Yes, the "first world problems" proclamation. How witty of you to post that AC. Just because it's a first world problem, doesn't mean it's not worth discussing among other adults. Do you have something to suggest or add to the discussion or will you just parrot the same unoriginal soundbite?
I agree with you there, I don't care if there are armbands etc for my smartphone, that isn't practical at work. I use a fitbit because it's always clipped inside my pocket, my phone I set down often at work and sometimes forget to pick up when I leave my desk and I don't like to carry my phone with me when I work out. I also will be relaxing on my vacation but still want to make sure I am moving around enough while I'm away without my phone, my fitbit will be coming with me.
I would suggest you read my post again. I said I'd be hesitant to visit any state where open carry becomes too prolific. I did not say I feel that is the current situation. So in fact I did NOT say it is a problem let alone a big problem. If I choose to visit Texas, open carry is not as prolific as the news makes it out to be, I can still avoid open carriers should I choose to and it's still easy to do so. As for your last rant about the constitution, I don't care. You can read my posts, I have no issue with gun ownership, you're creating a bit of extra drama here where there shouldn't be any.
It's your right to own guns, and if you open carry in Texas as is your right, it's my right to avoid the hell out of you. If I see you, I'll just duck into a Chipotle so I don't have to be around you.
Concealed carry also means lower powered, lower caliber and lower capacity weapons. I'll take my chances with my preference. I'm not a gun control advocate, I'm not a gun rights advocate because I just don't care if people own guns either way. I support limited gun control but I don't advocate it. If normal, sane people want to own guns for lawful purposes, I don't care either way. I don't want to see all the long gun carrying peacocks strutting and getting in my face to remind me of my rights that I don't care about. I don't want to own a gun, but I don't want to stop other people from owning them if they want one and can own it responsibly.
I don't look nervous, I look suspicious. Your comment implies that nervous people are a threat. Some people are just nervous all the time, it doesn't mean they are up to something nefarious. At the same time, the cold blooded killer may be cool as a cucumber. You can see how identifying the threat isn't so easy.
It seems to me that there has been a lot of media and public backlash against open carry. I'm not personally affected by open carry at the moment, but I'd be hesitant to visit any state where open carry becomes too prolific. My opinion is simply that when everyone open carries, I will have a harder time discerning who is a threat and who isn't.
With the exception of Chicago, none of the cities you listed are even in the top 20 cities. If you doubt it, you should research with a brief google "largest cities in north america" before you post. Las Vegas doesn't even make the wiki list.
You're missing my point. We do what we can with what we have. Of course we don't have the kids create their own profiles, we do it for them using bulk create from csv. Parents like you who have a legitimate concern about privacy, but you have to weigh that concern against your kids ability to participate in what we are going to go ahead and do anyway. I'm not trying to sound adversarial, but when the higher ups want us to implement new technology, my family depends on me to just do my damn job and ignore interfering parents. Since my board is underfunded, parental interfence isn't really an issue since the parents that care don't live where our schools are. Office 365 isn't free and as other posters have pointed out, advertising is disabled in GAFE. Let me repeat that since you don't seem to be getting the message. GAFE has advertising disabled.
Plus as a publicly funded, attendance is essentially mandatory (private and homeschooling alternatives aside), AND it involves children.
It should be held to the highest privacy standards.
A public school absolutely should NOT be loading advertising companies with profiles of our children. As a parent and as a taxpayer I am against it on both fronts.
I absolutely should have some say in whether my kids are served up to google.
And schools are generally pretty upfront and careful. I get asked for permission for pictures of our kids to appear on the school website (declined). We had to sign permission for our kids to be setup on Office 365 (as that's what their school is trying it out instead of g-apps). After a lot of consideration we elected to allow it, but monitor the kids on it closely, and are using it as a 'teaching opportunity'. But we could have declined it.
I do know of some parents who have hyper stances against their kid using the internet etc; and as far as I know the schools have always made allowances to accomodate these. Just as they allow parents to opt kids out of sex-ed, biology dissections, field trips, and any other topics that a subset of parents may find objectionable.
Your assertion that schools can ram google or anything else down our throats and we can only say, "thank you sir, please, can i have some more?" or pull our kids out of school entirely is just ridiculous.
In some cases this assertion is apt. I supervise the IT dept. for a board serving 12 schools. We are chronically underfunded and use what we can get our hands on. We use donated computers in the schools, donated servers and GAFE. Anything we can do that has no monetary cost goes into the schools. If your kid went to our schools, we honestly have no interest in catering to parents like you. Your kids get what we give them or they do without and get left behind, it's as simple as that and we can't afford to apologize. You suggest it is a democracy, but I'm telling you it's not. Even when you elect your board, we still do what ever we have to do to get these kids through school and get them exposed to the tech they need to know.
Gah. The point isn't about who pushes the button to create the damn thing.
Think again. If my child was in such a system, I would not allow a creation of an advertising-firm account on their behalf, regardless of who actually pushes the final button. It's the account that is unacceptable, not the specifics of who creates it.
Well, school boards like mine don't have much cash, you're kids would get what we give them or they can do all their work on paper. GAFE does has advertising disabled.
Tough call, I'd go soft sectored as long as the floppy drive itself is efficient enough to cram as much data on the disk as hard sectored. All these thoughts of floppies and holes...just remember grower or shower you can't go wrong with an 8" floppy.
I've been there, and I will be there again by this time Saturday. I can hardly fucking wait, I'm so sick of winter! Oh and I have pics to prove I was there.
Is that it? Really? Throwing a string of vulgarities together does not a troll make. Try again. The vulgarities could work if you could redo that post as a Haiku. Can you handle a haiku? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku). Or a Jeopardy post! This act entails taking a dick up the ass and allowing the person ramming your butt to ejaculate in your arse. What is an anal creampie? Honestly, it's like you're new at trolling or don't understand the concept of trolling as an art.
Grizzly bears are not native to Saskatchewan, especially the region near Saskatoon where this occurred. There is a tiny insignificant are in the far north east Saskatchewan that you might find Grizzly bears but it is no unlikely that they are not considered to be native to Saskatchewan. Maybe a wolf, most other dangerous animals would be too big to be mistaken for a human.
Hearing aids can't help people with a central auditory processing disorder, the first thing I thought when I read this article was this might actually be a viable solution for CAPD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder
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Yes, the "first world problems" proclamation. How witty of you to post that AC. Just because it's a first world problem, doesn't mean it's not worth discussing among other adults. Do you have something to suggest or add to the discussion or will you just parrot the same unoriginal soundbite?
No, Fitbit can sync with a pc or mac. I don't know about others, but likely the same as fitbit.
I agree with you there, I don't care if there are armbands etc for my smartphone, that isn't practical at work. I use a fitbit because it's always clipped inside my pocket, my phone I set down often at work and sometimes forget to pick up when I leave my desk and I don't like to carry my phone with me when I work out. I also will be relaxing on my vacation but still want to make sure I am moving around enough while I'm away without my phone, my fitbit will be coming with me.
nm...someone already posted.
Most TVs now don't have static sound when there is no signal. Csssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
I would suggest you read my post again. I said I'd be hesitant to visit any state where open carry becomes too prolific. I did not say I feel that is the current situation. So in fact I did NOT say it is a problem let alone a big problem. If I choose to visit Texas, open carry is not as prolific as the news makes it out to be, I can still avoid open carriers should I choose to and it's still easy to do so. As for your last rant about the constitution, I don't care. You can read my posts, I have no issue with gun ownership, you're creating a bit of extra drama here where there shouldn't be any. It's your right to own guns, and if you open carry in Texas as is your right, it's my right to avoid the hell out of you. If I see you, I'll just duck into a Chipotle so I don't have to be around you.
Concealed carry also means lower powered, lower caliber and lower capacity weapons. I'll take my chances with my preference. I'm not a gun control advocate, I'm not a gun rights advocate because I just don't care if people own guns either way. I support limited gun control but I don't advocate it. If normal, sane people want to own guns for lawful purposes, I don't care either way. I don't want to see all the long gun carrying peacocks strutting and getting in my face to remind me of my rights that I don't care about. I don't want to own a gun, but I don't want to stop other people from owning them if they want one and can own it responsibly.
I don't look nervous, I look suspicious. Your comment implies that nervous people are a threat. Some people are just nervous all the time, it doesn't mean they are up to something nefarious. At the same time, the cold blooded killer may be cool as a cucumber. You can see how identifying the threat isn't so easy.
It seems to me that there has been a lot of media and public backlash against open carry. I'm not personally affected by open carry at the moment, but I'd be hesitant to visit any state where open carry becomes too prolific. My opinion is simply that when everyone open carries, I will have a harder time discerning who is a threat and who isn't.
With the exception of Chicago, none of the cities you listed are even in the top 20 cities. If you doubt it, you should research with a brief google "largest cities in north america" before you post. Las Vegas doesn't even make the wiki list.
You're missing my point. We do what we can with what we have. Of course we don't have the kids create their own profiles, we do it for them using bulk create from csv. Parents like you who have a legitimate concern about privacy, but you have to weigh that concern against your kids ability to participate in what we are going to go ahead and do anyway. I'm not trying to sound adversarial, but when the higher ups want us to implement new technology, my family depends on me to just do my damn job and ignore interfering parents. Since my board is underfunded, parental interfence isn't really an issue since the parents that care don't live where our schools are. Office 365 isn't free and as other posters have pointed out, advertising is disabled in GAFE. Let me repeat that since you don't seem to be getting the message. GAFE has advertising disabled.
School isn't a democracy
School boards are elected.
Plus as a publicly funded, attendance is essentially mandatory (private and homeschooling alternatives aside), AND it involves children.
It should be held to the highest privacy standards.
A public school absolutely should NOT be loading advertising companies with profiles of our children. As a parent and as a taxpayer I am against it on both fronts.
I absolutely should have some say in whether my kids are served up to google.
And schools are generally pretty upfront and careful. I get asked for permission for pictures of our kids to appear on the school website (declined). We had to sign permission for our kids to be setup on Office 365 (as that's what their school is trying it out instead of g-apps). After a lot of consideration we elected to allow it, but monitor the kids on it closely, and are using it as a 'teaching opportunity'. But we could have declined it.
I do know of some parents who have hyper stances against their kid using the internet etc; and as far as I know the schools have always made allowances to accomodate these. Just as they allow parents to opt kids out of sex-ed, biology dissections, field trips, and any other topics that a subset of parents may find objectionable.
Your assertion that schools can ram google or anything else down our throats and we can only say, "thank you sir, please, can i have some more?" or pull our kids out of school entirely is just ridiculous.
In some cases this assertion is apt. I supervise the IT dept. for a board serving 12 schools. We are chronically underfunded and use what we can get our hands on. We use donated computers in the schools, donated servers and GAFE. Anything we can do that has no monetary cost goes into the schools. If your kid went to our schools, we honestly have no interest in catering to parents like you. Your kids get what we give them or they do without and get left behind, it's as simple as that and we can't afford to apologize. You suggest it is a democracy, but I'm telling you it's not. Even when you elect your board, we still do what ever we have to do to get these kids through school and get them exposed to the tech they need to know.
Students don't create their own accounts
Gah. The point isn't about who pushes the button to create the damn thing.
Think again. If my child was in such a system, I would not allow a creation of an advertising-firm account on their behalf, regardless of who actually pushes the final button. It's the account that is unacceptable, not the specifics of who creates it.
Well, school boards like mine don't have much cash, you're kids would get what we give them or they can do all their work on paper. GAFE does has advertising disabled.
Patrick Stewart say to this? He'll be 75 next July.
Tough call, I'd go soft sectored as long as the floppy drive itself is efficient enough to cram as much data on the disk as hard sectored. All these thoughts of floppies and holes...just remember grower or shower you can't go wrong with an 8" floppy.
Neither, 8" floppies would be the way to go.
I've been there, and I will be there again by this time Saturday. I can hardly fucking wait, I'm so sick of winter! Oh and I have pics to prove I was there.
Is that it? Really? Throwing a string of vulgarities together does not a troll make. Try again. The vulgarities could work if you could redo that post as a Haiku. Can you handle a haiku? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku). Or a Jeopardy post! This act entails taking a dick up the ass and allowing the person ramming your butt to ejaculate in your arse. What is an anal creampie? Honestly, it's like you're new at trolling or don't understand the concept of trolling as an art.
No way man, big beautiful manatees was the name manatee porn lovers have been using since the old timey days when we thought they were mermaids.
to point and click RPGs? You mean like Torch Light and Torch Light II?
Not to mention "decreased fertility" I don't want to decrease my fertility, I want to temporarily eliminate my fertility.
Grizzly bears are not native to Saskatchewan, especially the region near Saskatoon where this occurred. There is a tiny insignificant are in the far north east Saskatchewan that you might find Grizzly bears but it is no unlikely that they are not considered to be native to Saskatchewan. Maybe a wolf, most other dangerous animals would be too big to be mistaken for a human.
Hearing aids can't help people with a central auditory processing disorder, the first thing I thought when I read this article was this might actually be a viable solution for CAPD. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder
True enough, a bottle of beer doesn't look like it could be cold if it's dry on the outside.
The condensation makes the beer look tasty and I plan to drink it while it's still cold, not study it.