention, the community of many types of cars have open source projects, that reverse engineered some of the stock ECU's to allow complete remapping of the factory units. Subaru's for instance, had an online community cataloging all the different revisions of ECU's hardware, extracting the ROM images of each, reverse engineering the contents of the ROM images (byte by byte), and developing software that let you modify the ROM's. This combined with open sourced hardware, that allows for re flashing through the OBDII port (similar to the proprietary capabilities of the manufacturers hardware). Very sophisticated and dedicated work on the car communities part.
This is like all the sci-fi movies that have billion dollar space ships, that are made with self destruct sequences.
Or the evil genius that makes some incredible weapon that has a self-destruct switch on it can be blown to bits at the end of the show/movie.
Putting manual "off" switches for the tracking locators on the plane is about as stupid IMHO.
The scene in Spaceballs pops to mind, where they go into the room, and there is a sign that says "SELF DESTRUCT BUTTON...Do NOT Press...Unless you Really Really mean it!" I wonder if it says the same thing on the cockpits tracking switch?
But at least you'd have a trail of people to talk to at that point...
"Ok, the plane went missing, and the GPS locator thingy-majig wasn't operational."
Step1: See who was on the maintenance crew and ground crew, and investigate them. Who had access to it since that last known good operation of that peice of equipment.
Step2: It was cleared and signed off by ATC during the pre-flight check, well lets bring that operator in and investigate and find out why he signed off on it when it wasn't working.
While maintenance crews could have access to it on the ground if you made only outside access possible. You can still put it in a spot that is not as common to get to, so if a rouge, paid-off insider on the crew had to remove a special hatch that only housed that equipment, and it was located away from other normal maintenance things, then at least someone else might wonder why "Jim" is using the person-lift to access an equipment panel that they're not scheduled to work on that day. Or they could review the CCTV footage from the maintenance hangar to see who did it, if nobody else noticed at the time.
It's not fool proof, and can't prevent someone from bribing and tampering, but at least make it harder, and it also gives a chain of possible suspects to interview that aren't going to be "lost" with the plane when it disappears.
I'm not a shill, and would like to think of myself as not an idiot (don't we all). Nor am I a troll. I've been a member here on Slashdot for years, and by "shill" you are trying to say I'm getting compensated some way to post what I post, or to stir the pot, which is not true either.
I would also like to point out, that I did NOT make the original post that was commented, I only replied to it in support of the other persons opinion. I happen to have the same opinion as that poster. Hell, even Slashdot has had an example or two of some freaking retarded CC homework assignments that were made public a while back. While that one might not have been political leaning, it was one example (and more show up every couple weeks) about how bad the application of this "one size fits all" curriculum is.
Look, I've tried to learn what I can about CC for the last year or more, as I'm vested in the fact that I have 2 school age children, so that makes ME responsible for what they get taught. You can have what ever opinion you want about CC, but I would urge you, that if you have kids, you might want to do your homework on it as well, as it's ultimately your responsibility what they are or aren't getting taught and lectured to about in school.
Ultimately, if you don't agree with my point of view, more power to you, they're YOUR kids, raise them how you see fit. But don't call me a troll, or a shill because I don't share that opinion from the evidence I've seen so far and I'm responsible for raising MY kids how I see fit.
If you don't link the source links I provided, then look them up yourself. I did a quick google search and picked a couple out of the top 2 just to prove the point that a previous commenter made (that wasn't me). I did not pick these from any specific website for a reason. I knew if I posted without a link, someone would have shot me down that citations are needed. So I provided citations, and now they're not "good enough". Well I gave examples with citations, if you don't believe those news agencies, do your own freaking google search to see what you find, it shouldn't be hard, and you can cherry pick them from what ever news site you wish, I have better things to do than research the topic for you.
BTW, do you mean "non-biased" such as MSNBC, and CNN or something, cause the last time I looked, just about EVERY news organization these days is biased to one side or the other. MSNBC (considered a major news agency) is one of the worst offenders. So in your book, what is non-biased?
Basic Literacy and numeracy is not indoctrination, however that's not what Common Core is panning out to be in the real world examples...
It's being used as a tool to teach Social Justice, Wealth Redistribution, and other Marxist ideals to young kids, and is disguised as a school curriculum.
One example can be taken from the organization "Radical Math" who provide over 700 lesson plans for CC. With chapter titles that include: “Sweatshop Accounting”, “Racism and Stop and Frisk”, “When Equal Isn’t Fair”, “The Square Root of a Fair Share”, and “Home Buying While Brown or Black”.
Is THAT basic numeracy? Is that how YOU were taught math?
Or how about a third grade grammar assignment that has questions/answers like: "3) The choices of a president affect everyone. 4) He makes sure the laws of the country are fair. 5) The commands of government officials must be obeyed by all. 6) The wants of the individual are less important than the well-being of the nation." (article ref: http://www.tpnn.com/2013/11/04...)
Like THAT isn't an not only completely false, but outright creepy. Think about the next generation that grows up, and will think this way because it's been engrained in all their school assignments for as long as they can remember. Think they'll push for individual liberty, or become part of the collective?
These are just two examples I quickly googled up. But examples are popping up all over the place now that parents are starting to see what the kids are bringing home. You have the right to ignore this truth, but you can't dismiss it, it is there.
Well, if you think about it, they might teach intelligent design in their public schools, since that would be the basis for their history from their perspective.
A more philosophical/theological question, would be: given that Robots/AI would actually have to be intelligently designed, how would we (humans) feel, if they did decide to teach only evolution as the theory of how they came to to existence, completely ignoring the fact that humans created them and spent massive amounts of time and effort to do so.
Many of them may even go as far as mocking and ridiculing any other Robot/AI lifeform that dares to posit that maybe they were designed by an intelligent engineer, at the same time declaring that there is no controversy, the facts are that they came from random piles of silicon that self assembled and became aware out of pure random chance over many billions of cpu cycles...
Would that make humans feel more or less unwanted, and unappreciated.
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The foul was having a vote system where fraud is allowed and encouraged
Oh, you mean like in the last election, where many precincts in several states reported that over 100% of registered voters voted (which should be impossible)? Or where some other precincts reported that a full 100% of the vote for that district went to Obama (which is statistically improbable)? Or the cases where after the election, where some voters have come out and claimed publicly that they voted for Obama multiple times?
You are right, the foul IS having a vote system where fraud is allowed and encouraged. Now lets see, which party adamantly opposes Voter ID laws which would curb this problem. As I recall, one party was trying to get VoterID laws passed several times over the last several years, only to be called racists by the other party that is usually benefits from voter fraud the most.
I even recall the current DOJ suing and stopping several states, including Texas and North Carolina, from implementing versions of these laws, again all while calling them racists.
Well, I will content that pro-gun rights groups are more vocal about the 2nd than others, but I think a lot of that comes down to the fact, that in most cases, the 2nd is one of the more important ones. Not that the others are less important, but that the 2nd is there as a last means to protect the other amendments. If it comes down to it, and the gov tries to nullify the other amendments, the 2nd is the only one that has teeth enough (ie: real force) to do anything about it.
This is demonstrated in this case perfectly at this point, in that the 4th amendment is being shredded, and people have the right to, and have been exercising their right, to protest it, speak out against it, etc. but which that has gotten nowhere. While the first amendment is great, it has no teeth to actually stop (with force if necessary) this blatant violation of the 4th. The 2nd amendment does have the teeth, it just hasn't been used by "We the People" yet on this subject. Because it's so strong, it is a 'last resort' type of protection for obvious reasons.
And while I believe most gun-rights people don't like being spied on either, there just isn't any catchy phrases to be vocal about it like there is with the 2nd. When you talk about gun confiscation, you will quickly hear people stand up and say "if they come for my guns, they'll be met with resistance" or, or the ever so popular "you have my guns when you pry them from my cold dead hands" war cry.
The fact is, those types of rally cries for this topic don't work, someone standing up and saying "they can have my DATA when they pry it from my cold dead hands" is irrelevant, since they don't need to do that. There is not any effective means to stop it at this point, they are stealing/collecting it virtually, and any means to protect it can practically be circumvented, including encryption. The war on guns has been going on for quite awhile, we've fought at the soap box, we've fought at the ballot box, if they do much more, there may well be a fight using the ammo box. The data collection, is just getting started, so I think we're at the "soap box" stage right now, just trying to get the word out, and make people aware. Soon it move to the "ballot box" stage, and voters can try to stop it there. If that doesn't work, well, then the 2nd amendment could show it's teeth to stop it if people are willing enough.
Most of the people I know that are pro-2nd amendment, are pro all-the-amendments and find this online collection thing horrible as well. There is a difference between not liking something and not supporting it, and being able to stop it. I wouldn't make such blatant assumptions of some groups of people, as you could possibly be attributing helplessness with apathy.
If you are going to make blanket statements about people on this topic, I would suggest you point over to the actual "apathy" crowd as not caring... This is the population that cares more about American Idol and following the latest gossip from Hollywood than they do about the events and trends that are actually going on in our country right now. These are the true "low-information votors" (or "low-fo voters") that are more than willing to let this happen, because they are oblivious to the either the fact it actually IS happening, or what the consequences are and can be.
With a signature style, while anyone can try to sign for it, at least if you contest a fraudulent purchase, you can compare the signature on the stores receipt to your own and say, "that wasn't me that signed it", and then the bank is on the hook rather than the card holder.
With a PIN style system, how the heck is the card holder supposed to prove (to themselves or the bank) that they weren't the one who entered in the PIN number? Thus, the burden of proof of fraud will be harder for the card holder won't it? I can see trying to convince the bank that you didn't enter that PIN number, and the bank telling you that it matches your PIN so it MUST have been you, get lost, your on the hook for it.
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Yeah, I'm even further. I'm a freelancer, so I have to go all over for jobsites, not the same commute everyday, but I would say about 90% of my jobsites I go to are 60+ miles each way. Meaning a round trip is at least 120mi. Sometimes I have to make it to more than one jobsite on the same day and can really put some miles on. (At least I don't have to do it everyday, most of my work is done at my home office ahead of time).
There is no way most of these electric vehicles would work for my purposes. Maybe a Tesla with it's range, but if I ever have $80K to buy a car (which I don't), I would be getting something better than a Tesla.
Actually this will open up the new phrase "PI-holes" :)
Agreed. The typical redbox has a VERY limited selection of DVD movies to rent, all of which are just a small subset of new releases and "popular" movies for the given time. This works if you don't rent older movies or the less popular indy movies, or movies in any other Genre but the mega-summer-blockbuster-no-plot-pointless movies.
I keep Netflix around for the fact that any movie, even ones I haven't seen in years, or since I was kid are available as a DVD rental. Most everyone else I talk to about Netflix use it only for Streaming, which is not Netflix's best part. I wouldn't pay for streaming only service (without DVD rental) since their streaming selection for movies sucks, and their streaming selection for shows are mostly shows I don't watch (with a few exceptions). Even if they did have shows I watch, I'd have to wait 2-3 seasons before they would be released on Netflix (depending on the show this might be more/less).
Last time there was a mass exodus of Netflix (when they tried to split the streaming and DVD rental into 2 different sites), I was the only person I knew that dropped the streaming side, rather than the DVD side of Netflix. After a long time I finally added streaming back on, and low and behold, their selection was not any better.
Now I'm starting to use a Raspberry Pi running XBMC and MashUp and am starting to like it. I still pay for TV, and Netflix, but screw it, if these companies want to charge so much for every subscription. Most of us can get the content for free at this point. If they get too greedy, they won't get any of our money. The only subscribers they'll end up are going to be the few who are the ones recording and posting the shows up on bit-torrent sites for the rest.
Don't get me started on CableTV... as a person who only watches about 5 channels regularly, why I have to pay big bucks for mostly channels I don't want is ridiculous. I think channels should be a-la-cart selection, and the channels that can't stay on the air because they suck, need to go out of business. I watch no sports, and half the channels I pay for are in a languages that I can't speak. Why am I paying for all this? Because in order to get the 5 channels I want, I have to subscribe to the second to highest channel tier, that's why, and then the cable company takes my big bill, and evenly distributes it to all the channels I don't want.
It's so frustrating, it ALMOST makes cutting off all my services and living with YouTube cat video's as my only entertainment start to seem enticing.
This is a good idea, yes, but unfortunately, many makes/models of popular routers are not supported by DD-WRT or Tomato yet. There are some chipsets that they don't have builds for, or at least the last time I checked. (note to self: need to check the list again to see if my router has been added to the compatibility list recently...)
Yeah, because ISP's all use Cisco/Linksys and Netgear products much??? Most of the ones ATT used for years were all 2-Wire POS's. The cable company uses Motorola or a couple other types, most of which are all modem/routers-in-one. But from the sound of it the brands affected are the type you would buy off-the-shelf yourself for your own use, not leased from an ISP.
Regardless, a firewall is just that. Whether leased from an ISP, or purchased from a box-store, or custom ordered through a business account with Cisco or Juniper, one would expect a firewall to be a firewall without back doors, and if back doors are present, it is at best "false advertising" and trending toward equipment sabotage. If this really wasn't a "NSA conspiracy" type of back door, and was put in to "help the tech guys in india" out as you are inferring, then one would expect there to be a big admission of this so call 'feature' included with the product itself, or they're opening themselves up for a lot of law suits.
I believe he also gets permission, because in most cases he is copying the music as well, which is also copyrighted by who ever composed it, and media companies hold the rights to the music, even without the lyrics. So simply changing the lyrics doesn't change the fact that he is using the underlying copyrighted music.
I agree, this is how I pay. I am self employed, and have to save up for "tax day", where at the end of the year, I have to write lump sums to both Fed and State. Sucks every time, and you see how much friggin' money is going out to them. I could practically buy a car every year (outright!) with the money that goes to the IRS, that is SAD and depressing and enough to make anyone angry.
For those who say you're supposed to file quarterly, yes I know, and don't, I'd rather keep the money all year and have at my disposal if business dies down for cash, not to mention I don't want to do my taxes 4 times a year...and you only pay a $200 penalty for not paying quarterly, which is peanuts to what what the actual bill is.
I think everyone should have to pay like this, and the tax system would end up getting overhauled, and taxes cut very fast if everyone did this as they would be more aware.
The thing that drives me most nuts (and I used to do this too when I worked for an employer), is hearing people actually get happy about a "refund". I think the "refund" is just a way for the IRS to make you get excited about all the money they are taking from you...and it works in most cases. While most people don't like taxes and the IRS, those same people get uber excited about their tax refund of $2-$5K, and forget about the other $15-$30K that the IRS is keeping of their money. (actual numbers used just estimated ranges for decent wage earners obviously).
Or send just and "arm" and a "leg".
You do realize that people have been hacking and reprogramming normal car ECU's for quite awhile, probably since shortly after cars got ECU's. Not only are there aftermarket "chips", and "reprogrammers" (which really only alter basic parameters), but there are also more sofisticated "Piggyback ECU's" that go inline between normal ECU and engine, and can change received signals to the ECU, and/or alter sent signals to the engine, to override much of the built-in programming on them.
They even sell completely tunable aftermarket ECU's (for racing purposes) which completely replace the factory computer and you program to suit your needs. The Hydra and Link come to mind.
I have one of the more advanced "Piggyback" type ECU on my Subaru (UTEC), and it lets me program and run custom Fuel, Timing, and boost maps. Is programmed with a normal laptop and a RS232 cable (or USB on newer models) and even adds features to the car that weren't there originally, like launch control, multi-stage redlines (for flat foot shifting). It even has addtional relay output to aid in control of nitrous or water injection systems. You can also raise/change some of the limits, like RPM and boost limiters.
Not to mention, the community of many types of cars have open source projects, that reverse engineered some of the stock ECU's to allow complete remapping of the factory units. Subaru's for instance, had an online community cataloging all the different revisions of ECU's hardware, extracting the ROM images of each, reverse engineering the contents of the ROM images (byte by byte), and developing software that let you modify the ROM's. This combined with open sourced hardware, that allows for re flashing through the OBDII port (similar to the proprietary capabilities of the manufacturers hardware). Very sophisticated and dedicated work on the car communities part.
Also, in my neighborhood we have these things called "children." They like to do this thing called "playing outside."
children haven't played "outside" for 20 years or more, at least in most neighborhoods around where I live they don't. :)
This is like all the sci-fi movies that have billion dollar space ships, that are made with self destruct sequences.
Or the evil genius that makes some incredible weapon that has a self-destruct switch on it can be blown to bits at the end of the show/movie.
Putting manual "off" switches for the tracking locators on the plane is about as stupid IMHO.
The scene in Spaceballs pops to mind, where they go into the room, and there is a sign that says "SELF DESTRUCT BUTTON...Do NOT Press...Unless you Really Really mean it!" I wonder if it says the same thing on the cockpits tracking switch?
But at least you'd have a trail of people to talk to at that point...
"Ok, the plane went missing, and the GPS locator thingy-majig wasn't operational."
Step1: See who was on the maintenance crew and ground crew, and investigate them. Who had access to it since that last known good operation of that peice of equipment.
Step2: It was cleared and signed off by ATC during the pre-flight check, well lets bring that operator in and investigate and find out why he signed off on it when it wasn't working.
While maintenance crews could have access to it on the ground if you made only outside access possible. You can still put it in a spot that is not as common to get to, so if a rouge, paid-off insider on the crew had to remove a special hatch that only housed that equipment, and it was located away from other normal maintenance things, then at least someone else might wonder why "Jim" is using the person-lift to access an equipment panel that they're not scheduled to work on that day. Or they could review the CCTV footage from the maintenance hangar to see who did it, if nobody else noticed at the time.
It's not fool proof, and can't prevent someone from bribing and tampering, but at least make it harder, and it also gives a chain of possible suspects to interview that aren't going to be "lost" with the plane when it disappears.
I'm not a shill, and would like to think of myself as not an idiot (don't we all). Nor am I a troll. I've been a member here on Slashdot for years, and by "shill" you are trying to say I'm getting compensated some way to post what I post, or to stir the pot, which is not true either.
I would also like to point out, that I did NOT make the original post that was commented, I only replied to it in support of the other persons opinion. I happen to have the same opinion as that poster. Hell, even Slashdot has had an example or two of some freaking retarded CC homework assignments that were made public a while back. While that one might not have been political leaning, it was one example (and more show up every couple weeks) about how bad the application of this "one size fits all" curriculum is.
Look, I've tried to learn what I can about CC for the last year or more, as I'm vested in the fact that I have 2 school age children, so that makes ME responsible for what they get taught. You can have what ever opinion you want about CC, but I would urge you, that if you have kids, you might want to do your homework on it as well, as it's ultimately your responsibility what they are or aren't getting taught and lectured to about in school.
Ultimately, if you don't agree with my point of view, more power to you, they're YOUR kids, raise them how you see fit. But don't call me a troll, or a shill because I don't share that opinion from the evidence I've seen so far and I'm responsible for raising MY kids how I see fit.
If you don't link the source links I provided, then look them up yourself. I did a quick google search and picked a couple out of the top 2 just to prove the point that a previous commenter made (that wasn't me). I did not pick these from any specific website for a reason. I knew if I posted without a link, someone would have shot me down that citations are needed. So I provided citations, and now they're not "good enough". Well I gave examples with citations, if you don't believe those news agencies, do your own freaking google search to see what you find, it shouldn't be hard, and you can cherry pick them from what ever news site you wish, I have better things to do than research the topic for you. BTW, do you mean "non-biased" such as MSNBC, and CNN or something, cause the last time I looked, just about EVERY news organization these days is biased to one side or the other. MSNBC (considered a major news agency) is one of the worst offenders. So in your book, what is non-biased?
Basic Literacy and numeracy is not indoctrination, however that's not what Common Core is panning out to be in the real world examples...
It's being used as a tool to teach Social Justice, Wealth Redistribution, and other Marxist ideals to young kids, and is disguised as a school curriculum.
One example can be taken from the organization "Radical Math" who provide over 700 lesson plans for CC. With chapter titles that include: “Sweatshop Accounting”, “Racism and Stop and Frisk”, “When Equal Isn’t Fair”, “The Square Root of a Fair Share”, and “Home Buying While Brown or Black”.
Is THAT basic numeracy? Is that how YOU were taught math?
Or how about a third grade grammar assignment that has questions/answers like: "3) The choices of a president affect everyone. 4) He makes sure the laws of the country are fair. 5) The commands of government officials must be obeyed by all. 6) The wants of the individual are less important than the well-being of the nation." (article ref: http://www.tpnn.com/2013/11/04...)
Like THAT isn't an not only completely false, but outright creepy. Think about the next generation that grows up, and will think this way because it's been engrained in all their school assignments for as long as they can remember. Think they'll push for individual liberty, or become part of the collective?
These are just two examples I quickly googled up. But examples are popping up all over the place now that parents are starting to see what the kids are bringing home. You have the right to ignore this truth, but you can't dismiss it, it is there.
This reminds me of the YouTube video "Apple kills Star Trek".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
close to the truth, and utterly funny if you haven't seen it yet.
Well, if you think about it, they might teach intelligent design in their public schools, since that would be the basis for their history from their perspective.
A more philosophical/theological question, would be: given that Robots/AI would actually have to be intelligently designed, how would we (humans) feel, if they did decide to teach only evolution as the theory of how they came to to existence, completely ignoring the fact that humans created them and spent massive amounts of time and effort to do so.
Many of them may even go as far as mocking and ridiculing any other Robot/AI lifeform that dares to posit that maybe they were designed by an intelligent engineer, at the same time declaring that there is no controversy, the facts are that they came from random piles of silicon that self assembled and became aware out of pure random chance over many billions of cpu cycles...
Would that make humans feel more or less unwanted, and unappreciated.
These are the basics I go with for starters:
AntiVirus Software of Choice (Vipre)
FreeCommander (similar to TotalCommander)
FireFox
NotePad++
Office/Email Software (Microsoft for main PC, or Openoffice/LibreOffice for other PC's)
PDF XChange Viewer
Dropbox
VLC
NetSetMan (awesome for quick changing of network settings for connecting to different networks)
then I start installing development software and other neccessary software for work.
Oh, you mean like in the last election, where many precincts in several states reported that over 100% of registered voters voted (which should be impossible)? Or where some other precincts reported that a full 100% of the vote for that district went to Obama (which is statistically improbable)? Or the cases where after the election, where some voters have come out and claimed publicly that they voted for Obama multiple times?
You are right, the foul IS having a vote system where fraud is allowed and encouraged. Now lets see, which party adamantly opposes Voter ID laws which would curb this problem. As I recall, one party was trying to get VoterID laws passed several times over the last several years, only to be called racists by the other party that is usually benefits from voter fraud the most.
I even recall the current DOJ suing and stopping several states, including Texas and North Carolina, from implementing versions of these laws, again all while calling them racists.
Well, I will content that pro-gun rights groups are more vocal about the 2nd than others, but I think a lot of that comes down to the fact, that in most cases, the 2nd is one of the more important ones. Not that the others are less important, but that the 2nd is there as a last means to protect the other amendments. If it comes down to it, and the gov tries to nullify the other amendments, the 2nd is the only one that has teeth enough (ie: real force) to do anything about it.
This is demonstrated in this case perfectly at this point, in that the 4th amendment is being shredded, and people have the right to, and have been exercising their right, to protest it, speak out against it, etc. but which that has gotten nowhere. While the first amendment is great, it has no teeth to actually stop (with force if necessary) this blatant violation of the 4th. The 2nd amendment does have the teeth, it just hasn't been used by "We the People" yet on this subject. Because it's so strong, it is a 'last resort' type of protection for obvious reasons.
And while I believe most gun-rights people don't like being spied on either, there just isn't any catchy phrases to be vocal about it like there is with the 2nd. When you talk about gun confiscation, you will quickly hear people stand up and say "if they come for my guns, they'll be met with resistance" or, or the ever so popular "you have my guns when you pry them from my cold dead hands" war cry.
The fact is, those types of rally cries for this topic don't work, someone standing up and saying "they can have my DATA when they pry it from my cold dead hands" is irrelevant, since they don't need to do that. There is not any effective means to stop it at this point, they are stealing/collecting it virtually, and any means to protect it can practically be circumvented, including encryption. The war on guns has been going on for quite awhile, we've fought at the soap box, we've fought at the ballot box, if they do much more, there may well be a fight using the ammo box. The data collection, is just getting started, so I think we're at the "soap box" stage right now, just trying to get the word out, and make people aware. Soon it move to the "ballot box" stage, and voters can try to stop it there. If that doesn't work, well, then the 2nd amendment could show it's teeth to stop it if people are willing enough.
Most of the people I know that are pro-2nd amendment, are pro all-the-amendments and find this online collection thing horrible as well. There is a difference between not liking something and not supporting it, and being able to stop it. I wouldn't make such blatant assumptions of some groups of people, as you could possibly be attributing helplessness with apathy.
If you are going to make blanket statements about people on this topic, I would suggest you point over to the actual "apathy" crowd as not caring... This is the population that cares more about American Idol and following the latest gossip from Hollywood than they do about the events and trends that are actually going on in our country right now. These are the true "low-information votors" (or "low-fo voters") that are more than willing to let this happen, because they are oblivious to the either the fact it actually IS happening, or what the consequences are and can be.
This may be stupid and naive on my part but...
With a signature style, while anyone can try to sign for it, at least if you contest a fraudulent purchase, you can compare the signature on the stores receipt to your own and say, "that wasn't me that signed it", and then the bank is on the hook rather than the card holder.
With a PIN style system, how the heck is the card holder supposed to prove (to themselves or the bank) that they weren't the one who entered in the PIN number? Thus, the burden of proof of fraud will be harder for the card holder won't it? I can see trying to convince the bank that you didn't enter that PIN number, and the bank telling you that it matches your PIN so it MUST have been you, get lost, your on the hook for it.
There are ARTICLES on this site? well I learn something new everyday...
Here, here... Could not have said it better! Well done and 100% agree.
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