When I was a student, we had to sign away the rights to anything we wrote to the college, so I'd imagine you'd have to get permission from the college to submit it to Wikipedia in the first place.
And if there was nothing wrong with it, why does the school say it won't start using the snooping feature again without "express written notification to all students and families"?
Umm, because there was a national scandal regarding it and the school is desperately trying to cover its ass on all sides?
Calling it a "scare tactic" is a bit harsh. I'd say its more the police wanting something to point to when their bosses ask what they've done to "make Mumbai safe from this happening again".
I have no problem with students being shown the difference between science and "creationism". One is the very antithesis of the other. How can the average student be expected to argue against this nonsense if they don't understand what it is and why it is not science?
I've looked a the lego sets these days and instead of selling them as tools to support imagination, they are trying to compete with the instant gratification/no thought required entertainment of movies video games.
Lego have this model building tool available, and I recently used it to make a "model" I built as a kid. Its the USS Enterprise (as created by a four year old). I kid you not, I had *fleets* of these badboys battling across my bedroom for weeks at a time:)
Posting this comment, which is unrelated to he topic at hand, in the hope that you read my reply. I've got some karma to burn so what the hell - thanks for that post mate! It inspired a really fascinating wiki trail, and a really interesting conversation (still ongoing) about the nature of language with my gf!:)
The trouble-shooting was a constant challenge because no matter how fool-proof you make your software, nature keeps coming up with fools who can manage to mess things up, and with the constantly-changing OS issues of Windows, there was always more to learn. For me, at least, it was a very satisfying job because every day I could go home knowing that there were at least twenty or so people who's days were a little better because I'd helped them. Not everybody can think that way, but if you can, the help desk doesn't have to become the hell desk.
More power to you if that is true, mate, but that sure reads a lot like the BS statement I had prepared when I was being interviewed for support work when I first joined the workforce. I could hardly answer the question about why I wanted to work on an IT helpdesk honestly - that would have been to say I wanted any IT job straight out of college and didn't care where I got it.
On a vaguely related note, I've been working on IT helpdesks since I graduated three years ago, and just this morning was offered my first job that doesn't have me answering the phone to solve computer problems for idiots. Go me:D
You don't get noticed and appreciated for sticking to what works. Somebody who does not make improvements can't talk about them when the next performance review comes up, so people who want to get ahead start to change things - hoping to improve their position. Sometimes, it works and the person gets praise and a promotion, often it is a train wreck. Its the nature of business, and its the reason that unless somebody in a hierarchy is dedicated to keeping something that works well exactly as it is (which I'm guessing is the case for craigslist), anything that is good in a business will eventually be ruined.
Idiots like Hitchens can pretend that religion has never done anything good, but has he ever listened to a Bach oratorio or stood in the Mezquita? Only an idiot could say religion has done nothing good.
I find it hard to accept what you seem to be implying - that religion was required for the creation of those great works of art. The drive for the creation of artistic works is an innate part of the human condition. Religion, as an attempt to understand the world around us, is part of this condition as well, but neither is dependant on the other for its existence.
Had the people who created the Mezquita not been religious, they would have created their masterpieces in other places, in other forms. Had Bach been an atheist, he still would have been driven to create , and we would still be able to enjoy his genius today.
I'm sorry if you consider me an idiot, but religion has never done any good. Any good that is ascribed to it would have come about without it, and to claim otherwise is to denigrate what it means to be a human being.
At this point human transatlantic exploration is at best a propaganda exercise and at worst a complete waste of money. Why should King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella change their stance on the issue? Have transatlantic voyages become more interesting in the last 20 years? More strategically important? More affordable?
I realize transatlantic exploration is inspiring but that in itself isn't enough to justify the expenses.
In China, there are no Koses, no Limbaughs, no Gores, no Moores, no one that criticizes the regime or calls for political change. In Iran, well, its illegal to even be jewish
A country should be judged on the basis of how much freedom its people have, not by the fact that there are people elsewhere who have it worse off.
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Last week LulzSec released a list of everybody in the world's PIN. I found mine in there anyway!
Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert) wrote about this just a few weeks ago: http://www.dilbert.com/blog/entry/?EntryID=541.
Actually his "I have a dream" speech was largely improvised.
Not really. If journalists don't even bother to look the topic up on Google and find this story, it proves the point.
Don't praise the machine!
Did you know that disco record sales were up 400% for the year ending 1976? If these trends continues... Aaay!
When I was a student, we had to sign away the rights to anything we wrote to the college, so I'd imagine you'd have to get permission from the college to submit it to Wikipedia in the first place.
And if there was nothing wrong with it, why does the school say it won't start using the snooping feature again without "express written notification to all students and families"?
Umm, because there was a national scandal regarding it and the school is desperately trying to cover its ass on all sides?
Now I just have to wait for my office to upgrade, and I'll get to spend another six months in Dependency Hell!
Calling it a "scare tactic" is a bit harsh. I'd say its more the police wanting something to point to when their bosses ask what they've done to "make Mumbai safe from this happening again".
I would have enjoyed the movie if it wasn't for long minutes of 'nothing' repeated time and time again.
Um, you have read LoTR right? Quite frankly I was impressed by the sheer quantity "nothing happening" that Jackson managed to cut out.
What weighs more, 40lb of frozen turkey or 40lb of thawed turkey?
Note, this was a half-day strike, not ongoing.
While you were gone, I patented the process of returning to work after a strike.
I have no problem with students being shown the difference between science and "creationism". One is the very antithesis of the other. How can the average student be expected to argue against this nonsense if they don't understand what it is and why it is not science?
Guess we're out of luck then - that's the one world we can attempt no landing on.
I've looked a the lego sets these days and instead of selling them as tools to support imagination, they are trying to compete with the instant gratification/no thought required entertainment of movies video games.
Lego have this model building tool available, and I recently used it to make a "model" I built as a kid. Its the USS Enterprise (as created by a four year old). I kid you not, I had *fleets* of these badboys battling across my bedroom for weeks at a time :)
If you're reading lots of science fiction and you have never read anything by Ray Bradbury then you are reading lots of the wrong science fiction.
Are you by any chance reading the greats of modern sci-fi in inverse alphabetical order, by author's surname?
Posting this comment, which is unrelated to he topic at hand, in the hope that you read my reply. I've got some karma to burn so what the hell - thanks for that post mate! It inspired a really fascinating wiki trail, and a really interesting conversation (still ongoing) about the nature of language with my gf! :)
The trouble-shooting was a constant challenge because no matter how fool-proof you make your software, nature keeps coming up with fools who can manage to mess things up, and with the constantly-changing OS issues of Windows, there was always more to learn. For me, at least, it was a very satisfying job because every day I could go home knowing that there were at least twenty or so people who's days were a little better because I'd helped them. Not everybody can think that way, but if you can, the help desk doesn't have to become the hell desk.
:D
More power to you if that is true, mate, but that sure reads a lot like the BS statement I had prepared when I was being interviewed for support work when I first joined the workforce. I could hardly answer the question about why I wanted to work on an IT helpdesk honestly - that would have been to say I wanted any IT job straight out of college and didn't care where I got it.
On a vaguely related note, I've been working on IT helpdesks since I graduated three years ago, and just this morning was offered my first job that doesn't have me answering the phone to solve computer problems for idiots. Go me
...as long as they don't include any articles about Harry Potter ;)
You don't get noticed and appreciated for sticking to what works. Somebody who does not make improvements can't talk about them when the next performance review comes up, so people who want to get ahead start to change things - hoping to improve their position. Sometimes, it works and the person gets praise and a promotion, often it is a train wreck. Its the nature of business, and its the reason that unless somebody in a hierarchy is dedicated to keeping something that works well exactly as it is (which I'm guessing is the case for craigslist), anything that is good in a business will eventually be ruined.
Idiots like Hitchens can pretend that religion has never done anything good, but has he ever listened to a Bach oratorio or stood in the Mezquita? Only an idiot could say religion has done nothing good.
I find it hard to accept what you seem to be implying - that religion was required for the creation of those great works of art. The drive for the creation of artistic works is an innate part of the human condition. Religion, as an attempt to understand the world around us, is part of this condition as well, but neither is dependant on the other for its existence.
Had the people who created the Mezquita not been religious, they would have created their masterpieces in other places, in other forms. Had Bach been an atheist, he still would have been driven to create , and we would still be able to enjoy his genius today.
I'm sorry if you consider me an idiot, but religion has never done any good. Any good that is ascribed to it would have come about without it, and to claim otherwise is to denigrate what it means to be a human being.
You mean "Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do (at least over an unsecured medium)"? ;)
In China, there are no Koses, no Limbaughs, no Gores, no Moores, no one that criticizes the regime or calls for political change. In Iran, well, its illegal to even be jewish
A country should be judged on the basis of how much freedom its people have, not by the fact that there are people elsewhere who have it worse off.