Where I work, we don't have critical information, so it's no big deal. My dad's office has differeng levels of security depending on where you're going (the cubes have only a sign-in and escort for non-employees, other rooms make you use your ID badge to get in (so they know who's in there), still other rooms have even more security).
I don't know why people are hounding for the G5 anyway... I'm using a 800MHz G3 iBook and it's plenty fast enough for me doing just about anything. Unless you're using photoshop or crunching numbers, why do you even need a G4?
From running a computer lab full of G4 flat-pannel iMacs for art students... just about everyone I come into contact with. Especially the Maya class.
We'd love to replace our main classroom with G5 iMacs.
However one thing I learned quite quickly is that you have to search for porn/hatespeech/$fill_in_gross_stuff.
That is not true. I don't search for porn, yet I've found it. Oftentimes a dropped letter / wrong vowel / wrong ending to a web address can change a lot.
There was one website I used to view often, and they changed their address. For a year they were one both domain names. Eventually they changed to only one. About 1.5 years after that, I had forgotten the new name, and typed in the old one. Porn. It had been a family-friendly web site before.
And as a society, we do have the right to tell you how to raise your children.
No, you don't. As long as a parent isn't harming their child, they have the innate right to raise him or her as they see fit.
If that child doesn't live up to the societies standards, than society has to take it up with the parents - it's their right and responsibility.
Parents come in bitching about little Sally getting an F even though she did no work. If parents backed up schools, then we would have better kids in society.
If the schools backed the parents up in return, then it'd be great. If I were a teacher, and a parent came in asking why Little Sally got an F, I'd point out the requirements for each grade level - and show how Sally did not meet them. (Then again, I'd have the policy that one of my teachers had explicit - if you turn in every assignment, and they're all complete, you will pass the class.)
My kids - they're being homeschooled. 1st, my wife and I feel that it's best for my family. 2nd, we can't give them the kind of education we want for them in school.
The word great, when used with the obvious emotion behind it that the parent had, implies a utopia.
I would disagree, the word 'great' usually just means 'great.' If 'great' implied an utopia, then no place is great.
"Important, elevated, distinguished" are some of the words the Oxford English Dictonary uses to describe 'great.'
I think that we can use 'great' to descibe America while also saying there is room for improvement. It seems that you just needed an excuse for a rant.
Surely Kinsey has done studies on this... but I can't find any clear web references.
If you're refering to the late Alfred C. Kinsey of Indiana University... his so-called 'research' has been shown to have been done poorly, that in the December 11, 1949, New York Times, W. Allen Wallis, who was then the chairman of the University of Chicago's committee on statistics stated that "There are six major aspects of any statistical research, and Kinsey fails on four."
The fact that the so-called 'father of the sexual revolution' has had just about every statistical claim he ever made repudiated by other studies makes one think about our over-sexualized society.
I've found that the Eugene McMenamin's can have worse service than the others. High Street is the worst I've been too, 19th Street tends to be good, and North Banks is the best of the 3.
Not that I agree with the "I have nothing to hide, I don't care" mentality, but your argument against it is flawed. In this case, it is simply doing something the government already does (and can do) better: identifing your vehicle. Your other two examples have nothing to do with identifing your vehicle.
I'd like to help the community and I could actually install mozilla on several dozen of the PCs that I administer but the curve is too high for non-geeks. I will continue to use IE and endorse it with this kind of response.
Really, it's a web browser. The only thing that the people in the computer labs that I work for have problems with is realizing that the firefox icon is the web browser icon (I've thought about changing the icon to the IE icon to see if anyone notices).
You can use firefox just like IE, only it's nicer. I don't know what kind of learning curve you're talking about.
To that you'd have to add the cost of your time to assemble it and install software. I don't know about you, but my consulting rate is high enough that the Mac is already cheaper when assembly time is factored in.
Unless you enjoy building computers from scratch like I do. It's relaxing and interesting to work with computer innards at times.
However, I have enough old PCs laying around for that fetish, but some people prefer building their own to buying.
Blackjack is probably a better choice of a casino game if you want your entertainment to be relatively cheap.
First person to have said the most important point - go to the casinos for fun. Assume all of your budgeted money will go to the house. Consider it an amusement park where your bets are the admission fee.
And how much Koranic criticism has there been? Is one even allowed to question the perfection of the Koran?
I've not heard a lot about Qur'an textual criticism, but there's been some attempt at Qur'an source criticism, and that has NOT gone over well with Muslims. Any attempt to show that the Qur'an has come from many sources, and not just from God directly is a no-no.
You suggest that a collection of documents survived over 2000 years at the hands of all sorts of people to arrive in your lap in 2004 "99% pure". I argue that in any other context, you would approach that sort of assertion with a health heap of scepticism, but in this case, you are willing to believe others who have always argued for inerrancy.
The science of texual criticism (which actually is used for not just the scriptures, but for other ancient works, such as those of Plato) is a very usefull tool. We look at all of the different copies we have, from different years, and in different places. We have more copies of the New Testament, from a more wide variety of places (and even ancient translations) than any other ancient writting.
(And actually, after having read a bunch of these threads, I understand that a lot of the other Christians posting are just someone who've read someone's book, and that's that. However, there are some of us who have actually done some research into this area)
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Uh, you should have called 911
911 if for emergencies. In this case, they should have left and called the non-emergency police number.
ever try to swat a fly with just your hand? See how it takes off before you can hit it?
Because the wind of your hand coming down creats lift in the fly's wings. It couldn't be hit if it wanted to (suicidal flies...)
That's why fly-swatters have the grid-pattern, so they don't make as much wind.
Most security breaks are from the inside.
Where I work, we don't have critical information, so it's no big deal. My dad's office has differeng levels of security depending on where you're going (the cubes have only a sign-in and escort for non-employees, other rooms make you use your ID badge to get in (so they know who's in there), still other rooms have even more security).
I don't know why people are hounding for the G5 anyway... I'm using a 800MHz G3 iBook and it's plenty fast enough for me doing just about anything. Unless you're using photoshop or crunching numbers, why do you even need a G4?
From running a computer lab full of G4 flat-pannel iMacs for art students... just about everyone I come into contact with. Especially the Maya class.
We'd love to replace our main classroom with G5 iMacs.
Putting random numbers in the answer boxes isn't doing the assignment. Assignments can be designed to detect this.
Hm, you get Parenting for free, we had to subscribe. Baby Talk (same company) was free.
Of course, my mag list (besides those two) is odd: Crisis, Popular Science, and Backpacker.
I object to censorware on the grounds that it is snakeoil.
Censorware can be snakeoil, but it's not necessarily. If you go into it knowing the limitations, then it can be an excellent backup to other things.
However one thing I learned quite quickly is that you have to search for porn/hatespeech/$fill_in_gross_stuff.
That is not true. I don't search for porn, yet I've found it. Oftentimes a dropped letter / wrong vowel / wrong ending to a web address can change a lot.
There was one website I used to view often, and they changed their address. For a year they were one both domain names. Eventually they changed to only one. About 1.5 years after that, I had forgotten the new name, and typed in the old one. Porn. It had been a family-friendly web site before.
And as a society, we do have the right to tell you how to raise your children.
No, you don't. As long as a parent isn't harming their child, they have the innate right to raise him or her as they see fit.
If that child doesn't live up to the societies standards, than society has to take it up with the parents - it's their right and responsibility.
Parents come in bitching about little Sally getting an F even though she did no work. If parents backed up schools, then we would have better kids in society.
If the schools backed the parents up in return, then it'd be great. If I were a teacher, and a parent came in asking why Little Sally got an F, I'd point out the requirements for each grade level - and show how Sally did not meet them. (Then again, I'd have the policy that one of my teachers had explicit - if you turn in every assignment, and they're all complete, you will pass the class.)
My kids - they're being homeschooled. 1st, my wife and I feel that it's best for my family. 2nd, we can't give them the kind of education we want for them in school.
The word great, when used with the obvious emotion behind it that the parent had, implies a utopia.
I would disagree, the word 'great' usually just means 'great.' If 'great' implied an utopia, then no place is great.
"Important, elevated, distinguished" are some of the words the Oxford English Dictonary uses to describe 'great.'
I think that we can use 'great' to descibe America while also saying there is room for improvement. It seems that you just needed an excuse for a rant.
Surely Kinsey has done studies on this... but I can't find any clear web references.
If you're refering to the late Alfred C. Kinsey of Indiana University... his so-called 'research' has been shown to have been done poorly, that in the December 11, 1949, New York Times, W. Allen Wallis, who was then the chairman of the University of Chicago's committee on statistics stated that "There are six major aspects of any statistical research, and Kinsey fails on four."
The fact that the so-called 'father of the sexual revolution' has had just about every statistical claim he ever made repudiated by other studies makes one think about our over-sexualized society.
You *do* know Captain Kirk was Canadian...?
No, William Shatner is Canadian, Captain Kirk was from Iowa.
Powell's Technical Bookstore is a geek wetdream.
I've found that the Eugene McMenamin's can have worse service than the others. High Street is the worst I've been too, 19th Street tends to be good, and North Banks is the best of the 3.
So sorry, I didn't mean to flame bait. Its just I come from the UK and so the whole gun ownership thing looks really strange from here.
Doesn't your Olympic Shooting Team have to go out of the country to practice?
I guess that's the philosophy behind the Portland Rain Festival.
Let's see, that runs from September 30th through September 1st every year, doesn't it?
October 1st - July 5th, actually.
Ahhh.. the slippery slope argument.
Not that I agree with the "I have nothing to hide, I don't care" mentality, but your argument against it is flawed. In this case, it is simply doing something the government already does (and can do) better: identifing your vehicle. Your other two examples have nothing to do with identifing your vehicle.
I'd like to help the community and I could actually install mozilla on several dozen of the PCs that I administer but the curve is too high for non-geeks. I will continue to use IE and endorse it with this kind of response.
Really, it's a web browser. The only thing that the people in the computer labs that I work for have problems with is realizing that the firefox icon is the web browser icon (I've thought about changing the icon to the IE icon to see if anyone notices).
You can use firefox just like IE, only it's nicer. I don't know what kind of learning curve you're talking about.
Power over the same cord to the monitor was a great idea, and it's a shame it never caught on.
Power is nice, USB on the same cable is pure bliss.
To that you'd have to add the cost of your time to assemble it and install software. I don't know about you, but my consulting rate is high enough that the Mac is already cheaper when assembly time is factored in.
Unless you enjoy building computers from scratch like I do. It's relaxing and interesting to work with computer innards at times.
However, I have enough old PCs laying around for that fetish, but some people prefer building their own to buying.
Blackjack is probably a better choice of a casino game if you want your entertainment to be relatively cheap.
First person to have said the most important point - go to the casinos for fun. Assume all of your budgeted money will go to the house. Consider it an amusement park where your bets are the admission fee.
its impossible to hand-write html that will pass a verifier.
I do it all the time, my hand-written css passes the validator too.
Virus ~ Etymology: Latin, venom, poisonous emanation; akin to Greek ios poison, Sanskrit visa; in senses 2 & 4, from New Latin, from Latin
So it did come from Latin into english, but probably originated from Sanskrit.
No, Sanskrit and Latin both came from Proto-Indo-European. So the word simpy developed differently from there in the 2 languages.
And how much Koranic criticism has there been? Is one even allowed to question the perfection of the Koran?
I've not heard a lot about Qur'an textual criticism, but there's been some attempt at Qur'an source criticism, and that has NOT gone over well with Muslims. Any attempt to show that the Qur'an has come from many sources, and not just from God directly is a no-no.
You suggest that a collection of documents survived over 2000 years at the hands of all sorts of people to arrive in your lap in 2004 "99% pure". I argue that in any other context, you would approach that sort of assertion with a health heap of scepticism, but in this case, you are willing to believe others who have always argued for inerrancy.
The science of texual criticism (which actually is used for not just the scriptures, but for other ancient works, such as those of Plato) is a very usefull tool. We look at all of the different copies we have, from different years, and in different places. We have more copies of the New Testament, from a more wide variety of places (and even ancient translations) than any other ancient writting.
(And actually, after having read a bunch of these threads, I understand that a lot of the other Christians posting are just someone who've read someone's book, and that's that. However, there are some of us who have actually done some research into this area)