what makes you think our system can handle this properly at all?
You know what I see?
I see fifteen years of litigation. I see suits and counter-suits, and appeals and such going on for years and years. I see the prinicpal and board walking way free as a bird. I see the taxpayers not only having to pay huge amounts in legal fees and such, but also huge jury awards.
I see, in the end, nothing will change. Lawyers get rich, government power expands, taxes go up, power consolidates with a few bureaucrats, unelected by anyone.
If it was up to me, I'd be going for Prison, and not ClubFed prison, but PMITA Prison for everyone involved. From the Principal, Board of Education, Technical people involved. Even the teachers if they were involved. ANYONE that had touched the decision that this was a good idea.
NCLB is a Federal program designed by Federal Employees to make work for OTHER Federal Employees, and has NOTHING to do with Children being left behind or not.
Fact is, no matter how you structure something, someone ALWAYS gets "left behind". Sometimes the best thing we can do for someone is to allow them to fail, all by themselves. When you prevent failure, you never gain excellence.
The same brain dead "process model" is in our education system, where all the top level people can see is how the process is functioning, and don't care about the results. NCLB is a process model, even though the it claims to be after "results". The top people see the failures of NCLB as a problem with the process and will tweak it until they get the result they want, which will never happen, because it is impossible. The very premise that "no child" will be left behind will drain all resources exponentially on the few that are being left behind.
NCLB is part of what is wrong with our thinking. We think that if we tweak the process we can effectively change the result. This means RESULTS don't matter, only the process matters. And if you look at all the progressive programs out there, it is almost always about process and hardly ever measures the results (or they become secondary).
You can see this in statements like "The system worked" when a plane was nearly blown up by underwear laced with explosives failed to detonate properly. When all you can see is process, and not the result, then you end up with security theater we call "homeland security", where there is no creativity allowed and people are not allowed to think.
Dang, that is exactly what I was gonna suggest. Pull Cable all the way! I always pull two or four cat6 cables for each drop. Two if I think I only want one, four if I think I'll need two or three. If I need Four or more drops, I'll drop a GB switch in at that location (and two drops) back to the closet.
Buzz doesn't support Blackberry* yet. Not everyone has a Android or iPhone. So I would say that until The Google decides to support Blackberry with a native app, then there is no option but to ignore it.
*Appearently Opera on BB runs the Javascript needed, but it is a hack/cludge to d/l Opera and bypass all the warnings needed to BUZZ.
** I wonder if we're gonna call people who "Buzz".... wait for it... Buzzards;)
Personally I don't have a problem with this kind of thing. Really, I don't. Want to rob, consider it a hazardous conditions.
I mean if someone wants to fuck with my stuff, then they have to fuck with me and my big guns. We shouldn't be protecting the asshats on the off chance that a drunk guy broken into my house accidentally, or it was a couple of stupid kids.
Stupid should hurt. Criminals are stupid lazy asshats for the most part, who are antisocial to boot.
I'm sick and tired of people who want to coddle the criminals while they are committing crimes. You breaking the law? Then you're responsible for what happens to you, and all that you do.
Seriously, criminals shouldn't have rights while they are committing crimes.
It is that bad, not necessarily because of translation problems, but rather from isolating verses from the context, not knowing the culture of the times, and ignorance of what the REST of the Hebrew Scriptures said.
If one knew the context of "Love the LORD your GOD", and what verse(s) that was pulled from, one could not make it about "warm fuzzy feelings" (which come and go), but rather would make it about obedience to "The LORD your GOD".
But that would mean giving up all sorts of things Christians have become accustomed to (Christmas Ham Dinner).
Of course, if you don't believe the Scriptures, then it doesn't matter at all what you choose to keep or don't keep. Just make it up as you go, and end up looking like the hypocrites that they (Christians) are.
Take for instance, Christmas. I've often pointed out the similarity of "Christmas" celebrations and what is found in Jeremiah 10. The answer I get is that they aren't bowing down and worshiping trees. I ask them what a dead evergreen tree has to do with Jesus and they look at me like a deer caught in a headlight. They really don't know. It is just "tradition".
Jesus said a few not so nice things about traditions and vain things. But they don't care. Warm Fuzzy feelings are what matter.
Of course living a good "christian life" as depicted by modern christians isn't quite the same thing as the one ascribed to Christ himself in the bible
I realize that this is "Offtopic" a bit, but I can't help mywself.
Most "Christians" don't believe much of what "Christ" said. They have fancy ways of making much of what he said "void" because he wasn't talking to them.
The killer is Matt 28, where He said (paraphrased) "Go to the world teaching them everything I taught you".
I don't blame people for thinking that most Christians are hypocrites. Because they are. Christ called those kind of people Vipers and Dogs.
And you're right, we should be doing the RIGHT thing because it is the RIGHT thing to do. But doing the RIGHT thing is not often easy, and often is chided as being "legalistic". As for the environment, man was created (according the bible) to tend to the garden, which can EASILY be understood as being a steward of this planet we're living on.
I don't believe in AWG, but I do believe in taking care of the environment, true conservative style, because it is the right thing to do.
They have "bad" days filled with cramps and such. They have Bitchy days when nobody in their right mind would even begin to interact with them. They have babies and take time off from working to raise them, sometime never to return.
It costs money to hire and train a workforce. Yeah, reality sucks, and nobody wants to notice the elephant in the room, ignoring it doesn't make it go away.
And no, I don't "hate" women. I have three daughters and a wife. I'm just realistic about what I expect from them.
I know I need to go on a week long hunting trip every month/joke
Are you saying something about us "TALL" people? I think you're bigotted against us by suggesting that "Tall" persons are somehow different than other people.
Get over your Tallism please.
Oh wait, you're point was about Goatees, well in that case never mind.
Equal Opportunity should be exactly that. Opportunity doesn't equate to results.
American Idol provides "equal opportunity" to all the people who roam through the masses to try and get a record contract.
The process isn't entirely fair as it is so subjective. But then again, that is what makes us HUMAN. We like different things and qualities. If you legislate that process away, you end up with bland milktoast crap of average.
And it doesn't allow for success even beyond the subjective. Sometimes the best success comes from the ashes of failure. When everything is scripted by the books, we lose the opportunity that failure sometimes generates.
I'm pretty sure they are hiring people based on merit and technical ability, not race or color.
This is just code words from you KKK and NeoNazi types./sarcasm
Racism has been marginalized. Time for the race traitors to stop pimping their skin color. I hate to point this out, because it only feeds the race traitors, but we have a BLACK PRESIDENT.
The fact that I have to point this out is sad commentary that we have to look at skin color to prove we don't have to look at skin color.
I've NEVER seen all four of those checked before on a singular suggestion. SO, I will attempt to propose the PERFECT solution, which will obviously have to take into account all four options.... THIS would definitely solve the problem.
We need to pass a law, that would create an incentive for Private Companies to generate an electric shock device that would automatically send a large electrical shock to anyone OPENING SPAM (legislation to define SPAM as broadly as possible and contain SNOPES and Chain letter provisions). The Winning company's device would be awarded the ONE day's cost of SPAM (to be determined).
This is based on my basic premise.... STUPID should hurt.
Yes, there is a secular reason, it is cultural in nature.
I already stated this. Culturally derived from Religious nature. The whole "Seven days" thing is also religious in nature. There is no such time keeping in cultures that were isolated from the world for a few thousand years, like the tribes of South Americans or Pacific Islanders (before White men).
Now if you're saying that the culture of white men is our culture, then you're also saying that that culture is derived in part from the Judeo Christian religious influences.
And if you're saying that, then you're saying there is no such thing as "Separation" of church and state, since the state is beholden to the cultural influences of Judeo Christian religious experiences.
And the whole Saturday/Sunday thing is culturally insensitive to the Muslims, who's holy rest day is Friday. Not to mention the Pastafarian Rest day which is (I believe) Tuesday.
And I think that if you want to work for the feds, you should be willing to work an extra 28% more for your salary which is almost 45% more than the average worker (http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs041.htm and http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/AWI.html).
(please note, my posts are filled with tons of SARCASM which you haven't detected)
Privacy is an illusion at best. At worst, it is an unachievable ideal that can never be attained.
What we should be doing is making sure that people's information and identity and personal security are paramount in governmental roles.
The problem is that progressive governance is opposite this. Government intrusion into every sector of a person's life is gaining all sorts of leverage into a person's private life.
And as we expand government's role into intruding into peoples lives under the guise of "poor, oppressed, needy or weak".
You were worried by Darth Cheney and rightly so, but are you worried about the Health Care bill, which will probably affect more people than anything Darth Cheney could dream up?
Of course, if you are willing to give up freedom for security, you will no doubt get neither. And this applies to all those programs from both (R) and (D).
Privacy is an illusion, because people are so willing to give it up for so little in return.
I would say that hate speech should be considered any speech that advocates the attack on another person's rights based on a more generalized idea such as their race, sexual orientation, etc.
What about economic status? Why not?
So, saying that you don't want illegal Mexican immigrants into the country wouldn't be considered hate speech, as it doesn't interfere with their rights; they don't have the right to enter our country illegally.
They don't? Says who? There are 30 million of them here now. And in places like San Fransisco, they are a protected class, like homosexuals are.
But saying that you want all Mexican's out of the country regardless of their citizenship because "they" stole your job, then yes, that would be hate speech.
Who is saying all Mexicans should leave the country? Of course, some people have equated "undocumented workers" as being "all Mexicans" for political reasons, if not explicitly, it is implied. So even refining your statement to be "Illegal Aliens" is considered "hate speech" because "illegal aliens" is code for "all Mexicans".
And the moment you outlaw certain words, we change other words to take the place of the now missing / forbidden words.
Take the word "Retarded", which used to be a perfectly acceptable word to describe someone who was less intelligent than average. Now that word is nearly forbidden, because of people using it in a negative way. Now we have substituted "Special" in place, trying to make people feel better about calling them "retarded". Except now, even that term is starting to gain a negative quality. "Aren't you 'special'?"
The fact is, communication is wrought with all sorts of subjective interpretations and meanings and subtleties that shift as words evolve in meaning to route around societal censorship.
I'm a libertarian, and so I don't find ANY speech all that offensive. Worst case scenario is that we find out what people think plainly. I'd much rather have the KKK marching down the street (obvious who/where they are) than hiding in back rooms and secretly planning their next cross burning.
If you're offended by the presence of the KKK, you probably should get some help. A bunch of wackos shouting slogans of hate don't offend me. The best thing we can do is make fun of them, laugh at them, tease them, and show how ridiculous they are.
I'd much rather have all speech open where I can see it, and react accordingly than stick my head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist for the sake of my sensibilities.
You miss my point. Weekends (Saturday / Sunday) are the two days off a week because of "Religion" (Christian/Jewish Sabbath), as is Christmas is a major holiday because of a "Religion".
I want mail delivered 7 days a week, and I want to be able to go to DMV on Sunday. I want government to function just the same as on the other five days a week, without exception because after all, the basis for "weekends" is the concept of Sabbath.
Secularly there is no reason to have those two be not like the other five, and by assigning them to the Religious sabbath of Christians and Jews is just a holdover from those belief systems.
And I don't see any secular value to having two days of rest, or any "time off". Plenty of people work seven days a week and show no harm in it.
As for convenience of organizing time off in order to minimize disruptions, that is simply a bogus response. You're assuming there needs to be any "disruption" in service, which is exactly why I propose making all Government employees work seven days a week, no disruptions at all, unlike right now, where there is a definitive disruption in service every week.
I don't see why we should expect government employees demand two days off a week, since that is expressly a hold over from religious attitudes. You know, separation of Church and State should be complete and total, or it is meaningless.
I install WIN XP all the time on all sorts of equipment. But not off CD, but using RIS (WDS Legacy) and keep a fully patched (slipstreamed) version ready for all my deployments. I've integrated DriverPacks into the image as well, and basically can install it on just about any PC out there, flawlessly.
Microsoft should make a WIN XP DVD install of my setup available to fix their current generic CD.
The only problem I have is the limited path statement (limited to 512 chars I think)which is a limit of DOS COMMAND LINE (still!!) needed for ALL the driver folders. I only run Network, Video and Audio drivers, which gets me network access to download/install all the other drivers not included.
Any idiot can hit F12 a couple of times and reset any machine on my networks.
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And by "criminals" we're talking about everything that was considered a crime throughout all of history. Nice Strawman.
Actually, we should bring back stocks, in the town square. Free rotting fruit provided for free.
what makes you think our system can handle this properly at all?
You know what I see?
I see fifteen years of litigation. I see suits and counter-suits, and appeals and such going on for years and years. I see the prinicpal and board walking way free as a bird. I see the taxpayers not only having to pay huge amounts in legal fees and such, but also huge jury awards.
I see, in the end, nothing will change. Lawyers get rich, government power expands, taxes go up, power consolidates with a few bureaucrats, unelected by anyone.
If it was up to me, I'd be going for Prison, and not ClubFed prison, but PMITA Prison for everyone involved. From the Principal, Board of Education, Technical people involved. Even the teachers if they were involved. ANYONE that had touched the decision that this was a good idea.
NCLB is a Federal program designed by Federal Employees to make work for OTHER Federal Employees, and has NOTHING to do with Children being left behind or not.
Fact is, no matter how you structure something, someone ALWAYS gets "left behind". Sometimes the best thing we can do for someone is to allow them to fail, all by themselves. When you prevent failure, you never gain excellence.
The same brain dead "process model" is in our education system, where all the top level people can see is how the process is functioning, and don't care about the results. NCLB is a process model, even though the it claims to be after "results". The top people see the failures of NCLB as a problem with the process and will tweak it until they get the result they want, which will never happen, because it is impossible. The very premise that "no child" will be left behind will drain all resources exponentially on the few that are being left behind.
NCLB is part of what is wrong with our thinking. We think that if we tweak the process we can effectively change the result. This means RESULTS don't matter, only the process matters. And if you look at all the progressive programs out there, it is almost always about process and hardly ever measures the results (or they become secondary).
You can see this in statements like "The system worked" when a plane was nearly blown up by underwear laced with explosives failed to detonate properly. When all you can see is process, and not the result, then you end up with security theater we call "homeland security", where there is no creativity allowed and people are not allowed to think.
Moo
Dang, that is exactly what I was gonna suggest. Pull Cable all the way! I always pull two or four cat6 cables for each drop. Two if I think I only want one, four if I think I'll need two or three. If I need Four or more drops, I'll drop a GB switch in at that location (and two drops) back to the closet.
It is all about planning ahead.
You forgot the "LAME!!!" ending. In the spirit of the Olympics, we'll have to deduct a point from your final moderation score for that gaff.
Buzz doesn't support Blackberry* yet. Not everyone has a Android or iPhone. So I would say that until The Google decides to support Blackberry with a native app, then there is no option but to ignore it.
*Appearently Opera on BB runs the Javascript needed, but it is a hack/cludge to d/l Opera and bypass all the warnings needed to BUZZ.
** I wonder if we're gonna call people who "Buzz" .... wait for it ... Buzzards ;)
Personally I don't have a problem with this kind of thing. Really, I don't. Want to rob, consider it a hazardous conditions.
I mean if someone wants to fuck with my stuff, then they have to fuck with me and my big guns. We shouldn't be protecting the asshats on the off chance that a drunk guy broken into my house accidentally, or it was a couple of stupid kids.
Stupid should hurt. Criminals are stupid lazy asshats for the most part, who are antisocial to boot.
I'm sick and tired of people who want to coddle the criminals while they are committing crimes. You breaking the law? Then you're responsible for what happens to you, and all that you do.
Seriously, criminals shouldn't have rights while they are committing crimes.
It is that bad, not necessarily because of translation problems, but rather from isolating verses from the context, not knowing the culture of the times, and ignorance of what the REST of the Hebrew Scriptures said.
If one knew the context of "Love the LORD your GOD", and what verse(s) that was pulled from, one could not make it about "warm fuzzy feelings" (which come and go), but rather would make it about obedience to "The LORD your GOD".
But that would mean giving up all sorts of things Christians have become accustomed to (Christmas Ham Dinner).
Of course, if you don't believe the Scriptures, then it doesn't matter at all what you choose to keep or don't keep. Just make it up as you go, and end up looking like the hypocrites that they (Christians) are.
Take for instance, Christmas. I've often pointed out the similarity of "Christmas" celebrations and what is found in Jeremiah 10. The answer I get is that they aren't bowing down and worshiping trees. I ask them what a dead evergreen tree has to do with Jesus and they look at me like a deer caught in a headlight. They really don't know. It is just "tradition".
Jesus said a few not so nice things about traditions and vain things. But they don't care. Warm Fuzzy feelings are what matter.
I realize that this is "Offtopic" a bit, but I can't help mywself.
Most "Christians" don't believe much of what "Christ" said. They have fancy ways of making much of what he said "void" because he wasn't talking to them.
The killer is Matt 28, where He said (paraphrased) "Go to the world teaching them everything I taught you".
I don't blame people for thinking that most Christians are hypocrites. Because they are. Christ called those kind of people Vipers and Dogs.
And you're right, we should be doing the RIGHT thing because it is the RIGHT thing to do. But doing the RIGHT thing is not often easy, and often is chided as being "legalistic". As for the environment, man was created (according the bible) to tend to the garden, which can EASILY be understood as being a steward of this planet we're living on.
I don't believe in AWG, but I do believe in taking care of the environment, true conservative style, because it is the right thing to do.
Women cost more than men.
They have "bad" days filled with cramps and such. They have Bitchy days when nobody in their right mind would even begin to interact with them. They have babies and take time off from working to raise them, sometime never to return.
It costs money to hire and train a workforce. Yeah, reality sucks, and nobody wants to notice the elephant in the room, ignoring it doesn't make it go away.
And no, I don't "hate" women. I have three daughters and a wife. I'm just realistic about what I expect from them.
I know I need to go on a week long hunting trip every month /joke
Are you saying something about us "TALL" people? I think you're bigotted against us by suggesting that "Tall" persons are somehow different than other people.
Get over your Tallism please.
Oh wait, you're point was about Goatees, well in that case never mind.
Equal Opportunity should be exactly that. Opportunity doesn't equate to results.
American Idol provides "equal opportunity" to all the people who roam through the masses to try and get a record contract.
The process isn't entirely fair as it is so subjective. But then again, that is what makes us HUMAN. We like different things and qualities. If you legislate that process away, you end up with bland milktoast crap of average.
And it doesn't allow for success even beyond the subjective. Sometimes the best success comes from the ashes of failure. When everything is scripted by the books, we lose the opportunity that failure sometimes generates.
This is just code words from you KKK and NeoNazi types. /sarcasm
Racism has been marginalized. Time for the race traitors to stop pimping their skin color. I hate to point this out, because it only feeds the race traitors, but we have a BLACK PRESIDENT.
The fact that I have to point this out is sad commentary that we have to look at skin color to prove we don't have to look at skin color.
Core 1 SVHOST.EXE
Core 2 Antivirus
Core 3 Virus/Malware/Crapware
Core 4 IE8
That is why you need quad cores on XP/VISTA/7
A P4 doesn't cut it any longer, as you'd never be able to run IE8 because the other three processes taking over your life.
I've NEVER seen all four of those checked before on a singular suggestion. SO, I will attempt to propose the PERFECT solution, which will obviously have to take into account all four options .... THIS would definitely solve the problem.
We need to pass a law, that would create an incentive for Private Companies to generate an electric shock device that would automatically send a large electrical shock to anyone OPENING SPAM (legislation to define SPAM as broadly as possible and contain SNOPES and Chain letter provisions). The Winning company's device would be awarded the ONE day's cost of SPAM (to be determined).
This is based on my basic premise .... STUPID should hurt.
I already stated this. Culturally derived from Religious nature. The whole "Seven days" thing is also religious in nature. There is no such time keeping in cultures that were isolated from the world for a few thousand years, like the tribes of South Americans or Pacific Islanders (before White men).
Now if you're saying that the culture of white men is our culture, then you're also saying that that culture is derived in part from the Judeo Christian religious influences.
And if you're saying that, then you're saying there is no such thing as "Separation" of church and state, since the state is beholden to the cultural influences of Judeo Christian religious experiences.
And the whole Saturday/Sunday thing is culturally insensitive to the Muslims, who's holy rest day is Friday. Not to mention the Pastafarian Rest day which is (I believe) Tuesday.
And I think that if you want to work for the feds, you should be willing to work an extra 28% more for your salary which is almost 45% more than the average worker (http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs041.htm and http://www.ssa.gov/OACT/COLA/AWI.html).
(please note, my posts are filled with tons of SARCASM which you haven't detected)
Privacy is an illusion at best. At worst, it is an unachievable ideal that can never be attained.
What we should be doing is making sure that people's information and identity and personal security are paramount in governmental roles.
The problem is that progressive governance is opposite this. Government intrusion into every sector of a person's life is gaining all sorts of leverage into a person's private life.
And as we expand government's role into intruding into peoples lives under the guise of "poor, oppressed, needy or weak".
You were worried by Darth Cheney and rightly so, but are you worried about the Health Care bill, which will probably affect more people than anything Darth Cheney could dream up?
Of course, if you are willing to give up freedom for security, you will no doubt get neither. And this applies to all those programs from both (R) and (D).
Privacy is an illusion, because people are so willing to give it up for so little in return.
What about economic status? Why not?
They don't? Says who? There are 30 million of them here now. And in places like San Fransisco, they are a protected class, like homosexuals are.
Who is saying all Mexicans should leave the country? Of course, some people have equated "undocumented workers" as being "all Mexicans" for political reasons, if not explicitly, it is implied. So even refining your statement to be "Illegal Aliens" is considered "hate speech" because "illegal aliens" is code for "all Mexicans".
And the moment you outlaw certain words, we change other words to take the place of the now missing / forbidden words.
Take the word "Retarded", which used to be a perfectly acceptable word to describe someone who was less intelligent than average. Now that word is nearly forbidden, because of people using it in a negative way. Now we have substituted "Special" in place, trying to make people feel better about calling them "retarded". Except now, even that term is starting to gain a negative quality. "Aren't you 'special'?"
The fact is, communication is wrought with all sorts of subjective interpretations and meanings and subtleties that shift as words evolve in meaning to route around societal censorship.
I'm a libertarian, and so I don't find ANY speech all that offensive. Worst case scenario is that we find out what people think plainly. I'd much rather have the KKK marching down the street (obvious who/where they are) than hiding in back rooms and secretly planning their next cross burning.
If you're offended by the presence of the KKK, you probably should get some help. A bunch of wackos shouting slogans of hate don't offend me. The best thing we can do is make fun of them, laugh at them, tease them, and show how ridiculous they are.
I'd much rather have all speech open where I can see it, and react accordingly than stick my head in the sand and pretend it doesn't exist for the sake of my sensibilities.
You miss my point. Weekends (Saturday / Sunday) are the two days off a week because of "Religion" (Christian/Jewish Sabbath), as is Christmas is a major holiday because of a "Religion".
I want mail delivered 7 days a week, and I want to be able to go to DMV on Sunday. I want government to function just the same as on the other five days a week, without exception because after all, the basis for "weekends" is the concept of Sabbath.
Secularly there is no reason to have those two be not like the other five, and by assigning them to the Religious sabbath of Christians and Jews is just a holdover from those belief systems.
And I don't see any secular value to having two days of rest, or any "time off". Plenty of people work seven days a week and show no harm in it.
As for convenience of organizing time off in order to minimize disruptions, that is simply a bogus response. You're assuming there needs to be any "disruption" in service, which is exactly why I propose making all Government employees work seven days a week, no disruptions at all, unlike right now, where there is a definitive disruption in service every week.
I don't see why we should expect government employees demand two days off a week, since that is expressly a hold over from religious attitudes. You know, separation of Church and State should be complete and total, or it is meaningless.
I agree. And while we're at it, lets have the Government workers work 7 days a week. And Christmas.
Leave Richard Potato's boat out of this. Thank you.
Hey NO Morals at all! Yeah!
Just wondering, who's morals you think should we have pushed on us?
I install WIN XP all the time on all sorts of equipment. But not off CD, but using RIS (WDS Legacy) and keep a fully patched (slipstreamed) version ready for all my deployments. I've integrated DriverPacks into the image as well, and basically can install it on just about any PC out there, flawlessly.
Microsoft should make a WIN XP DVD install of my setup available to fix their current generic CD.
The only problem I have is the limited path statement (limited to 512 chars I think)which is a limit of DOS COMMAND LINE (still!!) needed for ALL the driver folders. I only run Network, Video and Audio drivers, which gets me network access to download/install all the other drivers not included.
Any idiot can hit F12 a couple of times and reset any machine on my networks.
On the downside .... goatse at fiber speeds eewwwwww.