The voting age is 18 now in the United States and has been since 26th amendment was enacted in 1971 or 1972. Thank goodness since I've been registered since I was 17.5 years old. Recently in California there was a poposition that would allow for election-day voter registration. Too bad it didn't pass... I voted for it.
Actually, Crispix doesn't have frosting at all. It's a bit bland compared to most "sugary" cereals, but it's the texture that rally gets me, plus it stays crispy in milk for like 20+ minutes.
Actually, I really don't like the smell (let alone the taste) of coffee. Any kind of coffee, even the stuff they have over in Europe. I am addicted to something in the morning, and I can't wait to get me some of it, it's called Crispix. I go through a large box of the stuff in about 5 days. It used to cost me $5.00/box when I lived in the Bay area, so that was like a dollar a day in cereal. I swear they must put crack in it or something. I'm hooked...
In fact I beleive two players (one from each team) play the game against each other two days or so before the actual SB. It's called "the game before the game" and it has predicted the winners 6 out of the last 7 times I beleive. This year it was Keenan McCardell vs. Ronde Barber and McCardell won.
I wouldn't drop any coin on this trend though if I were you. I would put my $ on the Bucs moneyline as it's paying 1.6:1 right now.
Silly me and my lousy mechanical engineering degree. I was thinking to myself, "why does this guy have diagrams of deformation and motion on his website about the Speeak&Spell?" Oh, you mean he forgot the P on Photograph? Gotta get outta school for a while...
being a mechanical engineer that just recently received his bachelor's degree, I'd say that the amount of women in ME is at or below that in CS. The worst was in EE though. CS had a decent amount. Civil, Bio, Industrial, Matrials, and Chemical were higher than in ME. It's been this way for a LONG time, and it's not changing very quickly either.
I'd like to see some proof of that. I'm not trying to be a jack-ass, but that's the first tiem I've really heard about teachers moving to private schools becasue they care about making a difference in their student's lives. I can see it for other reasons though.
So so true... It's kind of sickening when reflecting on the situation as it is. One would think with the evolution of the internet that there would eb a better way to distribute this informaiton to the research libraries out there. Alas, there is a necitation for peer review, otherwise there owuld be big push to just post the papers in a nice OPEN format so that it can be seen by as many eyes that paid for it as possible. I for one will publish the work I do for my thesis and/or papers online in some form (Pre-print most likely).
I'm glad that the parent comment recieved a 5, otherwise I'd tell you fools to mod it up!
That's a great link. Never heard of it before. Bookmarked it has become... I just wish they had more categories, like mechanical engineering or in particular manufacturing, but it's still nice.
Because we all know that the schools in locations where the student's paerents cannot afford to put very much money into the schools will suffer dramatically. And those children that happen to be born into familes where their parents are drug addicts and the like, what about them. There will simply be too many cracks for the children to fall though without universal public education. It's like the seperate but equal mandate that was tossed out by the SC way back when. In your proposed system, there will definitely be a seperation between the haves and have nots in term of access to decent education. To me that is simply unacceptable. I got a decent to good education in public schools, and I don't see why that can't be the case 90+% of the time.
Dude, I'm not sure what crawled into your pants to get you all tied up. Have you ever stopped to contemplate the fact that there are some very bright and motivated people who don't want to grasp for the brass ring in life? People who don't want the life of consume consume consume. People who want to do good in society and not only think of themselves (as 98% of americans do). Right now I'm in graduate school and she's working so in essence she's partially supporting me. While I can't read her mind, I doubt she's in this for the money. I've never given her the impression that *I* want a high paying job anyway, just one that will allow me to use my skills and intelligence on something I want to work for.
Looking back on my college career, I think that every field of study is as hard as people make it. There were plenty of engineers I knew who took it easy and did very little work, getting C's and passing their classes. I also know a lot of liberal arts majors who put in a lot of time doing their papers, projects, and presentations. That's the thing with education, you get out what you put in on the personal level. If you feel that you weren't challenged enough in secondary education and it was a breeze (as I did), you might have looked toward other avenues to challenge your creative/intellectual ability.
While I agree that state-run schools (I've been in them whole life, even in college and graduate school) have some issues at the primary and secondary education levels, I don't see how people want to give up on them. Seriously, is it so much more important that *your* child gets a good education while the bright minds of the lower classes get nothing and no shot to excel?
Thinking of the big picture, the education of the entire population is in the best interest of everyone. It's the only way to insure that society progresses and doesn't go to hell in a handbasket.
If you think that the education professionals are "quacks" and the like, I think you should try your hand at crafting meaningful changes for the american public school system. I'd rather like to hear them as to be honest, I'm not sure what to do with the situation as it is.
Finally, your friend that got his Master's in education, would you say he's intellectually inferior to yourself, or was that just his chosen academic field?
Wow, you;re a real winner there man. What make you think that people with degrees in education and work for the state are "bottom of the barrel?" My girlfriend got her degree in Social Welfare (from a very prestigious school I might add) and currently works for the state. I had a number of friends like her in college. Absolutely brilliant people who decided that making money and "getting ahead" was not the most important thing in life, but rather giving back to their fellow humans was. People like this are so important in society, because otherwise we all end up like me... an engineer...
What the hell was that about... Timecube? Anyone want to fill me in on this thing? I started to read it but it really hurt my eyes to see text that big.
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Your quote is from Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, but you got it wrong, I beleive. It's actually, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." He wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and a host of other books. He also happens to be one of my favorite authors, but I haven't heard much from him lately since 9/11. Perhaps people didn't want to hear what he had to say...
"Actually, 1kg of iron mined and made into satellite parts on the moon plus the difference in processing costs (to earth creation is equal in value to 1 kg of iron similarly processed on earth *plus* the value of the propulsion system cost differential to loft it into space."
The only problems with this statement was the "made into satellite parts" bit. First off, you need some way to process the ore and do the metal forming processing to get it into parts for satelites. This requires quite a bit of machinery such as smelters (including oxygen supply for the smelting process) for ore processing, and then metal forming machines (forges, extrusion machines, milling machines, etc.) to actually make the parts. The cost of getting these machines to the moon would be extremely high, probalbly an order of magnitude more then getting manned people there.
The second problem I see is the fact that there may not be any fuel to run these machines. That's another big problem.
The thrid problem I see for using the moon as a satelite factory is the lack of usable metals on the moon. To be honest, not very much of a satelite is actually iron alloys. Much much more is aluminum or titanium. Are these ores available on the moon? I don't really know that answer.
The benefits of a satelite factory on the moon are obvious, but the capital involved in doing this is literally outrageous.
I meant documentation... Should have previewed! Also check out picoBSD at: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html. I've never used it but it appears to be a floppy distro of FreeBSD specific to firewalls / gateways / etc. Worth a look most likely.
That's what I use on my little NAT/Gateway thing at home. Works like a champ. Web-based config + many other add-ons for this floppy distro. More put together than LRP IMHO. Check it out at: freeSCO.org. The dicumentation is pretty good, although it may not be as secure as other distros.
Just wondering... Is there decent support for TV-in cards under Linux? What UI issues would you be dealing with? Anyone created their own? Got any shots?
I think he's joking with this quote: "Thankfully, everyone from those trying to sell stuff to those saying "quit it!" all had to write a 500-word essay about why what they did was wrong." So don't get your panties into a bunch about it, ok?
I've actually seen this happen here at UC Berkeley a few times where there's a mass mailing and some jackass replies to all asking to be taken off the list. The some other jackass replies to all telling him to shut up and stop sending out crap to everyone. The everyone replies asking to eb taken off, and bamn! The system gets overloaded. Usually the mail admins are quick enough to pull the plug on the list such that it doesn't go on forever. This happened recently with the list of students graduating this May.
I thought you wrote "googles at ever banner ad" at first. It seemed kinda strange that sheeple would use google to look up banner ads, but then I realized you wrote goggle.
I work in a lab on campus (not on the residental dorm pipe) kingkong.me.berkeley.edu and the bandwidth deosn't really seem to be affecting the speed of the network at all. Heck I just downloaded an iso from linuxiso.org at 200 Kbps just last week.
Yeah, that's why I still use Netscape Navigator 4.08. It's pretty stable, renders pages fairly well (but if they screw with W3C compliance too much it breaks), and doesn't have too much bloat. I've been playing with Moz on windows lately and it's faster, but crashes more than Netscape 4.08. BTW, is there a Galeon port to Windows?
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The voting age is 18 now in the United States and has been since 26th amendment was enacted in 1971 or 1972. Thank goodness since I've been registered since I was 17.5 years old. Recently in California there was a poposition that would allow for election-day voter registration. Too bad it didn't pass... I voted for it.
Actually, Crispix doesn't have frosting at all. It's a bit bland compared to most "sugary" cereals, but it's the texture that rally gets me, plus it stays crispy in milk for like 20+ minutes.
Actually, I really don't like the smell (let alone the taste) of coffee. Any kind of coffee, even the stuff they have over in Europe. I am addicted to something in the morning, and I can't wait to get me some of it, it's called Crispix. I go through a large box of the stuff in about 5 days. It used to cost me $5.00/box when I lived in the Bay area, so that was like a dollar a day in cereal. I swear they must put crack in it or something. I'm hooked...
In fact I beleive two players (one from each team) play the game against each other two days or so before the actual SB. It's called "the game before the game" and it has predicted the winners 6 out of the last 7 times I beleive. This year it was Keenan McCardell vs. Ronde Barber and McCardell won.
I wouldn't drop any coin on this trend though if I were you. I would put my $ on the Bucs moneyline as it's paying 1.6:1 right now.
Silly me and my lousy mechanical engineering degree. I was thinking to myself, "why does this guy have diagrams of deformation and motion on his website about the Speeak&Spell?" Oh, you mean he forgot the P on Photograph? Gotta get outta school for a while...
being a mechanical engineer that just recently received his bachelor's degree, I'd say that the amount of women in ME is at or below that in CS. The worst was in EE though. CS had a decent amount. Civil, Bio, Industrial, Matrials, and Chemical were higher than in ME. It's been this way for a LONG time, and it's not changing very quickly either.
I'd like to see some proof of that. I'm not trying to be a jack-ass, but that's the first tiem I've really heard about teachers moving to private schools becasue they care about making a difference in their student's lives. I can see it for other reasons though.
So so true... It's kind of sickening when reflecting on the situation as it is. One would think with the evolution of the internet that there would eb a better way to distribute this informaiton to the research libraries out there. Alas, there is a necitation for peer review, otherwise there owuld be big push to just post the papers in a nice OPEN format so that it can be seen by as many eyes that paid for it as possible. I for one will publish the work I do for my thesis and/or papers online in some form (Pre-print most likely).
I'm glad that the parent comment recieved a 5, otherwise I'd tell you fools to mod it up!
That's a great link. Never heard of it before. Bookmarked it has become... I just wish they had more categories, like mechanical engineering or in particular manufacturing, but it's still nice.
Because we all know that the schools in locations where the student's paerents cannot afford to put very much money into the schools will suffer dramatically. And those children that happen to be born into familes where their parents are drug addicts and the like, what about them. There will simply be too many cracks for the children to fall though without universal public education. It's like the seperate but equal mandate that was tossed out by the SC way back when. In your proposed system, there will definitely be a seperation between the haves and have nots in term of access to decent education. To me that is simply unacceptable. I got a decent to good education in public schools, and I don't see why that can't be the case 90+% of the time.
Dude, I'm not sure what crawled into your pants to get you all tied up. Have you ever stopped to contemplate the fact that there are some very bright and motivated people who don't want to grasp for the brass ring in life? People who don't want the life of consume consume consume. People who want to do good in society and not only think of themselves (as 98% of americans do). Right now I'm in graduate school and she's working so in essence she's partially supporting me. While I can't read her mind, I doubt she's in this for the money. I've never given her the impression that *I* want a high paying job anyway, just one that will allow me to use my skills and intelligence on something I want to work for.
Looking back on my college career, I think that every field of study is as hard as people make it. There were plenty of engineers I knew who took it easy and did very little work, getting C's and passing their classes. I also know a lot of liberal arts majors who put in a lot of time doing their papers, projects, and presentations. That's the thing with education, you get out what you put in on the personal level. If you feel that you weren't challenged enough in secondary education and it was a breeze (as I did), you might have looked toward other avenues to challenge your creative/intellectual ability.
While I agree that state-run schools (I've been in them whole life, even in college and graduate school) have some issues at the primary and secondary education levels, I don't see how people want to give up on them. Seriously, is it so much more important that *your* child gets a good education while the bright minds of the lower classes get nothing and no shot to excel?
Thinking of the big picture, the education of the entire population is in the best interest of everyone. It's the only way to insure that society progresses and doesn't go to hell in a handbasket.
If you think that the education professionals are "quacks" and the like, I think you should try your hand at crafting meaningful changes for the american public school system. I'd rather like to hear them as to be honest, I'm not sure what to do with the situation as it is.
Finally, your friend that got his Master's in education, would you say he's intellectually inferior to yourself, or was that just his chosen academic field?
Wow, you;re a real winner there man. What make you think that people with degrees in education and work for the state are "bottom of the barrel?" My girlfriend got her degree in Social Welfare (from a very prestigious school I might add) and currently works for the state. I had a number of friends like her in college. Absolutely brilliant people who decided that making money and "getting ahead" was not the most important thing in life, but rather giving back to their fellow humans was. People like this are so important in society, because otherwise we all end up like me... an engineer...
Then you should do it... If you want to be lazy, be lazy. Stop thinking and react to it. You'll be happier. And Yes I'm serious.
What the hell was that about... Timecube? Anyone want to fill me in on this thing? I started to read it but it really hurt my eyes to see text that big.
Your quote is from Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, but you got it wrong, I beleive. It's actually, "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro." He wrote Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and a host of other books. He also happens to be one of my favorite authors, but I haven't heard much from him lately since 9/11. Perhaps people didn't want to hear what he had to say...
"Actually, 1kg of iron mined and made into satellite parts on the moon plus the difference in processing costs (to earth creation is equal in value to 1 kg of iron similarly processed on earth *plus* the value of the propulsion system cost differential to loft it into space."
The only problems with this statement was the "made into satellite parts" bit. First off, you need some way to process the ore and do the metal forming processing to get it into parts for satelites. This requires quite a bit of machinery such as smelters (including oxygen supply for the smelting process) for ore processing, and then metal forming machines (forges, extrusion machines, milling machines, etc.) to actually make the parts. The cost of getting these machines to the moon would be extremely high, probalbly an order of magnitude more then getting manned people there.
The second problem I see is the fact that there may not be any fuel to run these machines. That's another big problem.
The thrid problem I see for using the moon as a satelite factory is the lack of usable metals on the moon. To be honest, not very much of a satelite is actually iron alloys. Much much more is aluminum or titanium. Are these ores available on the moon? I don't really know that answer.
The benefits of a satelite factory on the moon are obvious, but the capital involved in doing this is literally outrageous.
I meant documentation... Should have previewed! Also check out picoBSD at: http://people.freebsd.org/~picobsd/picobsd.html. I've never used it but it appears to be a floppy distro of FreeBSD specific to firewalls / gateways / etc. Worth a look most likely.
That's what I use on my little NAT/Gateway thing at home. Works like a champ. Web-based config + many other add-ons for this floppy distro. More put together than LRP IMHO. Check it out at: freeSCO.org. The dicumentation is pretty good, although it may not be as secure as other distros.
Just wondering... Is there decent support for TV-in cards under Linux? What UI issues would you be dealing with? Anyone created their own? Got any shots?
I think he's joking with this quote: "Thankfully, everyone from those trying to sell stuff to those saying "quit it!" all had to write a 500-word essay about why what they did was wrong." So don't get your panties into a bunch about it, ok?
I've actually seen this happen here at UC Berkeley a few times where there's a mass mailing and some jackass replies to all asking to be taken off the list. The some other jackass replies to all telling him to shut up and stop sending out crap to everyone. The everyone replies asking to eb taken off, and bamn! The system gets overloaded. Usually the mail admins are quick enough to pull the plug on the list such that it doesn't go on forever. This happened recently with the list of students graduating this May.
There was no candle weapon in Clue, only a candlestick. It would probably be pretty hard to kill someone with a candle if you think about it.
I thought you wrote "googles at ever banner ad" at first. It seemed kinda strange that sheeple would use google to look up banner ads, but then I realized you wrote goggle.
I work in a lab on campus (not on the residental dorm pipe) kingkong.me.berkeley.edu and the bandwidth deosn't really seem to be affecting the speed of the network at all. Heck I just downloaded an iso from linuxiso.org at 200 Kbps just last week.
Yeah, that's why I still use Netscape Navigator 4.08. It's pretty stable, renders pages fairly well (but if they screw with W3C compliance too much it breaks), and doesn't have too much bloat. I've been playing with Moz on windows lately and it's faster, but crashes more than Netscape 4.08. BTW, is there a Galeon port to Windows?