As a later college attendee, I like to take online course more then in class, classes. Whenever the class is on Blackboard I shake my head because I know that the system will generally be intrusive and annoying. I really like Moodle though. That generally works really well.
BTW I am not supporting anything that Asshole did. I just worry about how my fellow Americans will react to this. And what laws they will allow their legislators to pass. This was an evil, evil act. But what should we do? My best thoughts would be to pack up our belongings from the middle east. Take all our toys with it and become isolationists. Maybe try to prosicute bin Laden if he is truly behind this. But otherwise let's not get anyone else killed.
Or let's go and throw a couple of hydrogen bombs at em and just take the oil. I like the first idea better.
Gee, I was just reading and watching on the boob PBS's detailed look at Osama here. If you really read between the lines at things that the people who are bin Laden's supporters and the US gov't's, I really get the idea that the US gov't is full of shit. I definately get the impression that in general the long term goals of the US are to drain the worlds oil reserves, sit on our own supply until that time, and in the meantime deprive it's citizens of these little favored ammendment rights. Basically to control our freedoms. Let the cows continue to work and allow Big business to rule. Keep the poor poorer and the rich get richer.
Look at this way, in a very longview:
The US has immediate oil needs (ala 1920's) to become a major world power. The middle east is in a state of flux after finally throwing off the shackles of British colonialism. Look at Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Salon review) by Ahmed Rashid in the first couple of chapters for that.
This benefits the aims of the US to become a major super power. So cold war comes, advances the US as the average Joe needs something to fear (other than his gov't) and is more productive, as evidence by WWI & II. So the cold war ends and one of the major collapses of the enemy is the Soviet Union puts its big foot in the wrong place (Afghanistan) & the Muslim community kick the shit out of em. See the book & the site for more about that. So the 90's comes along & this whole oil thing is basically the big stupid US gov't wanting oil and pissing arabs off. Sadam was a retard. Muslim groups believed they could wipe the ground with Saddam. But we step in with our interests in oil (and in oil only.) And squash Saddam, but don't kill him. Why you ask? Look at a map. Iraq separates some of the major Muslim nations from each other. By keeping him in power we control the area indirectly. If we controlled it directly (we squashed Saddam and setup a puppet gov't) the Muslims would of been pissed and probably would of kicked us out. But instead we leave him in power. Keep a base of operations in Kuwait and there's your oil. Safe and secure.
So we fast forward Muslims get pissed because we walk all over them, fund their corrupt leaders which makes it unfeasible for them to be overthrown. And basically they continue to get pissed off at Americans. They make threats, we don't respond. So they blow shit up. (Only the really pissed people.) This makes one guy who wants to be a leader, a leader. Because the most powerful nation in the world's president just mentioned his name 3 times on television. Now he does more and more to get attention. Meanwhile the US gov't just corrupt's what he does and says. Doesn't tell the truth. And basically Osama becomes the next boogeyman. "You can't use encryption because Osama will get you." "We have to have cameras with face recognition everywhere cause Osa will get you if we don't." It just continues and continues. Well the US finally declares war on old Osama and you know what? Much like most of the experts on CNN tell you, there's another Osama waiting to take his place. Well the next guy is Muhammed and the next is Ackmed and you know what? We live in safe society. Because the gov't tells us what to think, what to eat, where to go, what to do. And if we don't, they'll know. And then they'll send Osama to come get you.
Horse pucky!
While I believe that you and your wifes intentions maybe honorable, I in no way believe that schools, faculty, and the professor teaching the class do not benifit someway from using a select material. Come on, we've all expierenced the problem of having the same book as the professor (or Teacher in HS) but not having the same edition and having been on different pages or different chapters. And I believe that colleges and schools in general have shown us they have the morality of Telephone salesmen (don't ask), by allowing corporations to sponsor everything from the cafeteria to the local ballfield.
I have been to the mountain top and I have seen the future. Ralph Nader will not win. (Damn, curses) But rejoice my third party, disillusioned breathren. Ralph Nader will get the neccesary 5% vote (probably more.) And in 2004 Jesse Venture will run on the Green Party ticket. Mark my WORDs!
I think if a system was in place akin to this, it would work. People would vote on issues that concerned them. The other majority would not. There would be to many items up for vote to make in a single day. At first people would vote and would not make informed decisions, but I think time and clear unbiased presentations of the facts would solve this. While I have never personally looked into this, I think a decent example would be California's prop. system would work. I don't have link for anything in particular but I think something similiar would work.
I don't know about you but I am sick and tired of politicains making choices for me, when they vote on issues concerning the Internet and they don't even use a computer.
Note: I am not a scientist. And these are just my opinions.
Finally, Someone I can agree with here. Britney Spears? What adult likes Britney Spears? Noone. My teenage sister does. Why because the entertainment industry mass markets this stuff towards them. Is this right? NO, but I think that all leads back to one of those age old question of should the entertainment industry be unregulated from marketing to kids. I don't think they should. But I'm sure they do. As would everyone else who markets towards kids. And don't give me that BullSh*t that parents should be responsible. I personally don't send my kids to daycare or public schools, and given how much time are you "allowed" to spend with your kids between work and school (theirs) , homework , maybe 4-5 hours. And your competing against mass marketed crap (scientists who've been at this for years) and don't get me started on how the media and general opinion is of the mind that a woman's place is in the workforce not being the primary care taker of HER children. (Damn the crap I got for asking my wife to do that from my family, friends, and just about everyone I meet.) So yes, given the time you spend with your children and how much the general public spends with their own children, I think the Gov't has a BIG F***ing responsibility to regulate ANYTHING That effects children.
I don't know, but I run a Linux Router courtesy of the Linux Router Project, and I have noticed that prior to a couple days ago I could use Gnutella fine. Then it stopped working.
But once again this does not address the issue that if there are other life forms out there, how can you even judge what they'll be. To paraphrase what someone said a little while ago in a thread (sorry for the lack of credit) We just found out that there were organisms at what was previously considered uninhabitable on our own ocean floor. Hell, they could be sometype of gaseous beings that live in the atmosphere of the planet. Also, we aren't even 100% sure there isn't little green men on mars. We're pretty sure theirs no life on the moon, but it's not like we spend more than a year on the surface, never mind the inside.
While I agree that we should send a probe I don't see how Antigravity (Boots, ship or other wise) will help in the real problem. Which would be how do travel fast enough to reach the area in a timely manner (So that we're not all dead by the time it reaches) & can we transmit reports & control a vehical that far away. I think it's possible but it's like throwing a rock with a camera on it and trying to get good pictures while at it. Another idea might be to send a probe like beacon (?) to say "We are hear" X marks the spot where you can destory us. In hopes that we may make contact with another civilization. But I think that's our only option. Other than sending messages & gathering pictures & data.
Me & my wife are under the paranoid delusion that the Star Trek shows have been getting the Earth's population ready to make a "First Contact" sorta thing. Or maybe I've just been watching to much Star Trek lately. But look when Star Trek first aired. Wasn't that after Roswell. Gotta go, have to find my Haldol. "Honey did I put that on the shelf next to your Lithium?".....
What the hell? I expected just a little more from the rest of the \. community. You are begining to sound like the rest of the cattle. Moo! Ironic that this big fiasco with Carnivore & your ready to Sell your soul to Corporations. Didn't just this morning Hypothermia relate what happened to his Site & how NVidia legally manipulated him. Legally & professionally dicked him around. Sheep!
Have you ever heard of Lojack. A system for tracking where you're car is going. Hmmmm. Do I really care what happens to my car if it's stolen. No that's what insurance is for. I don't know, starting to get very paranoid. Might have to pull the on old Betsy (my computer) cause the gov't is spying on my online habits. WAIT A MINUTE, THEY.......
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As a later college attendee, I like to take online course more then in class, classes. Whenever the class is on Blackboard I shake my head because I know that the system will generally be intrusive and annoying.
I really like Moodle though. That generally works really well.
BTW I am not supporting anything that Asshole did. I just worry about how my fellow Americans will react to this. And what laws they will allow their legislators to pass. This was an evil, evil act. But what should we do? My best thoughts would be to pack up our belongings from the middle east. Take all our toys with it and become isolationists. Maybe try to prosicute bin Laden if he is truly behind this. But otherwise let's not get anyone else killed.
Or let's go and throw a couple of hydrogen bombs at em and just take the oil. I like the first idea better.
Gee, I was just reading and watching on the boob PBS's detailed look at Osama here. If you really read between the lines at things that the people who are bin Laden's supporters and the US gov't's, I really get the idea that the US gov't is full of shit. I definately get the impression that in general the long term goals of the US are to drain the worlds oil reserves, sit on our own supply until that time, and in the meantime deprive it's citizens of these little favored ammendment rights. Basically to control our freedoms. Let the cows continue to work and allow Big business to rule. Keep the poor poorer and the rich get richer. Look at this way, in a very longview: The US has immediate oil needs (ala 1920's) to become a major world power. The middle east is in a state of flux after finally throwing off the shackles of British colonialism. Look at Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Salon review) by Ahmed Rashid in the first couple of chapters for that. This benefits the aims of the US to become a major super power. So cold war comes, advances the US as the average Joe needs something to fear (other than his gov't) and is more productive, as evidence by WWI & II. So the cold war ends and one of the major collapses of the enemy is the Soviet Union puts its big foot in the wrong place (Afghanistan) & the Muslim community kick the shit out of em. See the book & the site for more about that. So the 90's comes along & this whole oil thing is basically the big stupid US gov't wanting oil and pissing arabs off. Sadam was a retard. Muslim groups believed they could wipe the ground with Saddam. But we step in with our interests in oil (and in oil only.) And squash Saddam, but don't kill him. Why you ask? Look at a map. Iraq separates some of the major Muslim nations from each other. By keeping him in power we control the area indirectly. If we controlled it directly (we squashed Saddam and setup a puppet gov't) the Muslims would of been pissed and probably would of kicked us out. But instead we leave him in power. Keep a base of operations in Kuwait and there's your oil. Safe and secure. So we fast forward Muslims get pissed because we walk all over them, fund their corrupt leaders which makes it unfeasible for them to be overthrown. And basically they continue to get pissed off at Americans. They make threats, we don't respond. So they blow shit up. (Only the really pissed people.) This makes one guy who wants to be a leader, a leader. Because the most powerful nation in the world's president just mentioned his name 3 times on television. Now he does more and more to get attention. Meanwhile the US gov't just corrupt's what he does and says. Doesn't tell the truth. And basically Osama becomes the next boogeyman. "You can't use encryption because Osama will get you." "We have to have cameras with face recognition everywhere cause Osa will get you if we don't." It just continues and continues. Well the US finally declares war on old Osama and you know what? Much like most of the experts on CNN tell you, there's another Osama waiting to take his place. Well the next guy is Muhammed and the next is Ackmed and you know what? We live in safe society. Because the gov't tells us what to think, what to eat, where to go, what to do. And if we don't, they'll know. And then they'll send Osama to come get you.
Horse pucky!
While I believe that you and your wifes intentions maybe honorable, I in no way believe that schools, faculty, and the professor teaching the class do not benifit someway from using a select material. Come on, we've all expierenced the problem of having the same book as the professor (or Teacher in HS) but not having the same edition and having been on different pages or different chapters. And I believe that colleges and schools in general have shown us they have the morality of Telephone salesmen (don't ask), by allowing corporations to sponsor everything from the cafeteria to the local ballfield.
I have been to the mountain top and I have seen the future. Ralph Nader will not win. (Damn, curses) But rejoice my third party, disillusioned breathren. Ralph Nader will get the neccesary 5% vote (probably more.) And in 2004 Jesse Venture will run on the Green Party ticket. Mark my WORDs!
I think if a system was in place akin to this, it would work. People would vote on issues that concerned them. The other majority would not. There would be to many items up for vote to make in a single day. At first people would vote and would not make informed decisions, but I think time and clear unbiased presentations of the facts would solve this. While I have never personally looked into this, I think a decent example would be California's prop. system would work. I don't have link for anything in particular but I think something similiar would work. I don't know about you but I am sick and tired of politicains making choices for me, when they vote on issues concerning the Internet and they don't even use a computer. Note: I am not a scientist. And these are just my opinions.
Finally, Someone I can agree with here. Britney Spears? What adult likes Britney Spears? Noone. My teenage sister does. Why because the entertainment industry mass markets this stuff towards them. Is this right? NO, but I think that all leads back to one of those age old question of should the entertainment industry be unregulated from marketing to kids. I don't think they should. But I'm sure they do. As would everyone else who markets towards kids. And don't give me that BullSh*t that parents should be responsible. I personally don't send my kids to daycare or public schools, and given how much time are you "allowed" to spend with your kids between work and school (theirs) , homework , maybe 4-5 hours. And your competing against mass marketed crap (scientists who've been at this for years) and don't get me started on how the media and general opinion is of the mind that a woman's place is in the workforce not being the primary care taker of HER children. (Damn the crap I got for asking my wife to do that from my family, friends, and just about everyone I meet.) So yes, given the time you spend with your children and how much the general public spends with their own children, I think the Gov't has a BIG F***ing responsibility to regulate ANYTHING That effects children.
I don't know, but I run a Linux Router courtesy of the Linux Router Project, and I have noticed that prior to a couple days ago I could use Gnutella fine. Then it stopped working.
But once again this does not address the issue that if there are other life forms out there, how can you even judge what they'll be. To paraphrase what someone said a little while ago in a thread (sorry for the lack of credit) We just found out that there were organisms at what was previously considered uninhabitable on our own ocean floor. Hell, they could be sometype of gaseous beings that live in the atmosphere of the planet. Also, we aren't even 100% sure there isn't little green men on mars. We're pretty sure theirs no life on the moon, but it's not like we spend more than a year on the surface, never mind the inside.
While I agree that we should send a probe I don't see how Antigravity (Boots, ship or other wise) will help in the real problem. Which would be how do travel fast enough to reach the area in a timely manner (So that we're not all dead by the time it reaches) & can we transmit reports & control a vehical that far away. I think it's possible but it's like throwing a rock with a camera on it and trying to get good pictures while at it. Another idea might be to send a probe like beacon (?) to say "We are hear" X marks the spot where you can destory us. In hopes that we may make contact with another civilization. But I think that's our only option. Other than sending messages & gathering pictures & data.
Me & my wife are under the paranoid delusion that the Star Trek shows have been getting the Earth's population ready to make a "First Contact" sorta thing. Or maybe I've just been watching to much Star Trek lately. But look when Star Trek first aired. Wasn't that after Roswell. Gotta go, have to find my Haldol. "Honey did I put that on the shelf next to your Lithium?".....
What the hell? I expected just a little more from the rest of the \. community. You are begining to sound like the rest of the cattle. Moo! Ironic that this big fiasco with Carnivore & your ready to Sell your soul to Corporations. Didn't just this morning Hypothermia relate what happened to his Site & how NVidia legally manipulated him. Legally & professionally dicked him around. Sheep!
Have you ever heard of Lojack. A system for tracking where you're car is going. Hmmmm. Do I really care what happens to my car if it's stolen. No that's what insurance is for. I don't know, starting to get very paranoid. Might have to pull the on old Betsy (my computer) cause the gov't is spying on my online habits. WAIT A MINUTE, THEY.......
Can I really use this as an answering machine message and can I enforce it?