Public Education unless your lucky to be in the right school No thanks - 20+ years of visiting schools tells me most public schools have a lot to be desired and I feel sorry for the teachers that actually try under those conditions.
Public roads - most need a lot of work, I hate the private toll roads but at least they are maintained
Public defenders - are you serious you watch to much TV
Alternatively they could offer good service and knowledge of the products they sell, the marketing will be the old word of mouth method the cheapest and most effective at gaining a new sale
Honestly my biggest problem with school is that there was no ability to excel, no ability to progress, everybody is pacing along at the same level that matches the bottom 20% or so, even then some managed to fall behind. I wish there were tests that said yes, I know fifth grade math so that I could "legally" ignore the teacher that for the third time is trying to explain something I understood months or years ago. I'm chronically lazy and I think school had a lot to do with it, there I learned working hard gets you "busy work" and nothing else.
Agreed and add all the stupid ideas such as lets put all the kids in classes that aren't graded i.e. equal number of smart and dumb kids or lets hide which are the smart classes by obfuscating the order and take away competition to get into better classes or the most recent innovation lets take the walls out and have one big room with 3 or 4 classes in it.
Even Selective schools those intended for talented students are being corrupted by parents who have their average child tutored to pass the exams and then bribing teachers/administrators to keep those students in there
Technology is another in a series of "Magic Bullets" that will fix our education systems usually done with more political motivation than actual thought for improving the system
Maybe some radical ideas
- Pay teachers more to get better quality
- increase parent participation - too many think its only the schools job to educate their children
- Stop political correctness and embarrass the slackers, Lazy, and misbehaving students. some corporal punishment wouldn't go astray here either
- Teachers have 10-12 weeks holiday they should use at least 4-6 weeks for professional development or gain experience in real jobs - somer of the best teachers I knew did this
It always seems that most in the entertainment/copyright type industry lean towards democrats. why is that if the republicans are protecting their business model ?
Wow... 17!!! Of course you'd have to be pretty young to think that 17 wasn't still a kid.
Many people in the generation of my parents were married and having children and buying houses by 17, sadly this reflects poorly on current generations that their maturity is severely stunted
As far as DRMs I can download the shows rather easily from my TiVo and remove the DRM to burn to either DVD or Blu-Ray. I have even converted the files rather easily for use on my iPod classic.
so your mother/father/grandparents all your friends and relatives can do this as well - without your help?
Hinges and nails are needed to make a home,beautiful wrought iron fence is a want. Needs keep employed, wants are the first to go and last to recover when times get tough
Actually it benefits all. getting the traffic below a critical number of cars will get the cars moving at the speed limit again making it quicker for those who must use a car. while those who typically go to work and home only are far better of on public transport. only downside of public transport to me is other passengers.
Bah. Give them a job to do, like basket weaving. Or have them do homework until you're ready to pay attention to them. Or have them learn an instrument, no need for a teacher. Or do artwork. Or read books. It's not as if kids can't entertain themselves for long periods of time with minimal supervision, and if their efforts are productive, so much the better.
It used to 12 minutes of commercials for 48 minutes of TV show then they increased to 18 minutes of commercials and show went to 42 minutes including credits now its worth skipping commercials
Generally, programmers are not asked to program for free by relatives..
I've lost count of the number of web sites I've been asked to do because I'm a programmer and this should be quick. I point them to the many web site programmers that do entire web sites for $99 and kindly point out that I'm in the middle of a big project and won't be able to do it for 3 months. After 3 months experience elsewhere they are usually willing to pay the proper rate. if not wash rinse repeat.
for those I feel are just in for the freebie I point to the queue of waiting to be fixed for free machines when I have time or they can join the pay for service line they invariably pay after they find some of those machines have been there for months
actually scanning of licences started 3-4 years ago in Sydney and biometrics has been trialled for at over a year in the bigger clubs RSL, Leagues etc that try to be family friendly its now filtering down to the pubs and smaller clubs, a large number of which are in financial difficulty due to falling patronage possibly caused by this random violence
Ditto when I owned a Video shop (sold when I saw the move to downloads) we had to pay twice or more the retail price for rental copies the why rental VHS tapes were once better in quality this simply carried on when DVD's came out ( quite a few store owners actually started buying their DVD's for rent at Big W/Kmart etc) ditto in the electronics area wholesale price for small retailers were often higher than the harvey norman retail price the reason the small guy made the sale was that we knew our products but now the consumer has the internet and can research and crowd source any information on any product they want. Retail used to be done by people who knew something about the product often trained by the manufacturer and regularly updated, now mostly its done by people who couldn't get a job elsewhere or too lazy to learn more than how to scan and receive payment.
Yes the distributors and importers used to collect a lot as middlemen and now they are being cut out and Gerry who imports a lot of his own and cut out the middleman or gets a good price break on wholesale is getting a taste of competition and whats its like being cut out by the consumer.
indeed this is what I have done additionally I keep a range of old tech, drives and occasional machines for when other people come to me with some valuable data or systems they need to recover. Its surprising how much old 20 years + technology is still driving industrial machines and the like
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Public roads - most need a lot of work, I hate the private toll roads but at least they are maintained
Public defenders - are you serious you watch to much TV
Alternatively they could offer good service and knowledge of the products they sell, the marketing will be the old word of mouth method the cheapest and most effective at gaining a new sale
Actually the MPAA are investing in the technology so that every time you think of any movie they can charge you
So when do they expire ? why are they selling ? after all IBM makes a lot from the research it did and licensing of said patents
A bad movie? It won best picture.
Yeah, and? It was a war movie directed by a woman.. of course it was going to win awards.
It struggled in the theaters so they are concerned with lost revenue.
Because it was a bad movie.
And she was the ex-wife of the guy whose movie about big blue humanoids made her revenue look like a little blue squiggle by comparison
Honestly my biggest problem with school is that there was no ability to excel, no ability to progress, everybody is pacing along at the same level that matches the bottom 20% or so, even then some managed to fall behind. I wish there were tests that said yes, I know fifth grade math so that I could "legally" ignore the teacher that for the third time is trying to explain something I understood months or years ago. I'm chronically lazy and I think school had a lot to do with it, there I learned working hard gets you "busy work" and nothing else.
Agreed and add all the stupid ideas such as lets put all the kids in classes that aren't graded i.e. equal number of smart and dumb kids or lets hide which are the smart classes by obfuscating the order and take away competition to get into better classes or the most recent innovation lets take the walls out and have one big room with 3 or 4 classes in it.
Even Selective schools those intended for talented students are being corrupted by parents who have their average child tutored to pass the exams and then bribing teachers/administrators to keep those students in there
Technology is another in a series of "Magic Bullets" that will fix our education systems usually done with more political motivation than actual thought for improving the system
Maybe some radical ideas
- Pay teachers more to get better quality
- increase parent participation - too many think its only the schools job to educate their children
- Stop political correctness and embarrass the slackers, Lazy, and misbehaving students. some corporal punishment wouldn't go astray here either
- Teachers have 10-12 weeks holiday they should use at least 4-6 weeks for professional development or gain experience in real jobs - somer of the best teachers I knew did this
Please feel free to add to this list
This is why I say fuck the MAFIAA.
-uso.
I wouldn't fuck them with your dick !
It always seems that most in the entertainment/copyright type industry lean towards democrats. why is that if the republicans are protecting their business model ?
Wow... 17!!! Of course you'd have to be pretty young to think that 17 wasn't still a kid.
Many people in the generation of my parents were married and having children and buying houses by 17, sadly this reflects poorly on current generations that their maturity is severely stunted
As far as DRMs I can download the shows rather easily from my TiVo and remove the DRM to burn to either DVD or Blu-Ray. I have even converted the files rather easily for use on my iPod classic.
so your mother/father/grandparents all your friends and relatives can do this as well - without your help?
Hinges and nails are needed to make a home,beautiful wrought iron fence is a want. Needs keep employed, wants are the first to go and last to recover when times get tough
Actually it benefits all. getting the traffic below a critical number of cars will get the cars moving at the speed limit again making it quicker for those who must use a car. while those who typically go to work and home only are far better of on public transport. only downside of public transport to me is other passengers.
Bah. Give them a job to do, like basket weaving. Or have them do homework until you're ready to pay attention to them. Or have them learn an instrument, no need for a teacher. Or do artwork. Or read books. It's not as if kids can't entertain themselves for long periods of time with minimal supervision, and if their efforts are productive, so much the better.
know how I know you don't have kids ?
So how are goods to be delivered to the stores for sale - I thought about the asian rickshaw but even these have limits
It used to 12 minutes of commercials for 48 minutes of TV show then they increased to 18 minutes of commercials and show went to 42 minutes including credits now its worth skipping commercials
Generally, programmers are not asked to program for free by relatives. .
I've lost count of the number of web sites I've been asked to do because I'm a programmer and this should be quick. I point them to the many web site programmers that do entire web sites for $99 and kindly point out that I'm in the middle of a big project and won't be able to do it for 3 months. After 3 months experience elsewhere they are usually willing to pay the proper rate. if not wash rinse repeat.
for those I feel are just in for the freebie I point to the queue of waiting to be fixed for free machines when I have time or they can join the pay for service line they invariably pay after they find some of those machines have been there for months
How about this? http://www.jammer-store.com/gps-blockers-jammers.html Don't know if these are actually available in the US. Could be they are blocked like high-power laser pointers etc.
What happened to electronics as a hobby thats how I made my first radar detector which were made illegal for sale in my country a while back and these days its easy to find the howto http://www.google.com.au/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=gps+jammer+circuit+diagram&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&ei=9a52TaixDoaxcbiG9P8E
first thing I thought of was bugbot from LEXX episode 1 now remembering Eva Haberman I think I need to rewatch that show
I just saw it as great advertising for redtube
They still get out...
No the Kiwis still get in
actually scanning of licences started 3-4 years ago in Sydney and biometrics has been trialled for at over a year in the bigger clubs RSL, Leagues etc that try to be family friendly its now filtering down to the pubs and smaller clubs, a large number of which are in financial difficulty due to falling patronage possibly caused by this random violence
Ditto when I owned a Video shop (sold when I saw the move to downloads) we had to pay twice or more the retail price for rental copies the why rental VHS tapes were once better in quality this simply carried on when DVD's came out ( quite a few store owners actually started buying their DVD's for rent at Big W /Kmart etc) ditto in the electronics area wholesale price for small retailers were often higher than the harvey norman retail price the reason the small guy made the sale was that we knew our products but now the consumer has the internet and can research and crowd source any information on any product they want. Retail used to be done by people who knew something about the product often trained by the manufacturer and regularly updated, now mostly its done by people who couldn't get a job elsewhere or too lazy to learn more than how to scan and receive payment.
Yes the distributors and importers used to collect a lot as middlemen and now they are being cut out and Gerry who imports a lot of his own and cut out the middleman or gets a good price break on wholesale is getting a taste of competition and whats its like being cut out by the consumer.
I kept all of my iterations so I can track what I was learning, but nothing too useful and certainly not very relevant today.
This can be the difference between proving you developed something or copied it from someone else so it may be more relevant and useful than you think
indeed this is what I have done additionally I keep a range of old tech, drives and occasional machines for when other people come to me with some valuable data or systems they need to recover. Its surprising how much old 20 years + technology is still driving industrial machines and the like