There was another story from the same Wadha guy a short while ago, about age bias in IT? Looks a bit like someone might be hitting on easy tech hot button talking points to get their name out there.
Alarm bells, confetti falling from the ceiling, the crowd cheers. Congratulations you have hit the big prize, tell him what he's won! A free all expense paid trip to +5 Insighful! Mod that parent up!
In all seriousness, I didn't even notice the stories were from the same academic asshat until you brought it up.
No, fuck you fagstorm. Wanna fight me? I've kicked the ass of APK, MichealKristopeit, kdawson, and that goatse troll. You can take that chill pill and SHOVE IT STRAIGHT UP YOUR ASS.
I think this is where the analogy breaks down. The taxpayers are supposed to be owners of the government (I know, ha ha), and thus would want the government to cut costs. But we aren't really customers of the government either, since we are compelled to pay taxes and many services are (rightly so) not opt-out.
As such, the stockholders or owners of a company would want it to cut costs in order to raise profits, if there was no way to increase revenues. In this case the analogy is that since the taxpayers flatly refuse to allow taxes to be raised they decide to cut costs because schooling is apparently unnecessary.
Actually it is more like 1/1500000th of the sky at one time. And now that it is done taking a unfathomable (to you) 1.5 million pictures, it has successfully taken a picture of the entire sky.
Why would you just assume that NASA is lying about its capabilities. Presumably you read about the telescope or at least looked at some real info. Are you aware that when you are running a mission you don't use the $100 dollar telescope that parents buy for their kids? Did you realize that a telescope in space can take pictures at any angle it wishes?
Or perhaps you didn't read the article, didn't do any research, and are talking out of your ass instead?
This also seems like an example of re-distribution of cost. I only skimmed TFA, and I didn't see any indication that this change is across the board or just high-school or what, but if it includes K-6, then two-income families are going to have to invest in putting their kids in some form of daycare one day a week so they can continue going to work. Which I'm sure when you account for all the kids that will be in daycare may add up to quite a bit more than $50,000/year. This seems like bad economics to me. On the other hand, some enterprising parents may open up home daycares for extra scratch and the increased demand may drive down the cost of daycare (yeah right), but I don't expect that will very much offset the $50,000+ in lost revenue for the other families.
Sure, but the school isn't paying for their daycare, so this is still saving them money. Oh the families with 2 working parents and 3 kids will be ruined by this? Who cares.
Provide less service for the same cost (in taxes). Yep, government is more like the corporate world every day.
Best product placement I've ever seen was in Natural Born Killers. From what I've read Coca-Cola sacked most of their product placement team in LA afterwards.
Best Coca-Cola product placement ever was during the Clarance Thomas senate confirmation.
The whole world seems to be developing some kind of ADHD that is detrimental to new ideas that take longer to develop than what is now considered normal. Investors want their returns now, news outlets don't want to bother reporting on something besides an election that takes months to develop, and consumers don't want to wait, they'll just take the next best thing that pops up.
The pace of life arguably has something to do with it, as we increasingly work as a society to eliminate the need to wait for anything. Want news? Well back in the 70s you had to wait for your local newscast to tell you what happened in summary, and then you got the paper the next morning for the details. Then came cable news, and you could watch stuff develop live. More cable news outlets came out and copied and expanded on it. Anyone remember how some people were glued to their sets day after day watching the OJ Simpson trial go down in real time? And now in comes the internet and you can get your news from thousands of outlets on the web, social networks, and once you hear about it you tend to not care anymore.
People have forgotten how to be patient and a lot of it can be attributed to the "I want it NOW" mentality that our society seems to promote above all else. We need to calm the hell down, or we'll run over the next big as we dash off in our overfinanced and undeserved sports cars to get our next quick fix of overpriced whatever the hell it is that they're serving today.
OK, someone please tell me why I would need to spend nearly $300 USD to shine 2 white LEDs in my ear? Awaiting a schematic and a parts list of what is needed to build this. Oh 3 AA's wired to pair of in-ear headphones with the coil and diaphragm replaced by an LED on each side.
Oh, you left out the super secret part that makes the whole thing work! The current limiting resistor!
Yeah a SED (smoke emitting diode) is not what you want here.
What would you have done if the bridge collapsed, complained that the truck drivers should have ascertained the maximum load of the bridge? It's not their task.
Sure it is. They simply need to drive progressively heavier trucks over the bridge until it collapses. Then rebuild the bridge to the exact specifications, and post the weight of the heaviest truck to survive.
Weird. I did some checking and apparently his real name is Jeep Rice. Really!
Keep Rice was a typo, and that typo is now being propagated all over the Inter-Tubes by trusting bloggers and news aggregators who don't check their facts. (And speaking of Inter-Tubes, he works at the Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute.)
Just add a couple of spoilers on it and you will have your Jeep Rice.
Only if you are younger than 25. For people in my age group the Super Nintendo SimCity is our canonical version. I played the very original SimCity on PC after the SNES one, and was left unimpressed.
Actually make that "only if you are younger than 30 or did not have a SNES", SC2000 was released on PC in 1993. Shit I am getting old.
In vernacular usage SC2000, one of the brave exceptions to the law that the sequel is always shit compared to the original, is sufficiently canonical that it may be referred to simply as 'SimCity'. The same is not generally true of the subsequent sequels.
Only if you are younger than 25. For people in my age group the Super Nintendo SimCity is our canonical version. I played the very original SimCity on PC after the SNES one, and was left unimpressed.
Apparenty they found a computer model that infuses people with a desire to walk and bike
You haven't been downtown here, have you? Walking and biking is about the only way you're going to get anywhere during a typical weekday... especially after Mssr. Adams decided to go slightly crazy about the bike lanes, which left less room for cars.
...and this was after the Max tracks ate quite a bit of asphalt on their own (though this isn't really as bad, considering that the rail is actually a good deal, and actually useful)
But if they use modeling to fix traffic woes, then more people will be emboldened to drive, filling the streets back up again.
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You can see pretty much anything "from space". Find yourself a strong enough lens or a low enough orbit, and "I can see my house from here".
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I can move my house from here.
-Archimedes
Sun tried this with Java about a decade ago. The idea is still stupid.
There was another story from the same Wadha guy a short while ago, about age bias in IT? Looks a bit like someone might be hitting on easy tech hot button talking points to get their name out there.
Alarm bells, confetti falling from the ceiling, the crowd cheers. Congratulations you have hit the big prize, tell him what he's won! A free all expense paid trip to +5 Insighful! Mod that parent up!
In all seriousness, I didn't even notice the stories were from the same academic asshat until you brought it up.
No, fuck you fagstorm. Wanna fight me? I've kicked the ass of APK, MichealKristopeit, kdawson, and that goatse troll. You can take that chill pill and SHOVE IT STRAIGHT UP YOUR ASS.
Well, it is a suppository...
Purely out of morbid curiosity, what firewall are you using that doesn't have application level support for FTP?
Every firewall that I don't personally control.
Sounds like they wont be graduating Magna Cum Laude.
It would be worth exactly what you can get someone to pay for it. No less, no more.
Ask a stupid question...
It would cost whatever DeBeers wanted to charge for it.
I think this is where the analogy breaks down. The taxpayers are supposed to be owners of the government (I know, ha ha), and thus would want the government to cut costs. But we aren't really customers of the government either, since we are compelled to pay taxes and many services are (rightly so) not opt-out.
As such, the stockholders or owners of a company would want it to cut costs in order to raise profits, if there was no way to increase revenues. In this case the analogy is that since the taxpayers flatly refuse to allow taxes to be raised they decide to cut costs because schooling is apparently unnecessary.
Actually it is more like 1/1500000th of the sky at one time. And now that it is done taking a unfathomable (to you) 1.5 million pictures, it has successfully taken a picture of the entire sky.
Why would you just assume that NASA is lying about its capabilities. Presumably you read about the telescope or at least looked at some real info. Are you aware that when you are running a mission you don't use the $100 dollar telescope that parents buy for their kids? Did you realize that a telescope in space can take pictures at any angle it wishes?
Or perhaps you didn't read the article, didn't do any research, and are talking out of your ass instead?
This also seems like an example of re-distribution of cost. I only skimmed TFA, and I didn't see any indication that this change is across the board or just high-school or what, but if it includes K-6, then two-income families are going to have to invest in putting their kids in some form of daycare one day a week so they can continue going to work. Which I'm sure when you account for all the kids that will be in daycare may add up to quite a bit more than $50,000/year. This seems like bad economics to me. On the other hand, some enterprising parents may open up home daycares for extra scratch and the increased demand may drive down the cost of daycare (yeah right), but I don't expect that will very much offset the $50,000+ in lost revenue for the other families.
Sure, but the school isn't paying for their daycare, so this is still saving them money. Oh the families with 2 working parents and 3 kids will be ruined by this? Who cares.
Provide less service for the same cost (in taxes). Yep, government is more like the corporate world every day.
I am not sure why you think the government would be opposing itself. What would be the motivation of Congress to revolt?
Congress is already revolting.
You said it. They stink on ice.
Best product placement I've ever seen was in Natural Born Killers. From what I've read Coca-Cola sacked most of their product placement team in LA afterwards.
Best Coca-Cola product placement ever was during the Clarance Thomas senate confirmation.
The whole world seems to be developing some kind of ADHD that is detrimental to new ideas that take longer to develop than what is now considered normal. Investors want their returns now, news outlets don't want to bother reporting on something besides an election that takes months to develop, and consumers don't want to wait, they'll just take the next best thing that pops up.
The pace of life arguably has something to do with it, as we increasingly work as a society to eliminate the need to wait for anything. Want news? Well back in the 70s you had to wait for your local newscast to tell you what happened in summary, and then you got the paper the next morning for the details. Then came cable news, and you could watch stuff develop live. More cable news outlets came out and copied and expanded on it. Anyone remember how some people were glued to their sets day after day watching the OJ Simpson trial go down in real time? And now in comes the internet and you can get your news from thousands of outlets on the web, social networks, and once you hear about it you tend to not care anymore.
People have forgotten how to be patient and a lot of it can be attributed to the "I want it NOW" mentality that our society seems to promote above all else. We need to calm the hell down, or we'll run over the next big as we dash off in our overfinanced and undeserved sports cars to get our next quick fix of overpriced whatever the hell it is that they're serving today.
Slow down.
tl;dr
OK, someone please tell me why I would need to spend nearly $300 USD to shine 2 white LEDs in my ear? Awaiting a schematic and a parts list of what is needed to build this. Oh 3 AA's wired to pair of in-ear headphones with the coil and diaphragm replaced by an LED on each side.
Oh, you left out the super secret part that makes the whole thing work! The current limiting resistor!
Yeah a SED (smoke emitting diode) is not what you want here.
Because doctors will prescribe it like the plague, then everything will be immune to it in a matter of a decade. Great. Stop having kids now.
You should find yourself a new doctor. My doctor does not prescribe the plague.
What would you have done if the bridge collapsed, complained that the truck drivers should have ascertained the maximum load of the bridge? It's not their task.
Sure it is. They simply need to drive progressively heavier trucks over the bridge until it collapses. Then rebuild the bridge to the exact specifications, and post the weight of the heaviest truck to survive.
Its quite simple, Calvin.
Weird. I did some checking and apparently his real name is Jeep Rice. Really!
Keep Rice was a typo, and that typo is now being propagated all over the Inter-Tubes by trusting bloggers and news aggregators who don't check their facts. (And speaking of Inter-Tubes, he works at the Ted Stevens Marine Research Institute.)
Just add a couple of spoilers on it and you will have your Jeep Rice.
1. Write inflammatory blog post about Linux on desktop.
2. ???
3. Proffitt
Only if you are younger than 25. For people in my age group the Super Nintendo SimCity is our canonical version. I played the very original SimCity on PC after the SNES one, and was left unimpressed.
Actually make that "only if you are younger than 30 or did not have a SNES", SC2000 was released on PC in 1993. Shit I am getting old.
In vernacular usage SC2000, one of the brave exceptions to the law that the sequel is always shit compared to the original, is sufficiently canonical that it may be referred to simply as 'SimCity'. The same is not generally true of the subsequent sequels.
Only if you are younger than 25. For people in my age group the Super Nintendo SimCity is our canonical version. I played the very original SimCity on PC after the SNES one, and was left unimpressed.
Apparenty they found a computer model that infuses people with a desire to walk and bike
You haven't been downtown here, have you? Walking and biking is about the only way you're going to get anywhere during a typical weekday... especially after Mssr. Adams decided to go slightly crazy about the bike lanes, which left less room for cars.
But if they use modeling to fix traffic woes, then more people will be emboldened to drive, filling the streets back up again.
Because it will ~~NO CARRIER
"Phones don't piss people off enough to kill people. People piss off people enough to kill people."
Speak for yourself, I have Verizon.
Actually, I suppose it is the employees at Verizon that make me violent...
I want Michael Jordan's rocket shoes.
You think the internet reduces hate? Have you seen the comments on Youtube, or even here?
Indeed, there are hate machines on the internet.