But then again, little Johnny(or Suzie) School Kid doesn't realize that it could be worse. If I were the judge, I would have asked which way they wanted to defend it.
Do you want to defend this as a "School Matter" or under "Criminal Justice or Civil Court" rules.
You're right, educators don't care and if someone is involved it helps. The problem isn't there, it is in the 9th OSI layer, POLITICS.
And politically, we can't demand parents and guardians take responsibility for their children, it is political suicide if one suggested that a single mom raising 5 kids, working two jobs to keep food on the table be involved more. Like I said, the labels get applied, and all debate stops.
I'm a firm believer that large part of the problem is that parental involvement is actually discouraged. I'd love to see vouchers, one of the side effects would be causing parental involvement and decision making. Which might actually make people even more involved.
As for the example you quoted, it isn't universal. Things rarely are. But a significant portion of the population is like that. I know, because I've seen it. I even gave examples.
Well, I am concerned about it, because lack of education isn't good, not for them, not for the rest of society. I'm not a cultural snob, and there is plenty of things we can learn and benefit from from a culturally diverse society. Variation is a spice of life. But I reject the attitudes such as I presented. And that doesn't make me a cultural snob.
If a kid doesn't have parents, suggesting parental involvement whatsoever is akin to Racism, especially in sub-communities where children often are raised by someone other than a parent.
Additionally, young black people are educated to reject schooling, and becoming productive in our society. This is done by a bias that doing so will make them "uncle toms" and a traitor to the "White Slave Traders".
There is racism in this country, the sad thing is only one side can be called on it. The other side(s) gets a free pass, because it is "insensitive" to suggest it exists.
Here is just a very recent example... "'The Star-Spangled Banner' is going on. I don't celebrate this [expletive]. I'm black." - Josh Howard
The implication is that the National Anthem is for "Whites". I can go on listing examples after examples. The funny thing is, people like Josh Howard are providing self fulfilling hatred. I don't like Mr Howard, not because he's black, but because he's an asshat. However, I'm sure that he thinks I'm racist, and thereby feeds his delusion of a Racist America.
On the other hand, you have a fine patriotic American in Kobe Bryant, who proclaims his pride in his country, and sings the National Anthem while receiving his gold Medal.
I don't judge people on the color of their skin, just the content (or lack thereof) of their character.
The problem is, most people are completely unaware or too scared to say anything. One race isn't any more, or any less intelligent than any other race. So any failings within a demographic are cultural. Which makes me "culturally insensitive" I guess
"In education (USA), kids with involved parents do better across the board because it is reinforced at home. This is sought after and encouraged in elementary/middle school education."
In some circles, that comment will get you called all sorts of names, like Racist or at least "culturally insensitive". In other circles, it will get you called "uncle tom", or "traitor to your race".
To put this into perspective, we have PRA requests for all sorts of "data" that we are supposed to keep. It has become almost a full time job going through all the crap to find what the PRA requests are asking for.
Problem is, that the poor and middle class don't pay much in taxes to start. AND that doesn't explain the BILLIONS spent by Bush II tax bonus checks not doing a thing.
I'm just wondering why income redistribution is a function of government?
If there was no "government" involvement, there would be no "corporations" which are artificial constructs of the government, and artificial "Persons" under the law. Except there is nobody to throw in jail when the "corporation" breaks the law.
So, yes, Things would be better if REAL free markets took ahold. most of the problems you can point to, are problems the government created.
Reagan = Democratic Congress, who authors all spending appropriations.
Bush 1 = Democratic Congress, who authors all Spending Appropriations.
Clinton 1 = Budget Surplus when Republican (evil Newt G, "contract on america etc) Congress policies too effect.
Bush 2 = Inherited downturning Economy from Clinton, and 9/11 and Spending like Drunken Sailor. Never vetos anything.
While I agree with you on Bush 2, Bush 1 and Reagan were better than Carter. Last president before Carter I liked was Kennedy, who was nothing like his brother is.
I'm not partisan (R) like most drones (Hannity), nor am I partisan (D) like the other drones. Both sides have had horrible presidents, and good ones.
Honestly, I think we should use the Corporate Kill button more often. AND jail those responsible for ruining their companies (Carly Fiorina, I'm looking at you!)
The current housing / lending mess can be blamed on RAMPANT greed. That happens every time Greed and speculation runs a sector, and it happened during Clinton's reign (.com bomb) as well.
And just like the.com bubble, this one has plenty of people to blame, on both sides. Take a look at who is (or was) sitting on Freddy and Fannie's boards. Lots of prominent (D) and (R)s, and you won't see a single investigation into either sides responsibilities. Steroid Use in Baseball is much more important to have hearings on.
If I were king for a day, I'd toss them all out, and into jail. The whole lot of them are crooks.
I'm sorry, but I don't care what a bunch of pointy head economists say. They don't have a clue what is, what should be, or what could be.
and people saying It is better under (D) than (R) are just ignoring the facts, even considering "lag time". They tend to forget Stagflation of the late 70's where income tax rates were way up there, and on everyone.
No, the problem is that nobody knows what would have been, could have been, should have been if the government got out of the way.
But we can know that the FAILED policies of the LEFT, destroyed the African American community, by destroying the families in the name of "welfare".
And if Leftwing Economics is so great, why not move to Cuba or china where government controls everything aspect of the economy.
As far as I'm concerned, the government is a big part of the problem.
The problem with logical fallacies, which this one is, is that sometimes the premise itself is flawed. In this case, the premise that one can assert the "truthiness" of the statement that is flawed in formation. One cannot prove a negative, which is why in courts the premise is that a person is innocent (didn't do it), and the burden of proof is to prove guilt.
Being able to spot a flawed premise in the first place, goes along way to proving or not proving binary questions.
Too bad most people stop thinking when presented with questions that seem simple on the face.
Yes, both of those are true (Mac, Ping). Even NMAP responses can be spoofed. However the likelihood of all three being done is not likely. However NMAP will reveal a used IP, and a mac table somewhere will identify what port it is hanging on. Packets have to be routed to it somehow.
And I agree with your last point. I'm a Libertarian.;)
I learned early on, that most people don't see the difference between a $12 hour high school geek and a $75 hr network administrator. All most people see is that both do roughly the same job and there is $63 hour difference.
Most of the time, the $12 hr guy is doing most of the same work as the $75 hour guy. The big difference is when crap like this comes up, the $12 hour guy can spend years trying to figure out what the $75 hr guy can figure out in 5 minutes.
Even when the $12 hr guy screws up, the response is "But he was cheaper". It is cheaper to keep a $12 hr guy trying to keep crapware off a computer, rather than a $75 hour guy who doesn't allow crapware in the first place.
The point I'm making, is that a $75 hr guy is worth it, but only to people where time has real value. People who place no value on TIME, don't care about anything other than $ per HR
1) They were firing the guy, so he was no longer in the employ of the city, so his boss, was no longer his boss.
2) You don't know what you're talking about. Every IP address on the network should be known. Either through DHCP or static IP address map. A ping sweep should reveal any IP address in use, that shouldn't be. From the ping sweep, one can arp the unknown IPs to get a MAC address, and do a lookup on the Manufacturer code to know what KIND of device the MAC could be. one could use NMAP to try to discover type of device as well. Then you start going to every port on every switch with rogue IPs hanging off it, and manually looking at what is attached at the other end.
As for wireless access points, if you don't have control over them, you pull the freakin plug. Unsecured Access points and open access points should be VLANed off from administrative networked, including not allowing VPN tunnels from unsecured and open wireless access point.
If the boss allows crap like that on the network, he is an idiot, and shouldn't have the Passwords and access codes to anything.
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Exactly.
But then again, little Johnny(or Suzie) School Kid doesn't realize that it could be worse. If I were the judge, I would have asked which way they wanted to defend it.
Do you want to defend this as a "School Matter" or under "Criminal Justice or Civil Court" rules.
Spam Assassin.
No, not the program of the same name, an actual assassin that kills spammers, CEOs of companies that use SPAM etc.
And if he has some extra time, assassinate some of the Wall Street Pirates responsible for the mess we're in.
I suggest 1 Trillion Dollars as a bounty, since the Government is handing money out like candy.
Cool!!!!
You know, I agree with everything you just said. Makes me wonder .....
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You're right, educators don't care and if someone is involved it helps. The problem isn't there, it is in the 9th OSI layer, POLITICS.
And politically, we can't demand parents and guardians take responsibility for their children, it is political suicide if one suggested that a single mom raising 5 kids, working two jobs to keep food on the table be involved more. Like I said, the labels get applied, and all debate stops.
I'm a firm believer that large part of the problem is that parental involvement is actually discouraged. I'd love to see vouchers, one of the side effects would be causing parental involvement and decision making. Which might actually make people even more involved.
As for the example you quoted, it isn't universal. Things rarely are. But a significant portion of the population is like that. I know, because I've seen it. I even gave examples.
Well, I am concerned about it, because lack of education isn't good, not for them, not for the rest of society. I'm not a cultural snob, and there is plenty of things we can learn and benefit from from a culturally diverse society. Variation is a spice of life. But I reject the attitudes such as I presented. And that doesn't make me a cultural snob.
Put a heppa filter in between to scrub out dirt and dust and vola, o'natural cooling solutions
I think that solution will put Dust Bunnies on the endangered species list
Fair Use and Parody is allowed. but you knew that already.
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If a kid doesn't have parents, suggesting parental involvement whatsoever is akin to Racism, especially in sub-communities where children often are raised by someone other than a parent.
Additionally, young black people are educated to reject schooling, and becoming productive in our society. This is done by a bias that doing so will make them "uncle toms" and a traitor to the "White Slave Traders".
There is racism in this country, the sad thing is only one side can be called on it. The other side(s) gets a free pass, because it is "insensitive" to suggest it exists.
Here is just a very recent example ... "'The Star-Spangled Banner' is going on. I don't celebrate this [expletive]. I'm black." - Josh Howard
The implication is that the National Anthem is for "Whites". I can go on listing examples after examples. The funny thing is, people like Josh Howard are providing self fulfilling hatred. I don't like Mr Howard, not because he's black, but because he's an asshat. However, I'm sure that he thinks I'm racist, and thereby feeds his delusion of a Racist America.
On the other hand, you have a fine patriotic American in Kobe Bryant, who proclaims his pride in his country, and sings the National Anthem while receiving his gold Medal.
I don't judge people on the color of their skin, just the content (or lack thereof) of their character.
The problem is, most people are completely unaware or too scared to say anything. One race isn't any more, or any less intelligent than any other race. So any failings within a demographic are cultural. Which makes me "culturally insensitive" I guess
"In education (USA), kids with involved parents do better across the board because it is reinforced at home. This is sought after and encouraged in elementary/middle school education."
In some circles, that comment will get you called all sorts of names, like Racist or at least "culturally insensitive". In other circles, it will get you called "uncle tom", or "traitor to your race".
To put this into perspective, we have PRA requests for all sorts of "data" that we are supposed to keep. It has become almost a full time job going through all the crap to find what the PRA requests are asking for.
And we're a SMALL school district.
Except I tell them it wasn't an ad for Microsoft, but rather was an ad for American Express, Tennis Shoes, weggie free undies for middle aged men etc.
The last one is my favorite at the moment.
For the Geek and for the people who don't want to click the link ... SLAPP is nothing more than legal FUD.
BTW, I love stating the obvious.
Problem is, that the poor and middle class don't pay much in taxes to start. AND that doesn't explain the BILLIONS spent by Bush II tax bonus checks not doing a thing.
I'm just wondering why income redistribution is a function of government?
Ball's in your court.
I'm a Tax less, spend less, cut everything back as much as possible kind of guy.
If it isn't working, it's broken. Right now, much of our government isn't working let along working right.
I have to live on less now than 5 years ago, why doesn't the government?
Times they are tough, so its time for the government to eat some of the dog food it has been feeding the rest of us.
If there was no "government" involvement, there would be no "corporations" which are artificial constructs of the government, and artificial "Persons" under the law. Except there is nobody to throw in jail when the "corporation" breaks the law.
So, yes, Things would be better if REAL free markets took ahold. most of the problems you can point to, are problems the government created.
Reagan = Democratic Congress, who authors all spending appropriations.
Bush 1 = Democratic Congress, who authors all Spending Appropriations.
Clinton 1 = Budget Surplus when Republican (evil Newt G, "contract on america etc) Congress policies too effect.
Bush 2 = Inherited downturning Economy from Clinton, and 9/11 and Spending like Drunken Sailor. Never vetos anything.
While I agree with you on Bush 2, Bush 1 and Reagan were better than Carter. Last president before Carter I liked was Kennedy, who was nothing like his brother is.
I'm not partisan (R) like most drones (Hannity), nor am I partisan (D) like the other drones. Both sides have had horrible presidents, and good ones.
Honestly, I think we should use the Corporate Kill button more often. AND jail those responsible for ruining their companies (Carly Fiorina, I'm looking at you!)
The current housing / lending mess can be blamed on RAMPANT greed. That happens every time Greed and speculation runs a sector, and it happened during Clinton's reign (.com bomb) as well.
And just like the .com bubble, this one has plenty of people to blame, on both sides. Take a look at who is (or was) sitting on Freddy and Fannie's boards. Lots of prominent (D) and (R)s, and you won't see a single investigation into either sides responsibilities. Steroid Use in Baseball is much more important to have hearings on.
If I were king for a day, I'd toss them all out, and into jail. The whole lot of them are crooks.
I'm sorry, but I don't care what a bunch of pointy head economists say. They don't have a clue what is, what should be, or what could be.
and people saying It is better under (D) than (R) are just ignoring the facts, even considering "lag time". They tend to forget Stagflation of the late 70's where income tax rates were way up there, and on everyone.
No, the problem is that nobody knows what would have been, could have been, should have been if the government got out of the way.
But we can know that the FAILED policies of the LEFT, destroyed the African American community, by destroying the families in the name of "welfare".
And if Leftwing Economics is so great, why not move to Cuba or china where government controls everything aspect of the economy.
As far as I'm concerned, the government is a big part of the problem.
The problem with logical fallacies, which this one is, is that sometimes the premise itself is flawed. In this case, the premise that one can assert the "truthiness" of the statement that is flawed in formation. One cannot prove a negative, which is why in courts the premise is that a person is innocent (didn't do it), and the burden of proof is to prove guilt.
Being able to spot a flawed premise in the first place, goes along way to proving or not proving binary questions.
Too bad most people stop thinking when presented with questions that seem simple on the face.
Certifications prove almost nothing. They only prove that you've been through a prescribed course, and have at least barely passed.
One thing that cannot be certified is experience. Which is more valuable than a cert in all but very rare instances.
Yes it will.
It will allow people who want to learn physics, but don't have access to $$$ for a text book. I'm thinking inner city geeks.
Yes, both of those are true (Mac, Ping). Even NMAP responses can be spoofed. However the likelihood of all three being done is not likely. However NMAP will reveal a used IP, and a mac table somewhere will identify what port it is hanging on. Packets have to be routed to it somehow.
And I agree with your last point. I'm a Libertarian. ;)
I learned early on, that most people don't see the difference between a $12 hour high school geek and a $75 hr network administrator. All most people see is that both do roughly the same job and there is $63 hour difference.
Most of the time, the $12 hr guy is doing most of the same work as the $75 hour guy. The big difference is when crap like this comes up, the $12 hour guy can spend years trying to figure out what the $75 hr guy can figure out in 5 minutes.
Even when the $12 hr guy screws up, the response is "But he was cheaper". It is cheaper to keep a $12 hr guy trying to keep crapware off a computer, rather than a $75 hour guy who doesn't allow crapware in the first place.
The point I'm making, is that a $75 hr guy is worth it, but only to people where time has real value. People who place no value on TIME, don't care about anything other than $ per HR
1) They were firing the guy, so he was no longer in the employ of the city, so his boss, was no longer his boss.
2) You don't know what you're talking about. Every IP address on the network should be known. Either through DHCP or static IP address map. A ping sweep should reveal any IP address in use, that shouldn't be. From the ping sweep, one can arp the unknown IPs to get a MAC address, and do a lookup on the Manufacturer code to know what KIND of device the MAC could be. one could use NMAP to try to discover type of device as well. Then you start going to every port on every switch with rogue IPs hanging off it, and manually looking at what is attached at the other end.
As for wireless access points, if you don't have control over them, you pull the freakin plug. Unsecured Access points and open access points should be VLANed off from administrative networked, including not allowing VPN tunnels from unsecured and open wireless access point.
If the boss allows crap like that on the network, he is an idiot, and shouldn't have the Passwords and access codes to anything.