You are absolutely correct about Keith, but you know who's really bad on MSNBC? The "Ed Show," I can't even watch that show. At least Rachel Maddow is kind of cute, even if she's a lesbian.
This is a great idea. The only thing I would add to it would be to open up the creation / modification of these plans a bit more. Like putting these lesson plans on some sort of wiki or something. Available lesson plans with optional elements for differing abilities (e.g. remedial history versus normal history versus AP history) would be a great compliment to something like OpenCourseWare. (Granted OCW is college material, but basic idea remains the same.)
That's roughly accurate, although saying "everybody knows" is silly. Now, do you realize that CNN and MSNBC, and yes, even NPR, are no better? Or do you think they're magically better because they correspond more closely to your beliefs?
With the exception of MSNBC which does have an unabashedly liberal bias in primetime, I'm not aware of either CNN or NPR promoting astroturf political rallies ("tea parties"), orchestrating the crowd. and promoting partisan language. To claim equivalency between Fox News and CNN and NPR just doesn't pass muster. There just never have been any blatant cheerleading on either of those. Complaints of "liberal bias" are limited to such wishy washy statement like "Postcards from Buster" having the audacity to show a lesbian family without commentary, the there being too many blue muppets on Sesame Street. Even a 2003 poll on perceived bias PBS revealed that only about 1 in 5 thought there was a liberal bias, lower than other networks or CNN. The only difference being that a third of Republicans thought there was a bias, versus 10% of Democrats.
The complaints of "liberal bias" against the mainstream media, have always been a canard. Rich Bond, 1992 chair of the Republican Party, said in an interview "There is some strategy to it [bashing the 'liberal' media]. If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is 'work the refs.' Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack on the next one." In 1996, Bill Kristol said, "I admit it. The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures."
You forgot to mention the part where they wanted citizens to "help us out" by reporting dissent directly to the White House. I guess they gave up on that idea though.
Spreading lies about legislative proposals aren't "dissent." Stop trying to paint yourself as a "freedom fighter." Real freedom fighters get arrested, disappeared, and killed.
Wonder what would have been the reaction if GWB had tried to do the same thing?
The only disinformation I see is coming from the Democrats. Illegal immigrants won't be covered under the health bill? Yes they will -- at the ER for free just as they currently do.
Are you arguing that that doctors should let someone bleed to death on the steps of the hospital?
If you already have insurance you can keep it? No you can't. The Government is going to tell the insurance companies what kind of policies they have to sell. Want a high-deductible plan and HSA or flex spending account? Sorry, your out of luck. We aren't going to let you do that.
Sorry for the double reply, but I felt like I should explain myself a bit more.
Windows is never a good choice, because it doesn't play well with other systems. Microsoft never admits other systems exist. It's all CIFS instead of NFS. It simply isn't worth dealing with.
Microsoft hasn't made a piece of software I've wanted to use, nor have used, in 15 years.
It's linux or mac, because they're both unix, and that's all that matters.
it looks like GNOME is now copying MacOSX instead of Windows *eye roll*.
At least now their copying something that at least works, but still, they're copying, and thus ensuring that they are always playing catchup, and creating an inferior product. This is not a new problem, and has been talked about repeated on/. 2005, 2006, and even last June. With the notable exception of Firefox, there hasn't been anything original, innovative, and well good from the F/OSS community, which is very disturbing.
Hell, read some CHI, USENIX, and SIGIR papers people! Stop making a poor facsimile of two years, and start making the next five. Ask yourself, why the hell is Wave coming from Google, instead of us?
As long as most of OSS stuff is available on Windows, people will keep taking best of both worlds, and there's no space for GNOME or KDE.
Only most F/OSS stuff ISN'T available on Windows. Now if you were talking about MacOSX, then you'd have a point. Afterall, Macs are just Unix machines. And anyway, Macs are way easier and safer than Windows machines. Oh and their Unix! If you really want the best both worlds, you get a mac.
You're right. When you buy it, it only lists windows, but when you look at the tech specs it clearly lists the supported operating systems as:
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-Bit Genuine Windows® 7 Professional 64-Bit Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic 32-Bit Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 64-Bit Ubuntu® Linux® 9.04
What's your setup? Do you dual boot into linux or what? I've been thinking about a PS3 since it seems to do almost everything I want. Hulu is blocked I know, but I believe you can transcode video, store it on an external drive, and then play that. If only it had a torrent client and a transcoder, it would be perfect.
The sad thing is, linux is good because it handles most codecs and you can ignore drm with it (big win), but it always seems like getting 1080p and 7.1 surround out, and blue ray playing is iffy.
I've tried doing using Password Gorilla since it runs on all three OS's I might use (Mac, Linux, and Win), and since it's available as a TCL script, I can keep a TCL interpreter on my USB thumbdrive along with the file.
The biggest problem I have with these things isn't the tool, as much as getting myself to actually use it. If it's not built into the browser, it's really a pain in the ass to use. In all honesty, I just keep a bunch of plaintext files containing the username and password pairs for the sites I use. It's terribly insecure, but it works for my laptop, and really, who wants to know my boingboing login anyway?
Stop trying to back peddle. You made the comparison, and he called you out on it. If you didn't believe it was at least partially apt, you wouldn't have made it.
Go back to your tea bagging parties you inbred simpleton.
See? That's tounge-in-cheek too! (Flame? Troll? What? You can't take a joke! Damn PCers.)
Many years ago, I wrote a paper for my business class that using DRAM industry as a commodity industry. The ignint professor gave me a C for that cuz he insisted DRAM is not a commodity. That dude at the time was a young one, too.
You're right that DRAM is a commodity. Clearly the reason why you got the C is because the prof was thinking of traditional commodities, and you didn't support your premise.
The solution is having people with sound ethics and principles, so that no one has to MAKE anyone do anything. This is called parenting, or raising your children properly.
In other words, "If everyone everyone behaved exactly like me, there'd be nothing wrong with the world."
...to really see it in action. The state legislature approval rating was approaching single digits last I heard.
As a Californian, I saw that's that's the government we deserve. We did it ourselves. We decided through an initiative to require a 2/3 vote to pass ANY budget, then in 1978 with Prop 13, we required property tax increases to need a 2/3 vote, we passed inititives to require any tax increase to require a 2/3 vote, but no such requirement to lower taxes. We pass initiatives that lock budgetary allocations, thereby removing the ability of the legislature to make sensible budgets. We are children. We want everything, but never want to pay for anything. We have a radicalized GOP that opposes any revenue increases, but then only wants budget cuts to tax collection enforcement and the poor, but not for their groups. Oh did I mention that the GOP only has 35% of seats in legislature? It's the tyranny of the minority.
All this talk about the AppStore misses the point. You're dealing with handset manufacturers. They've always been BDSM. The real walled garden is Facebook, Twitter, and yes Google. (All though to their credit, Google did announce some form of data portability, but I wonder about its practicality.) It's cloud applications (whatever those are). It's the fact that for a variety of our personal tasks now, we must rely on others to run them. The data has gotten too big, and we've lost control.
If you think Google is going to rescue you from Apple, you're sorely mistaken. Apple is a niche. Google is the new Microsoft. They're the behemoth that is looking to control the world now. Haven't you ever wondered what Google Toolbar, GMail, GoogleApps, Wave and all the like are for? They're to slurp everything into their datacenter and then turn around and sell you things.
We've moved from from open standard, and ubiquitous email to writing on walls on Facebook. What did it give us? Twitter is popular for some reason, but not only are you arbitrarily limited to 140 chars, but all your status updates get locked away. Why are photos being uploaded back behind walls where are data checks in, but never checks out. Supposably it's more convenient, but it's nothing that RSS couldn't give you. Maybe there needed to be some sort of service that provided RSS for the masses, a turn key simple blog and photo gallery in one place, but it's all locked away, and I suspect we lost something. And yet if we think about leaving, we are giving up the ease of communicating with our more distant social network.
Facebook is here to stay, and I suspect that our data will never be the same.
Seriously. Just stop trying to type notes. We both know you're just dicking around on facebook. Just take notes with paper. You can write equations, draw graphs, and whatever else you want, including little stars and hearts next to your favorite equations.
If for some reason you really need to type your notes, do it after class. You have a problem of your own making.
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You are absolutely correct about Keith, but you know who's really bad on MSNBC? The "Ed Show," I can't even watch that show. At least Rachel Maddow is kind of cute, even if she's a lesbian.
This is a great idea. The only thing I would add to it would be to open up the creation / modification of these plans a bit more. Like putting these lesson plans on some sort of wiki or something. Available lesson plans with optional elements for differing abilities (e.g. remedial history versus normal history versus AP history) would be a great compliment to something like OpenCourseWare. (Granted OCW is college material, but basic idea remains the same.)
You missed France and China. France being anti-Nazi, China at the time the ROC (now Taiwan) being against Japan. That would be 3 western nations.
That's roughly accurate, although saying "everybody knows" is silly. Now, do you realize that CNN and MSNBC, and yes, even NPR, are no better? Or do you think they're magically better because they correspond more closely to your beliefs?
With the exception of MSNBC which does have an unabashedly liberal bias in primetime, I'm not aware of either CNN or NPR promoting astroturf political rallies ("tea parties"), orchestrating the crowd. and promoting partisan language. To claim equivalency between Fox News and CNN and NPR just doesn't pass muster. There just never have been any blatant cheerleading on either of those. Complaints of "liberal bias" are limited to such wishy washy statement like "Postcards from Buster" having the audacity to show a lesbian family without commentary, the there being too many blue muppets on Sesame Street. Even a 2003 poll on perceived bias PBS revealed that only about 1 in 5 thought there was a liberal bias, lower than other networks or CNN. The only difference being that a third of Republicans thought there was a bias, versus 10% of Democrats.
The complaints of "liberal bias" against the mainstream media, have always been a canard. Rich Bond, 1992 chair of the Republican Party, said in an interview "There is some strategy to it [bashing the 'liberal' media]. If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is 'work the refs.' Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack on the next one." In 1996, Bill Kristol said, "I admit it. The liberal media were never that powerful, and the whole thing was often used as an excuse by conservatives for conservative failures."
You forgot to mention the part where they wanted citizens to "help us out" by reporting dissent directly to the White House. I guess they gave up on that idea though.
Spreading lies about legislative proposals aren't "dissent." Stop trying to paint yourself as a "freedom fighter." Real freedom fighters get arrested, disappeared, and killed.
Wonder what would have been the reaction if GWB had tried to do the same thing?
Like always, Republicans know how to do secret police right.
The only disinformation I see is coming from the Democrats. Illegal immigrants won't be covered under the health bill? Yes they will -- at the ER for free just as they currently do.
Are you arguing that that doctors should let someone bleed to death on the steps of the hospital?
If you already have insurance you can keep it? No you can't. The Government is going to tell the insurance companies what kind of policies they have to sell. Want a high-deductible plan and HSA or flex spending account? Sorry, your out of luck. We aren't going to let you do that.
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Sorry for the double reply, but I felt like I should explain myself a bit more.
Windows is never a good choice, because it doesn't play well with other systems. Microsoft never admits other systems exist. It's all CIFS instead of NFS. It simply isn't worth dealing with.
Microsoft hasn't made a piece of software I've wanted to use, nor have used, in 15 years.
It's linux or mac, because they're both unix, and that's all that matters.
it looks like GNOME is now copying MacOSX instead of Windows *eye roll*.
At least now their copying something that at least works, but still, they're copying, and thus ensuring that they are always playing catchup, and creating an inferior product. This is not a new problem, and has been talked about repeated on /. 2005, 2006, and even last June. With the notable exception of Firefox, there hasn't been anything original, innovative, and well good from the F/OSS community, which is very disturbing.
Hell, read some CHI, USENIX, and SIGIR papers people! Stop making a poor facsimile of two years, and start making the next five. Ask yourself, why the hell is Wave coming from Google, instead of us?
As long as most of OSS stuff is available on Windows, people will keep taking best of both worlds, and there's no space for GNOME or KDE.
Only most F/OSS stuff ISN'T available on Windows. Now if you were talking about MacOSX, then you'd have a point. Afterall, Macs are just Unix machines. And anyway, Macs are way easier and safer than Windows machines. Oh and their Unix! If you really want the best both worlds, you get a mac.
Windows is never good.
You're right. When you buy it, it only lists windows, but when you look at the tech specs it clearly lists the supported operating systems as:
Genuine Windows® 7 Home Premium 64-Bit
Genuine Windows® 7 Professional 64-Bit
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic 32-Bit
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium 64-Bit
Ubuntu® Linux® 9.04
Strange.
What's your setup? Do you dual boot into linux or what? I've been thinking about a PS3 since it seems to do almost everything I want. Hulu is blocked I know, but I believe you can transcode video, store it on an external drive, and then play that. If only it had a torrent client and a transcoder, it would be perfect.
The sad thing is, linux is good because it handles most codecs and you can ignore drm with it (big win), but it always seems like getting 1080p and 7.1 surround out, and blue ray playing is iffy.
I've tried doing using Password Gorilla since it runs on all three OS's I might use (Mac, Linux, and Win), and since it's available as a TCL script, I can keep a TCL interpreter on my USB thumbdrive along with the file.
The biggest problem I have with these things isn't the tool, as much as getting myself to actually use it. If it's not built into the browser, it's really a pain in the ass to use. In all honesty, I just keep a bunch of plaintext files containing the username and password pairs for the sites I use. It's terribly insecure, but it works for my laptop, and really, who wants to know my boingboing login anyway?
Stop trying to back peddle. You made the comparison, and he called you out on it. If you didn't believe it was at least partially apt, you wouldn't have made it.
Go back to your tea bagging parties you inbred simpleton.
See? That's tounge-in-cheek too! (Flame? Troll? What? You can't take a joke! Damn PCers.)
Nothing like an anonymous unsubstantiated and false claim being marked "insightful."
Sorry dude. Not even close. Saudi Arabia has more than 12 times the proven reserves of the US, and 1.5 times as much as second place Canada.
Man Traps? Nightly security audits? What type of stuff is on those servers? It seems like overkill for a typical business setup.
Many years ago, I wrote a paper for my business class that using DRAM industry as a commodity industry. The ignint professor gave me a C for that cuz he insisted DRAM is not a commodity. That dude at the time was a young one, too.
You're right that DRAM is a commodity. Clearly the reason why you got the C is because the prof was thinking of traditional commodities, and you didn't support your premise.
The solution is having people with sound ethics and principles, so that no one has to MAKE anyone do anything. This is called parenting, or raising your children properly.
In other words, "If everyone everyone behaved exactly like me, there'd be nothing wrong with the world."
Good luck with that.
San Diego and Orange County. Up near the Oregon border is pretty hickish, and I say that after growing up next to Kentucky.
The education system (run by the left wing for the past 30 years)
And that's why there are no conservatives anywhere in America.
That's how it always is with the Blue states. The biggest anti-government Red states always get the most money back from the federal government, Red states can't function without federal spending.
Oh and do I need to mention Alaska's "Communist Wealth Reallocation Scheme"?
...to really see it in action. The state legislature approval rating was approaching single digits last I heard.
As a Californian, I saw that's that's the government we deserve. We did it ourselves. We decided through an initiative to require a 2/3 vote to pass ANY budget, then in 1978 with Prop 13, we required property tax increases to need a 2/3 vote, we passed inititives to require any tax increase to require a 2/3 vote, but no such requirement to lower taxes. We pass initiatives that lock budgetary allocations, thereby removing the ability of the legislature to make sensible budgets. We are children. We want everything, but never want to pay for anything. We have a radicalized GOP that opposes any revenue increases, but then only wants budget cuts to tax collection enforcement and the poor, but not for their groups. Oh did I mention that the GOP only has 35% of seats in legislature? It's the tyranny of the minority.
God we need a constitutional convention.
Eliminate the 2/3 rules!
Eliminate the initiatives!
Grow the fuck up California!
All this talk about the AppStore misses the point. You're dealing with handset manufacturers. They've always been BDSM. The real walled garden is Facebook, Twitter, and yes Google. (All though to their credit, Google did announce some form of data portability, but I wonder about its practicality.) It's cloud applications (whatever those are). It's the fact that for a variety of our personal tasks now, we must rely on others to run them. The data has gotten too big, and we've lost control.
If you think Google is going to rescue you from Apple, you're sorely mistaken. Apple is a niche. Google is the new Microsoft. They're the behemoth that is looking to control the world now. Haven't you ever wondered what Google Toolbar, GMail, GoogleApps, Wave and all the like are for? They're to slurp everything into their datacenter and then turn around and sell you things.
We've moved from from open standard, and ubiquitous email to writing on walls on Facebook. What did it give us? Twitter is popular for some reason, but not only are you arbitrarily limited to 140 chars, but all your status updates get locked away. Why are photos being uploaded back behind walls where are data checks in, but never checks out. Supposably it's more convenient, but it's nothing that RSS couldn't give you. Maybe there needed to be some sort of service that provided RSS for the masses, a turn key simple blog and photo gallery in one place, but it's all locked away, and I suspect we lost something. And yet if we think about leaving, we are giving up the ease of communicating with our more distant social network.
Facebook is here to stay, and I suspect that our data will never be the same.
Even streaming music into my headphones to keep me awake during my one evening lecture.
Oh yeah sure. You're totally paying attention while you're rockin' out to Math and Physics Club.
Seriously. Just stop trying to type notes. We both know you're just dicking around on facebook. Just take notes with paper. You can write equations, draw graphs, and whatever else you want, including little stars and hearts next to your favorite equations.
If for some reason you really need to type your notes, do it after class. You have a problem of your own making.