That is actually a good approximation of how schools in the Netherlands (used to) work. After 6th grade (age 12-ish), you have an aptitude test that "pigeon holes" students to the following school-types (usually actually separate schools, with specialization): - LBO (Lower Professional Education), with some classes like shop, but otherwise a generic education, aimed at producing young blue-collar workers, filling out their minimum legal requirements as to education. Four years nominally. - MAVO (Middle Generically Forming Education), aimed at getting people into lower-class white-collar jobs. Four years also, nominally. - HAVO (Higher etc etc), aimed at producing knowledge workers, generally preparation for college (not university, see below), but capable of entering the job market immediately as well. Five years nominal. - VWO (Preparatory Scientific Education), aimed at getting kids prepped for univeristy or college. Six years nominal.
Higher education, that goes beyond these minimal requirements, and is directed at a single type of worker: - MBO (Middle Professional Education), wide range of subject matter, produces anything from programmers to mechanics. Lower-tier education. - HBO (Higher Professional Education), what I'd call a college. Similar wide range, and currently produces Bachelors degrees - University, produces Masters degrees.
This stratification allows for streamlines education. The same type of stuff is treated, but more in-depth at the higher levels, and with classes that are at about the same level of ability. Mostly the first half is completely fixed, and halfway through you can take up or drop some subjects, according to what you may have planned. LBO and MAVO (now joined into the dumpster of education, VMBO) students are pretty much expected to go right to work after school.
I don't think double taxes would cover it. I pay an average of 42% income tax, 19% sales tax on most things, 6% on food and such.
As for transportation, I picked out a lease car from my work, which had a retail price of 23k euro's, and a before-taxes price of 14k euro's (19% sales tax and 'BPM', a separate tax on new vehicles). After this, a car owner would pay road tax, several hundred a year. Then you pay the equivalent of US$7.25 per US gallon for gas, which mostly comprises tax.
Mostly I don't consider this a bad thing, but we only ever get new taxes, even when older taxes were supposed to have been *replaced* by the newer taxes. But it ain't all roses.
Meh, that's not really a good point. I don't need my 8Mbit (which I actually have) all the time. If my ISP can juggle usage patterns to ensure I get my 8Mbit when I need it, why should I care? It's the main way to actually turn a profit on this internet business. At least, when there's some competition. In the Netherlands, low-end internet connections are provided at a net loss to the major ISP's.
Think of it as insurance, or banks. If we all needed our insurance to pay up, we'd get nothing and the insurance company would go belly up. Same with banks. Aggregating resources and parcelling them out according to need is a pretty standard way of doing business.
What use is your right to a backup copy if you cannot use the copy, ever? You have to break one law to make use of your rights guaranteed in another law, and that is ridiculous.
Depending on where you live..if you're tanked and pulled over. Best thing (according to the lawyers I've spoken with) is to not say a word, and just hold your hands out for the cuffs. Don't take any field tests...they are just trying to collect evidence on you.
Regardless of where you live, if you're tanked and pulled over, you were driving. That means you're a fucking retarded asshole, and you should go home and shoot yourself in the face. As often as you can swing it. I take a dim view of people who slur "I can handle it" when risking other people's lives.
Don't drink and drive. It's not a difficult maxim to live by. To break it down further: drink and do not drive or drive and do not drink. Choose one.
From my read of TFA, fructose breaks down in the body the way alcohol does. The liver has to do all the work (glucose is mainly broken down directly in muscles and organs, where it is useful), and turns it to fat, while not raising insulin levels. Not raising insulin levels means the body doesn't know it has enough sugar already, which means apetite doesn't decrease in the amount it should.
Now, fruits have the exact same fructose in it. Why are fruits better? For one, they come with other nutrients. For another, to consume the amount of fructose in a glass of coke, you'd have to eat a whole bushel of apples. The logistics prevent you from overindulging in fruits, while soda's are all about overindulging.
My point was that you mostly just need math if your problem domain requires it. If you're writing a crypto library, you need strong overall math skills. If you're writing a 3D graphics application, you need linear algebra. If you're writing business process management software, math requirements drop sharply.
To understand crypto, 3D graphics, image processing, etc you need math. But writing a crypto library is not part of the definition of software development.
If I build software for managing agricultural auctions, I need to have in-depth understanding about agricultural auctions; linear algebra won't be of nearly as much use as it would be for 3D graphics.
In a proper system, that would not happen, because insurance companies would be forced to pay out for certain classes of problems by the government that makes sure they get paid by mandating insurance, regardless of circumstance.
They still screw you on things like paying you for lost income (becoming work-incapable for a long time in an accident, for example), but they can't stick you with the medical bills.
Not quite. Have there been cases of ID theft because of RFID tags? I believe her.
Then you get to why: Because we're not identifying ourselves with RFID tags yet. If you hold up a blank card with your RFID chip in there as your ID card, well, try flying with that; it'll be fun, I promise.
You seem to be thinking of Reactable. The main difference is that Reactable uses a camera and fiducial symbols. Reactable is really a great and low-cost system, which works fairly well (just sketching one of the symbols with marker got it recognizable). They've segregated the optical processing and the application layer very well from what I could tell, which should lead to clean and easy apps.
MS appears to be using a combination, as the guy showed some optical symbols on the bottom of objects as well.
Most TV shows that are ripped from TV (often HDTV sources in Leftpondia) weigh in at 350MB per episode. These are watchable enough, as attested by the tens or hundreds of thousands of people who download these episodes (from my own favorite torrent site alone).
Apart from solar activity causing powerplants to be shut down (as I recall reading), keep in mind that we very much depend on satellites being alive, these days, and satellites are less well naturally shielded than earthbound electronics.
You call tech support, you have to give them some way to identify you, even if you're just asking what the weather is like in India. It's the way these things do business.
The fact that you were transferred to tech support for a sales&support question *is* wrong, of course, but I don't understand the outrage I sensed from your post.
How do you know you were transferred to India? Your only proof is someone with an Indian accent. It's not like there aren't any Indian-Americans or anything.
You didn't provide the requested serial number? Are you aware that tech support desks typically are required to log all calls, so that when YOU call back saying "You transferred me to another sub-continent" they can actually see what happened and that you're not one of the many *lying* customers just trying to get extra-free super service? (there are many of those). With out-sourced tech support especially, such procedures are important, as they provide one of the bases for payment.
I can understand the 'sigh' of the Rep. I probably would've told you that if you are unwilling or unable to follow directions, we cannot direct you to a solution, so please call back when you have the required information handy, and have a nice day. After which you would be precisely the customer I'd gripe about at the water cooler.
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That is actually a good approximation of how schools in the Netherlands (used to) work. After 6th grade (age 12-ish), you have an aptitude test that "pigeon holes" students to the following school-types (usually actually separate schools, with specialization):
- LBO (Lower Professional Education), with some classes like shop, but otherwise a generic education, aimed at producing young blue-collar workers, filling out their minimum legal requirements as to education. Four years nominally.
- MAVO (Middle Generically Forming Education), aimed at getting people into lower-class white-collar jobs. Four years also, nominally.
- HAVO (Higher etc etc), aimed at producing knowledge workers, generally preparation for college (not university, see below), but capable of entering the job market immediately as well. Five years nominal.
- VWO (Preparatory Scientific Education), aimed at getting kids prepped for univeristy or college. Six years nominal.
Higher education, that goes beyond these minimal requirements, and is directed at a single type of worker:
- MBO (Middle Professional Education), wide range of subject matter, produces anything from programmers to mechanics. Lower-tier education.
- HBO (Higher Professional Education), what I'd call a college. Similar wide range, and currently produces Bachelors degrees
- University, produces Masters degrees.
This stratification allows for streamlines education. The same type of stuff is treated, but more in-depth at the higher levels, and with classes that are at about the same level of ability. Mostly the first half is completely fixed, and halfway through you can take up or drop some subjects, according to what you may have planned. LBO and MAVO (now joined into the dumpster of education, VMBO) students are pretty much expected to go right to work after school.
I don't think double taxes would cover it. I pay an average of 42% income tax, 19% sales tax on most things, 6% on food and such.
As for transportation, I picked out a lease car from my work, which had a retail price of 23k euro's, and a before-taxes price of 14k euro's (19% sales tax and 'BPM', a separate tax on new vehicles). After this, a car owner would pay road tax, several hundred a year. Then you pay the equivalent of US$7.25 per US gallon for gas, which mostly comprises tax.
Mostly I don't consider this a bad thing, but we only ever get new taxes, even when older taxes were supposed to have been *replaced* by the newer taxes. But it ain't all roses.
Meh, that's not really a good point. I don't need my 8Mbit (which I actually have) all the time. If my ISP can juggle usage patterns to ensure I get my 8Mbit when I need it, why should I care? It's the main way to actually turn a profit on this internet business. At least, when there's some competition. In the Netherlands, low-end internet connections are provided at a net loss to the major ISP's.
Think of it as insurance, or banks. If we all needed our insurance to pay up, we'd get nothing and the insurance company would go belly up. Same with banks. Aggregating resources and parcelling them out according to need is a pretty standard way of doing business.
Not 'les afaire', but laissez-faire. It's French.
What use is your right to a backup copy if you cannot use the copy, ever? You have to break one law to make use of your rights guaranteed in another law, and that is ridiculous.
Hah, thank you :)
Regardless of where you live, if you're tanked and pulled over, you were driving. That means you're a fucking retarded asshole, and you should go home and shoot yourself in the face. As often as you can swing it. I take a dim view of people who slur "I can handle it" when risking other people's lives.
Don't drink and drive. It's not a difficult maxim to live by. To break it down further: drink and do not drive or drive and do not drink. Choose one.
From my read of TFA, fructose breaks down in the body the way alcohol does. The liver has to do all the work (glucose is mainly broken down directly in muscles and organs, where it is useful), and turns it to fat, while not raising insulin levels. Not raising insulin levels means the body doesn't know it has enough sugar already, which means apetite doesn't decrease in the amount it should.
Now, fruits have the exact same fructose in it. Why are fruits better? For one, they come with other nutrients. For another, to consume the amount of fructose in a glass of coke, you'd have to eat a whole bushel of apples. The logistics prevent you from overindulging in fruits, while soda's are all about overindulging.
My point was that you mostly just need math if your problem domain requires it. If you're writing a crypto library, you need strong overall math skills. If you're writing a 3D graphics application, you need linear algebra. If you're writing business process management software, math requirements drop sharply.
To understand crypto, 3D graphics, image processing, etc you need math. But writing a crypto library is not part of the definition of software development.
If I build software for managing agricultural auctions, I need to have in-depth understanding about agricultural auctions; linear algebra won't be of nearly as much use as it would be for 3D graphics.
In a proper system, that would not happen, because insurance companies would be forced to pay out for certain classes of problems by the government that makes sure they get paid by mandating insurance, regardless of circumstance.
They still screw you on things like paying you for lost income (becoming work-incapable for a long time in an accident, for example), but they can't stick you with the medical bills.
Not quite. Have there been cases of ID theft because of RFID tags? I believe her.
Then you get to why: Because we're not identifying ourselves with RFID tags yet. If you hold up a blank card with your RFID chip in there as your ID card, well, try flying with that; it'll be fun, I promise.
You seem to be thinking of Reactable. The main difference is that Reactable uses a camera and fiducial symbols. Reactable is really a great and low-cost system, which works fairly well (just sketching one of the symbols with marker got it recognizable). They've segregated the optical processing and the application layer very well from what I could tell, which should lead to clean and easy apps.
MS appears to be using a combination, as the guy showed some optical symbols on the bottom of objects as well.
Probably successfully.
Yeah, in Soviet Russia, maybe.
I want to take Duke Nukem Forever. Tell me when it's done, and I'm off to the island.
Same way you do with every other type of cable: You don't. On the upside, they might miss one now, occasionally.
No.
Freedom is doing anything you want. Anarchy is doing anything you can.
"...nothing more than prostitution" you said. That implies a bias: that prostitution is low. It may be unintentional, but there you go.
You misspelled 'kehbonxc'.
HTH, HAND.
I care that sites I like don't charge me money. I like that sites that provide useful or entertaining content can continue to exist.
I don't block ads, because that would conflict with the above.
--( I do block flash though, with FlashBlock )
Most TV shows that are ripped from TV (often HDTV sources in Leftpondia) weigh in at 350MB per episode. These are watchable enough, as attested by the tens or hundreds of thousands of people who download these episodes (from my own favorite torrent site alone).
Apart from solar activity causing powerplants to be shut down (as I recall reading), keep in mind that we very much depend on satellites being alive, these days, and satellites are less well naturally shielded than earthbound electronics.
"I really could care less if it was or not"
ITYM "couldn't". Sorry, pet peeve.
You call tech support, you have to give them some way to identify you, even if you're just asking what the weather is like in India. It's the way these things do business.
The fact that you were transferred to tech support for a sales&support question *is* wrong, of course, but I don't understand the outrage I sensed from your post.
How do you know you were transferred to India? Your only proof is someone with an Indian accent. It's not like there aren't any Indian-Americans or anything.
You didn't provide the requested serial number? Are you aware that tech support desks typically are required to log all calls, so that when YOU call back saying "You transferred me to another sub-continent" they can actually see what happened and that you're not one of the many *lying* customers just trying to get extra-free super service? (there are many of those). With out-sourced tech support especially, such procedures are important, as they provide one of the bases for payment.
I can understand the 'sigh' of the Rep. I probably would've told you that if you are unwilling or unable to follow directions, we cannot direct you to a solution, so please call back when you have the required information handy, and have a nice day. After which you would be precisely the customer I'd gripe about at the water cooler.
God I'm glad to be out of fucking tech support.