Yeah! Because I know, when I'm doing a significant number of tasks configuring a new service/device/what have you, I just *love* having to prefix every one of my damn commands with 'sudo'.
Look, admit it: you have no good reason for this little 'rule' of yours. It's just a personal preference. And in that case, fine. But don't imply that it's somehow safer... 'rm -rf/' is just as dangerous whether it's run as root, or has 'sudo' tacked to the front.
No, the real advantage to sudo is that you can selectively permit root access to users other than root. But if you are the admin, and thus have root access, there's no reason not to make your life easier and just use the root shell.
I have no interest in the grossly generalized target of "males between xx and xx years old who make xx dollars a year". That kind of targeting is almost always wrong. It's just slightly more accurate than spam.
It was also just an example. Did you miss the part about knowing when your lease is about to expire? Trust me, the amount of detail a company like Experian has on people is, to say the least, surprising (I've seen the list of attributes and it is *quite* extensive).
The problem is that same information can't currently be used to target advertisements on the internet (and in the case of TV, they currently have no deployed method of targeted advertising at all), and so they're stuck doing this ad hoc behavioral stuff. Which is why, compared to direct mail, internet and TV advertising is *far* less efficient.
While I don't feel like responding to the rest of your post, I just wanted to comment on this:
Personally, I'm a proponent of homeschooling, but I realize not every family is willing to put that much time and energy into their kids.
I have one comment, here: way to be a self-righteous, condescending jackass. Then again, my experience with homeschoolers is that this quality is unfortunately common...
No, it doesn't count. How often does Homer go to work? How often has he been fired? They've got a McMansion and three kids
ROFL, you've gotta be joking. Homer has been fired on numerous occasions. And a McMansion? Really?? Christ, it's a piece of shit two-story in a crappy part of town. Hell, at one point half the house fell into a sink hole and the chimney fell off. Meanwhile, they're constantly worried about the bills and often reference the fact that they can barely afford the meager lifestyle they have (at one point they bought Lisa a pony and Homer proceeded to work 23 hours a day, half at the plant and the other half at the Kwik-E-Mart, to try and afford it).
Honestly, you *really* haven't watched The Simpsons, have you?
In my case, yes, I'm flat out telling you practice made no difference in how well I did in school.
Then you're either a) lying, b) an extreme exception, or c) cherry-picking your results. ie, while I may believe that what you claim is true for something like basic addition, I find it *highly* unlikely that the same is true for, say, factoring quadratic equations, balancing chemical reactions, or performing physics calculations.
They spend quite a bit of time in school, if you can't teach them the skills in that amount of time, homework probably won't add a lot to the understanding.
No offense, but that's flat out absurd. What part of "practice makes perfect" don't you understand? In those classes with the highest levels of homework (primarily the maths and sciences), practice is absolutely vital to mastery. Does it suck? Yup. But it's necessary.
In the Netherlands, around 70% of primary and secondary pupils attend private independent schools. The schools are (mostly) funded by block grants for staff and operation costs by the government.
Then they're public schools, they're just run differently. For example, they can be run as for-profit entities that benefit from huge government payouts! Lucky!
What about proposed voucher systems, which hope to bring the success of privatization to families who can't afford private schools?
Can we say "government subsidy for private business"? How is that magically better than a well-executed public system? Do you *really* believe enough private schools will open such that the market would actually function? Because, I gotta say, I'm skeptical.
There was a time when the purpose of life was "to know, love, and serve God."
Yeah... there was also a time when blacks couldn't go to white schools, women didn't have rights (remember, the woman is to the man as the church is to Christ... ie, subservient), the temperance movement made millions of people criminals overnight based around a flawed ideology based on that God you mentioned, and "serve God" really meant the Christian God and everyone else was a subhuman heathen.
To make people aware of what they don't necessarily know about or necessarily need/want
Actually, I'd wager at least half, if not most advertising is really all about brand recognition. After all, when you're in the grocery store looking at a wall of paper towel, you're far more likely to pick brand X if you saw it on TV recently.
But more importantly, I don't think I, or the majority of people, like knowing that a company is rifling through my 'personal stuff' to find out what I like and dislike.
You may not like *knowing* it, but *they're already doing it*. How do you think those direct mailers figure out where to send their advertisements? Well, for starters, they go to a company like Experian, which knows an unbelievable amount about you thanks to things like credit card purchases, club cards, and so forth (including fun stuff like whether or not the lease on your car is about to expire). They then tell Experian "Hey, dudes, I want to target single males 18-25 who make between 50k and 75k who live in or around Washington DC", and they get back a list of addresses.
In short: you're already being tracked. You been tracked for *decades*. The only difference is, people are actually paying a bit of attention. Unfortunately, they're missing the forest for the trees.
I grew up in Texas. There are a lot of Mexicans there. One thing that some Mexicans missed is Coke with sugar. Despite the television adds to the contrary, it corn syrup isn't indistinguishable from sugar.
While that may be true, the odds are *very* good that the reason Mexican Coke tastes better to Mexicans (and American southerners) is because of the formulation, and not because of the sweetener. I say this as a Canadian who considers the American version far inferior to the Canadian formulation, which just so happens to taste very similar to the Mexican version save for one difference: like the American version, the Canadian version contains HFCS.
Donate my organs. Leave my brain to science. But I want skeleton properly preserved and mounted ala a proper medical skeleton model. That way I can be rolled out for christmas, halloween, birthdays, and so forth (with appropriate dress, of course... you know, santa hat, werewolf mask, etc). And, as an added bonus, I can be used as an educational tool!
Besides, I worked hard to ruin this skeleton with sugary, caffeinated beverages and a lack of proper exercise... why not keep it around for posterity?
Do we really need to establish a new Federal law, complete with its own bureaucracy and enforcement regime to control (another) risky behavior?
Since when was a "bureaucracy and enforcement regime" being proposed? Did the federal age limits on drinking, or the federal speed limits, result in the creation of a new "bureaucracy and enforcement regime"? No. That's what police are for. You know... the *existing* bureaucracy and enforcement regime.
Honestly, do you enjoy manufacturing issues out of whole cloth?
"This road is not being repaired becasue the federal government refuse to fund it" along the freeway.
Well, if the Libertarian folks around here are to be believed, the federal government *shouldn't* be maintaining the freeways. Since when was it the fed's job to keep state roads in good repair?
'course, by that logic, the interstates would've never been built in the first place, but...
It shows how unfaithful the movie was to the spirit and political ideals of alan moore's comic, that the message you received is to wait for some superhero to come and free you.
No, it shows that the GP wasn't actually paying any attention when he watched said film.
Mmmm... white flight. Now you understand what created American suburbia: irrational hatred of minorities while using them as a scapegoat for societal ills. Enjoy your race- and culture-wars!
Just FYI, your quote doesn't support your assertion that "they were some of the biggest cheaters in the Oil for Food program and had a huge vested interest in the status quo". All it proves it that they were level-headed enough to realize that military intervention was neither necessary nor desirable in order to disarm Iraq. And yes, they were absolutely right. And they also weren't the only nation saying the exact same fucking thing.
So... basically, France, along with a number of other nations, was smart enough to see what the US couldn't: that disarming Iraq (of weapons they didn't actually have) didn't require military intervention, and that such intervention would lead to a quagmire (hell, even Bush Sr. knew that). But, apparently, you feel that such reasoning must clearly be motivated by "a huge vested interest in the status quo", despite your providing no citations actually proving that leap. Fun!
Here, let me try: The US wanted to take over Iraq because they wanted access to their rich oil fields. Wow, that really is fun. Here, let me try another: R2.0 likes to ascribe motivations to individuals or nations without actually providing support for his claims because he's a partisan douchebag. Hey look, I did it again!
Well, next time such a factually incorrect article gets posted, you can author up an extensive, well-written rebuttal with quotes and citations, which I'm sure will get modded up because it will be factually accurate and have a relatively low percentage of blind rhetoric. Right?
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There are workarounds, such as using 'svn+ssh'
Uh, that's not a workaround. That's the correct solution. Who the hell *doesn't* use svn+ssh for "secure" svn?
Yeah! Because I know, when I'm doing a significant number of tasks configuring a new service/device/what have you, I just *love* having to prefix every one of my damn commands with 'sudo'.
Look, admit it: you have no good reason for this little 'rule' of yours. It's just a personal preference. And in that case, fine. But don't imply that it's somehow safer... 'rm -rf /' is just as dangerous whether it's run as root, or has 'sudo' tacked to the front.
No, the real advantage to sudo is that you can selectively permit root access to users other than root. But if you are the admin, and thus have root access, there's no reason not to make your life easier and just use the root shell.
I have no interest in the grossly generalized target of "males between xx and xx years old who make xx dollars a year". That kind of targeting is almost always wrong. It's just slightly more accurate than spam.
It was also just an example. Did you miss the part about knowing when your lease is about to expire? Trust me, the amount of detail a company like Experian has on people is, to say the least, surprising (I've seen the list of attributes and it is *quite* extensive).
The problem is that same information can't currently be used to target advertisements on the internet (and in the case of TV, they currently have no deployed method of targeted advertising at all), and so they're stuck doing this ad hoc behavioral stuff. Which is why, compared to direct mail, internet and TV advertising is *far* less efficient.
While I don't feel like responding to the rest of your post, I just wanted to comment on this:
Personally, I'm a proponent of homeschooling, but I realize not every family is willing to put that much time and energy into their kids.
I have one comment, here: way to be a self-righteous, condescending jackass. Then again, my experience with homeschoolers is that this quality is unfortunately common...
No, it doesn't count. How often does Homer go to work? How often has he been fired? They've got a McMansion and three kids
ROFL, you've gotta be joking. Homer has been fired on numerous occasions. And a McMansion? Really?? Christ, it's a piece of shit two-story in a crappy part of town. Hell, at one point half the house fell into a sink hole and the chimney fell off. Meanwhile, they're constantly worried about the bills and often reference the fact that they can barely afford the meager lifestyle they have (at one point they bought Lisa a pony and Homer proceeded to work 23 hours a day, half at the plant and the other half at the Kwik-E-Mart, to try and afford it).
Honestly, you *really* haven't watched The Simpsons, have you?
In my case, yes, I'm flat out telling you practice made no difference in how well I did in school.
Then you're either a) lying, b) an extreme exception, or c) cherry-picking your results. ie, while I may believe that what you claim is true for something like basic addition, I find it *highly* unlikely that the same is true for, say, factoring quadratic equations, balancing chemical reactions, or performing physics calculations.
They spend quite a bit of time in school, if you can't teach them the skills in that amount of time, homework probably won't add a lot to the understanding.
No offense, but that's flat out absurd. What part of "practice makes perfect" don't you understand? In those classes with the highest levels of homework (primarily the maths and sciences), practice is absolutely vital to mastery. Does it suck? Yup. But it's necessary.
In the Netherlands, around 70% of primary and secondary pupils attend private independent schools. The schools are (mostly) funded by block grants for staff and operation costs by the government.
Then they're public schools, they're just run differently. For example, they can be run as for-profit entities that benefit from huge government payouts! Lucky!
What about proposed voucher systems, which hope to bring the success of privatization to families who can't afford private schools?
Can we say "government subsidy for private business"? How is that magically better than a well-executed public system? Do you *really* believe enough private schools will open such that the market would actually function? Because, I gotta say, I'm skeptical.
There was a time when the purpose of life was "to know, love, and serve God."
Yeah... there was also a time when blacks couldn't go to white schools, women didn't have rights (remember, the woman is to the man as the church is to Christ... ie, subservient), the temperance movement made millions of people criminals overnight based around a flawed ideology based on that God you mentioned, and "serve God" really meant the Christian God and everyone else was a subhuman heathen.
Uhuh. Thanks, but no thanks.
1000 people isn't really a large pool to guesstimate the preferences of the American population.
Let me guess, you aren't educated in statistics, right?
As it happens, 1000 is roughly the magic number from which you can extrapolate meaningful statistics about a large population.
To make people aware of what they don't necessarily know about or necessarily need/want
Actually, I'd wager at least half, if not most advertising is really all about brand recognition. After all, when you're in the grocery store looking at a wall of paper towel, you're far more likely to pick brand X if you saw it on TV recently.
But more importantly, I don't think I, or the majority of people, like knowing that a company is rifling through my 'personal stuff' to find out what I like and dislike.
You may not like *knowing* it, but *they're already doing it*. How do you think those direct mailers figure out where to send their advertisements? Well, for starters, they go to a company like Experian, which knows an unbelievable amount about you thanks to things like credit card purchases, club cards, and so forth (including fun stuff like whether or not the lease on your car is about to expire). They then tell Experian "Hey, dudes, I want to target single males 18-25 who make between 50k and 75k who live in or around Washington DC", and they get back a list of addresses.
In short: you're already being tracked. You been tracked for *decades*. The only difference is, people are actually paying a bit of attention. Unfortunately, they're missing the forest for the trees.
I grew up in Texas. There are a lot of Mexicans there. One thing that some Mexicans missed is Coke with sugar. Despite the television adds to the contrary, it corn syrup isn't indistinguishable from sugar.
While that may be true, the odds are *very* good that the reason Mexican Coke tastes better to Mexicans (and American southerners) is because of the formulation, and not because of the sweetener. I say this as a Canadian who considers the American version far inferior to the Canadian formulation, which just so happens to taste very similar to the Mexican version save for one difference: like the American version, the Canadian version contains HFCS.
First, it's sturdily built and hails from an era when every fraction of penny didn't have to be cost-cut out of manufacturing
Bad news: the was no such time. You're just suffering from survivorship bias. Get over it. The good old days weren't.
Donate my organs. Leave my brain to science. But I want skeleton properly preserved and mounted ala a proper medical skeleton model. That way I can be rolled out for christmas, halloween, birthdays, and so forth (with appropriate dress, of course... you know, santa hat, werewolf mask, etc). And, as an added bonus, I can be used as an educational tool!
Besides, I worked hard to ruin this skeleton with sugary, caffeinated beverages and a lack of proper exercise... why not keep it around for posterity?
Do we really need to establish a new Federal law, complete with its own bureaucracy and enforcement regime to control (another) risky behavior?
Since when was a "bureaucracy and enforcement regime" being proposed? Did the federal age limits on drinking, or the federal speed limits, result in the creation of a new "bureaucracy and enforcement regime"? No. That's what police are for. You know... the *existing* bureaucracy and enforcement regime.
Honestly, do you enjoy manufacturing issues out of whole cloth?
"This road is not being repaired becasue the federal government refuse to fund it" along the freeway.
Well, if the Libertarian folks around here are to be believed, the federal government *shouldn't* be maintaining the freeways. Since when was it the fed's job to keep state roads in good repair?
'course, by that logic, the interstates would've never been built in the first place, but...
It shows how unfaithful the movie was to the spirit and political ideals of alan moore's comic, that the message you received is to wait for some superhero to come and free you.
No, it shows that the GP wasn't actually paying any attention when he watched said film.
Mmmm... white flight. Now you understand what created American suburbia: irrational hatred of minorities while using them as a scapegoat for societal ills. Enjoy your race- and culture-wars!
Just FYI, your quote doesn't support your assertion that "they were some of the biggest cheaters in the Oil for Food program and had a huge vested interest in the status quo". All it proves it that they were level-headed enough to realize that military intervention was neither necessary nor desirable in order to disarm Iraq. And yes, they were absolutely right. And they also weren't the only nation saying the exact same fucking thing.
So... basically, France, along with a number of other nations, was smart enough to see what the US couldn't: that disarming Iraq (of weapons they didn't actually have) didn't require military intervention, and that such intervention would lead to a quagmire (hell, even Bush Sr. knew that). But, apparently, you feel that such reasoning must clearly be motivated by "a huge vested interest in the status quo", despite your providing no citations actually proving that leap. Fun!
Here, let me try: The US wanted to take over Iraq because they wanted access to their rich oil fields. Wow, that really is fun. Here, let me try another: R2.0 likes to ascribe motivations to individuals or nations without actually providing support for his claims because he's a partisan douchebag. Hey look, I did it again!
Heh, hate to disappoint, but... dude, here. Though, for the record, I have spotted the odd chick here and there...
Huh? Amazon can't remove content you've put on the device yourself. They can only manipulate content purchased through their online store.
Well, next time such a factually incorrect article gets posted, you can author up an extensive, well-written rebuttal with quotes and citations, which I'm sure will get modded up because it will be factually accurate and have a relatively low percentage of blind rhetoric. Right?
What can I say, knitting has their nerds, too... or should I say knerds?