Actually no. It is the library at one of the junior high schools I manage the network for. However it doesn't surprise me a bit that the problem is there too.
This is the problem with paper degrees in general, is that they don't actually prove anything other than a prescribed course has been fulfilled. It kind of reminds me of the guy who didn't graduate from grade school schooling engineers at GM on how to get 60+ mpg on a Hummer, who were taught, and obviously believe that it was impossible.
Nothing inspires me more that stories showing that educated elites don't know jack, compared to the real genius of ingenuity.
Actually, I think the problem is much much worse than you suggest. Continuing the Construction Workers and Architect's motif, too many Construction Workers think because they've seen a Architects drawing, and can build a house / building, that it makes them an Architect.
Additionally, Many Architects have no clue how to actually build anything, and design really nice looking buildings that aren't structurally sound or lack important features. The building I'm in, has cracks all around it, and it is less than 14 years old. But what the heck, it looks neat. And forget about adding another row of computer stations, behind the current one, while there's plenty of room, the logistics suck, and it would cost a minor fortune to complete the refit.
No, the problem is too many think they're qualified as Architects because they've seen something somewhere or because they graduated from a college of design with a degree in Architecture. I only wish that Architects spent two or three years actually building stuff before they designed their first building.
Speeding, by itself, isn't right or wrong. The law "don't speed" is for saftey of all, under most circumstances. However, there are exceptions to the "law" due to the fact of extenuating circumstances. In this case the siren and lights on emergency vehicles are indications of the exception in progress. So, your analogy is wrong on many levels.
A Hypocrite says "don't steal", which is wrong, and then gets caught taking something that is someone else's. The Hypocrite says "I did nothing wrong" and makes excuses as why what he did isn't wrong. A person with a momentary lapse of judgment will say "Oh shit, Sorry. How do I fix this". Generally speaking Hypocrites don't believe the rule(s) apply to them. Hypocrisy usually becomes clearer over time, and not always apparent at first glance.
Everyone is a hypocrite at some point in their life. The question isn't how do we deal with hypocrites, its how the hypocrites handle being caught in their hypocrisy, which is really telling of what kind of person they really are. Was it a momentary lapse in judgment or a deeper character flaw.
The difference is "Oh Crap, Sorry. How do I fix this?" verses "I did nothing wrong"
When the system thinks it's their job to socialize the children, and the parents abdicate their responsibilty, it becomes a self perpetuating problem. When poorly behaved children are allowed to dictate the classroom activity, they learn that bad behavior is rewarded and it gets reinforced. And when parents aren't held responsible for their children, it reinforces the abdication of responsibilty.
This world is cruel, and cold and we are doing a great disservice to the children when we blame everything and everyone else for their problems. What is needed is more responsibility. One bad kid shouldn't detract from the other 15-35 kids in the classroom.
Standards? How about reading, writing and math skills as the standard. If a person can read, write, and have certain math skills then they can learn anything else they want. The reason why our education sucks is that everyone is wanting to push their agenda rather letting the children learn. How many kids are lost in the system because they are bored to tears, taught shit that doesn't matter a whit, while not being taught the basics? If we can't teach the basics and guarantee that if you graduate 1st grade with a certain level of skill, then we've failed the children.
You see, the basics of literacy is that people can read and understand and process information, the basis for all other learning. The basics of transference of knowledge is language arts. Once you have that, then nothing is beyond your grasp. Math is important because so much of our world in mathmatical. Even those people who study art should be versed in Math, because math is in even Art (Geometry, Golden Sections etc), music and literature.
The fact is, our educational system is less and less about basics, and more and more about agendas of the liberal elites, who somehow know better than the rest of us. Every once in a while, the opposite happens (this story), and they go nuts.
"they should not be allowed to impress their beliefs on others."
I agree. Now will they stop teaching Betty has two moms? Will they stop teaching Global Warming fraud. Will they stop teaching tolerance of all sorts of bad behavior? You see, there is all sorts of liberal / progressive beliefs that I'd rather not have taught to my kids, anymore than liberal/progressives want to have my beliefs taught in school.
The fact is, evolution is part of another agenda, which is why it is taught to children who have no concept in the basics. Why is evolution taught to 1st graders if not for indoctrination? They cannot begin to comprehend what is being taught, so it is nothing short of brainwashing. And the over simplifications often used on 1st graders of "we came from dinosaurs" is nothing short of distorted 1/2 truths and lies. You might as well teach that there is a Santa Claus and Easter Bunny and Hannukah Armadillo.
Rather we should not indoctrinate our children with crap (on all sides, right/left/middle) and stick to the basics of reading, writing and Math. I dare say that if schools spent 5 hours a day teaching these three things, we wouldn't have 1/2 the problems we have.
So, how is all the new demands for electricity going to be satisfied.
I know everyone likes Electricity and such, but current demands are taxing the existing power grid / infrastructure.
And with all the NIMBYs out there, nobody is willing to build new and needed Hydro Electric, Nuclear, Coal powered plants anytime soon. So, the result is "cool, electric cars, but I can't use them because of the blackouts". And I don't assume that somehow people will give up the NIMBY attitudes for an electric car.
Its easy to be an environmentalist, you don't have to think of the requirements to achieve whatever goals you might have. It just has to sound good.
Hindsight is 20/20. Requiring Vista Stickers on Computers before VISTA was finished is non-sense, and I'd blame both Dell (HP, Acer.....) and MS on this one. It is a marketing deal that was false. Dell (or whatever) didn't have to sign the deal that put stickers on computers, and they knew that Vista wasn't stable in development so they knew that it was possible (and should have known it was likely not to be able to run VISTA).
However I knew that none of the machines that said they could run Vista was ready for it, because I remember Windows 95's requirements resembled nothing like what it actually took to run it. I wouldn't run Vista on anything less than 64 bit with 4 Gigs of Ram and 500 GB HD, and a monster Video Card. Why? Because that is what it NEEDS after all the necessary bloatware that needs to get installed to make it useful.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
Uh, there is a third kind, which VISTA is in. It is the "Released, but never should have been".
Microsoft really screwed the pooch on this one. If they were going to break Windows, they should have broken it completely, and wrote a new OS that resembled Windows, but didn't have a single thing in common. IBM had a similar situation in OS/2 (and PS/2) and screwed it up completely, by marketing OS/2 completely wrong (Windows on Roids).
If I had 100 Million Dollars startup, I'd have a complete OS and New HW platform to run it on, without any legacy code bloat, ready (beta or RC) in 3 years max. I'd design everything from scratch having HW and SW teams working together to design tight integration of both WITH planned expandability and adaptability.
Year 1, mapping out what is needed, early designs Year 2, Early Implementation and Refinement of Design. Year 3, Standaridized APIs and Programming / Developer Tools, bug squashing.
I'd have three levels for licensing of all the products and specs.
1)Open Source Open HW (free to all) 2)Shared Source, Open HW (Cost for people who'd like to sell their source, to run on any HW) 3)Closed Source, Closed HW (BIG COST for people to have their own version of Source and Proprietary HW)
I'd sell tools and services as a core business model once the products are released. I'd also have planned and phased obsolescence for both HW and SW, meaning that after a set period of time (5-10 years) NEW releases won't have backward compatibility so that as the system evolve, that newer versions of SW (and HW) don't have to retain backwards compatibility. Major Version numbers would indicate a certain set (Final OS 1.0) such that each version would NOT be backwards compatible (BC).
Its clear you didn't read.... "While we should mourn the loss of each innocent, and make efforts to keep it from happening" included in my post. I don't know about you, but we can't prevent 100% of bad shit from happening. Shit happens and we should minimize it as best we can, but it will always still happen. Just because I'm not a freaking bleeding heart doesn't mean I don't have one.
Its also amazing to me is that bleeding hearts like yourself get fixated on numbers, and loose sight of real people behind the numbers. Real compassion is not having one's blood boil because of a number, its having the compassion for those that actually lost family and friends.
I lost three of my good friends in a crime that was twisted and evil, and the guy who killed them was never brought to justice and has remained free and at large for 30 years now, if he's still alive. I still miss my friends, Brad, Brent and Geoffrey.
Take another look at the parameters. ALL years being the big key. Look back at how many years are included in the graph.
This is the problem with idiots like you, you see a nice pretty map with lots of markers on it and yet don't have any real clue as to the frequency (spanning time) because time isn't reported. Here's a quick test.... Death of an Innocent, Year 2007 for ALL States.... the result....
Search Results
This 0 result represents The state of: All For the year: 2007 And the following type of incident: Death of an innocent
ZERO!
That's right. It is INFREQUENT, so much so that it didn't happen once last year. While we should mourn the loss of each innocent, and make efforts to keep it from happening, maps like the one above are nothing more than FLAME BAIT, designed to stir up idiots like you.
If that map makes your "blood boil", I suggest that you stop reading shit like that because you don't have a freakin clue what it means.
I completely and totally understand Evolution and the genesis of life arguments. I agree from a atheistic world view, it makes sense. I even agree with your thesis that people tend to reinforce their prejudices, but I would also apply this to Evolutionists as well.
That being said, there are certain inherent problems with Evolution which are NOT EVER discussed, because it breaks the world view of evolution. Most Genetic Mutations are disastrous, leading to death, and spontaneous abortion. This applies MORE to higher species than lower ones, but it still exists. But this type of analysis is conveniently left out of most evolutionary discussions because it doesn't fit the goals of evolution.
What most genetic mutations allow for is a significantly weakened species. Simplest reasoning would indicate that genetic mutation would be evolved out of species, if evolution were in fact true. That being said, I'm not going to argue with people who are dogmatic about their view.
You are perfectly accurate in your views, and as to the whys, except you miss the point...
"A black suit, IMO, shows that a person put less thought into getting dressed than a person who wears sock/sandals and a big Hawaiian shirt. At least those things exhibit character."
A black suit means that you have no personality, THAT IS THE POINT. Corporate nature is to have a corporate personality, not one of your own. In fact, suits are making a comeback specifically because it represents consistancy and solid conservative approach to business. It represents that which geeks generally resent.
Businesses don't want created people who think outside the box. They want a consistant product to market. Suits represent this. It works for many people, as they don't have to think about what to wear, how to behave or other such trivial nonsense, they can put in their 8 hours and go home and watch tv for four more. They don't have to think, and they'll vote for Obama (or Hillary) or McCain in November, expecting things to change.
PC v Mac McD's v any other hamburger Walmart v any other store two buck chuck v Bordeaux
I could list a thousand examples of where "cheap" wins over quality in the majority of cases. This is because cheap is consistent, and often of known "quality". You know what you're getting at McD's, even if it is barely tolerable.
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Actually no. It is the library at one of the junior high schools I manage the network for. However it doesn't surprise me a bit that the problem is there too.
This is the problem with paper degrees in general, is that they don't actually prove anything other than a prescribed course has been fulfilled. It kind of reminds me of the guy who didn't graduate from grade school schooling engineers at GM on how to get 60+ mpg on a Hummer, who were taught, and obviously believe that it was impossible.
Nothing inspires me more that stories showing that educated elites don't know jack, compared to the real genius of ingenuity.
Actually, I think the problem is much much worse than you suggest. Continuing the Construction Workers and Architect's motif, too many Construction Workers think because they've seen a Architects drawing, and can build a house / building, that it makes them an Architect.
Additionally, Many Architects have no clue how to actually build anything, and design really nice looking buildings that aren't structurally sound or lack important features. The building I'm in, has cracks all around it, and it is less than 14 years old. But what the heck, it looks neat. And forget about adding another row of computer stations, behind the current one, while there's plenty of room, the logistics suck, and it would cost a minor fortune to complete the refit.
No, the problem is too many think they're qualified as Architects because they've seen something somewhere or because they graduated from a college of design with a degree in Architecture. I only wish that Architects spent two or three years actually building stuff before they designed their first building.
Speeding, by itself, isn't right or wrong. The law "don't speed" is for saftey of all, under most circumstances. However, there are exceptions to the "law" due to the fact of extenuating circumstances. In this case the siren and lights on emergency vehicles are indications of the exception in progress. So, your analogy is wrong on many levels.
A Hypocrite says "don't steal", which is wrong, and then gets caught taking something that is someone else's. The Hypocrite says "I did nothing wrong" and makes excuses as why what he did isn't wrong. A person with a momentary lapse of judgment will say "Oh shit, Sorry. How do I fix this". Generally speaking Hypocrites don't believe the rule(s) apply to them. Hypocrisy usually becomes clearer over time, and not always apparent at first glance.
Everyone is a hypocrite at some point in their life. The question isn't how do we deal with hypocrites, its how the hypocrites handle being caught in their hypocrisy, which is really telling of what kind of person they really are. Was it a momentary lapse in judgment or a deeper character flaw.
The difference is "Oh Crap, Sorry. How do I fix this?" verses "I did nothing wrong"
First Goodwin!
"Yeah, but wasn't there something a while back about google street also getting snaps in as high as second story windows and of girls sunbathing?"
.... and Pictures if possible.
Citation Needed
When the system thinks it's their job to socialize the children, and the parents abdicate their responsibilty, it becomes a self perpetuating problem. When poorly behaved children are allowed to dictate the classroom activity, they learn that bad behavior is rewarded and it gets reinforced. And when parents aren't held responsible for their children, it reinforces the abdication of responsibilty.
This world is cruel, and cold and we are doing a great disservice to the children when we blame everything and everyone else for their problems. What is needed is more responsibility. One bad kid shouldn't detract from the other 15-35 kids in the classroom.
Standards? How about reading, writing and math skills as the standard. If a person can read, write, and have certain math skills then they can learn anything else they want. The reason why our education sucks is that everyone is wanting to push their agenda rather letting the children learn. How many kids are lost in the system because they are bored to tears, taught shit that doesn't matter a whit, while not being taught the basics? If we can't teach the basics and guarantee that if you graduate 1st grade with a certain level of skill, then we've failed the children.
You see, the basics of literacy is that people can read and understand and process information, the basis for all other learning. The basics of transference of knowledge is language arts. Once you have that, then nothing is beyond your grasp. Math is important because so much of our world in mathmatical. Even those people who study art should be versed in Math, because math is in even Art (Geometry, Golden Sections etc), music and literature.
The fact is, our educational system is less and less about basics, and more and more about agendas of the liberal elites, who somehow know better than the rest of us. Every once in a while, the opposite happens (this story), and they go nuts.
"they should not be allowed to impress their beliefs on others."
I agree. Now will they stop teaching Betty has two moms? Will they stop teaching Global Warming fraud. Will they stop teaching tolerance of all sorts of bad behavior? You see, there is all sorts of liberal / progressive beliefs that I'd rather not have taught to my kids, anymore than liberal/progressives want to have my beliefs taught in school.
The fact is, evolution is part of another agenda, which is why it is taught to children who have no concept in the basics. Why is evolution taught to 1st graders if not for indoctrination? They cannot begin to comprehend what is being taught, so it is nothing short of brainwashing. And the over simplifications often used on 1st graders of "we came from dinosaurs" is nothing short of distorted 1/2 truths and lies. You might as well teach that there is a Santa Claus and Easter Bunny and Hannukah Armadillo.
Rather we should not indoctrinate our children with crap (on all sides, right/left/middle) and stick to the basics of reading, writing and Math. I dare say that if schools spent 5 hours a day teaching these three things, we wouldn't have 1/2 the problems we have.
Neither!
Might I suggest that you quit looking in the mirror, get out of Mom's basement and start an exercise program?
Or
Might I suggest you stop surfing porn?
Or
T'Pal is hot, isn't she?
So, how is all the new demands for electricity going to be satisfied.
I know everyone likes Electricity and such, but current demands are taxing the existing power grid / infrastructure.
And with all the NIMBYs out there, nobody is willing to build new and needed Hydro Electric, Nuclear, Coal powered plants anytime soon. So, the result is "cool, electric cars, but I can't use them because of the blackouts". And I don't assume that somehow people will give up the NIMBY attitudes for an electric car.
Its easy to be an environmentalist, you don't have to think of the requirements to achieve whatever goals you might have. It just has to sound good.
Hindsight is 20/20. Requiring Vista Stickers on Computers before VISTA was finished is non-sense, and I'd blame both Dell (HP, Acer .....) and MS on this one. It is a marketing deal that was false. Dell (or whatever) didn't have to sign the deal that put stickers on computers, and they knew that Vista wasn't stable in development so they knew that it was possible (and should have known it was likely not to be able to run VISTA).
However I knew that none of the machines that said they could run Vista was ready for it, because I remember Windows 95's requirements resembled nothing like what it actually took to run it. I wouldn't run Vista on anything less than 64 bit with 4 Gigs of Ram and 500 GB HD, and a monster Video Card. Why? Because that is what it NEEDS after all the necessary bloatware that needs to get installed to make it useful.
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.
Uh, there is a third kind, which VISTA is in. It is the "Released, but never should have been".
Microsoft really screwed the pooch on this one. If they were going to break Windows, they should have broken it completely, and wrote a new OS that resembled Windows, but didn't have a single thing in common. IBM had a similar situation in OS/2 (and PS/2) and screwed it up completely, by marketing OS/2 completely wrong (Windows on Roids).
If I had 100 Million Dollars startup, I'd have a complete OS and New HW platform to run it on, without any legacy code bloat, ready (beta or RC) in 3 years max. I'd design everything from scratch having HW and SW teams working together to design tight integration of both WITH planned expandability and adaptability.
Year 1, mapping out what is needed, early designs
Year 2, Early Implementation and Refinement of Design.
Year 3, Standaridized APIs and Programming / Developer Tools, bug squashing.
I'd have three levels for licensing of all the products and specs.
1)Open Source Open HW (free to all)
2)Shared Source, Open HW (Cost for people who'd like to sell their source, to run on any HW)
3)Closed Source, Closed HW (BIG COST for people to have their own version of Source and Proprietary HW)
I'd sell tools and services as a core business model once the products are released. I'd also have planned and phased obsolescence for both HW and SW, meaning that after a set period of time (5-10 years) NEW releases won't have backward compatibility so that as the system evolve, that newer versions of SW (and HW) don't have to retain backwards compatibility. Major Version numbers would indicate a certain set (Final OS 1.0) such that each version would NOT be backwards compatible (BC).
Why not plan obsolescence?
Its clear you didn't read .... "While we should mourn the loss of each innocent, and make efforts to keep it from happening" included in my post. I don't know about you, but we can't prevent 100% of bad shit from happening. Shit happens and we should minimize it as best we can, but it will always still happen. Just because I'm not a freaking bleeding heart doesn't mean I don't have one.
Its also amazing to me is that bleeding hearts like yourself get fixated on numbers, and loose sight of real people behind the numbers. Real compassion is not having one's blood boil because of a number, its having the compassion for those that actually lost family and friends.
I lost three of my good friends in a crime that was twisted and evil, and the guy who killed them was never brought to justice and has remained free and at large for 30 years now, if he's still alive. I still miss my friends, Brad, Brent and Geoffrey.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/01/AR2006030102328.html
http://www.mcsheriff.com/wanted/bishop.asp
My point, it is better to remember the people behind the stories than get fixated on the numbers. I'll never forget.
Take another look at the parameters. ALL years being the big key. Look back at how many years are included in the graph.
.... Death of an Innocent, Year 2007 for ALL States .... the result ....
This is the problem with idiots like you, you see a nice pretty map with lots of markers on it and yet don't have any real clue as to the frequency (spanning time) because time isn't reported. Here's a quick test
Search Results
This 0 result represents
The state of: All
For the year: 2007
And the following type of incident: Death of an innocent
ZERO!
That's right. It is INFREQUENT, so much so that it didn't happen once last year. While we should mourn the loss of each innocent, and make efforts to keep it from happening, maps like the one above are nothing more than FLAME BAIT, designed to stir up idiots like you.
If that map makes your "blood boil", I suggest that you stop reading shit like that because you don't have a freakin clue what it means.
when does Skynet go live?
I also use it 50 percent of the time.
I completely and totally understand Evolution and the genesis of life arguments. I agree from a atheistic world view, it makes sense. I even agree with your thesis that people tend to reinforce their prejudices, but I would also apply this to Evolutionists as well.
That being said, there are certain inherent problems with Evolution which are NOT EVER discussed, because it breaks the world view of evolution. Most Genetic Mutations are disastrous, leading to death, and spontaneous abortion. This applies MORE to higher species than lower ones, but it still exists. But this type of analysis is conveniently left out of most evolutionary discussions because it doesn't fit the goals of evolution.
What most genetic mutations allow for is a significantly weakened species. Simplest reasoning would indicate that genetic mutation would be evolved out of species, if evolution were in fact true. That being said, I'm not going to argue with people who are dogmatic about their view.
You are perfectly accurate in your views, and as to the whys, except you miss the point ...
"A black suit, IMO, shows that a person put less thought into getting dressed than a person who wears sock/sandals and a big Hawaiian shirt. At least those things exhibit character."
A black suit means that you have no personality, THAT IS THE POINT. Corporate nature is to have a corporate personality, not one of your own. In fact, suits are making a comeback specifically because it represents consistancy and solid conservative approach to business. It represents that which geeks generally resent.
Businesses don't want created people who think outside the box. They want a consistant product to market. Suits represent this. It works for many people, as they don't have to think about what to wear, how to behave or other such trivial nonsense, they can put in their 8 hours and go home and watch tv for four more. They don't have to think, and they'll vote for Obama (or Hillary) or McCain in November, expecting things to change.
Wine on top of NT Kernel? Now we're talking!
"Before you act like an ass, you might want to do some rudimentary fact-checking"
WHY?
Being an ass is soooo much easier, and you can often garner headlines better this way.
Cheap wins over quality most times.
PC v Mac
McD's v any other hamburger
Walmart v any other store
two buck chuck v Bordeaux
I could list a thousand examples of where "cheap" wins over quality in the majority of cases. This is because cheap is consistent, and often of known "quality". You know what you're getting at McD's, even if it is barely tolerable.
A place offering a open internet via this new protocol will be called .....
....
wait for it
G-SPOT
Actually I'd trust some guy's blog over the NYT.