I appreciate your ideas (and I disagree with most of them), but they are pretty farfetched from where we are in reality today. You want us to militarize the entire population apparently.
The US was born "addicted" to firearms. It would be nice if we no longer needed guns, but as evidenced by the fact we insist our police carry them, it is clear we ALL need them and for exactly the same reason.
Yes, I know the argument. The police are only minutes away when help is needed in seconds... or whatever. I live in a reasonably safe area, in that I feel safe walking at night even in the sketchier parts of town. I may be unusal in that regard, but that's just me.
I am more afraid of owning a gun and the danger it would pose in my home than not having one. My sense is that gun owners and advocates are really the ones living in fear. I would also feel less safe confronting an armed assailant if I were armed. I cannot count on outshooting an opponent.
Anyway, back to work..
Did I say it wrong or did you read it wrong? Where do I suggest harming the second amendment? I completely support the 2nd amendment to levels which some pro-second people might disagree. I think EVERYONE of adult age should be armed. If people choose not to be, that is their right but for people to go about cowering in fear at the very word "gun" should be a signal to just how cowardly the people of the US have become. Meanwhile gun-toting paramilitary police are out there wearing masks and no name-tags or anything to suggest legitimacy are doing amazingly horrible things with complete impunity.
We need some serious reversals and I think as long as we are teaching sex education to teach people how to use their body's hardware properly and safely, we should be doing the same for guns as well. When I was a child, that was just being phased out... I still have recollection of a JROTC shooting range within one of the schools I attended long ago. No one was horrified there were guns in school then. What has changed? Only the politics and the cultivation of public fear.
No, I read it correctly and I believe the writers of the Constitution did not have *this* in mind when the 2nd was written... and by "this" I mean the current state of gun ownership in the US. The only way it would work would be for the people to have a lot of training. Hell, even a week of training, but really it would have to be ongoing, say annually. You want to live in a military state then? Ask yourself if you would want the 10% stupidest, most mentally unstable, most evil people fully armed. It would be a bloodbath, would it not? Oh wait, by everyone, do you mean everyone other than those I mentioned?
As for the paramilitary police, and the move toward a police state, I agree that is a problem, but arming the entire population is not the answer. Are we going to have Ukrainian style protests in the future then?
So no, guns are not part of our natural hardware. See also: automobiles, but we are already addicted to them.
Am I a gun grabber? Not quite, but there are large numbers of people whose guns deserve grabbing.
The reality of all of this is none of these people will learn anything from their lessons. They believe this is how the world SHOULD and DOES work. Forget about tenets of civilization such as not doing to people that which you wouldn't want done to you. Those notions are for non-sociopaths. They believe everyone should simply get and take what they can. If they can get it, they deserve it.
This is the type of "mental illness" passed down by the privileged to their children. There is no known cure yet!
Reminds me of this french and untranslatable joke:
Un fermier montre son cochon 'qui sait compter' à un ami. Il lui demande "7 plus 2 ?"
Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!"
Le fermier: "3 fois 3 ?"
Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!"
Le fermier: "36 divisé par4 ?"
Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!"
L'ami: "N'miporte quoi, il dit toujour 'neuf' ton cochon. Tiens, 4 fois 2 ?"
Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!"
Sur ce le fermier lui met un grand coup de pied dans les parties et le cochon fait "Huiiiiiit! Huiiiiiiiiit!"
Well, yeah, pigs are pretty smart... but even French pigs have no style. Riddle me that!
Sadly though, most european airports are exactly the same. I'm a pilot, and I've actually seen them take a bottle of after shave from a captain, not even apologising for their idiocy, as if it was the most normal and logical thing in the world. Never mind the giant crash axe behind the first officer's seat, we must not allow them to bring nail clippers on board! Back when I was flying private jets, they wanted to pass my passengers' cat through the X-ray machine. They might try to hijack their own private plane with a weapon hidden in the plastic cat container! We had to take the cat out, fortunately it didn't run away or they would no doubt have closed the airport. Idiots.
Don't be fooled. You must know by now that cats want to kill us all. All it is going to take is a cadre of alpha cats to develop the human shrinking machine to reduce us into mouse-sized playthings. Then we are doomed. So that cat could be carrying forbidden shrinkage components, or maybe even catnip.
Saying anything serious on this topic is just too depressing. So, cat jokes.
Wow... it sounds like it's the non Glass-wearing crowd who are the ones in need of a little lesson in public behaviour.
I think they get it quite right. You are not suggesting that Google should sell a GG + gun combination? Armed glassholes who give the unwashed masses a little lesson in public behaviour?
No, that would suck. This is the 21st century dude. Lasers. GG + laser. Besides, guns have a kick, loud noise, and stuff. It would be like hitting your head with a hammer, which, actually is probably not a bad idea either. If I want to shoot somebody bad enough that I'm willing to hit myself in the head with a hammer, then it must be justified.
...that that fucked up the Mars Climate Orbiter.
Pick a set of units, lazy asses.
I agree--the speed should really be in football fields per hour for consistency.
And the journalistic quality should be reported in hyperboles per column-inch (because this is the Orlando Sentinal, so metric would be too confusing).
^-- This. Java and C# are both very easy to transition into from C++. You have the knowledge of OO concepts and also the (often lacking) knowledge of real-time, close to the metal issues. What I did was move into medical device work from embedded development / consumer electronics. It seems that C#/.NET is a dominant platform in med devices, though also some Linux here and there.
You may need to make a job transition to get real experience that expands your breadth. From what I have seen, if you stay with firmware you will be mostly stuck with C/C++/custom micro stuff... or go the mobile route.
Sadly, this is the first thing I thought, too. I hope that it is working again, though.
It's not out of the question that it could wake up. If they still have power and the boards are reasonably intact a timed reboot should be achievable. Having functional devices--sensors, actuators, communications, or whatever they have, would be more of a challenge. Or yeah, a fake story is always a possibility.. I'm sure they would have some of their best engineers on the team, so I wouldn't count them out yet, or so I would like to believe.
There are other theories that should be taught as well, such as the round earth theory, the theory that we exist outside of "the matrix", and indeed the theory that god did not create us a tenth of a second ago.
Well, it's not exactly round, or spherical, is it?
Actually, it's the "law of gravity," not the "theory." As it should be with something that can be demonstrated by experiment, is reproducible and despite centuries of effort hasn't been refuted by experiment.
Please don't compare experimental science with historical evidence science. Their conclusions don't have the same level of confidence and shouldn't be taught as if they do.
Keep your laws off my body!! Oh wait, sorry. I must have stumbled into the wrong protest..
This is 100% nonsense, every single point. As long as people think these are the issues, there is no hope for fixing. The funding and money parts are the most absurd - American education is grotesquely over-funded.
Interesting. Yeah, I know it's boycott week and so on, but I just saw this and thought I would reply. So.. I have your comment and then another that says I'm spot on every single point. That comment is from a teacher and parent to several kids, someone who should know.
So, what's your point of reference then? As for funding, it may be true that the US spends relatively more per pupil than other countries, but it is not money well spent. Walk into any (OK, not *any*, but nearly any..) poor school district in the nation and you will not have to look far to find very old and falling apart textbooks, awful infrastructure, inadequate equipment, and oh btw, not the best teachers I'm guessing, as the best ones tend to be attracted to the richer districts. The conservative response to all education woes tends to be "let them eat charter and religious schools!", which is also utter bullshit. It solves problems for some, but leaves the underserved even more so.
That's one link, but almost any other will show the same result.
Even comparing teacher salaries to other jobs results in them being paid well in the United States.
Your link shows per pupil spending, not teacher pay. I have no figures and am not looking them up now, but while I know the mid-high end teacher pay is pretty good, the low end in lower paying states (read: mostly the south) is low.
And no amount of technology can save the American education system: "We put the technology into a system that damages creative thinking — the kids give up, and at a very early age."
Open Source the curriculum, damnit!
Well, the American system is flawed in nearly every direction:
Overemphasis on testing
Disengaged parents
Underpaid teachers
De-motivated and disempowered teachers
Inadequate funding (especially in poorer neighborhoods)
Kids used to passive "entertainment"
Poor diets
Administrative inertia
Cultural bias against education
I could go on and on obviously. There is no one cause and no silver bullet solution. Technology can be part of the solution, but in the hands of morons it quickly becomes part of the problem.
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The US was born "addicted" to firearms. It would be nice if we no longer needed guns, but as evidenced by the fact we insist our police carry them, it is clear we ALL need them and for exactly the same reason.
Yes, I know the argument. The police are only minutes away when help is needed in seconds. .. or whatever. I live in a reasonably safe area, in that I feel safe walking at night even in the sketchier parts of town. I may be unusal in that regard, but that's just me.
I am more afraid of owning a gun and the danger it would pose in my home than not having one. My sense is that gun owners and advocates are really the ones living in fear. I would also feel less safe confronting an armed assailant if I were armed. I cannot count on outshooting an opponent. Anyway, back to work..
Did I say it wrong or did you read it wrong? Where do I suggest harming the second amendment? I completely support the 2nd amendment to levels which some pro-second people might disagree. I think EVERYONE of adult age should be armed. If people choose not to be, that is their right but for people to go about cowering in fear at the very word "gun" should be a signal to just how cowardly the people of the US have become. Meanwhile gun-toting paramilitary police are out there wearing masks and no name-tags or anything to suggest legitimacy are doing amazingly horrible things with complete impunity.
We need some serious reversals and I think as long as we are teaching sex education to teach people how to use their body's hardware properly and safely, we should be doing the same for guns as well. When I was a child, that was just being phased out... I still have recollection of a JROTC shooting range within one of the schools I attended long ago. No one was horrified there were guns in school then. What has changed? Only the politics and the cultivation of public fear.
No, I read it correctly and I believe the writers of the Constitution did not have *this* in mind when the 2nd was written. .. and by "this" I mean the current state of gun ownership in the US. The only way it would work would be for the people to have a lot of training. Hell, even a week of training, but really it would have to be ongoing, say annually. You want to live in a military state then? Ask yourself if you would want the 10% stupidest, most mentally unstable, most evil people fully armed. It would be a bloodbath, would it not? Oh wait, by everyone, do you mean everyone other than those I mentioned?
As for the paramilitary police, and the move toward a police state, I agree that is a problem, but arming the entire population is not the answer. Are we going to have Ukrainian style protests in the future then?
So no, guns are not part of our natural hardware. See also: automobiles, but we are already addicted to them.
Am I a gun grabber? Not quite, but there are large numbers of people whose guns deserve grabbing.
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The reality of all of this is none of these people will learn anything from their lessons. They believe this is how the world SHOULD and DOES work. Forget about tenets of civilization such as not doing to people that which you wouldn't want done to you. Those notions are for non-sociopaths. They believe everyone should simply get and take what they can. If they can get it, they deserve it.
This is the type of "mental illness" passed down by the privileged to their children. There is no known cure yet!
Reminds me of this french and untranslatable joke: Un fermier montre son cochon 'qui sait compter' à un ami. Il lui demande "7 plus 2 ?" Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!" Le fermier: "3 fois 3 ?" Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!" Le fermier: "36 divisé par4 ?" Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!" L'ami: "N'miporte quoi, il dit toujour 'neuf' ton cochon. Tiens, 4 fois 2 ?" Le cochon: "neuf! neuf! neuf!" Sur ce le fermier lui met un grand coup de pied dans les parties et le cochon fait "Huiiiiiit! Huiiiiiiiiit!"
Well, yeah, pigs are pretty smart. .. but even French pigs have no style. Riddle me that!
Sadly though, most european airports are exactly the same. I'm a pilot, and I've actually seen them take a bottle of after shave from a captain, not even apologising for their idiocy, as if it was the most normal and logical thing in the world. Never mind the giant crash axe behind the first officer's seat, we must not allow them to bring nail clippers on board! Back when I was flying private jets, they wanted to pass my passengers' cat through the X-ray machine. They might try to hijack their own private plane with a weapon hidden in the plastic cat container! We had to take the cat out, fortunately it didn't run away or they would no doubt have closed the airport. Idiots.
Don't be fooled. You must know by now that cats want to kill us all. All it is going to take is a cadre of alpha cats to develop the human shrinking machine to reduce us into mouse-sized playthings. Then we are doomed. So that cat could be carrying forbidden shrinkage components, or maybe even catnip.
Saying anything serious on this topic is just too depressing. So, cat jokes.
Part of your high fiber diet?
Wow... it sounds like it's the non Glass-wearing crowd who are the ones in need of a little lesson in public behaviour.
I think they get it quite right. You are not suggesting that Google should sell a GG + gun combination? Armed glassholes who give the unwashed masses a little lesson in public behaviour?
No, that would suck. This is the 21st century dude. Lasers. GG + laser. Besides, guns have a kick, loud noise, and stuff. It would be like hitting your head with a hammer, which, actually is probably not a bad idea either. If I want to shoot somebody bad enough that I'm willing to hit myself in the head with a hammer, then it must be justified.
...that that fucked up the Mars Climate Orbiter. Pick a set of units, lazy asses.
I agree--the speed should really be in football fields per hour for consistency.
And the journalistic quality should be reported in hyperboles per column-inch (because this is the Orlando Sentinal, so metric would be too confusing).
Because we're all gonna fuckin die!!!!!!!
Well, we are, someday..
.. was that she rented "Beaches".
You may need to make a job transition to get real experience that expands your breadth. From what I have seen, if you stay with firmware you will be mostly stuck with C/C++/custom micro stuff. .. or go the mobile route.
Sadly, this is the first thing I thought, too. I hope that it is working again, though.
It's not out of the question that it could wake up. If they still have power and the boards are reasonably intact a timed reboot should be achievable. Having functional devices--sensors, actuators, communications, or whatever they have, would be more of a challenge. Or yeah, a fake story is always a possibility.. I'm sure they would have some of their best engineers on the team, so I wouldn't count them out yet, or so I would like to believe.
There are other theories that should be taught as well, such as the round earth theory, the theory that we exist outside of "the matrix", and indeed the theory that god did not create us a tenth of a second ago.
Well, it's not exactly round, or spherical, is it?
Just sayin..
Actually, it's the "law of gravity," not the "theory." As it should be with something that can be demonstrated by experiment, is reproducible and despite centuries of effort hasn't been refuted by experiment.
Please don't compare experimental science with historical evidence science. Their conclusions don't have the same level of confidence and shouldn't be taught as if they do.
Keep your laws off my body!! Oh wait, sorry. I must have stumbled into the wrong protest..
We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia...
Bitcoin! That's it! The bitcoin potential on the moon is simply enormous!
This is 100% nonsense, every single point. As long as people think these are the issues, there is no hope for fixing. The funding and money parts are the most absurd - American education is grotesquely over-funded.
Interesting. Yeah, I know it's boycott week and so on, but I just saw this and thought I would reply. So.. I have your comment and then another that says I'm spot on every single point. That comment is from a teacher and parent to several kids, someone who should know.
So, what's your point of reference then? As for funding, it may be true that the US spends relatively more per pupil than other countries, but it is not money well spent. Walk into any (OK, not *any*, but nearly any..) poor school district in the nation and you will not have to look far to find very old and falling apart textbooks, awful infrastructure, inadequate equipment, and oh btw, not the best teachers I'm guessing, as the best ones tend to be attracted to the richer districts. The conservative response to all education woes tends to be "let them eat charter and religious schools!", which is also utter bullshit. It solves problems for some, but leaves the underserved even more so.
I write code like this all the time. Oh wait, you mean on purpose?
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I am lodging a formal complaint that this was modded insightful. Screw you guys! I'm going home! :-)
Ob note: uck-fay eta-bay
Hey, I love feta you insensitive clod!
I flashed my lights at you to warn you of the impending change.
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Does that even work anymore?
What evidence do you have that teachers are underpaid in America relative to other countries?
America spends more per student on education than most countries.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
That's one link, but almost any other will show the same result.
Even comparing teacher salaries to other jobs results in them being paid well in the United States.
Your link shows per pupil spending, not teacher pay. I have no figures and am not looking them up now, but while I know the mid-high end teacher pay is pretty good, the low end in lower paying states (read: mostly the south) is low.
And no amount of technology can save the American education system: "We put the technology into a system that damages creative thinking — the kids give up, and at a very early age."
Open Source the curriculum, damnit!
Well, the American system is flawed in nearly every direction:
I could go on and on obviously. There is no one cause and no silver bullet solution. Technology can be part of the solution, but in the hands of morons it quickly becomes part of the problem.