You can read my reply up earlier in the thread if you want, since I already touched on this. Homework while mindless still applies to other skills through the main classes you need for something else. Education/job/etc. Better education, better job, better pay. This is something you've probably already caught on about.
Forced labor only does one thing, filling a job no one else wants to do.
There's point covered already by other people in replies. I'm not a fan of forcing someone into a 'wheel of morality' bit. I see the benefits of learning something on your own for the sake of learning and reaping them, I also see the benefits of leaving people to not make those choices.
If someone doesn't want to, you don't make them. Exploration by personal choices allows you to grow as your own person. The only good accomplished by forcing someone into doing it against their will is angst against it; while this doesn't hold true in all cases there's plenty of it.
You're failing to understand the principal and the differences between the two.
There's a difference between a skill that will teach you something (math's, sciences, reading/writing) or how to repair something(through a shop class of some kind) and passing on knowledge from one generation to another(if and when you have kids). As well improve your life allowing you to get a better education/job/etc.
Then there's the government telling you that you'll be doing a job, which basically fills in to shore up a job in a short area. Which is what forced community service boils down to.
Still not quite getting it. Community service is supposed to be a choice, that's it. Good moral standing character, doing good for the community, looks good on applications, looks good on whatever else. Telling everyone to do it, not only removes that, but it also add in resentment for various things.
Ontario requires 40, I had to see if I could find the original pamphlet "Students are to volunteer for compulsory community service." I always loved that sentence. So yes, bullshit. Don't try to sugar coat, forced labor to me.
I should say I graduated probably 7 odd years after they brought it in or more.
We have mandatory community service in Ontario, to complete their highschool education, I for one was glad I was far out of reach of such policies. I'm not a fan of forcing people to go out and do things such as 'voluntary-mandatory community service'. With any luck, if he does decide to pull this bullshit through the air, people will run across fellows who remember this and happily do one thing(should it be a requirement for say graduation/etc), pay them for it; like many do here now.
Community service should remain that, a choice. Do it, great, nice job on you. Don't do it...well, it doesn't look as good and you might get passed over, but it doesn't matter in the end. It's the choices that make you what you are, not what the government is telling you what you should do.
One of the biggest problems I've had over the last two years short of disc failure is newer drives simply failing to read good discs. From CD to DVD's, I have a bunch of older discs that can be read from older CD drives or dvd drives but the latest generation fail or take hours for a few hundred meg's. The exception seems to be plextor.
Don't forget if you're using any type of CD recordable media for storage/recovery you should be sealing the sides with a sharpie and periodically checking them for fungus.
Do you think the 19 year old minimum wage-earning retail employee (a.k.a "me") gives a shit about a problem that the manufacturer has supplied a perfectly reasonable solution for (hint: I don't).
The game is defective, return it. But fuck this "customer is always right" mentality -- thats only true when the store faces a loss of revenue by not agreeing with you. I don't think anyone you complain to is going to sympathize when you say "This and this store wouldn't let me tear open video game boxes until I found the one I wanted! Hurr!"
You might find yourself out of a job faster then you found yourself with one, and I'm quite sure unless you own your own store, that the owner/parent shop would care more for making the consumer 'right' especially in the current economic situation. So whether you care or not is a moot point, you don't mean anything between the customer and the business. You're just a lacky that needs to do their job properly.
Having been in an actual situation where I've gotten a mis-matched disc set for a game in the past, and gone through 3 different boxed sets at an EB; yes the customer is right. Their money is worth more then your job currently. You're expendable, and there's plenty of other people who'd be welcome to fill that spot. More real world experience might serve you well.
Been a long time since I was in the business as a reseller, but we used to have more WDC failures then Seagate. But we'd get cases of both that had 20-30% of drives that were sealed from the factory, that were either DOA or had cascading bad sectors. But that was back in the days of absolute crap when everyone was in the size race.
Things change in 10 years, I do like the current brand of Samsung drives.
It's just silly really, despite the problems inherent with flv and the embed media layer issues, it's still the most commonly used right now. Nothing will replace it at least in the short term.
I strongly doubt they need the money, they're owned by CTV. And if you don't know who owns CTV then do a bit of digging.
Why should they switch back to Flash or do twice the work to offer both?
Just because you personally don't like Microsoft? Really? In that case, don't expect a response because they already consider you a crackpot.
Just what is it with HID's and insanity anyway?
Well, here's something you might figure out. Most people already have flash. It's smaller, has better/audio and generally does a better job handling hd quality videos as well. While you're talking out your ass and being a fanboy you might remember that just because it comes from MS, doesn't mean it came from the Pearly Gates. See? I can make things up on the spot too.
You remind me of the Chretien days, when it was a comic-dictatorship and we lived in the lap of the liberal party hemorrhaging our money on Quebec and paying off the Separatists(BQ) so they'd keep quiet. Moving on with that, they make up no where near enough of the population to have anything more then 1-3% of the seats, but we're a constitutional monarchy anyway.
I'm constantly reminded however, that more people up here are happy to hand political power over via proportional representation when voting continues to slip. Just think, people in Toronto and Quebec would make up the majority of choices for all of Canada.
I sent an email to to comedy.ca since several dozen of their videos required it, asking when they were going to switch back to flash/and or offer both.
That's why states and provinces are enacting apology laws so people can't be sued if they 'apologize' at the scene of an accident? I wonder why that is.
Wait you're worried about meetings, remoteness and various types of transportation when you could possibly change their world, get dirt farmers to have an actual living and they'll actually have an over abundance of food; And do something good all the way around.
Now, here's something to chew on. I'm a free market conservative, I'm also a humanitarian. You figure out what's wrong with your reply and get back to me.
If we got off the mantra of recycling paper in the current form(that is, using giant plants to repulp it) and used it in a form of fertilizer instead, and cut down the trees to use in the milling process(and lumber) it'd be a more efficient solution.
The enviro-hippies have done a pretty good job of screwing up and trying to tell people that we're deforesting North America.
Sustainable agriculture isn't a problem here in the west, we're part of that super small percentage of the worlds population that can turn down food remember? Neither are forest issues, especially here in North America. We plant more then we cut down in the harvesting for all lumber based products.
The problem lies at other nations that don't do that, and currently have rampant slash & burn policies without replacement cycles. Or continue to use low yield farming solutions which require over fertilization(farm and burn).
I do however agree on the nukes, breeder reactors all that fun stuff however. Carter easily tied the US' hands behind it's back and gave a happy screw you to the entire country. His legacy lives on, and anti-nuke nuts rally around it.
Actually yes I do, however I gave a simplistic post at the start. The first problem is generally food in most cases however. If people are hungry, they do what they need to live. The second is generally a way to live. But yield farming does do wonders in most cases, especially once you go back and start working on other things.
Dirt farmers don't burn down forests, while they're trying to do two things get food, make a profit, and when you're clear cutting a forest without a sustained environment behind it you're going to get a desert. Look at: Middle East, and Africa. Now it's a fine idea to think you don't, even believe you don't. If you believe burning fossil fuels is five times as bad as burning down forests, now you're just being stupid.
However, and this is the fun part. See we still cut down our forests(good), but we repeatedly plant new ones(better)! And we now have more green forest space then when we settled this chunk of land 400 years ago. Unfortunately environmentalists might tell you otherwise, but the like their doom and gloom.
Goto where the farmers are burning down the rain forests, teach/give/train them how to plant high yield crops and stop them from clear cutting/burning them down. And shock...you'll get somewhere.
Sometimes the most obvious solutions are sitting in front of their faces.
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Wait. Prisoners and a broken legal system apply to this how?
You can read my reply up earlier in the thread if you want, since I already touched on this. Homework while mindless still applies to other skills through the main classes you need for something else. Education/job/etc. Better education, better job, better pay. This is something you've probably already caught on about.
Forced labor only does one thing, filling a job no one else wants to do.
There's point covered already by other people in replies. I'm not a fan of forcing someone into a 'wheel of morality' bit. I see the benefits of learning something on your own for the sake of learning and reaping them, I also see the benefits of leaving people to not make those choices.
If someone doesn't want to, you don't make them. Exploration by personal choices allows you to grow as your own person. The only good accomplished by forcing someone into doing it against their will is angst against it; while this doesn't hold true in all cases there's plenty of it.
You're failing to understand the principal and the differences between the two.
There's a difference between a skill that will teach you something (math's, sciences, reading/writing) or how to repair something(through a shop class of some kind) and passing on knowledge from one generation to another(if and when you have kids). As well improve your life allowing you to get a better education/job/etc.
Then there's the government telling you that you'll be doing a job, which basically fills in to shore up a job in a short area. Which is what forced community service boils down to.
7 odd years before they brought it in. Maybe I'm getting senile too...wouldn't surprise me.
Still not quite getting it. Community service is supposed to be a choice, that's it. Good moral standing character, doing good for the community, looks good on applications, looks good on whatever else. Telling everyone to do it, not only removes that, but it also add in resentment for various things.
Ontario requires 40, I had to see if I could find the original pamphlet "Students are to volunteer for compulsory community service." I always loved that sentence. So yes, bullshit. Don't try to sugar coat, forced labor to me.
I should say I graduated probably 7 odd years after they brought it in or more.
We have mandatory community service in Ontario, to complete their highschool education, I for one was glad I was far out of reach of such policies. I'm not a fan of forcing people to go out and do things such as 'voluntary-mandatory community service'. With any luck, if he does decide to pull this bullshit through the air, people will run across fellows who remember this and happily do one thing(should it be a requirement for say graduation/etc), pay them for it; like many do here now.
Community service should remain that, a choice. Do it, great, nice job on you. Don't do it...well, it doesn't look as good and you might get passed over, but it doesn't matter in the end. It's the choices that make you what you are, not what the government is telling you what you should do.
Under-age prostitutes for everybody!
Wheel of morality turn, turn, turn. Tell us the lesson that we should learn.
One of the biggest problems I've had over the last two years short of disc failure is newer drives simply failing to read good discs. From CD to DVD's, I have a bunch of older discs that can be read from older CD drives or dvd drives but the latest generation fail or take hours for a few hundred meg's. The exception seems to be plextor.
Don't forget if you're using any type of CD recordable media for storage/recovery you should be sealing the sides with a sharpie and periodically checking them for fungus.
Do you think the 19 year old minimum wage-earning retail employee (a.k.a "me") gives a shit about a problem that the manufacturer has supplied a perfectly reasonable solution for (hint: I don't).
The game is defective, return it. But fuck this "customer is always right" mentality -- thats only true when the store faces a loss of revenue by not agreeing with you. I don't think anyone you complain to is going to sympathize when you say "This and this store wouldn't let me tear open video game boxes until I found the one I wanted! Hurr!"
You might find yourself out of a job faster then you found yourself with one, and I'm quite sure unless you own your own store, that the owner/parent shop would care more for making the consumer 'right' especially in the current economic situation. So whether you care or not is a moot point, you don't mean anything between the customer and the business. You're just a lacky that needs to do their job properly.
Having been in an actual situation where I've gotten a mis-matched disc set for a game in the past, and gone through 3 different boxed sets at an EB; yes the customer is right. Their money is worth more then your job currently. You're expendable, and there's plenty of other people who'd be welcome to fill that spot. More real world experience might serve you well.
It's the drama. It feeeeeds us.
Been a long time since I was in the business as a reseller, but we used to have more WDC failures then Seagate. But we'd get cases of both that had 20-30% of drives that were sealed from the factory, that were either DOA or had cascading bad sectors. But that was back in the days of absolute crap when everyone was in the size race.
Things change in 10 years, I do like the current brand of Samsung drives.
It's just silly really, despite the problems inherent with flv and the embed media layer issues, it's still the most commonly used right now. Nothing will replace it at least in the short term.
I strongly doubt they need the money, they're owned by CTV. And if you don't know who owns CTV then do a bit of digging.
Why should they switch back to Flash or do twice the work to offer both?
Just because you personally don't like Microsoft? Really? In that case, don't expect a response because they already consider you a crackpot.
Just what is it with HID's and insanity anyway?
Well, here's something you might figure out. Most people already have flash. It's smaller, has better/audio and generally does a better job handling hd quality videos as well. While you're talking out your ass and being a fanboy you might remember that just because it comes from MS, doesn't mean it came from the Pearly Gates. See? I can make things up on the spot too.
I'm happy to burn a few karma for this.
You remind me of the Chretien days, when it was a comic-dictatorship and we lived in the lap of the liberal party hemorrhaging our money on Quebec and paying off the Separatists(BQ) so they'd keep quiet. Moving on with that, they make up no where near enough of the population to have anything more then 1-3% of the seats, but we're a constitutional monarchy anyway.
I'm constantly reminded however, that more people up here are happy to hand political power over via proportional representation when voting continues to slip. Just think, people in Toronto and Quebec would make up the majority of choices for all of Canada.
I sent an email to to comedy.ca since several dozen of their videos required it, asking when they were going to switch back to flash/and or offer both.
I never got an answer.
Just because I had to hunt for the image:
http://bay01.imagebay.com/bay.php?view=61388_poshijack.jpg
Anyone actually seen a POC of clickjacking? I know I haven't...
Yes. I've run across it on GCW, MSNBC and Wowhead through 3rdparty advertisers. It's already in the wild, the only thing that stopped it was noscript.
That's why states and provinces are enacting apology laws so people can't be sued if they 'apologize' at the scene of an accident? I wonder why that is.
Wait you're worried about meetings, remoteness and various types of transportation when you could possibly change their world, get dirt farmers to have an actual living and they'll actually have an over abundance of food; And do something good all the way around.
Now, here's something to chew on. I'm a free market conservative, I'm also a humanitarian. You figure out what's wrong with your reply and get back to me.
If we got off the mantra of recycling paper in the current form(that is, using giant plants to repulp it) and used it in a form of fertilizer instead, and cut down the trees to use in the milling process(and lumber) it'd be a more efficient solution.
The enviro-hippies have done a pretty good job of screwing up and trying to tell people that we're deforesting North America.
Sustainable agriculture isn't a problem here in the west, we're part of that super small percentage of the worlds population that can turn down food remember? Neither are forest issues, especially here in North America. We plant more then we cut down in the harvesting for all lumber based products.
The problem lies at other nations that don't do that, and currently have rampant slash & burn policies without replacement cycles. Or continue to use low yield farming solutions which require over fertilization(farm and burn).
I do however agree on the nukes, breeder reactors all that fun stuff however. Carter easily tied the US' hands behind it's back and gave a happy screw you to the entire country. His legacy lives on, and anti-nuke nuts rally around it.
Actually yes I do, however I gave a simplistic post at the start. The first problem is generally food in most cases however. If people are hungry, they do what they need to live. The second is generally a way to live. But yield farming does do wonders in most cases, especially once you go back and start working on other things.
You're being myopic.
Dirt farmers don't burn down forests, while they're trying to do two things get food, make a profit, and when you're clear cutting a forest without a sustained environment behind it you're going to get a desert. Look at: Middle East, and Africa. Now it's a fine idea to think you don't, even believe you don't. If you believe burning fossil fuels is five times as bad as burning down forests, now you're just being stupid.
However, and this is the fun part. See we still cut down our forests(good), but we repeatedly plant new ones(better)! And we now have more green forest space then when we settled this chunk of land 400 years ago. Unfortunately environmentalists might tell you otherwise, but the like their doom and gloom.
Goto where the farmers are burning down the rain forests, teach/give/train them how to plant high yield crops and stop them from clear cutting/burning them down. And shock...you'll get somewhere.
Sometimes the most obvious solutions are sitting in front of their faces.