I fail to see where this is better security wise than the Diebold boxes. I love linux, I prefer linux (though I mostly use OS X these days) but just because it runs linux, does not make it better.
And web based voting? Seriously? You are just BEGGING for fraud with that.
This is a consequence of government education. You give your child to people who can't even properly build roads and are frequently corrupt, guess what: they'll get educated the SAME way. The "No Child Left Behind" tag is certainly incorrect though. This isn't NCLB (which is idiotic too), this is just idiocy and political correctness run amok.
I can't believe we continue to believe giving these people more money, thinking it is going to solve the problem. Isn't the saying that "The definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over expecting a different result?"
Define not enough? For what lifestyle? Maybe it's not enough because people don't save until later in life. Why would they? Tey get punished by our tax system for saving.
But really, if it isn't enough, maybe people need to re-examine their lifestyle choices until it is enough. Or maybe people in the US just find a certain kind of fulfillment is working that they don't find in sitting on their asses.
Seriously. I don't mean sit down and start writing. I mean come up with lesson plans and find or develop hand outs to give the kids. Teach them to find the information on their own! This is the most important skill you can give kids at any level of education.
My experience is that textbooks are a cheap solution to a complex problem. They never answer the kids questions and are a one size fits all solution - which is one of the biggest problems with our education system in the US.
If you give the kids a basic idea, and give them assignments and handouts that teach them to do things on their own, I would venture to say they will learn more AND perform better. Especially if you expect a lot from them.
I agree with your viewpoint. My parents solved this a completely different way: I was home schooled. I still managed tog et into a fairly prestigious engineering school not to mention I was a high school athlete. Did I mention I outscored everyone in my school system on just about every standardized test? Why? Because I didn't have to sit there listening to a teacher teach to the least common denominator.
Unfortunately, the left in this country has an unwavering belief that "all men are created equal" and the 14th amendment mean that we should all get EVERYTHING equal.
The difference: the Irish preferred not to die for their cause. The Islamic Fascists are supranational and would relish to die for theirs. They want to rule the world (literally) and force their religion on everyone. They have no dreams of independence. They do speak. And when they do, they frequently remind us that they are just cleansing the immoral from the earth and asking Americans (and other westerners) to repent and turn to Islam. Otherwise they simply want to kill us all or die trying. So they state three acceptable outcomes: we all become muslim; they kill all non-muslims; all of them die.
It's not a political battle - it's a holy war. The difference is that it isn't between Christianity and Islam (or Hindu and Islam) it's between secular government and Islam. Fortunately there is an identifiable enemy: pre-dominantly men who belief in a twisted version of Islam.
Bottom line: You can't compare this to the dispute between the British and the IRA.
Free speech is fine: the GOVERNMENT/STATE should never forbid speech of any kind (with the reasonable restriction on things like child pornography et cetera.)
A private organization saying hey we won't allow mass murders to post propaganda on our site is not the same. I am willing to bet YouTube would feel different if the US Gov't posted overt propaganda videos on YouTube.
While I respect Mr Card, using a similar story is not the same as outright using characters and material from another author. That's infringement. On the other hand, in copyright law generally use is allowed for works about another piece or parodying a piece.
With all that being said I do think Mrs. Rowling is going overboard and is being an ass about the whole thing.
With the explanations he apparently gave for some of the circumstantial evidence, I can see why he was found guilty. Seriously, sex leaving a 6 splotch of blood?! What kind of sex were they into? Jesus H. Christ man!
First, this is really not a big deal as aircraft are usually grounded after an unexplained crash. Second, the B-2 didn't exist in 1989. That F-117A which is being retired was our only stealth aircraft then. Two vastly different aircraft
This is because of powerboost. As I understand it, powerboost makes the first 20MB download at a higher rate than your advertised bandwidth. Since bandwidth tests are done on such small files, you get a worthless result. The idea is that people who download lotsa of relatively small files get better performance, where as people downloading a lot of huge files like ISO images, full length movies, et cetera willg et initially good speed but after 20MB will feel like they are getting gipped.
My father has Alzheimer's. Most Alzheimer's patients are very kind and sweet but my father is so bitter that he is always angry because at 55 he realizes his brain is slowly killing him. His short term memory is nil. He walks especially slow and his communication is getting poorer. He was diagnosed in October 2005 and he was showing symptoms before that.
Frankly, This is an illustration of why our process of developing medications is ridiculous. This may not work (though I resent that "wontwork" tag) but frankly there are at least 3 very promising treatments for Alzheimer's Disease in early trials. But because of the length and the way trials work, if they are successful none of them will emerge from trials early enough to help my father. And frankly, he and my family would be willing to try anything to help him. And in the end the worse outcome is that he doesn't get better. But we will never know. 10 years from now Alzheimer's may be no worse than severe diabetes, MS, Crohn's Disease or what have you: controllable, not curable with a quality of life equivalent to most other people. But because we would rather not kill a dying person to find out if we'll kill them or save them, my father will never get benefit of this.
This article's conclusion of FiOS dominance over Comcast's product is based on the theory that FiOS is available to most Comcast customers. It isn't. While FiOS may be a superior product (for now) it doesn't matter much when few people have access to the product. In fact, much of the current Verizon user base is made up of people who don't have access to DSL or cable modems at all. Where they do compete with cable modems, they may compete with Time Warner, Comcast or insert-company-name-here cable company. Further more they are also in the DSL business. They'll even provide dry DSL to me here in Atlanta (more than once name the most wired city/metro-area in the U.S.) yet I can't get FiOS. The quality I've gotten from Comcast has been topnotch. The only problem I have with them, I can say of every utility company I've ever worked with: they are a pain in the ass to get out here on the very rare occasion that I need them. And I've only needed them once for repairs and really it amounted to an oversight where the previous owner of the house had their account at the house disconnected issueing a disconnect order where as we had already set up our account on the house.
Sorry, until I can actually use Verizon's product, I won't call Comcast or any other company a dinosaur. It just doesn't make sense.
For all the bitching that goes on around here about the "ease" of rigging an election with Diebold voting machines, I don't get the logical conclusion that internet voting is somehow a good idea. Oh my God, I can hear the screams now about people "unable to get to polling places" and "being denied their civil rights."
This is a country where we think it is a violation of civil rights to ask for a photo id which you can have issued for free, when voting! You really think we could pull off an election via the internet without absolutely massive voter fraud, "hacking voting devices" and whatever else people get creative with? If I were an Estonian, I would be cringing.
Congratulations, you understand very little about how governments or the military works.
First, no one in the military has ever or will have everything they need. It's just a matter of life in the military. You learn to do more with less. However, units (virtually ever unit) has as discretionary spending account for items just like this - things the military doesn't or can't provide but are needed quick fast and in a hurry.
Why does the military never have what it needs? Easy, because the military has to go through the government to get things. Government is by definition, inefficient and usually wrong in its actions. This is why I am so vehemently opposed to government provided health care (this is speaking as a Marine Corporal, college student who studies military history and the son of a health care worker.) Going through government for things is incredulous. At the end of every year we are either a) out of funds for pay, gas or ammo or b) rushing to spend every extra dime for fear that they'll cut our funding the next year because we obviously didn't need what we were given.
It is a violation of basic property rights (and by definition fascist) for a government entity to direct a private company to serve certain customers if they so choose not to do so.
Target should be chastised by users for being idiotic, but it shouldn't be the government's business.
So if you do that little in 3D...why do you have that kind of card in the first place?
They have a patch out, and an advisory before a fix may have been a little irresponsible, tipping people to the issue. Not to mention the small impact on most security sensitive applications. You're either lying and don't have an Nvidia card, or are being purely political.
Wow. My 25 mile commute takes 20 minutes in the morning, but 45min to 1.5 hrs in the afternoon (mostly due to rubber necking and inconsiderate people blocking traffic, very few accidents really.)
I'm sure that Dr. Thompson's doctorate is the real difference in whether or not she's right or not. And she's not. In fact, she's an idiot IMO.
I work in building full of people with PhDs. Most of them lack any common sense and frequently make me wonder how they teach computer science since most of them need assistance installing a printer. But hey, I'm just an undergraduate, what do I know?
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I travel a lot. I've yet to have an issue with this.
Smaller,nicer and cheap != more secure.
I fail to see where this is better security wise than the Diebold boxes. I love linux, I prefer linux (though I mostly use OS X these days) but just because it runs linux, does not make it better.
And web based voting? Seriously? You are just BEGGING for fraud with that.
This is a consequence of government education. You give your child to people who can't even properly build roads and are frequently corrupt, guess what: they'll get educated the SAME way. The "No Child Left Behind" tag is certainly incorrect though. This isn't NCLB (which is idiotic too), this is just idiocy and political correctness run amok.
I can't believe we continue to believe giving these people more money, thinking it is going to solve the problem. Isn't the saying that "The definition of insanity is repeating the same action over and over expecting a different result?"
Define not enough? For what lifestyle? Maybe it's not enough because people don't save until later in life. Why would they? Tey get punished by our tax system for saving.
But really, if it isn't enough, maybe people need to re-examine their lifestyle choices until it is enough. Or maybe people in the US just find a certain kind of fulfillment is working that they don't find in sitting on their asses.
Seriously. I don't mean sit down and start writing. I mean come up with lesson plans and find or develop hand outs to give the kids. Teach them to find the information on their own! This is the most important skill you can give kids at any level of education.
My experience is that textbooks are a cheap solution to a complex problem. They never answer the kids questions and are a one size fits all solution - which is one of the biggest problems with our education system in the US.
If you give the kids a basic idea, and give them assignments and handouts that teach them to do things on their own, I would venture to say they will learn more AND perform better. Especially if you expect a lot from them.
I agree with your viewpoint. My parents solved this a completely different way: I was home schooled. I still managed tog et into a fairly prestigious engineering school not to mention I was a high school athlete. Did I mention I outscored everyone in my school system on just about every standardized test? Why? Because I didn't have to sit there listening to a teacher teach to the least common denominator.
Unfortunately, the left in this country has an unwavering belief that "all men are created equal" and the 14th amendment mean that we should all get EVERYTHING equal.
This is an expected consequence of the one-size-fits-all government education we have.
The difference: the Irish preferred not to die for their cause. The Islamic Fascists are supranational and would relish to die for theirs. They want to rule the world (literally) and force their religion on everyone. They have no dreams of independence. They do speak. And when they do, they frequently remind us that they are just cleansing the immoral from the earth and asking Americans (and other westerners) to repent and turn to Islam. Otherwise they simply want to kill us all or die trying. So they state three acceptable outcomes: we all become muslim; they kill all non-muslims; all of them die.
It's not a political battle - it's a holy war. The difference is that it isn't between Christianity and Islam (or Hindu and Islam) it's between secular government and Islam. Fortunately there is an identifiable enemy: pre-dominantly men who belief in a twisted version of Islam.
Bottom line: You can't compare this to the dispute between the British and the IRA.
Free speech is fine: the GOVERNMENT/STATE should never forbid speech of any kind (with the reasonable restriction on things like child pornography et cetera.)
A private organization saying hey we won't allow mass murders to post propaganda on our site is not the same. I am willing to bet YouTube would feel different if the US Gov't posted overt propaganda videos on YouTube.
Maybe you should re-read what I wrote, such as the part about pieces that ae about other pieces.
While I respect Mr Card, using a similar story is not the same as outright using characters and material from another author. That's infringement. On the other hand, in copyright law generally use is allowed for works about another piece or parodying a piece.
With all that being said I do think Mrs. Rowling is going overboard and is being an ass about the whole thing.
With the explanations he apparently gave for some of the circumstantial evidence, I can see why he was found guilty. Seriously, sex leaving a 6 splotch of blood?! What kind of sex were they into? Jesus H. Christ man!
Seriously. WTF?
Hard Drive destruction is SOP for ANY hard drive which had classified data on it.
First, this is really not a big deal as aircraft are usually grounded after an unexplained crash. Second, the B-2 didn't exist in 1989. That F-117A which is being retired was our only stealth aircraft then. Two vastly different aircraft
This is because of powerboost. As I understand it, powerboost makes the first 20MB download at a higher rate than your advertised bandwidth. Since bandwidth tests are done on such small files, you get a worthless result. The idea is that people who download lotsa of relatively small files get better performance, where as people downloading a lot of huge files like ISO images, full length movies, et cetera willg et initially good speed but after 20MB will feel like they are getting gipped.
My father has Alzheimer's. Most Alzheimer's patients are very kind and sweet but my father is so bitter that he is always angry because at 55 he realizes his brain is slowly killing him. His short term memory is nil. He walks especially slow and his communication is getting poorer. He was diagnosed in October 2005 and he was showing symptoms before that.
Frankly, This is an illustration of why our process of developing medications is ridiculous. This may not work (though I resent that "wontwork" tag) but frankly there are at least 3 very promising treatments for Alzheimer's Disease in early trials. But because of the length and the way trials work, if they are successful none of them will emerge from trials early enough to help my father. And frankly, he and my family would be willing to try anything to help him. And in the end the worse outcome is that he doesn't get better. But we will never know. 10 years from now Alzheimer's may be no worse than severe diabetes, MS, Crohn's Disease or what have you: controllable, not curable with a quality of life equivalent to most other people. But because we would rather not kill a dying person to find out if we'll kill them or save them, my father will never get benefit of this.
This article's conclusion of FiOS dominance over Comcast's product is based on the theory that FiOS is available to most
Comcast customers. It isn't. While FiOS may be a superior product (for now) it doesn't matter much when few people have access to the product. In fact, much of the current Verizon user base is made up of people who don't have access to DSL or cable modems at all. Where they do compete with cable modems, they may compete with Time Warner, Comcast or insert-company-name-here cable company. Further more they are also in the DSL business. They'll even provide dry DSL to me here in Atlanta (more than once name the most wired city/metro-area in the U.S.) yet I can't get FiOS. The quality I've gotten from Comcast has been topnotch. The only problem I have with them, I can say of every utility company I've ever worked with: they are a pain in the ass to get out here on the very rare occasion that I need them. And I've only needed them once for repairs and really it amounted to an oversight where the previous owner of the house had their account at the house disconnected issueing a disconnect order where as we had already set up our account on the house.
Sorry, until I can actually use Verizon's product, I won't call Comcast or any other company a dinosaur. It just doesn't make sense.
For all the bitching that goes on around here about the "ease" of rigging an election with Diebold voting machines, I don't get the logical conclusion that internet voting is somehow a good idea. Oh my God, I can hear the screams now about people "unable to get to polling places" and "being denied their civil rights."
This is a country where we think it is a violation of civil rights to ask for a photo id which you can have issued for free, when voting! You really think we could pull off an election via the internet without absolutely massive voter fraud, "hacking voting devices" and whatever else people get creative with? If I were an Estonian, I would be cringing.
Congratulations, you understand very little about how governments or the military works.
First, no one in the military has ever or will have everything they need. It's just a matter of life in the military. You learn to do more with less. However, units (virtually ever unit) has as discretionary spending account for items just like this - things the military doesn't or can't provide but are needed quick fast and in a hurry.
Why does the military never have what it needs? Easy, because the military has to go through the government to get things. Government is by definition, inefficient and usually wrong in its actions. This is why I am so vehemently opposed to government provided health care (this is speaking as a Marine Corporal, college student who studies military history and the son of a health care worker.) Going through government for things is incredulous. At the end of every year we are either a) out of funds for pay, gas or ammo or b) rushing to spend every extra dime for fear that they'll cut our funding the next year because we obviously didn't need what we were given.
It is a violation of basic property rights (and by definition fascist) for a government entity to direct a private company to serve certain customers if they so choose not to do so.
Target should be chastised by users for being idiotic, but it shouldn't be the government's business.
I think it's bloated and irritating. I don't want a shit ton of animation in my gui...I want things to appears quickly so I can get more done!
So if you do that little in 3D...why do you have that kind of card in the first place?
They have a patch out, and an advisory before a fix may have been a little irresponsible, tipping people to the issue. Not to mention the small impact on most security sensitive applications. You're either lying and don't have an Nvidia card, or are being purely political.
Wow. My 25 mile commute takes 20 minutes in the morning, but 45min to 1.5 hrs in the afternoon (mostly due to rubber necking and inconsiderate people blocking traffic, very few accidents really.)
Go to pick up a probably and statistics text book and start studying this thing called a normal distribution.
I'm sure that Dr. Thompson's doctorate is the real difference in whether or not she's right or not. And she's not. In fact, she's an idiot IMO.
I work in building full of people with PhDs. Most of them lack any common sense and frequently make me wonder how they teach computer science since most of them need assistance installing a printer. But hey, I'm just an undergraduate, what do I know?