Well, it's unlikely there will be too many hardcore scientists here who were using the web the first year or so. Thanksgiving weekend will be my 20th online at home but that meant CompuServe and the good value, silly name GEnie. I got a Delphi account in '94 specifically because it offered a consumer text portal to gopher.
A lot of these comments are about teachers cheating. Isn't this an argument _for_ national standardized tests? You get all the kids in the gym in groups and all the tests leave the room with the principal in a sealed container. Clear responsibility.
I'm a little tired of hearing "teaching to the test" because so many school systems have expanded to somethng like 40 "core areas" spreading the kid's attention a mile wide and an inch deep. American culture may be an oxymoron and it can be politically correct and tempting to throw a ton of stuff at kids while you've got them locked in, but there is also a lot to be said for a solid core foundation of reading, writing, and arithmetic preparing a kid to be a good citizen.
And if you want to send your kid to a charter school, assume you are sending him to a _worse_ school:
Personally, I would like to see _more_ federal intervention concentrated on public education (like the rest of the world has). Then local boards could spend less time wondering whether evolution should be banned and books with witches should be burned.
In Pacific Northwest, the northern Midwest, etc, especially during the winter months, solar power is a complete non-option.
Pacific Northwest has its issues, but don't completely rule out the midwest. Depends on how you define "solar". University of Minnesota built a house in (more) southernly Minnesota that stayed warm in the winter. Just needed electricity for the heat exchanger. Heating is a major energy drain up here.
But, yes, wind gets the leftover press after ethanol in Minnesota.
our part of the deal is to spend the next five minutes, months, or years migrating away from every shred of Novell/SUSE software in our home, office, or enterprise."
But that certainly seems like a win/win for Microsoft.
True enough. But it is the "fault" of the velocity of information exchange reporting research findings before they have been digested. And that's what we are happily doing here: ruminating.
1) The House will not impeach. There genuinely isn't interest and hasn't been interest.
2) New blood won't change that. The Democrats didn't win the Senate so the House knows if they voted to impeach, the Senate would not convict.
3) The House can propose changes but the Senate can choose not to pick them up.
4) If the Senate happened to pass a "liberal" House resolution, the President can veto.
5) The Republican Senate almost certainly cannot muster the votes to override a Presidential veto.
So, the President will not be impeached, Congress will do nothing to roll back Bush's past initiatives, and no new liberal legislation will pass both the Senate and President.
Will the House at least impede more drastic measures Bush may have in planning for the future?
6) About as much as they opposed the Patriot Act. _Provided_ that
7) The nation is thrown into even more chaos so that the Bush agenda can progress. How that chaos is achieved hardly matters as long as it sows fear in the public and the Republicans can rally hysterical patriotism in response to that fear.
So I say not just "worse". Now the time has come to expect the "worst" from this president.
We've had a "nursing shortage" for about 60 years now. Funny thing is, when they raise nurses wages, more people get trained to be a nurse and more people find the time to put in nurses hours. Funny thing about wage incentives.
Good analogy. Our local news had a story the other month that for every nurse working in the state there is something like two or three who are trained but are doing something else because the hours, pay and benefits are crap as a nurse. I would guess this story is similar with business bitching that Chad hasn't developed an infrastructure for $10/day IT jobs (yet).
Our area employment offices are encouraging everyone to have an online portfolio. But not just a resume and work samples. They list about 50 things a person might consider -- including school transcripts. Should be interesting.
It does attempt to grapple with the unique aspects of digital media. It isn't likely that it will lead to other government-sponsored taxes. I don't see a government issued McDonald's coupon book for a free Big Mac/month for paying the McDonald's tax coming any time soon. So the slippery slope argument shouldn't be appropriate.
Is it entirely fair? Well, no. But would it be the worst tax we are paying? I don't think so. Our phone bills already include several dollars of federal tax. Because enough people complained the other year the tax purporting to pay off the frakkin' SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR OF 1898 has been removed though, right?
It would be an _ironic_ tax. As a proud owner of a premiere issue of Revolution magazine I'm both a dedicated Eurotrance listener and someone who is painfully aware that the genre was actively killed like a spreading weed in the U.S. So the government would be collecting a tax from me for music that's hardly played on mass media in the U.S. But I guess it all works out in the end since the music biz is transnationals.
I'm not calling you a liar but how am I as an outsider supposed to reconcile your account with Janis Ian saying that every album of her well over a dozen has been accompanied by a letter from the accounting department telling her how much she owes the label?
All pop arts are a star system. That's almost beside the point. The guy who has spent the last year of weekends cranking out a pulp novel might get $5000 for his effort too. Not that the $5000 isn't welcome but McDonald's would have been as lucrative.
And if the money is in advertising, it really doesn't matter what mechanism a person uses to acquire that celebrity, right?
This proposal ain't gonna fly. Despite what the slashdot-intro claims this is nothing like needing a passport at all. The fundamental reason is that you need a passport in order to *enter* a country, not to leave it.
Requiring any sort of "approval" for leaving a country (your own or any other) is a blatant violation of the human rights.
I'm sure the guy waterboarding you at Gitmo will find your demands for a lawyer amusing.
The occasional childhood problem was making people believe I felt lousy. Some viruses can make you feel pretty crummy with only a degree or so of fever.
As a down side I wonder if that is a contributing factor to my borderline obesity. I do feel noticeably and unpleasantly cold when I am hungry. And I hate with a passion levels of office air conditioning that others seem to find tolerable.
Since we are taking names, probably the most famous low temperature person?
"The one area of [Windows] ownership and use where it becomes apparent that there's an assumption that everyone who uses [Windows] is an expert is hardware support."
Not really, of course. That's why Geeks Squad rakes it in.
Normally I would love to bash the current Neocon metastasis of Republicanism as much as the next liberal but I think you are right on this one. Virtually "everyone" voted for the DMCA -- technically, wasn't there a motion to make it unanimous? I wrote Saint Wellstone of Minnesota about it at the time and the reply I got was basically just, "I'd do it again." It's pretty obvious that Republicans own the oil and gas lobbyist money. Is it so hard to imagine that the Democrats have a big piece of the Hollywood lobbyist money?
I just gave up. Actually, I gave up after Quake I on OS/2 and inherited the attitude with linux.
Which isn't to say I don't have any games. (And I consider sims games.)
Sure, TORCS is so 1990 in some ways with better graphics but it _is_ entertaining. Neverball, shishen-sho and solitaire get some of my time.
What I really think should get more credit is FlightGear. I know the graphics are hardly competitive but they get a lot right. And where are you going to get more slavish simulation? The night sky is a planetarium with perceived magnitudes. You get local airport weather with multiple strata. People are populating their cities with buildings. You can buzz cows in the pasture.
If this development drops our Reporters Without Borders press freedom ranking another 20 points we might be equal to Republic of the Congo in next year's listing!
Has there been any instance in our nation's military history where we've won a war without a successful propaganda effort?
Only problem is that the "war on terror" is like the "war on cancer". Personally, I'd rather the government directed its propaganda efforts to the war on cancer. It kills more people.
Well, that's the thing, isn't it? If nothing else, these experiments should help the researchers achieve better clarity in their minds what foundational capabilities are innately desirable and what behavioral shaping can then do with them in combination. It should get complicated very quickly.
I think the idea that things just "emerge" is a bit of a holy grail but it sounds like a fascinating test bed that will complement research on other intelligences.
Thanks. It's been driving me crazy and I bet that was it. I knew there was something noteworthy he signed two or three years ago that sounds like it hadn't flopped out from the dark side but I couldn't remember what it was.
This probably has more to do with the hurricanes and winter storms. During Katrina, the Feds were criticised for *not* bringing in the defence force to render aid.
No doubt. Considering how relentless the administration has been in working night and day to restore New Orleans in the short term and assure that secure dikes are constructed to avoid another catastrophe in the longer term, what other justification could there be?
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Well, it's unlikely there will be too many hardcore scientists here who were using the web the first year or so. Thanksgiving weekend will be my 20th online at home but that meant CompuServe and the good value, silly name GEnie. I got a Delphi account in '94 specifically because it offered a consumer text portal to gopher.
A lot of these comments are about teachers cheating. Isn't this an argument _for_ national standardized tests? You get all the kids in the gym in groups and all the tests leave the room with the principal in a sealed container. Clear responsibility.
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I'm a little tired of hearing "teaching to the test" because so many school systems have expanded to somethng like 40 "core areas" spreading the kid's attention a mile wide and an inch deep. American culture may be an oxymoron and it can be politically correct and tempting to throw a ton of stuff at kids while you've got them locked in, but there is also a lot to be said for a solid core foundation of reading, writing, and arithmetic preparing a kid to be a good citizen.
And if you want to send your kid to a charter school, assume you are sending him to a _worse_ school:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/17/education/17cha
Personally, I would like to see _more_ federal intervention concentrated on public education (like the rest of the world has). Then local boards could spend less time wondering whether evolution should be banned and books with witches should be burned.
Republicans are the top beneficiaries of such donations, but the Dems aren't too far behind
Actually, the article says Republicans get 67%. If you get 2/3 of the pie and I only get a 1/3, I'd say momma loves you best.
Now if we can only mass produce a 21st century way to generate the steam.
In Pacific Northwest, the northern Midwest, etc, especially during the winter months, solar power is a complete non-option.
Pacific Northwest has its issues, but don't completely rule out the midwest. Depends on how you define "solar". University of Minnesota built a house in (more) southernly Minnesota that stayed warm in the winter. Just needed electricity for the heat exchanger. Heating is a major energy drain up here.
But, yes, wind gets the leftover press after ethanol in Minnesota.
our part of the deal is to spend the next five minutes, months, or years migrating away from every shred of Novell/SUSE software in our home, office, or enterprise."
But that certainly seems like a win/win for Microsoft.
True enough. But it is the "fault" of the velocity of information exchange reporting research findings before they have been digested. And that's what we are happily doing here: ruminating.
I vote for worst.
1) The House will not impeach. There genuinely isn't interest and hasn't been interest.
2) New blood won't change that. The Democrats didn't win the Senate so the House knows if they voted to impeach, the Senate would not convict.
3) The House can propose changes but the Senate can choose not to pick them up.
4) If the Senate happened to pass a "liberal" House resolution, the President can veto.
5) The Republican Senate almost certainly cannot muster the votes to override a Presidential veto.
So, the President will not be impeached, Congress will do nothing to roll back Bush's past initiatives, and no new liberal legislation will pass both the Senate and President.
Will the House at least impede more drastic measures Bush may have in planning for the future?
6) About as much as they opposed the Patriot Act. _Provided_ that
7) The nation is thrown into even more chaos so that the Bush agenda can progress. How that chaos is achieved hardly matters as long as it sows fear in the public and the Republicans can rally hysterical patriotism in response to that fear.
So I say not just "worse". Now the time has come to expect the "worst" from this president.
We've had a "nursing shortage" for about 60 years now. Funny thing is, when they raise nurses wages, more people get trained to be a nurse and more people find the time to put in nurses hours. Funny thing about wage incentives.
Good analogy. Our local news had a story the other month that for every nurse working in the state there is something like two or three who are trained but are doing something else because the hours, pay and benefits are crap as a nurse. I would guess this story is similar with business bitching that Chad hasn't developed an infrastructure for $10/day IT jobs (yet).
Our area employment offices are encouraging everyone to have an online portfolio. But not just a resume and work samples. They list about 50 things a person might consider -- including school transcripts. Should be interesting.
It does attempt to grapple with the unique aspects of digital media. It isn't likely that it will lead to other government-sponsored taxes. I don't see a government issued McDonald's coupon book for a free Big Mac/month for paying the McDonald's tax coming any time soon. So the slippery slope argument shouldn't be appropriate.
Is it entirely fair? Well, no. But would it be the worst tax we are paying? I don't think so. Our phone bills already include several dollars of federal tax. Because enough people complained the other year the tax purporting to pay off the frakkin' SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR OF 1898 has been removed though, right?
It would be an _ironic_ tax. As a proud owner of a premiere issue of Revolution magazine I'm both a dedicated Eurotrance listener and someone who is painfully aware that the genre was actively killed like a spreading weed in the U.S. So the government would be collecting a tax from me for music that's hardly played on mass media in the U.S. But I guess it all works out in the end since the music biz is transnationals.
I'm not calling you a liar but how am I as an outsider supposed to reconcile your account with Janis Ian saying that every album of her well over a dozen has been accompanied by a letter from the accounting department telling her how much she owes the label?
All pop arts are a star system. That's almost beside the point. The guy who has spent the last year of weekends cranking out a pulp novel might get $5000 for his effort too. Not that the $5000 isn't welcome but McDonald's would have been as lucrative.
And if the money is in advertising, it really doesn't matter what mechanism a person uses to acquire that celebrity, right?
This proposal ain't gonna fly. Despite what the slashdot-intro claims this is nothing like needing a passport at all. The fundamental reason is that you need a passport in order to *enter* a country, not to leave it.
Requiring any sort of "approval" for leaving a country (your own or any other) is a blatant violation of the human rights.
I'm sure the guy waterboarding you at Gitmo will find your demands for a lawyer amusing.
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The occasional childhood problem was making people believe I felt lousy. Some viruses can make you feel pretty crummy with only a degree or so of fever.
As a down side I wonder if that is a contributing factor to my borderline obesity. I do feel noticeably and unpleasantly cold when I am hungry. And I hate with a passion levels of office air conditioning that others seem to find tolerable.
Since we are taking names, probably the most famous low temperature person?
George W. Bush
President Bush Sails Through Annual Physical
http://www.medpagetoday.com/PrimaryCare/Preventiv
"The one area of [Windows] ownership and use where it becomes apparent that there's an assumption that everyone who uses [Windows] is an expert is hardware support."
Not really, of course. That's why Geeks Squad rakes it in.
Linux needs a visible, nation-wide Penguin Squad.
Same difference.
Normally I would love to bash the current Neocon metastasis of Republicanism as much as the next liberal but I think you are right on this one. Virtually "everyone" voted for the DMCA -- technically, wasn't there a motion to make it unanimous? I wrote Saint Wellstone of Minnesota about it at the time and the reply I got was basically just, "I'd do it again." It's pretty obvious that Republicans own the oil and gas lobbyist money. Is it so hard to imagine that the Democrats have a big piece of the Hollywood lobbyist money?
Oh, great. More jobs going overseas.
[This time next week we can only hope to see how wrong that statement is.]
I just gave up. Actually, I gave up after Quake I on OS/2 and inherited the attitude with linux.
Which isn't to say I don't have any games. (And I consider sims games.)
Sure, TORCS is so 1990 in some ways with better graphics but it _is_ entertaining. Neverball, shishen-sho and solitaire get some of my time.
What I really think should get more credit is FlightGear. I know the graphics are hardly competitive but they get a lot right. And where are you going to get more slavish simulation? The night sky is a planetarium with perceived magnitudes. You get local airport weather with multiple strata. People are populating their cities with buildings. You can buzz cows in the pasture.
I'd say that is low. Usually about 6 or 7. Almost never more than 12.
And spread across three or four pager screens.
Neatness is next to Godliness you know.
If this development drops our Reporters Without Borders press freedom ranking another 20 points we might be equal to Republic of the Congo in next year's listing!
Has there been any instance in our nation's military history where we've won a war without a successful propaganda effort?
Only problem is that the "war on terror" is like the "war on cancer". Personally, I'd rather the government directed its propaganda efforts to the war on cancer. It kills more people.
Well, that's the thing, isn't it? If nothing else, these experiments should help the researchers achieve better clarity in their minds what foundational capabilities are innately desirable and what behavioral shaping can then do with them in combination. It should get complicated very quickly.
I think the idea that things just "emerge" is a bit of a holy grail but it sounds like a fascinating test bed that will complement research on other intelligences.
Your knowledge can be rendered retroactively confidential.
It isn't like nobody saw this coming or anything, is it?
Thanks. It's been driving me crazy and I bet that was it. I knew there was something noteworthy he signed two or three years ago that sounds like it hadn't flopped out from the dark side but I couldn't remember what it was.
This probably has more to do with the hurricanes and winter storms. During Katrina, the Feds were criticised for *not* bringing in the defence force to render aid.
No doubt. Considering how relentless the administration has been in working night and day to restore New Orleans in the short term and assure that secure dikes are constructed to avoid another catastrophe in the longer term, what other justification could there be?