DHL is a shipping company like FedEx or UPS, but they do a *lot* of international shipping with good door to door times and in my experiance good customer service.
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Right... all I have to say is "Hi, my name is Bill Gates and I'm going to buy every ballot in the country and get the DOJ of my back" I don't see how this can creat a "more equitable outcome" all it does is reenforce the golden rule my Father tought me "The man with the gold makes the rules"
Then how is it that in California all of our gas comes with a warning label that says WARNING -- Contains MTB which is known to damage ground water, cause cancer, beat you cat and will if not used properly throw you little brother off of the nearest building?
So it looks like there is a precedent that if you put the right warnings on something you can get away with selling something that is known to cause damage.
A few years a go I was helping to teach a SCUBA class at my local Community Collage. I was standing next to the Steve (the instructor) when one of the students came up to him looking very discouraged and told him "I must be an idiot, everyone else understands this, but I just don't get it" Steve looked at him and said "No, as long as you want to learn it's my fault if you don't understand. It means that I'm teaching you wrong. So what you are going to do is go with one of the TA's and work on this, if you don't learn it from him you will work with everyone in this class" I was given the student to work with and after 10 minutes I had him running the drills better than I do. All it took was a different set of teaching skills for him to understand what we were trying to teach him.
So to try and stay on topic it is more than the tools being used it also has a lot to do with who is teaching. So to say that a computer is the great panacea of the classroom is wrong, but to vilify it is just as bad. There are some kids out there (like me) that just don't learn from reading, but you show them how to do it and then they are good to go, just like there are kids that can read the book and understand with little to no interaction with the teacher. What is needed is a teacher that knows where their strengths are and when a student need to be taught by someone with different strengths.
July 10th 1985 - The Rainbow Warrior prepares to lead a peace flotilla of ships from New Zealand to Moruroa to peacefully protest against French nuclear testing. Three days after arrival in Auckland, French agents bomb and sink the Rainbow Warrior in the harbour, killing Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira.
My biggest and only complaint with online voting is, how do you know that the votes being sent are not coerced? I remember hearing a friends father tell his Mother that if she voted for so-and-so he would beat her stupid. So my question is how do you ensure the same anonymity that is given with the current paper system? Until we can do this I do not think we should move to this system for voting/signing petitions/etc. I do not have the same concern for using a digital signature for a business transaction. It looks to me that there a just as many ways to forge a digital signature as there ways to forge an ink one. -- Now returning to my regularly scheduled lurking...
Ahha yes, the DoD background check, I remember them well. This was when I was finalizing my employment with Lockheed. I was having my SECOND interview with Mr. DoD and he starts down a line of questioning that makes no sense to me. About the fourth question he ask did I know that my Father was a draft dodger back in the 60's. After I stopped laughing I ask what gave him this impression, My Father was a DI in the U.S. Army back in the 60's, actually he had been in the Army since he turned 17 and had served in three wars by then. Mr. DoD then looked at me and said "No, I meant your BIRTH father" After another burst of laughter I informed him that I have tried twice to see my adoption records and that the state has refuses to let me see them on both occasions. After that the interview was finished and I went to work the next week. I just think it is rather funny that the DoD can look at (and not disclose) the very records I have been trying to get my hands on for 20 years.
There are two reasons that leap to mind. The first is that Travolta is a member of the curuch of scintology and secondly L. Ron Hubbare was the founder of the church. As I recall the church leaders decided twards the end that Hubbard was to much of a flake-nut-wako that they had him commited to the funny farm.
So then based on what your saying it would be ok for me to trademark the smell of roses in a liquid suspension medium? If that is the case then so much for the knock off perfumes that are on the market.
What I would realy like to see is a browser that would let me create a list of sites and then reject all cookies, images, web pages, etc. that come from that page. Then things like bubble click's abuse of cookies would no longer affect me. Now me question is, is this some thing that can be done with current browsers? or is this something that can only be done with a program running on a server?
Is it just me or did they get this from the TARDOS Times...
The story was posted "Posted Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2000, at 9:07 a.m." and in the article it says "On Thursday, Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced that he was handing over the job of CEO"
The funniest part of this looks to be that every post I have read is missing the point as I see it. Here in California where I am you can not read your favorite issue of Playboy while sitting under your favorite tree in the park, so why should doing the online equalivent in the library be any different? I know that I would not want my children to be able to go to the library and view something that I wold not let them view at home. To me this would be the tantamount to the government saying we know more about raising you children than you do, so we feel it is ok to undermine the authority you have with your children. So I most wholeheartedly support the idea of censoring what you can view from a PUBLIC internet connection. I also believe that the software that we have available currently is lacking in its ability to properly censor what can and cannot be seen. What I would like to see is something where each library district could add or remove domains and modify as needed the word search so that what is blocked would be in line with each community's standards. I know that there are several talented programmers here on/. Would it be possible to make something like this and have a common database area where a master list of blocked sites could be posted and downloaded by libraries and schools so they could? Just my thoughts, take them for what they are worth to you.
This is where I get to sound like an idiot, But where would one go to register for a.us domain name? I know where to get.com.net.org. but I have never seen a place to get the.us. Could someone enlighten me as to where one can do this.
Am I to understand this correctly, You are advocating that MS not be broken up but only forced to release the source code for WinXX and NTX under something like the GPL? I can see the up side to this and that is that other companies could write apps for MS OS's and enter the playing field on a more or less equal terms. That is what the DOJ trial is supposed to be about correct? The only draw back I could see with doing things this way is that MS would still be first to market with the "next generation of neat stuff" so would this really help to release the overly tight grip they have on the OS / App market? The only thing I can see that would do that is breaking up the company and I don't see that as being all that good for the software market. As that would lead to (IMHO) greater software fragmentation than there is already. One of the problems that I have here at work is that we have people using things like Lotus 123, MS Excel, and others and that makes sharing data MUCH harder.
So after saying all of that in a less that totally coherent fashion I will just say that I am for the release of the OS source but I see no real way to break MS without making a real mess. Now for the big question, Just what makes up MS's OS's?
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DHL is a shipping company like FedEx or UPS, but they do a *lot* of international shipping with good door to door times and in my experiance good customer service.
Right ... all I have to say is "Hi, my name is Bill Gates and I'm going to buy every ballot in the country and get the DOJ of my back" I don't see how this can creat a "more equitable outcome" all it does is reenforce the golden rule my Father tought me "The man with the gold makes the rules"
Then how is it that in California all of our gas comes with a warning label that says WARNING -- Contains MTB which is known to damage ground water, cause cancer, beat you cat and will if not used properly throw you little brother off of the nearest building?
So it looks like there is a precedent that if you put the right warnings on something you can get away with selling something that is known to cause damage.
A few years a go I was helping to teach a SCUBA class at my local Community Collage. I was standing next to the Steve (the instructor) when one of the students came up to him looking very discouraged and told him "I must be an idiot, everyone else understands this, but I just don't get it" Steve looked at him and said "No, as long as you want to learn it's my fault if you don't understand. It means that I'm teaching you wrong. So what you are going to do is go with one of the TA's and work on this, if you don't learn it from him you will work with everyone in this class" I was given the student to work with and after 10 minutes I had him running the drills better than I do. All it took was a different set of teaching skills for him to understand what we were trying to teach him.
So to try and stay on topic it is more than the tools being used it also has a lot to do with who is teaching. So to say that a computer is the great panacea of the classroom is wrong, but to vilify it is just as bad. There are some kids out there (like me) that just don't learn from reading, but you show them how to do it and then they are good to go, just like there are kids that can read the book and understand with little to no interaction with the teacher. What is needed is a teacher that knows where their strengths are and when a student need to be taught by someone with different strengths.
July 10th 1985 - The Rainbow Warrior prepares to lead a peace flotilla of ships from New Zealand to Moruroa to peacefully protest against French nuclear testing. Three days after arrival in Auckland, French agents bomb and sink the Rainbow Warrior in the harbour, killing Greenpeace photographer Fernando Pereira.
http://www.greenpeace.org/~comms/rw/pkhist.html
My biggest and only complaint with online voting is, how do you know that the votes being sent are not coerced? I remember hearing a friends father tell his Mother that if she voted for so-and-so he would beat her stupid. So my question is how do you ensure the same anonymity that is given with the current paper system? Until we can do this I do not think we should move to this system for voting/signing petitions/etc. I do not have the same concern for using a digital signature for a business transaction. It looks to me that there a just as many ways to forge a digital signature as there ways to forge an ink one. -- Now returning to my regularly scheduled lurking ...
Ahha yes, the DoD background check, I remember them well. This was when I was finalizing my employment with Lockheed. I was having my SECOND interview with Mr. DoD and he starts down a line of questioning that makes no sense to me. About the fourth question he ask did I know that my Father was a draft dodger back in the 60's. After I stopped laughing I ask what gave him this impression, My Father was a DI in the U.S. Army back in the 60's, actually he had been in the Army since he turned 17 and had served in three wars by then. Mr. DoD then looked at me and said "No, I meant your BIRTH father" After another burst of laughter I informed him that I have tried twice to see my adoption records and that the state has refuses to let me see them on both occasions. After that the interview was finished and I went to work the next week. I just think it is rather funny that the DoD can look at (and not disclose) the very records I have been trying to get my hands on for 20 years.
There are two reasons that leap to mind. The first is that Travolta is a member of the curuch of scintology and secondly L. Ron Hubbare was the founder of the church. As I recall the church leaders decided twards the end that Hubbard was to much of a flake-nut-wako that they had him commited to the funny farm.
So then based on what your saying it would be ok for me to trademark the smell of roses in a liquid suspension medium? If that is the case then so much for the knock off perfumes that are on the market.
What I would realy like to see is a browser that would let me create a list of sites and then reject all cookies, images, web pages, etc. that come from that page. Then things like bubble click's abuse of cookies would no longer affect me. Now me question is, is this some thing that can be done with current browsers? or is this something that can only be done with a program running on a server?
I would much prefer some of the more "modern" games like Wing Commander or Priviteer ... or any of the space flight simulators realy.
Is it just me or did they get this from the TARDOS Times ...
The story was posted "Posted Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2000, at 9:07 a.m." and in the article it says "On Thursday, Microsoft founder Bill Gates announced that he was handing over the job of CEO"
I what to know how they know, you know?
The funniest part of this looks to be that every post I have read is missing the point as I see it. Here in California where I am you can not read your favorite issue of Playboy while sitting under your favorite tree in the park, so why should doing the online equalivent in the library be any different? I know that I would not want my children to be able to go to the library and view something that I wold not let them view at home. To me this would be the tantamount to the government saying we know more about raising you children than you do, so we feel it is ok to undermine the authority you have with your children. So I most wholeheartedly support the idea of censoring what you can view from a PUBLIC internet connection. I also believe that the software that we have available currently is lacking in its ability to properly censor what can and cannot be seen. What I would like to see is something where each library district could add or remove domains and modify as needed the word search so that what is blocked would be in line with each community's standards. I know that there are several talented programmers here on /. Would it be possible to make something like this and have a common database area where a master list of blocked sites could be posted and downloaded by libraries and schools so they could? Just my thoughts, take them for what they are worth to you.
This is where I get to sound like an idiot, But where would one go to register for a .us domain name? I know where to get .com .net .org. but I have never seen a place to get the .us. Could someone enlighten me as to where one can do this.
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Am I to understand this correctly, You are advocating that MS not be broken up but only forced to release the source code for WinXX and NTX under something like the GPL? I can see the up side to this and that is that other companies could write apps for MS OS's and enter the playing field on a more or less equal terms. That is what the DOJ trial is supposed to be about correct? The only draw back I could see with doing things this way is that MS would still be first to market with the "next generation of neat stuff" so would this really help to release the overly tight grip they have on the OS / App market? The only thing I can see that would do that is breaking up the company and I don't see that as being all that good for the software market. As that would lead to (IMHO) greater software fragmentation than there is already. One of the problems that I have here at work is that we have people using things like Lotus 123, MS Excel, and others and that makes sharing data MUCH harder.
So after saying all of that in a less that totally coherent fashion I will just say that I am for the release of the OS source but I see no real way to break MS without making a real mess. Now for the big question, Just what makes up MS's OS's?