We attended a DARE graduation ceremony for our daughter and several of the children "performed" various skits, raps, songs, etc. Many of these included profanity which (we later found out from speaking with the principal) the school had encouraged because they had to "keep it real" in order to "get through to the kids" so they wouldn't use drugs.
News flash. Apple and Dell don't make computers. All the computers come from the same two or three contract manufacturers in China. They just have different brand names on them. Lenovo included. Apple and Dell will not have any problem "competing" since they all just call the contract manufacturer and place their order.
I notice real differences between a G4 mini and an Intel Core Duo mini for the work I do (i.e. the product I am developing - I use the minis for test.) The Core Duo mini performs as well as my dual proc Power Mac G5 - the G4 minis are very sluggish at the same task, although they do basically work.
OTOH, I have an old titanium G4 PowerBook that I am still perfectly happy with. I think I can get another year out of it before I buy a MacBook Pro. Maybe by then, they will have most of the issues worked out.
That's not what is going on in the article, though. The online school is basically there to help parents who are home schooling their children.
Frankly, there are a lot of things that children "learn" in school that I think are counter productive. We just moved to New York (Long Island) this year (from the west coast), and the school here is terrible. All the kids are "dating" in 5th grade (which I think is the parent's fault). The school has dances for 5th grade. They are two years behind where her old school was in pretty much every academic subject. The kids are allowed and even encouraged to use profanity in school.
So, next year she will be attending a private school. One semester at the crappy New York school is too much.
No, you haven't committed fraud. However, if you write a script to automatically do that and send it to thousands of zombie PCs that you have pwned, then that would be fraud.
Also, the higher the rate of click fraud, the less value google's ads have. The less value they have, the less google can charge. Their costs to produce the ads are quite small, but they are not zero. Therefore, to stay competitive Google would have to lower the price of the ads in order to account for click fraud which lowers their profit margin on the ads.
When Dick Cheney said "deficits don't matter", my thought was, "Fine. Let's close down the IRS and just borrow all the money we need to run the government forever. In fact, just borrow money to pay the interest on what you've already borrowed."
I've found that most websites work correctly under Safari too. I think the browser developers have become more aggressive about supporting things even if it doesn't meet the standards.
Prostitution in Nevada is limited to counties which have a population below a certain number. Effectively it means that it is not legal in Las Vegas, Reno/Sparks, or Carson City (the three main cities in Nevada).
I'm a billionaire, and I want to sit in my mansion all day and do coke, who the fuck are YOU to say that's wrong? it's my life, it's my house, and I'm paying for it with my own money. Right there, whether you agree with drug use or not - doesn't matter. It's about freedom. Ditto with gambling. But when a crackhead steals my bike to pawn at a pawnshop to finance their need, I tend to get a wee bit pissed off.
This is the problem with trying to make the laws too fancy. The right way to handle this is to outlaw STEALING, not some other behavior (drug use) that someone thinks may be related to stealing. Frankly, I don't care why someone is stealing, I just care that they are stealing.
Also, certifying online casinos is much harder, especially if they are located in another country. Consider this example: you win some amount of money and you are unable to get the money you won (a specially designed 404 page or whatever) but you'll lose real money if you lose in the game. Or stuff like a software roulette that is "intelligent", e.g. isn't completely random and tries to make you rise the stake and makes sure you won't win if the stake is high enough. At least if a live person's cheating you can notice something unusual.
That's a good reason not to gamble online. However, I don't see it as a valid reason to prevent others from gambling online. The purpose of gambling is that the people doing it lose all their money. If they lose it faster, what the hell do I care?
That is a total load of crap. I find the argument that hollywood filmmakers are "artists" who have any "integrity" to be highly dubious.
There are many movies that would be completely ruined by trimming out violence, profanity, or nudity. There are also plenty of movies where editing out a little bit of material makes the movie actually better.
I think that many films decide that they need a certain rating for marketing reasons and then add material (profanity or whatever) in order to achieve a PG-13, or an R or whatever they are trying to achieve.
I thought the DMCA explicitly allowed things like CleanFlicks?
Your post makes me feel really old. When I was in High School, there was a smoking area for students. The school did not do locker searches. We had an open campus, meaning that kids could leave the school grounds when they weren't in an actual class such as at lunch. Some older kids could potentially have a free hour (i.e. no class that hour) and be free to leave campus.
I don't recall ever being in trouble for ANYTHING in high school and my friends and I would go off and get stoned or drop acid during lunch.
You could be late getting to EACH class 4 times per half semester without any consequences. After that, you would have consequences, but I would occasionally be late getting back from lunch or getting to school in the morning.
I used to keep medicine in my locker such as aspirin, cold medicine, alka-seltzer, etc. in case I got sick at school. No one ever gave me any trouble about it either. I would also bring a mug of coffee with me in the morning and drink it during first period and no one ever cared about that either. In fact, my first period teacher would give me refills from her coffee maker.
Technically I wasn't supposed to be buying cigarettes under 18. Technically, I wasn't supposed to have medicine in my locker. Technically I wasn't supposed to take drugs during lunch. But if you were nice and polite and did your homework, and kept things that were technically against the rules on the "down low", things were OK.
If I were in school now, I'd probably be suspended for many of these things if not expelled. Instead, I was in the Honor Society.
I used to think motorcycles were "scary" and "lame", but then I decided to get one. I found out they are cool and awesome. Riding a motorcycle is totally fun. Plus, most bikers are really nice. In fact, I have found that motorcyclists pretty much usually wave to each other as they pass. Sometimes when I am in my car, I want to wave to bikers, but I think you are only supposed to do that when you are actually on the bike.
Microsoft's DRM can be as flexible and as inflexible as the provider of the music service would like.
<sarcasm>I'm sure this won't be confusing. Also, I am sure that most music companies will want their music to have very little restriction on its use.</sarcasm>
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We attended a DARE graduation ceremony for our daughter and several of the children "performed" various skits, raps, songs, etc. Many of these included profanity which (we later found out from speaking with the principal) the school had encouraged because they had to "keep it real" in order to "get through to the kids" so they wouldn't use drugs.
This reasoning seemed completely faulty to me.
News flash. Apple and Dell don't make computers. All the computers come from the same two or three contract manufacturers in China. They just have different brand names on them. Lenovo included. Apple and Dell will not have any problem "competing" since they all just call the contract manufacturer and place their order.
What kind of iMac? What kind of mini?
I notice real differences between a G4 mini and an Intel Core Duo mini for the work I do (i.e. the product I am developing - I use the minis for test.) The Core Duo mini performs as well as my dual proc Power Mac G5 - the G4 minis are very sluggish at the same task, although they do basically work.
OTOH, I have an old titanium G4 PowerBook that I am still perfectly happy with. I think I can get another year out of it before I buy a MacBook Pro. Maybe by then, they will have most of the issues worked out.
That's not what is going on in the article, though. The online school is basically there to help parents who are home schooling their children.
Frankly, there are a lot of things that children "learn" in school that I think are counter productive. We just moved to New York (Long Island) this year (from the west coast), and the school here is terrible. All the kids are "dating" in 5th grade (which I think is the parent's fault). The school has dances for 5th grade. They are two years behind where her old school was in pretty much every academic subject. The kids are allowed and even encouraged to use profanity in school.
So, next year she will be attending a private school. One semester at the crappy New York school is too much.
Anyone who honestly believes in god is an idiot.
No, you haven't committed fraud. However, if you write a script to automatically do that and send it to thousands of zombie PCs that you have pwned, then that would be fraud.
Also, the higher the rate of click fraud, the less value google's ads have. The less value they have, the less google can charge. Their costs to produce the ads are quite small, but they are not zero. Therefore, to stay competitive Google would have to lower the price of the ads in order to account for click fraud which lowers their profit margin on the ads.
OK, I went to the Click Monkeys site. I have a hard time believing that it is not a joke, especially given their "testamonials".
Some people use wine to run windows software, but personally I whine anytime I have to run windows software.
When Dick Cheney said "deficits don't matter", my thought was, "Fine. Let's close down the IRS and just borrow all the money we need to run the government forever. In fact, just borrow money to pay the interest on what you've already borrowed."
Obviously this would be ridiculous.
I have a mac with the following browsers installed: Safari, Camino, Firefox, Opera, and OmniWeb (with a paid for license).
I'm currently writing a browser plug-in.
I like Safari the best of these.
I've found that most websites work correctly under Safari too. I think the browser developers have become more aggressive about supporting things even if it doesn't meet the standards.
Right. They have a web authoring tool. It is called iWeb.
Prostitution in Nevada is limited to counties which have a population below a certain number. Effectively it means that it is not legal in Las Vegas, Reno/Sparks, or Carson City (the three main cities in Nevada).
You say that prostitution should be legal, but the johns might be with your health insurance company. Thats going to cost you too.
I hate that argument. If you follow that very far, it will lead you to a very, very dark place.
I'm a billionaire, and I want to sit in my mansion all day and do coke, who the fuck are YOU to say that's wrong? it's my life, it's my house, and I'm paying for it with my own money. Right there, whether you agree with drug use or not - doesn't matter. It's about freedom. Ditto with gambling. But when a crackhead steals my bike to pawn at a pawnshop to finance their need, I tend to get a wee bit pissed off.
This is the problem with trying to make the laws too fancy. The right way to handle this is to outlaw STEALING, not some other behavior (drug use) that someone thinks may be related to stealing. Frankly, I don't care why someone is stealing, I just care that they are stealing.
Also, certifying online casinos is much harder, especially if they are located in another country. Consider this example: you win some amount of money and you are unable to get the money you won (a specially designed 404 page or whatever) but you'll lose real money if you lose in the game. Or stuff like a software roulette that is "intelligent", e.g. isn't completely random and tries to make you rise the stake and makes sure you won't win if the stake is high enough. At least if a live person's cheating you can notice something unusual.
That's a good reason not to gamble online. However, I don't see it as a valid reason to prevent others from gambling online. The purpose of gambling is that the people doing it lose all their money. If they lose it faster, what the hell do I care?
Given the huge amount of cash flow involved, I'm amazed that Congress doesn't want to tap into it rather than try banning it.
Maybe it is because Congress prefers to borrow the money it spends rather than get revenue from taxes.
How about forcing me to accept marriages that happen on "reality TV"?
That is a total load of crap. I find the argument that hollywood filmmakers are "artists" who have any "integrity" to be highly dubious.
There are many movies that would be completely ruined by trimming out violence, profanity, or nudity. There are also plenty of movies where editing out a little bit of material makes the movie actually better.
I think that many films decide that they need a certain rating for marketing reasons and then add material (profanity or whatever) in order to achieve a PG-13, or an R or whatever they are trying to achieve.
I thought the DMCA explicitly allowed things like CleanFlicks?
Your post makes me feel really old. When I was in High School, there was a smoking area for students. The school did not do locker searches. We had an open campus, meaning that kids could leave the school grounds when they weren't in an actual class such as at lunch. Some older kids could potentially have a free hour (i.e. no class that hour) and be free to leave campus.
I don't recall ever being in trouble for ANYTHING in high school and my friends and I would go off and get stoned or drop acid during lunch.
You could be late getting to EACH class 4 times per half semester without any consequences. After that, you would have consequences, but I would occasionally be late getting back from lunch or getting to school in the morning.
I used to keep medicine in my locker such as aspirin, cold medicine, alka-seltzer, etc. in case I got sick at school. No one ever gave me any trouble about it either. I would also bring a mug of coffee with me in the morning and drink it during first period and no one ever cared about that either. In fact, my first period teacher would give me refills from her coffee maker.
Technically I wasn't supposed to be buying cigarettes under 18. Technically, I wasn't supposed to have medicine in my locker. Technically I wasn't supposed to take drugs during lunch. But if you were nice and polite and did your homework, and kept things that were technically against the rules on the "down low", things were OK.
If I were in school now, I'd probably be suspended for many of these things if not expelled. Instead, I was in the Honor Society.
I used to think motorcycles were "scary" and "lame", but then I decided to get one. I found out they are cool and awesome. Riding a motorcycle is totally fun. Plus, most bikers are really nice. In fact, I have found that motorcyclists pretty much usually wave to each other as they pass. Sometimes when I am in my car, I want to wave to bikers, but I think you are only supposed to do that when you are actually on the bike.
Also, side car bikes rule.
Microsoft's DRM can be as flexible and as inflexible as the provider of the music service would like.
<sarcasm>I'm sure this won't be confusing. Also, I am sure that most music companies will want their music to have very little restriction on its use.</sarcasm>
Too bad I don't have mod points today. This is hilarious.
Dude, grits are corn, not potatoes.