I think that Parallel programing is just two big of a lump to make statements about. I don't find multi-treaded code all that hard. I do it all the time and have had great success with it. Maybe I am just careful or lucky but so far so good. I have to admit that the tools are just not that good. One wrong mutex lock or failure to lock and you are in a world of hurt.
"Google is in a different category from something like a corporate financial database or workstation backups, and I don't think it makes sense to compare them. Google's information is loosey-goosey and approximate. If some of its servers go down, no big deal, the others will catch up, and with sufficient redundancy it's likely no one will notice. " Okay why? For workstation backups I think a Google like system sounds ideal. Having multiple backups spread across multiple servers could give you a very reliable system. For the finical data the problem would be keeping the data synchronized across the cluster. Since that could be very transaction heavy compared to say workstation backups it would be rather tricky at best. The holy grail would be a system as fault tolerant as Google's but with a low enough latency for finical transactions. Two things always "bothered" me about SANS. One it seems like a huge single point of failure. and the second is performance. I just can't see how for something like a database how moving the mass storage out of the server and on to a network was a good idea. Even with a dedicated link between the NAS and the server it seems like one more layer.
I think you are missing it. The Wii's graphics are currently good enough. They will be good enough for a good number of years. The Wii's strengths are that it is fun and it is cheap. I have a feeling Mario Party is going to be at the top of the sales charts. I have my Wii hooked up to my HDTV and guess what? The graphics are just fine for me. I still have a sneaking feeling that there will be a WiiSP or a super by 2010 or 2011. It will play all the Wii and GC Games and support HD graphics. It will cost about $250 an probably have more CPU and GPU power than the 360 or PS3. Sure Microsoft and Sony will be working on their next gen by then but just like the Gameboy the Wii will just keep selling and selling because it is the right solution at the right price. I think Nintendo wants to keep the price of a console around $200. To do that it shorten the cycle but keep compatibility.
Of course it was a fraction but not an insignificant one and not one that Russia could have lived without. But that was JUST what the US gave to Russia, not what the US gave to the UK, the free French, and the Chinese. Plus what it produced for it's own war effort. I never said Russia did nothing. It was an ally. No the best of allies to be sure. I am not dismissing the men and women of the Red Army. I am simply stating that Stalin was almost as Evil as Hitler and the Russian people have little to proud of their government for. The RLA was disgusting no doubt but to me it shows a lot about Stalin and his government that they existed at all. Not to mention that motivational tactics that the Russian army used with it's troops.
So yes Russia should take pride in the actions of it's people not of it's government in WII. As I said it was an ally it didn't defeat Hitler anymore than the US, or the UK did.
Again it depends. At $3000 for everything it would be logical to stock a spare motherboard, Power supply, NIC, controller cards, and A few Hard drives plus a few hot spares. With SMART it isn't hard and other sensor packages it wouldn't be hard to build in monitoring. It could be done but it would be a project. So yes it could be done but for a business buying a SAN will be more logical if for no other reason than time. It would take time to set up a system. It could be cheaper and have just as little downtime as a commercial SAN but it could also be a huge time sink. For a small tech company it might be a great solution and a potental product. For a HUGE tech company it might be a good solution and a potental product. For anybody else it is a risk probably not worth taking.
"Finland war had a real objective - to move border from Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg) and secure some important territories." Ummm... Yea it was too steal land. I guess Russia was so threatened by big scary Finland they just had to protect it's self.
"Poland at that time was _occupying_ parts of USSR, so Stalin was merely liberating lands of USSR." No it wasn't Poland was restored from of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Yea Stalin the great liberator. He was known as such the humanitarian.
"TU-4 story happened in 1944, the outcome of war was pretty clear at that time. BTW, do you want to talk about atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Maybe about relation of crushing defeat of Kwantung army and Russians moving closer to Japan?" The TU-4 was a copy of the American B-29. Some B-29s landed in eastern Russia after attacking Japan. There crews where imprisoned and they planes stolen and coppied. What great Allies the Russians where.
As too what the US gave Russia here are the hard numbers. Aircraft 14,795 Tanks 7,056 Jeeps 51,503 Trucks 375,883 Motorcycles 35,170 Tractors 8,071 Guns 8,218 Machine guns 131,633 Explosives 345,735 tons Building equipment valued $10,910,000 Railroad freight cars 11,155 Locomotives 1,981 Cargo ships 90 Submarine hunters 105 Torpedo boats 197 Ship engines 7,784 Food supplies 4,478,000 tons Machines and equipment $1,078,965,000 Non-ferrous metals 802,000 tons Petroleum products 2,670,000 tons Chemicals 842,000 tons Cotton 106,893,000 tons Leather 49,860 tons Tires 3,786,000 Army boots 15,417,001 pairs
I had heard that there where some neo Stalinists popping up. Never thought I would ever meet one. Hate to tell you this but the simple truth is that Stalin was a mass murdering blight on humanity. The only reason that Hitler lost the Russian campaign was because he actually treated Russians worse than Stalin. Even then 5% of the German army where Russians fighting against Stalin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Liberation_Ar my And then you have the great liberator Stalin... I wonder what the Poles in Warsaw in 1944 would say about the great liberator. One of the great myths is that people from the US don't know history.
You said it all. It depends on how the filter is set. If the the child wants to go to a blocked site then they just ask the parent to unblock the site. It is all about how it is used.
You see I don't see filtering a child's access a sign on mistrust. I see it as protecting them. They could get a spam mail and click on a link without knowing or even be reading slashdot and get the infamous link. I see it as preventing accidents not a lack of trust.
It does. If you look at the device it has an Ethernet port on one end and a USB on the other. The driver is probably makes it look like USB network adapter plus allows for configuring the firewall. I see this as being handy for anyone that plugs into foreign networks like at some Hotels. Good little road warrior tool.
Ahh the great Stalin was just trying to buy time myth. Stalin attacked Poland, and Finland. Then when he got word that Germany was going to attack didn't believe the information and threatened the source. And no the USSR wasn't the largest ally in population that would be China. It was one ally and did nothing in the eastern theater until the war was over except intern US pilots and steal US planes to copy, ever hear of the TU-4? They did nothing in the Atlantic theater and had to rely on the UK and the US to get convoys through so the Russian Army didn't stave. The Red Army in WWII marched on US bread. They where one ally in the war and share the "honor" of being Hitler's ally as well. The men and women of the Red Army fought bravely in the Patriotic War but Stalin was an SOB of epic proportion. The only reason Hitler lost in Russia is he actually managed to treat the Russian people worse than Stalin. Stalin didn't care how many of his solders died as long as he one. If Stalin hadn't slaughtered all his competent generals and hadn't been so willing to use his solders as cannon fodder millions fewer Russians might have died in the war. I will give you that the men and women of the Red Army where good allies. Stalin and his government where not and almost as criminally inhuman as the Nazis they first sided with and the fought after being attacked. Russia does have a lot to be proud of, just not it's government.
If you look at Austrian cars you will see they tend to have the same large low revving engines that American cars do. Yes they are different models but very similar in style and size. Yes in the UK people can drive to the content but they rarely do just as people in California rarely drive across country. But in the US many people live in areas that are not as dense as the UK and do have to drive greater distances.
I had given a ride to a friend and was in a part of the county I didn't know all that well. It took my mom forever to find me at the store I walked to. So yea GPS would have been nice. They didn't have it back then or cells but it would have been nice.
Porn isn't that much fun one a C-64. When I was a kid that was the best graphics you could get. When I was in college and had an Amiga then you got some nudes but nothing like what is on the net now.
I think the most telling thing was that Hitler respected Stalin. I have heard that Hitler thought it was a shame that he would have to kill Stalin when he conquered Russia. He would have loved to have Stalin run it for him.
"Actually I'd be proud if my kids manage to outsmart me." So if your two year old figured out how to open the front door and walked out in the street and got ran over you would be proud? Seems like little comfort. Some mistakes have fatal outcomes. You speak as one with no children.
When I was a kid not every child had his own phone so just about every call was in public. I am not for logging. Filtering yes. As I said it is how you apply the technology. You ask what about before computers. Well I am not that old but I did grow up before kids had the Internet. My parents wanted me to tell them where I was going when I was a child as I got older they let me have a bit more freedom. I didn't have a phone in my room so yes everybody listened to my calls until I was 16. I can honestly say that while nothing bad happened to me more than once as a teen having a cellphone would have been a big help. And frankly if they could have seen it's location it would have helped on at least one night when I got a flat in the family car and didn't have a spare.
"1) USSR won in WWII (destroying 80% of German military manpower)." After first helping train the German air force, and helping it invade Poland. Lets not forget that the USSR received a lot of lend lease aid from the US. Thousands of aircraft and many many tons of other supplies where sent to the USSR from the US. The USSR didn't win WWII. The allies won WWII. Of course it is nice to forget that Stalin was Hitler's friend right up till the time Hitler attacked Russia.
Estonia may be a small dog but it has big friends. NATO and the EU are not to dismissed so easily. That is why NATO was formed. So that Russia couldn't push around the smaller European countries.
"I will not spy on them. Unless they give me a reason to. Trust is something I usually give until proven that it was misplaced. " That is a very unfair attitude. You should always trust your child. But you need to understand that children make bad choices. They have not yet learned that their are consequences to their actions. Childhood is all about making bad choices and facing safe negative consequences. Yes you must give your children enough freedom to fail and be caught. If they fail to get caught they will grow up thinking that they can get away with anything and then possibly suffer some terrible consequences. That is the role of a good parent. The cycle is simply.
Make a bad choice. Get caught. Face the consequence of that bad choice. Be forgiven.
"Once they are desensitized to the idea of not having privacy, it will get easier to get them to conform to whatever the people in power want." Yea and I still feel the need to ask permission to go to the bathroom. Sorry but I think every adult understands that they don't have to follow the same rules that they did as a child. No different than having a curfew or getting permission to go the restroom. Do you think teens shouldn't be allowed to play violent video games because it will desensitize them to violence? Kind of the same thing except that in this case we are talking about adults.
"#2:Parents should actually be in the room, watching TV, paying bills, or using their own computers" Kind of sad in a way. I had a computer in my bed room when I was growing up. It was before the Internet. I used to play games and write programs in the peace and quite of my bedroom. I even went online to some local BBSs. There was no access to porn on line back then except for a few ASCII images:) "#3a:Its not like things are really all that different than they used to be: there aren't more perverts looking to molest kids, just more paranoia/hype" Isn't one child sexually abused one too many? My parents told me to not talk to strangers when I was kid but now kids are exposed to millions of strangers online and in the safety of their homes. I do agree that there is a lot of hype and useless information but to say "Kids got molested before the Internet" doesn't mean that you shouldn't try and prevent it.
"#3b: The internet doesn't expose kids to more danger:" "Long ago, books like the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, " Mostly harmless and frankly trying to get the chemicals was rather difficult and tended to require money. "Anarchists Cookbook (useless)," Not commonly available. "porn mags," where supposed to be an adult and frankly "Porn mags" where not that common unless you count Playboy as porn. Even the harder core ones like Penthouse, Huslter, and OUI where a lot tamer than most of that is on the Internet these days.
"or the back section of Popular Mechanics provided plenty of ways for kids to do "bad" things.". What? Making a pulse jet engine or casting concrete flower pots for fun and profit???
"#4: The fear of getting caught (i.e deterence) works SO well that we have tons of people in jail, people still use drugs, prostitutes still walk around, etc." DUMB... Just dumb... Not perfect but yes the fear of getting caught does prevent some criminal activity.
"There is now a small, but growing movement within the psychological profession to abolish the concept of adolescence." And they are idiots. Frankly I wish we could restore adolescence. 14 year olds can reproduce but as a whole they are lacking in self control and wisdom. The real problem is that adolescent behavior is continuing into what used to be adulthood. Yes fourteen year olds are and twenty-five year-olds are acting more and more alike. Here is a clue it isn't the fourteen year-olds acting more adult like. People in the classical age where not wise compared to modern times. They treated women as property and thought slavery was the natural order of life. Give me modern times any day as far as wisdom goes.
How is this any different than spying on them? Technology isn't a replacement for caring about your children or spending time with them. But how is parental controls for a PC any different than locking up guns if you own them? It isn't an issue of totally relying on technology to baby site or paying attention to your child. Technology is a tool, why not use it? As as far as GPS tracking cell phones? Why ever not? Children do get lost and sometimes they lie about where they are going. A parent does have the right to know where their kids are at all times. How is it any different than calling them asking them where they are? Frankly it is a little less intrusive and a lot less effective to check up on a GPS than calling them. A smart kid will just leave their phone at a friends house if they really want to be sneaky. I see nothing wrong with a parent knowing where their child is and where their child surfs on the Internet. Yes it can go far like bugging their room or phone but like everything else the application of technology in parenting can be a good tool if used correctly.
Actually about twice the HP of your car. Oh and EU emission standards are lower the US standards. The US has some of the highest emission standards in the world and CA and a few other states are the at the very top. Most cars are 50 state cars so they meet those high standards. The US is very different from the UK. The UK isn't much bigger then a good number of states. In some places in the US distances are vast and the population is low. Ever wonder why people in the US and Australia tend to drive the same types of cars? Oh and my car? One is a Mazda 3 and the other a Dodge Intrepid. Both get pretty good milage. And my commute is only 14 miles each way and I carpool with my wife. I would say that you are the one that needs to get off your high horse. The US is different from the UK. I happen to like European style cars but I can tell you that they are not ideally suited to the US.
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I think that Parallel programing is just two big of a lump to make statements about.
I don't find multi-treaded code all that hard. I do it all the time and have had great success with it. Maybe I am just careful or lucky but so far so good.
I have to admit that the tools are just not that good. One wrong mutex lock or failure to lock and you are in a world of hurt.
"Google is in a different category from something like a corporate financial database or workstation backups, and I don't think it makes sense to compare them. Google's information is loosey-goosey and approximate. If some of its servers go down, no big deal, the others will catch up, and with sufficient redundancy it's likely no one will notice. "
Okay why?
For workstation backups I think a Google like system sounds ideal. Having multiple backups spread across multiple servers could give you a very reliable system. For the finical data the problem would be keeping the data synchronized across the cluster. Since that could be very transaction heavy compared to say workstation backups it would be rather tricky at best.
The holy grail would be a system as fault tolerant as Google's but with a low enough latency for finical transactions. Two things always "bothered" me about SANS. One it seems like a huge single point of failure. and the second is performance. I just can't see how for something like a database how moving the mass storage out of the server and on to a network was a good idea. Even with a dedicated link between the NAS and the server it seems like one more layer.
I think you are missing it.
The Wii's graphics are currently good enough. They will be good enough for a good number of years.
The Wii's strengths are that it is fun and it is cheap. I have a feeling Mario Party is going to be at the top of the sales charts. I have my Wii hooked up to my HDTV and guess what? The graphics are just fine for me.
I still have a sneaking feeling that there will be a WiiSP or a super by 2010 or 2011. It will play all the Wii and GC Games and support HD graphics. It will cost about $250 an probably have more CPU and GPU power than the 360 or PS3. Sure Microsoft and Sony will be working on their next gen by then but just like the Gameboy the Wii will just keep selling and selling because it is the right solution at the right price. I think Nintendo wants to keep the price of a console around $200. To do that it shorten the cycle but keep compatibility.
Of course it was a fraction but not an insignificant one and not one that Russia could have lived without. But that was JUST what the US gave to Russia, not what the US gave to the UK, the free French, and the Chinese. Plus what it produced for it's own war effort. I never said Russia did nothing. It was an ally. No the best of allies to be sure. I am not dismissing the men and women of the Red Army. I am simply stating that Stalin was almost as Evil as Hitler and the Russian people have little to proud of their government for. The RLA was disgusting no doubt but to me it shows a lot about Stalin and his government that they existed at all. Not to mention that motivational tactics that the Russian army used with it's troops.
So yes Russia should take pride in the actions of it's people not of it's government in WII. As I said it was an ally it didn't defeat Hitler anymore than the US, or the UK did.
Again it depends.
At $3000 for everything it would be logical to stock a spare motherboard, Power supply, NIC, controller cards, and A few Hard drives plus a few hot spares.
With SMART it isn't hard and other sensor packages it wouldn't be hard to build in monitoring.
It could be done but it would be a project. So yes it could be done but for a business buying a SAN will be more logical if for no other reason than time. It would take time to set up a system. It could be cheaper and have just as little downtime as a commercial SAN but it could also be a huge time sink. For a small tech company it might be a great solution and a potental product. For a HUGE tech company it might be a good solution and a potental product. For anybody else it is a risk probably not worth taking.
"Finland war had a real objective - to move border from Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg) and secure some important territories."
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Ummm... Yea it was too steal land. I guess Russia was so threatened by big scary Finland they just had to protect it's self.
"Poland at that time was _occupying_ parts of USSR, so Stalin was merely liberating lands of USSR." No it wasn't Poland was restored from of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Yea Stalin the great liberator. He was known as such the humanitarian.
"TU-4 story happened in 1944, the outcome of war was pretty clear at that time. BTW, do you want to talk about atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Maybe about relation of crushing defeat of Kwantung army and Russians moving closer to Japan?"
The TU-4 was a copy of the American B-29. Some B-29s landed in eastern Russia after attacking Japan. There crews where imprisoned and they planes stolen and coppied. What great Allies the Russians where.
As too what the US gave Russia here are the hard numbers.
Aircraft 14,795
Tanks 7,056
Jeeps 51,503
Trucks 375,883
Motorcycles 35,170
Tractors 8,071
Guns 8,218
Machine guns 131,633
Explosives 345,735 tons
Building equipment valued $10,910,000
Railroad freight cars 11,155
Locomotives 1,981
Cargo ships 90
Submarine hunters 105
Torpedo boats 197
Ship engines 7,784
Food supplies 4,478,000 tons
Machines and equipment $1,078,965,000
Non-ferrous metals 802,000 tons
Petroleum products 2,670,000 tons
Chemicals 842,000 tons
Cotton 106,893,000 tons
Leather 49,860 tons
Tires 3,786,000
Army boots 15,417,001 pairs
I had heard that there where some neo Stalinists popping up. Never thought I would ever meet one.
Hate to tell you this but the simple truth is that Stalin was a mass murdering blight on humanity. The only reason that Hitler lost the Russian campaign was because he actually treated Russians worse than Stalin. Even then 5% of the German army where Russians fighting against Stalin. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Liberation_A
And then you have the great liberator Stalin... I wonder what the Poles in Warsaw in 1944 would say about the great liberator.
One of the great myths is that people from the US don't know history.
You said it all. It depends on how the filter is set. If the the child wants to go to a blocked site then they just ask the parent to unblock the site. It is all about how it is used.
your right. I read the diagram wrong. Two bad they could do it the way I described.
You see I don't see filtering a child's access a sign on mistrust. I see it as protecting them. They could get a spam mail and click on a link without knowing or even be reading slashdot and get the infamous link.
I see it as preventing accidents not a lack of trust.
It does. If you look at the device it has an Ethernet port on one end and a USB on the other. The driver is probably makes it look like USB network adapter plus allows for configuring the firewall.
I see this as being handy for anyone that plugs into foreign networks like at some Hotels. Good little road warrior tool.
Ahh the great Stalin was just trying to buy time myth. Stalin attacked Poland, and Finland. Then when he got word that Germany was going to attack didn't believe the information and threatened the source.
And no the USSR wasn't the largest ally in population that would be China. It was one ally and did nothing in the eastern theater until the war was over except intern US pilots and steal US planes to copy, ever hear of the TU-4?
They did nothing in the Atlantic theater and had to rely on the UK and the US to get convoys through so the Russian Army didn't stave. The Red Army in WWII marched on US bread.
They where one ally in the war and share the "honor" of being Hitler's ally as well.
The men and women of the Red Army fought bravely in the Patriotic War but Stalin was an SOB of epic proportion. The only reason Hitler lost in Russia is he actually managed to treat the Russian people worse than Stalin. Stalin didn't care how many of his solders died as long as he one. If Stalin hadn't slaughtered all his competent generals and hadn't been so willing to use his solders as cannon fodder millions fewer Russians might have died in the war.
I will give you that the men and women of the Red Army where good allies. Stalin and his government where not and almost as criminally inhuman as the Nazis they first sided with and the fought after being attacked. Russia does have a lot to be proud of, just not it's government.
If you look at Austrian cars you will see they tend to have the same large low revving engines that American cars do. Yes they are different models but very similar in style and size.
Yes in the UK people can drive to the content but they rarely do just as people in California rarely drive across country. But in the US many people live in areas that are not as dense as the UK and do have to drive greater distances.
I had given a ride to a friend and was in a part of the county I didn't know all that well. It took my mom forever to find me at the store I walked to. So yea GPS would have been nice. They didn't have it back then or cells but it would have been nice.
Porn isn't that much fun one a C-64.
When I was a kid that was the best graphics you could get. When I was in college and had an Amiga then you got some nudes but nothing like what is on the net now.
I think the most telling thing was that Hitler respected Stalin. I have heard that Hitler thought it was a shame that he would have to kill Stalin when he conquered Russia. He would have loved to have Stalin run it for him.
"Actually I'd be proud if my kids manage to outsmart me."
So if your two year old figured out how to open the front door and walked out in the street and got ran over you would be proud?
Seems like little comfort.
Some mistakes have fatal outcomes.
You speak as one with no children.
When I was a kid not every child had his own phone so just about every call was in public.
I am not for logging. Filtering yes. As I said it is how you apply the technology.
You ask what about before computers. Well I am not that old but I did grow up before kids had the Internet.
My parents wanted me to tell them where I was going when I was a child as I got older they let me have a bit more freedom.
I didn't have a phone in my room so yes everybody listened to my calls until I was 16.
I can honestly say that while nothing bad happened to me more than once as a teen having a cellphone would have been a big help. And frankly if they could have seen it's location it would have helped on at least one night when I got a flat in the family car and didn't have a spare.
"1) USSR won in WWII (destroying 80% of German military manpower)."
After first helping train the German air force, and helping it invade Poland.
Lets not forget that the USSR received a lot of lend lease aid from the US. Thousands of aircraft and many many tons of other supplies where sent to the USSR from the US.
The USSR didn't win WWII. The allies won WWII. Of course it is nice to forget that Stalin was Hitler's friend right up till the time Hitler attacked Russia.
Estonia may be a small dog but it has big friends. NATO and the EU are not to dismissed so easily. That is why NATO was formed. So that Russia couldn't push around the smaller European countries.
"I will not spy on them. Unless they give me a reason to. Trust is something I usually give until proven that it was misplaced. "
That is a very unfair attitude.
You should always trust your child. But you need to understand that children make bad choices. They have not yet learned that their are consequences to their actions. Childhood is all about making bad choices and facing safe negative consequences. Yes you must give your children enough freedom to fail and be caught. If they fail to get caught they will grow up thinking that they can get away with anything and then possibly suffer some terrible consequences. That is the role of a good parent. The cycle is simply.
Make a bad choice.
Get caught.
Face the consequence of that bad choice.
Be forgiven.
But you have to catch them.
"Once they are desensitized to the idea of not having privacy, it will get easier to get them to conform to whatever the people in power want."
Yea and I still feel the need to ask permission to go to the bathroom.
Sorry but I think every adult understands that they don't have to follow the same rules that they did as a child. No different than having a curfew or getting permission to go the restroom.
Do you think teens shouldn't be allowed to play violent video games because it will desensitize them to violence? Kind of the same thing except that in this case we are talking about adults.
"#2:Parents should actually be in the room, watching TV, paying bills, or using their own computers" :)
Kind of sad in a way. I had a computer in my bed room when I was growing up. It was before the Internet. I used to play games and write programs in the peace and quite of my bedroom. I even went online to some local BBSs. There was no access to porn on line back then except for a few ASCII images
"#3a:Its not like things are really all that different than they used to be: there aren't more perverts looking to molest kids, just more paranoia/hype"
Isn't one child sexually abused one too many? My parents told me to not talk to strangers when I was kid but now kids are exposed to millions of strangers online and in the safety of their homes. I do agree that there is a lot of hype and useless information but to say "Kids got molested before the Internet" doesn't mean that you shouldn't try and prevent it.
"#3b: The internet doesn't expose kids to more danger:"
"Long ago, books like the Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments, " Mostly harmless and frankly trying to get the chemicals was rather difficult and tended to require money.
"Anarchists Cookbook (useless)," Not commonly available.
"porn mags," where supposed to be an adult and frankly "Porn mags" where not that common unless you count Playboy as porn. Even the harder core ones like Penthouse, Huslter, and OUI where a lot tamer than most of that is on the Internet these days.
"or the back section of Popular Mechanics provided plenty of ways for kids to do "bad" things.". What? Making a pulse jet engine or casting concrete flower pots for fun and profit???
"#4: The fear of getting caught (i.e deterence) works SO well that we have tons of people in jail, people still use drugs, prostitutes still walk around, etc."
DUMB... Just dumb... Not perfect but yes the fear of getting caught does prevent some criminal activity.
"There is now a small, but growing movement within the psychological profession to abolish the concept of adolescence."
And they are idiots.
Frankly I wish we could restore adolescence. 14 year olds can reproduce but as a whole they are lacking in self control and wisdom. The real problem is that adolescent behavior is continuing into what used to be adulthood. Yes fourteen year olds are and twenty-five year-olds are acting more and more alike. Here is a clue it isn't the fourteen year-olds acting more adult like.
People in the classical age where not wise compared to modern times. They treated women as property and thought slavery was the natural order of life.
Give me modern times any day as far as wisdom goes.
How is this any different than spying on them?
Technology isn't a replacement for caring about your children or spending time with them. But how is parental controls for a PC any different than locking up guns if you own them? It isn't an issue of totally relying on technology to baby site or paying attention to your child. Technology is a tool, why not use it? As as far as GPS tracking cell phones? Why ever not? Children do get lost and sometimes they lie about where they are going. A parent does have the right to know where their kids are at all times. How is it any different than calling them asking them where they are? Frankly it is a little less intrusive and a lot less effective to check up on a GPS than calling them. A smart kid will just leave their phone at a friends house if they really want to be sneaky.
I see nothing wrong with a parent knowing where their child is and where their child surfs on the Internet. Yes it can go far like bugging their room or phone but like everything else the application of technology in parenting can be a good tool if used correctly.
Actually about twice the HP of your car. Oh and EU emission standards are lower the US standards. The US has some of the highest emission standards in the world and CA and a few other states are the at the very top. Most cars are 50 state cars so they meet those high standards.
The US is very different from the UK. The UK isn't much bigger then a good number of states. In some places in the US distances are vast and the population is low. Ever wonder why people in the US and Australia tend to drive the same types of cars?
Oh and my car? One is a Mazda 3 and the other a Dodge Intrepid. Both get pretty good milage. And my commute is only 14 miles each way and I carpool with my wife. I would say that you are the one that needs to get off your high horse. The US is different from the UK. I happen to like European style cars but I can tell you that they are not ideally suited to the US.
Funny I thought the ballsy part was actually holding out while being cut off and out numbered. BTW my father served with the 101st Airborne.