Sadly the greatest issue is that forums usually represent a commercial interest and that forces a certain biased viewpoint that can effect forum users. I know of no fix for this built in conflict and basic fairness is often flushed right down the tubes.
Instead of just making more rules which companies usually break anyway it would be wiser to establish a carrot and stick approach. Reward companies for turning in cheaters by giving them large sums of cash. Reward companies that produce energy saving products by giving them large sums. Fine the hell out of violating companies to get the money to give to the good companies. And please be heavy handed!
This article simply points to issues that most people consider before investing. For example we all know that silicon based solar cells are not the ultimate. We can also pretty much guess that current fancy compounds will also be less than optimum in a few years. The catch being much like the guy trying to buy a bleeding edge computer. He's already behind before he drives home with the new PC. But when we are talking about 30K worth of solar equipment for our roof we really don't want to make blunders.
Obviously popular topics will gather more view points and controversy. A person doing a report on tribal dances in Kenya is not likely to generate a lot of views nor a lot of disagreement.
There is a lot to be said for taking a young burgler to the local high school and shooting them in the head with the entire school watching.
It sort of lets young people know that society is a bit eager to trash bad people regardless of age, beauty or social position.
And executions should be fun for onlookers as well.
After seeing the move "The Fly" I like the idea of a gigantic stamping machine coming down on convicts sentenced to death and in an instant making them as thin as a piece of paper. There would be no time for pain at all and a couple of hundred tons of flat sheet steel falling about 30 feet onto a blind folded and strapped down convict would be a lot more fool proof than an electric chair and more certain than a firing squad in providing instant death. It would also put on quite a show for onlookers.
Of course he just might be able to claim that it was a simulation and that no illegal drugs were in that bong and start filing very lucrative law suits at every corner. Can anyone prove that it was not a jest or gag? Can Kellog's defend itself against breach of contract if no immoral action can be proven?
How healthy is the main stream? What kind of social nonsense is it to indicate that a person can get high at times without being outcast? One of our nations greatest problems is that we are not applying severe social penalties for alcohol and illegal drug use. Social discrimination can be used to absolutely demand only the highest level of function and morality for all people at all times. The Victorian model has much to be said for its qualities.
It seems like a bad idea until you inspect potential benefits. For example drunk driving might be ascertained by a bar patron's every order being tracked by computer. It might also be quite useful for welfare, child support and employment issues such as a pilot ordering drinks one hour before work or for keeping people on parole away from drinking in bars.
Good Lord,
Please keep the parents isolated from the educational system. They are the problem.
If you want the solution it is to "DEMAND EXCELLENCE". Let kids know that they will either fly high or sweat in poverty in a coal mine. Be more than willing to flunk them out and more than willing to throw them out for bad behavior. Toss the failures in the front lines during war or keep them in starvation jobs. It worked forever.
And just how do parents make kids go to school? You can't whip them.
I happen to be the step parent of a kid who had a huge hidden problem. I would take him right to the door of the school. He would not stay there ten minutes.
It turns out that he was suffering from bi-polar disorder. You also can not force a teen to get medical treatment. So if they decide to live in a suicidal way you pretty much have to accept it.
Of the last twenty years the jerk has been in prison almost seventeen years. He keeps going back as he is so off the wall that he will commit crimes right in front of a cop. He is getting more and more violent. Illegal drug use has caused conspicuous brain damage. My bet is that he will kill someone before it is over. As a step parent I have no standing to even speak to a judge or appear at a parole hearing etc.. This is our legal system at work!
Although nobody will touch the topic within the system the largest barrier to educating children are the parents.
For example the concept of dumbing down classes so that slower students have hope of keeping up is parent driven. Try flunking kids and angry parents call politicians and raise all kinds of hell even to the extent of playing the race card.
Another example: In my area the schools decided to assign trivial labor as punishment for bad behavior. Instead of sitting in detention hall they were asked to pick up stray paper on the campus. The program lasted about two weeks when the parents of those in detention threatened law suits over sun burn or ant bites due to the single hour after school that the kids were put to work.
And the fruit of this are classes so dumbed down that they are useless to all and kids bored out of their skulls can't be punished when they act out.
Prisons should be using enough sound and visual recording devices to stop all smuggling and violence. A prison making claim that they can not control things is confessing to not doing their job.
When businesses complain that they can not find qualified American workers the real truth is that they do not wish to pay out the money needed to hire qualified Americans and prefer to import desperate workers willing to accept low wages.
Actually we are in a period of deflation in which a dollar becomes more and more valuable. It can get so carried away that all of us may pray one day to be able to afford a dollar! Printing more money could well help all of us out.
As for the IBM lay offs some employees get really great severance packages. All of us should be so lucky as to be laid off from IBM.
Scientific Linux OS is written by the scientists and engineers at CERN!
Its base is from Red Hat.
It is a jewel of an OS and is exactly what you need.
Distrowatch.com probably has it listed and a path to downloading it. It is free.
Good luck and do something good that helps people!
Announcing is one thing. Delivery of a working product is quite another thing indeed.
My opinion is that they would do better to try and develop a Linux version all their own than trying to beat a rather excellent system from scratch. All in all I find such announcements to be obnoxious.
Frankly educating teachers as to what Open Source is all about is only the edge of the battle. A better war to fight is to Open Source colleges completely right down to soup and sleeping bags. We need an educated population. The last thing we need is for any aspect of education to cost one red cent!
We could bring back the good old days by insisting upon our legal and moral right to sell opium to the people of China. There's more than one way to beat down the Chinese and make money while doing it.
I'll wager that the pirates have a higher IQ than those that fail to pirate. Therefore beating them down is the right thing to do. Woe unto the nation that fails to beat down the intelligent among them! Let the dullards rule. It's natural law!
I don't see Windows as being all that relevant these days.
My bet goes like this; I'll bet computers get more powerful even during hard times. Sure there will be all kinds of net appliances, sub-notebooks , tablets etc.. But they won't have all that much long lasting power. Better and higher powered computers will be king but the total number sold will be smaller than in years gone by.
Very few people will be buying things other than what they can not do without for some time to come.
We can agree that electronic recording of history tends to be temporary. But consider the alternatives. There are no long term compatibility plans for data storage. So any media we use will need to be replaced every few years at an astoundingly high cost.
Then we have the standard, time honored, method.We could print everything out on acid free paper and store it in a special inert gas, environment. Obviously that would take every tree on the planet to provide paper pulp and the pollution would be overwhelming.
The point being that we have absolutely no way of storing the amount of data that modern recordings can produce for any substantial period of time.
One problem is that traditional audits really don't work very well as a rule. There are too many ways of beating an audit and the cost of an audit often is greater than the stealing it reveals.
It is hard to believe that companies that exist to sell auditing service are not well aware of these problems and therefore sort of corrupt in general as they often are not offering a reality based service.
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Sadly the greatest issue is that forums usually represent a commercial interest and that forces a certain biased viewpoint that can effect forum users. I know of no fix for this built in conflict and basic fairness is often flushed right down the tubes.
Considering the huge sums involved you can bet that Nvidia has the bases covered.
Instead of just making more rules which companies usually break anyway it would be wiser to establish a carrot and stick approach. Reward companies for turning in cheaters by giving them large sums of cash. Reward companies that produce energy saving products by giving them large sums. Fine the hell out of violating companies to get the money to give to the good companies. And please be heavy handed!
This article simply points to issues that most people consider before investing. For example we all know that silicon based solar cells are not the ultimate. We can also pretty much guess that current fancy compounds will also be less than optimum in a few years. The catch being much like the guy trying to buy a bleeding edge computer. He's already behind before he drives home with the new PC. But when we are talking about 30K worth of solar equipment for our roof we really don't want to make blunders.
Obviously popular topics will gather more view points and controversy. A person doing a report on tribal dances in Kenya is not likely to generate a lot of views nor a lot of disagreement.
There is a lot to be said for taking a young burgler to the local high school and shooting them in the head with the entire school watching.
It sort of lets young people know that society is a bit eager to trash bad people regardless of age, beauty or social position.
And executions should be fun for onlookers as well.
After seeing the move "The Fly" I like the idea of a gigantic stamping machine coming down on convicts sentenced to death and in an instant making them as thin as a piece of paper. There would be no time for pain at all and a couple of hundred tons of flat sheet steel falling about 30 feet onto a blind folded and strapped down convict would be a lot more fool proof than an electric chair and more certain than a firing squad in providing instant death. It would also put on quite a show for onlookers.
Of course he just might be able to claim that it was a simulation and that no illegal drugs were in that bong and start filing very lucrative law suits at every corner. Can anyone prove that it was not a jest or gag? Can Kellog's defend itself against breach of contract if no immoral action can be proven?
How healthy is the main stream? What kind of social nonsense is it to indicate that a person can get high at times without being outcast? One of our nations greatest problems is that we are not applying severe social penalties for alcohol and illegal drug use. Social discrimination can be used to absolutely demand only the highest level of function and morality for all people at all times. The Victorian model has much to be said for its qualities.
It seems like a bad idea until you inspect potential benefits. For example drunk driving might be ascertained by a bar patron's every order being tracked by computer. It might also be quite useful for welfare, child support and employment issues such as a pilot ordering drinks one hour before work or for keeping people on parole away from drinking in bars.
Good Lord,
Please keep the parents isolated from the educational system. They are the problem.
If you want the solution it is to "DEMAND EXCELLENCE". Let kids know that they will either fly high or sweat in poverty in a coal mine. Be more than willing to flunk them out and more than willing to throw them out for bad behavior. Toss the failures in the front lines during war or keep them in starvation jobs. It worked forever.
And just how do parents make kids go to school? You can't whip them.
I happen to be the step parent of a kid who had a huge hidden problem. I would take him right to the door of the school. He would not stay there ten minutes.
It turns out that he was suffering from bi-polar disorder. You also can not force a teen to get medical treatment. So if they decide to live in a suicidal way you pretty much have to accept it.
Of the last twenty years the jerk has been in prison almost seventeen years. He keeps going back as he is so off the wall that he will commit crimes right in front of a cop. He is getting more and more violent. Illegal drug use has caused conspicuous brain damage. My bet is that he will kill someone before it is over. As a step parent I have no standing to even speak to a judge or appear at a parole hearing etc.. This is our legal system at work!
Although nobody will touch the topic within the system the largest barrier to educating children are the parents.
For example the concept of dumbing down classes so that slower students have hope of keeping up is parent driven. Try flunking kids and angry parents call politicians and raise all kinds of hell even to the extent of playing the race card.
Another example: In my area the schools decided to assign trivial labor as punishment for bad behavior. Instead of sitting in detention hall they were asked to pick up stray paper on the campus. The program lasted about two weeks when the parents of those in detention threatened law suits over sun burn or ant bites due to the single hour after school that the kids were put to work.
And the fruit of this are classes so dumbed down that they are useless to all and kids bored out of their skulls can't be punished when they act out.
Prisons should be using enough sound and visual recording devices to stop all smuggling and violence. A prison making claim that they can not control things is confessing to not doing their job.
When businesses complain that they can not find qualified American workers the real truth is that they do not wish to pay out the money needed to hire qualified Americans and prefer to import desperate workers willing to accept low wages.
Actually we are in a period of deflation in which a dollar becomes more and more valuable. It can get so carried away that all of us may pray one day to be able to afford a dollar! Printing more money could well help all of us out.
As for the IBM lay offs some employees get really great severance packages. All of us should be so lucky as to be laid off from IBM.
Scientific Linux OS is written by the scientists and engineers at CERN!
Its base is from Red Hat.
It is a jewel of an OS and is exactly what you need.
Distrowatch.com probably has it listed and a path to downloading it. It is free.
Good luck and do something good that helps people!
Maybe we have found a device that could take care of all those prisoners down in Getmo!
Announcing is one thing. Delivery of a working product is quite another thing indeed.
My opinion is that they would do better to try and develop a Linux version all their own than trying to beat a rather excellent system from scratch. All in all I find such announcements to be obnoxious.
Frankly educating teachers as to what Open Source is all about is only the edge of the battle. A better war to fight is to Open Source colleges completely right down to soup and sleeping bags. We need an educated population. The last thing we need is for any aspect of education to cost one red cent!
We could bring back the good old days by insisting upon our legal and moral right to sell opium to the people of China. There's more than one way to beat down the Chinese and make money while doing it.
I'll wager that the pirates have a higher IQ than those that fail to pirate. Therefore beating them down is the right thing to do. Woe unto the nation that fails to beat down the intelligent among them! Let the dullards rule. It's natural law!
I don't see Windows as being all that relevant these days.
My bet goes like this; I'll bet computers get more powerful even during hard times. Sure there will be all kinds of net appliances, sub-notebooks , tablets etc.. But they won't have all that much long lasting power. Better and higher powered computers will be king but the total number sold will be smaller than in years gone by.
Very few people will be buying things other than what they can not do without for some time to come.
We can agree that electronic recording of history tends to be temporary. But consider the alternatives. There are no long term compatibility plans for data storage. So any media we use will need to be replaced every few years at an astoundingly high cost.
Then we have the standard, time honored, method.We could print everything out on acid free paper and store it in a special inert gas, environment. Obviously that would take every tree on the planet to provide paper pulp and the pollution would be overwhelming.
The point being that we have absolutely no way of storing the amount of data that modern recordings can produce for any substantial period of time.
One problem is that traditional audits really don't work very well as a rule. There are too many ways of beating an audit and the cost of an audit often is greater than the stealing it reveals.
It is hard to believe that companies that exist to sell auditing service are not well aware of these problems and therefore sort of corrupt in general as they often are not offering a reality based service.