Okay, then why send them to school at all? If I have to sit them down to teach them all the of scientific/mathematical.grammatical/literary/etc, the why the hell have an "outsourced" education system at all?
The education system should be teaching a defined framework of information across the board. It should not matter if you live in SC or NY, you should be learning the same fundamentals such as math, science, history and literature.
It really depends. I took Latin for 4 years. Though it is of no real applicable use to me at this time, it was a really great base for learning Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Those languages came really easy to me because of the Latin. The backlash I have with this is, the law should be that kids need 2 credits in programming AND 2 credit in a foreign language instead of this malarky.
Does no one else notice the almost perfectly rectangular rocks with perfectly straight lines between them as though it was a set stone path or is it just my imagination???
Don't know what planet you are from, but in the real world, DBA's quite often fill many roles in the development life-cycle. I've been the DBA as well as the fucking PM for projects just due to lack of man power, shit happens.
Changes to production that pass QA can still break the system once they are in the wild and every instance of execution begins. Additionally, not every change that goes into production in all instances goes through the DBA especially when there isn't a schema change. A dipshit writes an app that works fine in QA, migrates to production, due to a difference in version he didn't pay attention to, he overwrites 5 million records. It really does actually happen in the real world and they ( many companies) don't bother consulting the experts until it's already fucked up.
Three days restoring is too long too. Unless your server is remote and upstream is super slow.
This is becoming more commonplace as companies are outsourcing or contracting out their admins and development.
But none of these things should give you permission to be a control freak. You are responsible for keeping the databases up, yes. But you are not responsible for everything that happens to them. Sometimes your dbs just get screwed up and you'll have to fix it. Just like sometimes business wants things done to the site/app that will totally jack up the fung shui i had going on in code. Nobody is purposefully trying to screw anyone over. We all want the business to grow and succeed. People make mistakes and shit happens. There's no need to also be an ass to each other on top of it all.
You'd think that, but when it's your job on the line because fucktards in management have 0 clue and assume that because it has something to do with the database and you are the admin, it's your fault. And having been subject to intentional sabotage, and seeing it done numerous times, it exists and happens.
The reason we are control freaks is because when some moron wants to make a change and breaks the whole system, we are the ones that catch the blame and have to try to fix it if we don't get shit canned for it. You ever tried to re-key millions of records across hundreds of tables? You ever had to spend 3 days restoring db's from backup and having a site outage for 3 days because of it?
Then you shouldn't have any problem naming two such incidents. So prove it.
This is retarded to even think but, okay. In the real world, a friend today can become the enemy tomorrow. Not to mention, we actually get most of our best intelligence from our allies, whether they wish to give it to us or not.
Yeah. That's why we have that string of military bases along the US/Canada border.
We have 70+ military bases and installations along the Us/Canada border from Washington in the west to Maine in the east. Here
So cutting US exports is a good thing in your opinion? I would say that it was a problem.
And why would the software from other nations be compatible with our software? And if it isn't then there is the problem with "lock in" and not much benefit from "competition".
Why would it need to be compatible?
Apple has been around for years and has a lot of money.
And yet there are still times when dealing with a government agency or a private company that a Microsoft product is required.
So why do you think that this situation will be improved by introducing MORE platforms that are intentionally incompatible?
First of all, when the government began introducing computers into the common work environments, Apple was not a real competitor. MS work a hell of a deal with the government for licensing that Apple wasn't willing to do. Then along came Dell. Dell was able to put a PC and/or laptop into the hands of government workers for less than 1/3 the cost of an apple computer. Not to mention, at the time, Apple's OS sucked for ease of use. Today, Macbooks are becoming more prolific in government work, each of the 4 agencies I have worked with in the last 2 years were switching all of their laptops to macbooks and running windows virtually. It takes a huge amount of time, in many instances, years to migrate hardware and software. Hell for the FDA to approve the installation of a single piece of software took 6 months to get approved on my laptop and that was just Eclipse.
So casinos raise the suicide rate, bankruptcy rate and crime rate, but apparently only if they are in MD or are Mississippi river boats... Apparently the Vegas casinos had no impact? Seems flawed to me and I live 20 minutes from 1 casino in MD, 5 minutes from the new one they are building and less than an hour from the others.
Not "American" in general. In many, and I dare say most, places people are generally pretty courteous. But, then again, I grew up in the South and Southern hospitality is world renowned.
Okay my friend, just for you, we'll pull back all military forces from around the globe, cut the size to 1/4 what it is now and send 2 million people back into an already over burdened work force. Let the clock begin on how long it takes for crime rates and prices to jump through the roof.
You say that, but the reality is, helping in areas and helping people in starvation riddle areas, patrolling for pirates, assisting in rendering medical aid to poorer countries makes a huge difference in not only our own security, but that of the world as a whole. It helps to provide more stable areas, stable trade routes, gains in natural resource allocations to us, and many more quite tangible benefits that would not otherwise be possible. Sure you can send an NPO into Somalia or Yemen with trucks of grain, but who the hell is going to protect them so that the pirates and warlords don't kill the NPO workers and take the foodstuffs? Who is going to protect the oil tankers and cargo ships from the VERY real pirates? There is complete chaos in several african countries, and that's still with us helping, what do you think it would be like if we weren't helping at all?
such as the tax write-offs of $2000 and $2500 for college expenses yearly, the tax deductions for student loan payments, the near guarantee that no matter how bad your credit score is, you can get government and private student loans through FAFSA, the fact that you do not have to pay student loans until after you graduate, and a slew of other ways and benefits. You just have to not be so lazy that you don't bother looking.
I'll not speak for everyone that has joined up, but I can tell you why I did, mind you, this was in the 90's. I always believed, and I was raised to believe, that every citizen of a country should contribute to the general welfare of the country as a whole. In my family, and in my belief, the best way I could contribute was to enlist and be able to stand up and defend those who couldn't or wouldn't defend themselves. How we have been used over the recent decades is a different matter entirely. As a child, I read a great deal and one thing stuck with me: "Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live."
I think that many, especially many who do not serve, seem to focus on certain events and undertakings while ignoring or brushing aside others. Certainly, we have been in a sustained conflict in the middle east for a decade now, but in addition to that, hundreds of thousands of people have been fed, clothed and given medical care by our military. Our military protects those that cannot protect themselves from those with whom diplomacy achieves nothing. When there's a major disaster, we're there to help. You assume that the military is this giant war machine rampaging across the globe and use for nothing more than securing our oil or other natural resource interests, but I bet you didn't know that it has been military funding combined with NPOs that have been developing vaccines and cures for diseases such as HIV/AIDS as well as purchasing and shipping foodstuffs to starving populations.
not a prima facie argument, you do not know what the person's thoughts were and why they made contact, you are assuming they made contact for a reason that you have placed into the equation which may not be their reason.
You're also assuming that everyone that contacted this "Sweetie" would also drag a child into an alley and molest them. Which may not and probably isn't the case given the propensity of people to do things and act differently on the net than they would in reality. For all we know, 19000 of the 20000 people knew it was a piece of software and wanted to see what it could do.
Your examples aren't relevant. In both instances, the person committing the crimes actually attempted to murder or steal from another person or persons. In this instance, no crime was committed against a person or business or state.
The courts dont let them arguably cross the line, they let them trample all over it. The example you provide of the cop going around asking if you want to buy drugs happens all the time and is allowed, all the time by courts. I have watched them do it to college kids in my neighborhood at events.
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Okay, then why send them to school at all? If I have to sit them down to teach them all the of scientific/mathematical.grammatical/literary/etc, the why the hell have an "outsourced" education system at all?
The education system should be teaching a defined framework of information across the board. It should not matter if you live in SC or NY, you should be learning the same fundamentals such as math, science, history and literature.
It really depends. I took Latin for 4 years. Though it is of no real applicable use to me at this time, it was a really great base for learning Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Those languages came really easy to me because of the Latin. The backlash I have with this is, the law should be that kids need 2 credits in programming AND 2 credit in a foreign language instead of this malarky.
Does no one else notice the almost perfectly rectangular rocks with perfectly straight lines between them as though it was a set stone path or is it just my imagination???
I always liked the title Jarl, I think I would be a good Jarl.
Don't know what planet you are from, but in the real world, DBA's quite often fill many roles in the development life-cycle. I've been the DBA as well as the fucking PM for projects just due to lack of man power, shit happens.
Three days restoring is too long too. Unless your server is remote and upstream is super slow.
This is becoming more commonplace as companies are outsourcing or contracting out their admins and development.
But none of these things should give you permission to be a control freak. You are responsible for keeping the databases up, yes. But you are not responsible for everything that happens to them. Sometimes your dbs just get screwed up and you'll have to fix it. Just like sometimes business wants things done to the site/app that will totally jack up the fung shui i had going on in code. Nobody is purposefully trying to screw anyone over. We all want the business to grow and succeed. People make mistakes and shit happens. There's no need to also be an ass to each other on top of it all.
You'd think that, but when it's your job on the line because fucktards in management have 0 clue and assume that because it has something to do with the database and you are the admin, it's your fault. And having been subject to intentional sabotage, and seeing it done numerous times, it exists and happens.
The reason we are control freaks is because when some moron wants to make a change and breaks the whole system, we are the ones that catch the blame and have to try to fix it if we don't get shit canned for it. You ever tried to re-key millions of records across hundreds of tables? You ever had to spend 3 days restoring db's from backup and having a site outage for 3 days because of it?
Then you shouldn't have any problem naming two such incidents. So prove it.
This is retarded to even think but, okay. In the real world, a friend today can become the enemy tomorrow. Not to mention, we actually get most of our best intelligence from our allies, whether they wish to give it to us or not.
Yeah. That's why we have that string of military bases along the US/Canada border.
We have 70+ military bases and installations along the Us/Canada border from Washington in the west to Maine in the east. Here
So cutting US exports is a good thing in your opinion? I would say that it was a problem. And why would the software from other nations be compatible with our software? And if it isn't then there is the problem with "lock in" and not much benefit from "competition".
Why would it need to be compatible?
Apple has been around for years and has a lot of money. And yet there are still times when dealing with a government agency or a private company that a Microsoft product is required. So why do you think that this situation will be improved by introducing MORE platforms that are intentionally incompatible?
First of all, when the government began introducing computers into the common work environments, Apple was not a real competitor. MS work a hell of a deal with the government for licensing that Apple wasn't willing to do. Then along came Dell. Dell was able to put a PC and/or laptop into the hands of government workers for less than 1/3 the cost of an apple computer. Not to mention, at the time, Apple's OS sucked for ease of use. Today, Macbooks are becoming more prolific in government work, each of the 4 agencies I have worked with in the last 2 years were switching all of their laptops to macbooks and running windows virtually. It takes a huge amount of time, in many instances, years to migrate hardware and software. Hell for the FDA to approve the installation of a single piece of software took 6 months to get approved on my laptop and that was just Eclipse.
So casinos raise the suicide rate, bankruptcy rate and crime rate, but apparently only if they are in MD or are Mississippi river boats... Apparently the Vegas casinos had no impact? Seems flawed to me and I live 20 minutes from 1 casino in MD, 5 minutes from the new one they are building and less than an hour from the others.
Clark county NV, Amsterdam Netherlands to name a couple.
Citations please, there are multiple casinos within an hour of me and they are actually in pretty good areas.
You're correct, both on Pandora but not on Spotify, yet another reason to use pandora instead.
Tool and Led Zeppelin are absolutely available on Spotify and Pandora.
Nope.
Not "American" in general. In many, and I dare say most, places people are generally pretty courteous. But, then again, I grew up in the South and Southern hospitality is world renowned.
Okay my friend, just for you, we'll pull back all military forces from around the globe, cut the size to 1/4 what it is now and send 2 million people back into an already over burdened work force. Let the clock begin on how long it takes for crime rates and prices to jump through the roof.
You say that, but the reality is, helping in areas and helping people in starvation riddle areas, patrolling for pirates, assisting in rendering medical aid to poorer countries makes a huge difference in not only our own security, but that of the world as a whole. It helps to provide more stable areas, stable trade routes, gains in natural resource allocations to us, and many more quite tangible benefits that would not otherwise be possible. Sure you can send an NPO into Somalia or Yemen with trucks of grain, but who the hell is going to protect them so that the pirates and warlords don't kill the NPO workers and take the foodstuffs? Who is going to protect the oil tankers and cargo ships from the VERY real pirates? There is complete chaos in several african countries, and that's still with us helping, what do you think it would be like if we weren't helping at all?
When you actually have a clue what you are talking about, come back to us. The only thing you got right there was budget breaking.
such as the tax write-offs of $2000 and $2500 for college expenses yearly, the tax deductions for student loan payments, the near guarantee that no matter how bad your credit score is, you can get government and private student loans through FAFSA, the fact that you do not have to pay student loans until after you graduate, and a slew of other ways and benefits. You just have to not be so lazy that you don't bother looking.
I'll not speak for everyone that has joined up, but I can tell you why I did, mind you, this was in the 90's. I always believed, and I was raised to believe, that every citizen of a country should contribute to the general welfare of the country as a whole. In my family, and in my belief, the best way I could contribute was to enlist and be able to stand up and defend those who couldn't or wouldn't defend themselves. How we have been used over the recent decades is a different matter entirely. As a child, I read a great deal and one thing stuck with me: "Citizenship is an attitude, a state of mind, an emotional conviction that the whole is greater than the part...and that the part should be humbly proud to sacrifice itself that the whole may live."
I think that many, especially many who do not serve, seem to focus on certain events and undertakings while ignoring or brushing aside others. Certainly, we have been in a sustained conflict in the middle east for a decade now, but in addition to that, hundreds of thousands of people have been fed, clothed and given medical care by our military. Our military protects those that cannot protect themselves from those with whom diplomacy achieves nothing. When there's a major disaster, we're there to help. You assume that the military is this giant war machine rampaging across the globe and use for nothing more than securing our oil or other natural resource interests, but I bet you didn't know that it has been military funding combined with NPOs that have been developing vaccines and cures for diseases such as HIV/AIDS as well as purchasing and shipping foodstuffs to starving populations.
additionally, you also do not know whether or not they knew that it was or was not a real child.
not a prima facie argument, you do not know what the person's thoughts were and why they made contact, you are assuming they made contact for a reason that you have placed into the equation which may not be their reason.
You're also assuming that everyone that contacted this "Sweetie" would also drag a child into an alley and molest them. Which may not and probably isn't the case given the propensity of people to do things and act differently on the net than they would in reality. For all we know, 19000 of the 20000 people knew it was a piece of software and wanted to see what it could do.
Your examples aren't relevant. In both instances, the person committing the crimes actually attempted to murder or steal from another person or persons. In this instance, no crime was committed against a person or business or state.
The courts dont let them arguably cross the line, they let them trample all over it. The example you provide of the cop going around asking if you want to buy drugs happens all the time and is allowed, all the time by courts. I have watched them do it to college kids in my neighborhood at events.