The racism slant is conjecture on my part, but removing judgement is absolutely the point. It's just like minimum sentencing for some crimes, except that it's not one branch tying the hands of another--it's an administration tying its own hands.
At the very least, it means that the administration has a very easy answer to parents who complain about punishments. Zero tolerance lets the school stonewall.
I don't think the grandparent poster was saying that these things were right--just that they were. People will get punished for extracurricular activities if the administration doesn't like said activities.
They'll do whatever they can get away with, because it's rare that they'll get fired even when they get caught doing these things. The school district might get sued, but that just comes out of the taxpayer's wallet. They won't get fired because the people doing the firing don't want a precedent set for firing administrators (they're administrators, too.)
Zero tolerance is not idiocy. Well, it's idiocy in the same way that George W. Bush was an "idiot."
Zero tolerance basically gives them a get-out-of-court-free card against racism charges when the school has to punish someone for some activity. Before zero-tolerance, judgement was used, and when black kids were punished for the some activity, there were almost always cries of racism. ZT ended that, because the policy is easy to point to and there is no human judgement to call into question.
I doubt very seriously that Apple wants a mouse driver on a touch device. The use cases are really quite small. So this is probably as good as it's going to get.
Luckily, someone could develop the profile and then license it out.
Yeah. The singles were about $4 where I lived, and the albums were about $10. If you wanted more than one single on the album, you were probably better off getting the album.
Though the "singles" were inaptly named, because they usually included 2-3 songs. Mind you, the other two songs were rarely popular--occasionally they were alternate versions of tracks on the full album. I bought the single of Amish Paradise" because it included the alternate "The Night Santa Went Crazy".
I want to say most vendors stopped shipping with floppy drives by default around 2003. Presumably there was a hardware refresh between 2003 and 2009. It seems likely, then, that the inclusion of the floppy means that the IT person specifically included floppies.
The alternative--that there wasn't a refresh between 2003 and 2009--is, in fact, a bit sad. Six years is a pretty long time for computers, and their value increased considerably throughout last decade.
An interested person could probably file a FOIA request to find out for sure, of course.
An employer can ask to pull your credit, interview your friends and family, interview neighbors, give you a polygraph, administer a drug test, to make sure you are not at risk to be put in a compromising position
I think we'll eventually see restrictions on pulling credit reports and asking for service credentials for most employers. It will become a fairly big issue in the future, as credit scores plummet due to the mismanagement of the economy (for the credit reports) and as social media becomes even more commonplace.
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It's not appreciably longer for me to pull out my phone and enable the camera than to pull out the camera and turn it on. The camera takes slightly longer to load than the iPhone app (from lockscreen). The volume up button now clicks the shutter.
The quality issue is going to be very subjective. I'm not trying to sell you on an iPhone--just explaining my own uses and comparisons.
There are waterproof cases for the phone, and my point-and-shoot isn't waterproof. Today, there's little reason for me to go back to my dedi. If I were going to consider buying a new one, it would be a hard choice. The cost would be fairly high for fairly little gain.
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I think that my use-cases for iPad as a camera are quite contrived. Maybe I'm reading out in public when something record-worthy starts happening, so instead of having to pull out my phone, I just switch apps. Or I know ahead of time that I'm going to want to do editing directly on the iPad, so I just record on it from the beginning. Otherwise, I would probably never use the iPad as a camera intentionally, preferring my iPhone or a dedi.
The iPhone camera is good enough to completely replace my point-and-shoot, though. It's worse quality, but not much, and there's great convenience in only having to carry the one device. If the iPad camera is similar, I guess I could see some people choosing to use it over a point-and-shoot, but only if they are trying to cut down on what they have to lug around and they want the iPad for other reasons.
Oddly, most of the time, companies want you to have some experience on modern tools. It's not always the case, but it happens. It makes you much more marketable.
Would $20 buy you 6 months worth of meth if meth were legalized? I don't know what the going rates are now, but I do know the going rates for alcohol. $20 is a night of drinking for me. If you buy the really cheap stuff, it might last you a couple of months, but it's barely going to get you tipsy.
Ah, sorry then. I assumed that the two were related. Starvation is a global and historical problem. It may be something that most of the developed world hasn't had to struggle with for a while, but it's nothing new.
My point stands, though. "Health food" (food marketed as healthy) may be pretty expensive, but "healthy food" isn't. Some of the cheapest ways to prepare food is from scratch with very-low processed materials (not quite raw, but about as raw as you get for cooking.)
Now if you're talking about having good, balanced diets, you may well be right. But for a given food, time+raw materials will beat out processed foods in terms of cost almost any day, so if you can't afford that, you aren't worrying about the healthiness of the food.
I'm interested in the raw numbers for the meals you're quoting. Eating out is frankly pretty expensive, and a report I read showed that home-cooked, healthy meals tended to be cheaper but far more time-consuming.
Thus, the assertion of being unable to afford healthy food could be accurate for a family where the caregivers are working a combined 140 hours per week or something. For single-income households (with two parents) there's almost no reason to not choose the cheaper, healthier, time-consuming option.
Generally, no. They have clauses that let them cancel for any reason.
But AT&T killed their unlimited plan slightly less than two years ago. It's pretty unlikely that this guy is under contract anymore. Possible, but unlikely.
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Explain to me again how the sliver of legal protection offered by ZT isn't idiocy compared to these awful, stupid outcomes?
Because it's quite intentional and works well for the purposes for which it was implemented.
I'm not saying it's good. I'm saying it's not idiodic.
The racism slant is conjecture on my part, but removing judgement is absolutely the point. It's just like minimum sentencing for some crimes, except that it's not one branch tying the hands of another--it's an administration tying its own hands.
At the very least, it means that the administration has a very easy answer to parents who complain about punishments. Zero tolerance lets the school stonewall.
I don't think the grandparent poster was saying that these things were right--just that they were. People will get punished for extracurricular activities if the administration doesn't like said activities.
They'll do whatever they can get away with, because it's rare that they'll get fired even when they get caught doing these things. The school district might get sued, but that just comes out of the taxpayer's wallet. They won't get fired because the people doing the firing don't want a precedent set for firing administrators (they're administrators, too.)
Zero tolerance is not idiocy. Well, it's idiocy in the same way that George W. Bush was an "idiot."
Zero tolerance basically gives them a get-out-of-court-free card against racism charges when the school has to punish someone for some activity. Before zero-tolerance, judgement was used, and when black kids were punished for the some activity, there were almost always cries of racism. ZT ended that, because the policy is easy to point to and there is no human judgement to call into question.
On the sshd_config which ships with FreeBSD has this disabled.
I doubt very seriously that Apple wants a mouse driver on a touch device. The use cases are really quite small. So this is probably as good as it's going to get.
Luckily, someone could develop the profile and then license it out.
I believe that apps can now add arbitrary Bluetooth profiles (for their use only.) Ask your favorite RDP app author for mouse support.
I can't see why we'd mind if the Chinese government pissed away a few billion dollars of our money.
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Yeah. The singles were about $4 where I lived, and the albums were about $10. If you wanted more than one single on the album, you were probably better off getting the album.
Though the "singles" were inaptly named, because they usually included 2-3 songs. Mind you, the other two songs were rarely popular--occasionally they were alternate versions of tracks on the full album. I bought the single of Amish Paradise" because it included the alternate "The Night Santa Went Crazy".
It's entertaining, but boy do they ever play the crappiest games.
I want to say most vendors stopped shipping with floppy drives by default around 2003. Presumably there was a hardware refresh between 2003 and 2009. It seems likely, then, that the inclusion of the floppy means that the IT person specifically included floppies.
The alternative--that there wasn't a refresh between 2003 and 2009--is, in fact, a bit sad. Six years is a pretty long time for computers, and their value increased considerably throughout last decade.
An interested person could probably file a FOIA request to find out for sure, of course.
Zimbra. The enterprise version also has ActiveSync support.
An employer can ask to pull your credit, interview your friends and family, interview neighbors, give you a polygraph, administer a drug test, to make sure you are not at risk to be put in a compromising position
Hmm. http://www.dol.gov/compliance/guide/eppa.htm disagrees.
I think we'll eventually see restrictions on pulling credit reports and asking for service credentials for most employers. It will become a fairly big issue in the future, as credit scores plummet due to the mismanagement of the economy (for the credit reports) and as social media becomes even more commonplace.
It's not appreciably longer for me to pull out my phone and enable the camera than to pull out the camera and turn it on. The camera takes slightly longer to load than the iPhone app (from lockscreen). The volume up button now clicks the shutter.
The quality issue is going to be very subjective. I'm not trying to sell you on an iPhone--just explaining my own uses and comparisons.
There are waterproof cases for the phone, and my point-and-shoot isn't waterproof. Today, there's little reason for me to go back to my dedi. If I were going to consider buying a new one, it would be a hard choice. The cost would be fairly high for fairly little gain.
I think that my use-cases for iPad as a camera are quite contrived. Maybe I'm reading out in public when something record-worthy starts happening, so instead of having to pull out my phone, I just switch apps. Or I know ahead of time that I'm going to want to do editing directly on the iPad, so I just record on it from the beginning. Otherwise, I would probably never use the iPad as a camera intentionally, preferring my iPhone or a dedi.
The iPhone camera is good enough to completely replace my point-and-shoot, though. It's worse quality, but not much, and there's great convenience in only having to carry the one device. If the iPad camera is similar, I guess I could see some people choosing to use it over a point-and-shoot, but only if they are trying to cut down on what they have to lug around and they want the iPad for other reasons.
Or the Gig port and the eSATA port at the same time.
The fact that they didn't sufficiently test very reasonable use cases made me decide never to buy anything from them again.
Oddly, most of the time, companies want you to have some experience on modern tools. It's not always the case, but it happens. It makes you much more marketable.
This is also for teaching the tools. Do you train on NT4?
Long-term alcohol abuse also has pretty nasty effects on the brain. Particularly if you go off of it.
Would $20 buy you 6 months worth of meth if meth were legalized? I don't know what the going rates are now, but I do know the going rates for alcohol. $20 is a night of drinking for me. If you buy the really cheap stuff, it might last you a couple of months, but it's barely going to get you tipsy.
http://www.capecodpackagestore.com/webupdate/beeramerican.htm
Ah, sorry then. I assumed that the two were related. Starvation is a global and historical problem. It may be something that most of the developed world hasn't had to struggle with for a while, but it's nothing new.
My point stands, though. "Health food" (food marketed as healthy) may be pretty expensive, but "healthy food" isn't. Some of the cheapest ways to prepare food is from scratch with very-low processed materials (not quite raw, but about as raw as you get for cooking.)
Now if you're talking about having good, balanced diets, you may well be right. But for a given food, time+raw materials will beat out processed foods in terms of cost almost any day, so if you can't afford that, you aren't worrying about the healthiness of the food.
Citation for my earlier claim:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/25/opinion/sunday/is-junk-food-really-cheaper.html?pagewanted=all
I'm interested in the raw numbers for the meals you're quoting. Eating out is frankly pretty expensive, and a report I read showed that home-cooked, healthy meals tended to be cheaper but far more time-consuming.
Thus, the assertion of being unable to afford healthy food could be accurate for a family where the caregivers are working a combined 140 hours per week or something. For single-income households (with two parents) there's almost no reason to not choose the cheaper, healthier, time-consuming option.
I don't think they ever said "couldn't" or "can't", but instead said, "don't."
Generally, no. They have clauses that let them cancel for any reason.
But AT&T killed their unlimited plan slightly less than two years ago. It's pretty unlikely that this guy is under contract anymore. Possible, but unlikely.