Why dont you just tell the rest of us where you are?
NOTE: the following is purely anecdotal.
I made the leap 1-2 months ago. I have Vista 32-bit as a secondary OS on my MacBook Pro for some Windows coding I have to do on occasion, and I lost my old XP CDs some time ago.
The first day I installed it I had a blue screen when my laptop tried going to sleep, so I disabled the auto-sleep feature. Then a few days/weeks later RedAlert 3 crashed on me shortly after I installed it, and before I patched it.
Save for those 2 incidents Vista has been running stable on my machine. Granted I'm not on it 24/7 but it's been OK.
Whether I'm getting a performance hit, I cannot say. But stability is OK.
In the past it could be seen as a simple investment.
Sure, when you were younger you were giving away some of your paycheck to Social Secutiy and that money would be used by other people to help out when they were old and retired.
But when you get older, you got to collect on other people's checks which can help out when you're old and retired.
Unfortunately, as many have said now we're in a pickle. In a few years it won't really be around anymore, so it's kind of depressing to know that you won't get the full benefit from that money you were donating this whole time.
And with many companies no longer offering such perks as Pension Plans (and such) it's even more depressing.
I agree, there are some areas where the public school are quite good. Unfortunately the cost-of-living in those areas (along w/ property taxes) are quite high.
My old public High School used to be a decent place, back when I graduated (which wasn't THAT long ago) it was ranked in the top 15 of the state and I didn't have a hard time getting accepted into colleges. My graduating class was between 95-105 students.
Unfortunately, since then it has declined due to over crowding and poor management. The graduating class is about 3x what it used to be (with the younger grades even larger), but they've only been able to add a couple of classrooms. Meanwhile most of the managers (Principal, Vice Principal, Board of Ed Chair, etc) have been replaced. It's a shame.
But I doubt it.
Their prices and selection always sucked in my experience, and it does not look like the liquidation will change that.
They can take a beating in the short term.
By me, wherever there's a BestBuy a CircuitCity isn't far away. In fact they're usually just a couple of miles down the same road.
As of this weekend I already see employees with signs this weekend with their "up to 20% off all merchandise" messages. I'm sure that "discount" will start to go up sharply as time goes on. If the CompUSA dive is any indicator, it will hit 50% some time soon.
So really, if you're driving down the road to BestBuy and see signs stating "20%-50% off all Circuit City merchandise" you might visit the store to buy some of your product there.
However once they're gone, local BestBuys will have one less contender to deal with.
I'm OK with the way Hulu handles their ads in TV shows. They have about the same number of commercials-per-episode that a Network station would air. HOWEVER each commercial break consists of only 1 ad which is between 15-30 seconds.
I'm willing to put up with their ad system without a problem. Sure it breaks the flow but most TV shows end their scenes assuming that a network will air a commercial in between.
As for films, I use my NetFlix account for them. As weak as Netflix's OnDemand movie listing is, Hulu's is worse.
Is AES not the more secure of the two? From everything I have read, AES is the preffered option over TKIP.
I recall seeing some AP setups where TKIP was the default scheme.
In the wide spectrum of Luddite to Novice to Hobbyist to Professional there are probably a bunch of users that might know enough to use WPA (perhaps from prodding from friends) and use the default settings with a key (either random or a passphrase).
And this is coming from a guy that watches way too much TV when he's home at night.
If you're a "always have the TV on" kind of person, of course you feel like you can ignore it when you need to, but I suspect your own perceptions on this -- much in the same way that drunks and cellphone users don't realize that their driving is impaired
While I see what you're saying, it's not so much the case with me.
I don't enjoy watching the news and the only time I'll watch sports is with my dad. In my experience 99% of the time a TV is on in a public place it's tuned to either news or sports, at which case I just ignore it because it doesn't interest me.
But as I said, if all of a sudden I hear a stray word coming from the screen that signifies danger (or something very strange) it might grab my attention for a second. And in the case of the psycho astronaut I was glued for much of my lunch.
Now if one of the Prime Time shows that I watch is on somewhere (Heroes, Chuck, Eli Stone, etc) then it would take some effort on my part to ignore the screen.
I'm the other way around. When I walk into a room with a TV playing I ignore it to the point that I don't even know it's there. It takes a major "word" to play before I notice: (crash, death, fire, etc). Pretty much anything that sounds dangerous or something I should know about immediately.
There are TVs on in the room where I eat lunch every day, and the only times I ever paid any attention was during an election OR when the psycho Astronaut was arrested for trying to kidnap someone. I mean, hearing the words Astronaut, kidnapping, crazy, and diapers in one sentence kind of grabs the attention.
And this is coming from a guy that watches way too much TV when he's home at night. It's not hard to ignore it unless there's something that interests you on.
The iPhones aren't the only bad apples in the cell phone basket and there's not much you can do about the problem.
Not much you can do? You can always not buy an iPhone. My phone doesn't cause problem for speakers or my clock radio.
Well, as the grandparent said, iPhones aren't the only ones that do it.
I've had cellphones that do it, and some that didn't appear to. Likewise I have some speakers that are immune to the problem while others (as well as my clock radio) suffer from it greatly.
It's not an iPhone issue but a frequency issue. GSM phones that use GPRS or Edge cause it which covers a LOT of phones. And the iPhone 3G defaults to GPRS when it has a low 3G signal.
I've wondered that in the past as well. I always assumed it depends on how you define "harmful."
It's not like cellphones cause pace makers to mis-fire, CPUs to make miscalculations, storage devices to become corrupt, etc. They emit a frequency that get's picked up (and played) by speakers.
If you classify harmful as "undesirable operation" then yes, it's harmful. But if "undesirable operation" is in a separate category as "harmful" then I guess it's a no harm / no foul as far as the legal-ese goes.
When they release a new model/package of their MacBook Pro laptops (either just slightly faster or completely redesigned) it's not that far outside the cost of comparable newly-released devices from other companies with similar specs.
Unfortunately not only do Apple's prices don't change much but their release cycle is slower than their competitors (such as Dell).
This means by the time that new Apple Laptop has been on the market for a while at a stuck price, Dell has already lowered their asking price and offered various sales. Meanwhile Dell has probably released a newer/faster model while Apple fans are waiting for a magic Tuesday announcement.
Eh, you can't wine about the Mini's price. Dell tried releasing a "Mac Mini" competitor, it's actually more expensive than the mini and not as sleek. Meanwhile Dell has laptops at a better price than their own "Mini."
For whatever reason, it looks like all companies charge a lot for their SUPER compact models (a la Mini) when really it's just a laptop without a screen and keyboard. This is not to be confused with simply small desktop rigs.
Personally I wouldn't buy either Apple's or Dell's "mini" headless units. If I want something with a small footprint and low power-usage I'd buy a cheap laptop from somewhere.
What people really want is for Apple to release a reasonably-priced headless unit again. Something cheaper (and less powerful) than a MacPro yet something more powerful (and larger) than a Mini.
The highway I drive to work on has a 55 MPH limit. Several highways here have 65, but the only time I've seen 70 is when going out of town. 80 is still 10 MPH over that limit.
Yes, but that's you. Others might see 75MpH often and perhaps 80MpH limits on a regular basis. Should companies build this around "you" or the country as a whole? I'd imagine a hard-cap is more reliable than something a parent could adjust via knob/button/etc.
I'm sure there are parents saying "the only highways by me are 55MpH, they should set it to that."
What if they set it to 55, then a teen had to drive on a highway that was 80? Going 20+MpH under a speed limit is sometimes dangerous as other less observant drivers might not expect it around a bend. Then BAM!
Personally I try not to speed on the highway anymore unless there are a lot of cars out, at which point I follow the right lane's flow. That's for gas purposes as well as safety.
I don't see how limiting speed to 80 is very useful at all. That's already extremely fast. For you metric folk:
80 miles per hour = 128.74752 kilometers per hour
Not only that, but some of the most dangerous driving happens in much slower speed zones, for example residential areas, or around schools. How is this going to stop drivers from ploughing over children at 40 mph?
Some states have highways with speed limits of 65MpH and even 75MpH, perhaps higher but the highest I've heard of is 75. So I imagine Ford wouldn't set the limiter to something less than a potential speed limit otherwise people in 75MpH states wouldn't buy the option.
As for lower speed zones, I agree that the risk there is high. However there is not much you can do about that unless you hooked up a GPS system into the limiter that capped the speed to that street's speed limit. But then you're asking for problems when it gets low reception, thinks you're on another street, or you're in a poorly mapped area.
1. Limited TV - Rabbit Ears only or pre-selected DVDs. Yes, we say "no" to many programs. When TV goes digital, oh well - we will not switch.
2. ClarkConnect - proxy, firewall, ad blocker, content filter, anti-virus, spam blocker, for the house. Any connection to my wireless or wired LAN has this protection. The time on the computer is limited and monitored.
3. We have not abdicated authority to our children. They are children, we are the parents. The responsibility for raising them and what they take in is with us, not them.
That all sounds reasonable and mature. More parents should follow most of those guidelines.
However, might you state why you don't want to switch to Digital? It's honest curiosity and not an insult.
It's just a box per TV that costs maybe $30, and from your posts it doesn't sound like you have many TVs. You'll still be on bunny ears and thus limited to CBS/NBS/Fox/CW/etc.
It's one thing if you didn't allow any TV in the first place (I know people that did that) but why go from limited TV to no digital? Unless yo do not believe you will have good reception in your location?
Face it, the stock market is gambling. You are gambling with your money, betting that the multitude of variables that could come together to clusterfuck your investments don't do that and you get some kind of marginal gain.
Caveat emptor, future stock buyer, caveat emptor.
Technically that is true for all investments You're always hoping that:
- All of that money you're putting into 401k isn't wasted because you die in a car accident at 40.
- All of that money you put into Health / Auto insurance pays off some day to cover something expensive.
- The housing market doesn't tank (too late) and you don't lose all of that money you dumped into your house.
- Heck, there's even a risk with an ordinary savings account. The FDIC only covers (I think) $100k per bank, so if you have a lot of money in a bank ($200k, $300k, etc) that goes belly-up then you're S.O.L.
Same here, I was into my teens before it truly sunk in and I accepted it. I mean, how do you notice an absence of something, specifically if it doesn't impede anything you do.
I've read other accounts where people don't really realize it until they're older, either because they never had it.
Being a young kid was no help. Face it, as a young kid the only time a "smell" comes up is when someone would pass gas. And all of the kids' reactions wouldn't start until the first person would blurt out "oh my God who farted?" It was as if they were just reacting to the comment and not some "odor."
So as I got older I would just nod and agree when someone would say "food A smells good" or "mystery substance B stinks" or "do you like the smell of my perfume?"
I never really thought too much about it until I got older, and when I mentioned it to my parents they didn't think I was serious.
I honestly don't think they fully believed me until there was an incident with the gas-stove and I didn't know that it was leaking gas.
When I was in High School, my teachers used to always say, "school is not a democracy." And they're right. If all the kids voted to have the pricipal expelled in a "true" democratic environment, the kids would have mob rule over the school. In otherwords, you have to have some sort of authoritarian system ruling over the unwashed masses of high schoolers.
First off as far as I can tell the student was suspended and not expelled, that is a big difference.
Personally I think what the student did was wrong even if the page had made every possible attempt to ensure that the viewer knew it was fake (like flashing words stating "this is a joke"). I wouldn't bat an eye lash at the student facing criminal or civil charges, especially considering the message in this day in age. Some kids get away with WAY too much.
That being said, I don't know how I feel about the school having a say in this situation. If they can discipline you for something you do on your own time (in your own home) then where does their line end?
I'm well passed school and don't plan on having kids anytime soon so it doesn't affect me, but I know my town's school pokes its nose into home lives way too much.
Can they discipline you if they find out: - you got into a fight over the weekend at a class-mate's house? - you got caught drinking/smoking over the weekend, even though you are NOT part of any after-school activities like sports that screen for it. - do things that might be frowned-upon for someone your age but has no bearing on school what-so-ever? Hunting and learning to drive. - etc
Sure if I were a parent I wouldn't mind if a teacher brought something to my attention I didn't know, such as my kid getting into a fight with a classmate at a friend's house or was smoking at a friend's house. IF it was accurate and they didn't go beyond the pale to get the info then I might even thank them for the head's up.
But if it happened off school grounds and/or off school hours then it should be my place to discipline my kid or (if necessary) the legal system.
I believe that one of the Mac commercials brag about how you can run either OSX or Windows on their machines thanks to BootCamp (it was probably shortly after BootCamp went gold). They probably said something cliche like "the best of both worlds." I don't recall if they mention "or miscellaneous" in that one (to cover Linux and such).
Personally I like OSX more than Windows so I went Mac. However I still have Windows XP Pro on there for some work-related apps and gaming.
I'm not a zealot. Windows XP has been rock-solid stable for me for years and I occasionally think about upping my Windows partition to Vista. So I don't have any qualms about using OSs from both camps, I just prefer OSX over Windows.
Depending on your point of view, the scrollbars (left/right, top/down) could be length and width making up the base of a cube.
Then the tabs are cross-sectional layers going up the height of a cube.
A similar example would be blueprints of a simple rectangular building, where each page is another "floor" of the building. The whole set would represent a 3D model via multiple 2D images.
In my experience people blow these issues up because what they really want is an excuse not to bike. People resist change, it's *so* easy to get in the car and turn the key. It's hard to change your habits and lifestyle and start using the bike more.
Actually, the people I am describing in my quote live at least 20 miles away (one person 60+). For most of them it was a choice to live that far out for kids. 20+ miles each way is too much unless you're really into biking and have access to a shower near/at work.
I agree though, 5 miles is definitely doable for a lot of people. I'd say 10 is doable too if the environment is good enough: bike lanes and/or quiet roads, no major hills/mountainsides, etc. And again, this goes along with whether you're in shape and maybe can shower before getting in.
I'll thank you that your post is at least civil, as opposed to others that usually say "I cannot fathom why everyone doesn't ride their bike to work. Anyone who doesn't is just irresponsible."
Unfortunately biking isn't an option for everyone. I think I once heard the average commute for an American citizen was 30 miles (60 miles round trip). That's a lot of biking every day, and not every workplace has a shower or something to freshen up after such a long trek.
I know a lot of people that live way too far to bike the commute, mostly because they have kids and either want to live somewhere with a good school system or because they work in a shady area.
Plus you have to consider that some settings aren't very bike-friendly.
I think more people SHOULD ride their bike, as I know people that drive 2-3 miles to work every day. But unfortunately most don't have the luxury of working so close to their home.
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Why dont you just tell the rest of us where you are?
NOTE: the following is purely anecdotal.
I made the leap 1-2 months ago. I have Vista 32-bit as a secondary OS on my MacBook Pro for some Windows coding I have to do on occasion, and I lost my old XP CDs some time ago.
The first day I installed it I had a blue screen when my laptop tried going to sleep, so I disabled the auto-sleep feature. Then a few days/weeks later RedAlert 3 crashed on me shortly after I installed it, and before I patched it.
Save for those 2 incidents Vista has been running stable on my machine. Granted I'm not on it 24/7 but it's been OK.
Whether I'm getting a performance hit, I cannot say. But stability is OK.
I still think the SG-1 response to the Replicant question was the best.
Because I too am a turoise.
(a humanoid alien responding while not knowing what a turtoise is).
In the past it could be seen as a simple investment.
Sure, when you were younger you were giving away some of your paycheck to Social Secutiy and that money would be used by other people to help out when they were old and retired.
But when you get older, you got to collect on other people's checks which can help out when you're old and retired.
Unfortunately, as many have said now we're in a pickle. In a few years it won't really be around anymore, so it's kind of depressing to know that you won't get the full benefit from that money you were donating this whole time.
And with many companies no longer offering such perks as Pension Plans (and such) it's even more depressing.
I agree, there are some areas where the public school are quite good. Unfortunately the cost-of-living in those areas (along w/ property taxes) are quite high.
My old public High School used to be a decent place, back when I graduated (which wasn't THAT long ago) it was ranked in the top 15 of the state and I didn't have a hard time getting accepted into colleges. My graduating class was between 95-105 students.
Unfortunately, since then it has declined due to over crowding and poor management. The graduating class is about 3x what it used to be (with the younger grades even larger), but they've only been able to add a couple of classrooms. Meanwhile most of the managers (Principal, Vice Principal, Board of Ed Chair, etc) have been replaced. It's a shame.
I could have sworn when I was at a Hospital, my cellphone was blocked SAVE for 911. I think my screen even said emergency-calls-only.
But I doubt
it.
Their prices and selection always sucked in my experience, and it does not look like the liquidation will change that.
They can take a beating in the short term.
By me, wherever there's a BestBuy a CircuitCity isn't far away. In fact they're usually just a couple of miles down the same road.
As of this weekend I already see employees with signs this weekend with their "up to 20% off all merchandise" messages. I'm sure that "discount" will start to go up sharply as time goes on. If the CompUSA dive is any indicator, it will hit 50% some time soon.
So really, if you're driving down the road to BestBuy and see signs stating "20%-50% off all Circuit City merchandise" you might visit the store to buy some of your product there.
However once they're gone, local BestBuys will have one less contender to deal with.
Do the numbers factor in Sarah Palin at all? I'm too lazy to sign up for the Post.
She was in the news quite a bit, at least a HECK of a lot more than Biden. I'm not saying her press was "good" but there was a lot of it.
Comparing Obama+Biden vs McCain+Palin probably results in closer numbers.
Besides, are we really surprised? Obama running as the Democrat nominee was history in the making. Of course he would get more press.
I'm OK with the way Hulu handles their ads in TV shows. They have about the same number of commercials-per-episode that a Network station would air. HOWEVER each commercial break consists of only 1 ad which is between 15-30 seconds.
I'm willing to put up with their ad system without a problem. Sure it breaks the flow but most TV shows end their scenes assuming that a network will air a commercial in between.
As for films, I use my NetFlix account for them. As weak as Netflix's OnDemand movie listing is, Hulu's is worse.
Is AES not the more secure of the two? From everything I have read, AES is the preffered option over TKIP.
I recall seeing some AP setups where TKIP was the default scheme.
In the wide spectrum of Luddite to Novice to Hobbyist to Professional there are probably a bunch of users that might know enough to use WPA (perhaps from prodding from friends) and use the default settings with a key (either random or a passphrase).
If you're a "always have the TV on" kind of person, of course you feel like you can ignore it when you need to, but I suspect your own perceptions on this -- much in the same way that drunks and cellphone users don't realize that their driving is impaired
While I see what you're saying, it's not so much the case with me.
I don't enjoy watching the news and the only time I'll watch sports is with my dad. In my experience 99% of the time a TV is on in a public place it's tuned to either news or sports, at which case I just ignore it because it doesn't interest me.
But as I said, if all of a sudden I hear a stray word coming from the screen that signifies danger (or something very strange) it might grab my attention for a second. And in the case of the psycho astronaut I was glued for much of my lunch.
Now if one of the Prime Time shows that I watch is on somewhere (Heroes, Chuck, Eli Stone, etc) then it would take some effort on my part to ignore the screen.
I'm the other way around. When I walk into a room with a TV playing I ignore it to the point that I don't even know it's there. It takes a major "word" to play before I notice: (crash, death, fire, etc). Pretty much anything that sounds dangerous or something I should know about immediately.
There are TVs on in the room where I eat lunch every day, and the only times I ever paid any attention was during an election OR when the psycho Astronaut was arrested for trying to kidnap someone. I mean, hearing the words Astronaut, kidnapping, crazy, and diapers in one sentence kind of grabs the attention.
And this is coming from a guy that watches way too much TV when he's home at night. It's not hard to ignore it unless there's something that interests you on.
Not much you can do? You can always not buy an iPhone. My phone doesn't cause problem for speakers or my clock radio.
Well, as the grandparent said, iPhones aren't the only ones that do it.
I've had cellphones that do it, and some that didn't appear to. Likewise I have some speakers that are immune to the problem while others (as well as my clock radio) suffer from it greatly.
It's not an iPhone issue but a frequency issue. GSM phones that use GPRS or Edge cause it which covers a LOT of phones. And the iPhone 3G defaults to GPRS when it has a low 3G signal.
I've wondered that in the past as well. I always assumed it depends on how you define "harmful."
It's not like cellphones cause pace makers to mis-fire, CPUs to make miscalculations, storage devices to become corrupt, etc. They emit a frequency that get's picked up (and played) by speakers.
If you classify harmful as "undesirable operation" then yes, it's harmful. But if "undesirable operation" is in a separate category as "harmful" then I guess it's a no harm / no foul as far as the legal-ese goes.
That's one of the problems with Apple.
When they release a new model/package of their MacBook Pro laptops (either just slightly faster or completely redesigned) it's not that far outside the cost of comparable newly-released devices from other companies with similar specs.
Unfortunately not only do Apple's prices don't change much but their release cycle is slower than their competitors (such as Dell).
This means by the time that new Apple Laptop has been on the market for a while at a stuck price, Dell has already lowered their asking price and offered various sales. Meanwhile Dell has probably released a newer/faster model while Apple fans are waiting for a magic Tuesday announcement.
Eh, you can't wine about the Mini's price. Dell tried releasing a "Mac Mini" competitor, it's actually more expensive than the mini and not as sleek. Meanwhile Dell has laptops at a better price than their own "Mini."
For whatever reason, it looks like all companies charge a lot for their SUPER compact models (a la Mini) when really it's just a laptop without a screen and keyboard. This is not to be confused with simply small desktop rigs.
Personally I wouldn't buy either Apple's or Dell's "mini" headless units. If I want something with a small footprint and low power-usage I'd buy a cheap laptop from somewhere.
What people really want is for Apple to release a reasonably-priced headless unit again. Something cheaper (and less powerful) than a MacPro yet something more powerful (and larger) than a Mini.
The highway I drive to work on has a 55 MPH limit. Several highways here have 65, but the only time I've seen 70 is when going out of town. 80 is still 10 MPH over that limit.
Yes, but that's you. Others might see 75MpH often and perhaps 80MpH limits on a regular basis. Should companies build this around "you" or the country as a whole? I'd imagine a hard-cap is more reliable than something a parent could adjust via knob/button/etc.
I'm sure there are parents saying "the only highways by me are 55MpH, they should set it to that."
What if they set it to 55, then a teen had to drive on a highway that was 80? Going 20+MpH under a speed limit is sometimes dangerous as other less observant drivers might not expect it around a bend. Then BAM!
Personally I try not to speed on the highway anymore unless there are a lot of cars out, at which point I follow the right lane's flow. That's for gas purposes as well as safety.
I don't see how limiting speed to 80 is very useful at all. That's already extremely fast. For you metric folk:
80 miles per hour = 128.74752 kilometers per hour
Not only that, but some of the most dangerous driving happens in much slower speed zones, for example residential areas, or around schools. How is this going to stop drivers from ploughing over children at 40 mph?
Some states have highways with speed limits of 65MpH and even 75MpH, perhaps higher but the highest I've heard of is 75. So I imagine Ford wouldn't set the limiter to something less than a potential speed limit otherwise people in 75MpH states wouldn't buy the option.
As for lower speed zones, I agree that the risk there is high. However there is not much you can do about that unless you hooked up a GPS system into the limiter that capped the speed to that street's speed limit. But then you're asking for problems when it gets low reception, thinks you're on another street, or you're in a poorly mapped area.
We have implemented the following...
1. Limited TV - Rabbit Ears only or pre-selected DVDs. Yes, we say "no" to many programs. When TV goes digital, oh well - we will not switch.
2. ClarkConnect - proxy, firewall, ad blocker, content filter, anti-virus, spam blocker, for the house. Any connection to my wireless or wired LAN has this protection. The time on the computer is limited and monitored.
3. We have not abdicated authority to our children. They are children, we are the parents. The responsibility for raising them and what they take in is with us, not them.
That all sounds reasonable and mature. More parents should follow most of those guidelines.
However, might you state why you don't want to switch to Digital? It's honest curiosity and not an insult.
It's just a box per TV that costs maybe $30, and from your posts it doesn't sound like you have many TVs. You'll still be on bunny ears and thus limited to CBS/NBS/Fox/CW/etc.
It's one thing if you didn't allow any TV in the first place (I know people that did that) but why go from limited TV to no digital? Unless yo do not believe you will have good reception in your location?
Face it, the stock market is gambling. You are gambling with your money, betting that the multitude of variables that could come together to clusterfuck your investments don't do that and you get some kind of marginal gain.
Caveat emptor, future stock buyer, caveat emptor.
Technically that is true for all investments You're always hoping that:
- All of that money you're putting into 401k isn't wasted because you die in a car accident at 40.
- All of that money you put into Health / Auto insurance pays off some day to cover something expensive.
- The housing market doesn't tank (too late) and you don't lose all of that money you dumped into your house.
- Heck, there's even a risk with an ordinary savings account. The FDIC only covers (I think) $100k per bank, so if you have a lot of money in a bank ($200k, $300k, etc) that goes belly-up then you're S.O.L.
Same here, I was into my teens before it truly sunk in and I accepted it. I mean, how do you notice an absence of something, specifically if it doesn't impede anything you do.
I've read other accounts where people don't really realize it until they're older, either because they never had it.
Being a young kid was no help. Face it, as a young kid the only time a "smell" comes up is when someone would pass gas. And all of the kids' reactions wouldn't start until the first person would blurt out "oh my God who farted?" It was as if they were just reacting to the comment and not some "odor."
So as I got older I would just nod and agree when someone would say "food A smells good" or "mystery substance B stinks" or "do you like the smell of my perfume?"
I never really thought too much about it until I got older, and when I mentioned it to my parents they didn't think I was serious.
I honestly don't think they fully believed me until there was an incident with the gas-stove and I didn't know that it was leaking gas.
When I was in High School, my teachers used to always say, "school is not a democracy." And they're right. If all the kids voted to have the pricipal expelled in a "true" democratic environment, the kids would have mob rule over the school. In otherwords, you have to have some sort of authoritarian system ruling over the unwashed masses of high schoolers.
First off as far as I can tell the student was suspended and not expelled, that is a big difference.
Personally I think what the student did was wrong even if the page had made every possible attempt to ensure that the viewer knew it was fake (like flashing words stating "this is a joke"). I wouldn't bat an eye lash at the student facing criminal or civil charges, especially considering the message in this day in age. Some kids get away with WAY too much.
That being said, I don't know how I feel about the school having a say in this situation. If they can discipline you for something you do on your own time (in your own home) then where does their line end?
I'm well passed school and don't plan on having kids anytime soon so it doesn't affect me, but I know my town's school pokes its nose into home lives way too much.
Can they discipline you if they find out:
- you got into a fight over the weekend at a class-mate's house?
- you got caught drinking/smoking over the weekend, even though you are NOT part of any after-school activities like sports that screen for it.
- do things that might be frowned-upon for someone your age but has no bearing on school what-so-ever? Hunting and learning to drive.
- etc
Sure if I were a parent I wouldn't mind if a teacher brought something to my attention I didn't know, such as my kid getting into a fight with a classmate at a friend's house or was smoking at a friend's house. IF it was accurate and they didn't go beyond the pale to get the info then I might even thank them for the head's up.
But if it happened off school grounds and/or off school hours then it should be my place to discipline my kid or (if necessary) the legal system.
I believe that one of the Mac commercials brag about how you can run either OSX or Windows on their machines thanks to BootCamp (it was probably shortly after BootCamp went gold). They probably said something cliche like "the best of both worlds." I don't recall if they mention "or miscellaneous" in that one (to cover Linux and such).
Personally I like OSX more than Windows so I went Mac. However I still have Windows XP Pro on there for some work-related apps and gaming.
I'm not a zealot. Windows XP has been rock-solid stable for me for years and I occasionally think about upping my Windows partition to Vista.
So I don't have any qualms about using OSs from both camps, I just prefer OSX over Windows.
Depending on your point of view, the scrollbars (left/right, top/down) could be length and width making up the base of a cube.
Then the tabs are cross-sectional layers going up the height of a cube.
A similar example would be blueprints of a simple rectangular building, where each page is another "floor" of the building. The whole set would represent a 3D model via multiple 2D images.
Actually, the people I am describing in my quote live at least 20 miles away (one person 60+). For most of them it was a choice to live that far out for kids. 20+ miles each way is too much unless you're really into biking and have access to a shower near/at work.
I agree though, 5 miles is definitely doable for a lot of people. I'd say 10 is doable too if the environment is good enough: bike lanes and/or quiet roads, no major hills/mountainsides, etc. And again, this goes along with whether you're in shape and maybe can shower before getting in.
Someone always suggests biking as an alternative.
I'll thank you that your post is at least civil, as opposed to others that usually say "I cannot fathom why everyone doesn't ride their bike to work. Anyone who doesn't is just irresponsible."
Unfortunately biking isn't an option for everyone. I think I once heard the average commute for an American citizen was 30 miles (60 miles round trip). That's a lot of biking every day, and not every workplace has a shower or something to freshen up after such a long trek.
I know a lot of people that live way too far to bike the commute, mostly because they have kids and either want to live somewhere with a good school system or because they work in a shady area.
Plus you have to consider that some settings aren't very bike-friendly.
I think more people SHOULD ride their bike, as I know people that drive 2-3 miles to work every day. But unfortunately most don't have the luxury of working so close to their home.