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...wonderful. Chicago has great public transportation, and since I live in the city, I don't feel the need to own a car.
However, there are times when a car is handy, such as when I bought a 35 inch TV. I-Go let me rent a van/SUV which looked darned near brand new. After keying in the code, the ignition turned and off I went. I had the car for six hours...returned it right on time on a weekend evening and went home to enjoy my new TV and home gym. No, I didn't aim to buy gym equipment that day, but what the heck, I had the vehicle...
I hope this concept grows. It is very convenient and makes good sense.
The suburbs are great for shopping....but that's about it...need a car to get there when I have to suffer the trip to "homogeneous land".
However, i do feel an undercurrent of depression in most posts nowadays and just wanted to share my thoughts with all of you.
Good point. We are depressed. We are all in dead-end careers that took us, minimally, a 4 year degree and 4-10 years of study and experience and now our financial worth on the job market is....well, zilch when there are few jobs. For most of us in our thirties, switching careers is like trying to find your one true love....the harder you look, the more desperate you become, the less likely you'll succeed.
If you don't take joy in writing code, get out. Now. It doesn't get better. Period.
I'll stick to reading science fiction. At least the hero gets to fly around in space ships, or build something to save mankind. Living vicariously through a science fiction hero is always better than reading about how ridiculous my current life has become.
I forgot to respond to the other issue...that of 'should whites today be responsible for yesterday'.
The point isn't who is responsible. We are collectively responsible, blacks and whites. Our situation is such that the harder whites refuse to acknowledge the pain of blacks, the more blacks demand it. As you can see, this problem is bringing our whole country down.
You can continue to harp on "but WE didn't do it, THEY did it!" and watch us spiral downward, or accept that not accepting responsibility and continuing to reap the reward of treating blacks as animals while our children inherit the same pain.
"Out of curiousity, should Asians apologize? If not, what about whites whose ancestors were not present in the 19th century?"
In order to continue enslaving blacks, they were supposed inferior. This rationale was perfected in the 3/4ths or was it 2/3rds person clause in the Constitution or whatever. Asians were never supposed, in a legal fashion, to be less than human.
The elephant in the room is that we Americans cannot state in any way that one child is "better" or smarter than another without making every effort to include the excluded.
The US has this problem because of the legacy of slavery and the wounds from it that have not healed.
It won't be fixed until the "majority", that is, white people, apologize collectively and sincerely, and blacks admit that harping on it isn't going to get them that apology. The healing must begin somewhere.
I know it sounds off topic, and irrelevant, but the deep, hard anger from blacks and whites about this issue won't go away, and it is the basis for the problem which you speak of.
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guess again. The FBI went to Coral Springs. Someone posted in this discussion the contact info for that guy (he spelled his contact info backwards) and I went to his site, sollog.b0x.com, where on this page the guy posted a link to www.sollog.com.
If you look up sollog.com in networksolutions.com whois, you'll see an address listed in Coral Springs.
According to Salon.com,
holy shiat that guy is in Florida, where the feds are working up search warrants to go ASAP!
Registrant:
ASI (SOLLOG3-DOM)
3116 N Federal Hwy #213
Lighthouse Point, FL 33064
Domain Name: SOLLOG.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Domain Register (DR849-ORG) domains@THEASI.NET
AIS
4613 University Dr Number 311
Coral Springs, FL 33067
US
Unlisted
As a relatively new techie of 3 years experience and coming from a non technical sales background of 6 years...I feel qualified in saying that the rest of the world outside of computer 'geniuses' does not understand what it means to be brilliant, so the adults in this child's community are probably clueless in general about how to handle these kinds of children.
In addition, being book smart does not qualify a person to have common sense. This child obviously was missing some of the connections between his actions and the ramifications of those actions. This is typical of many of the superb technology people I have met that are adults, even.
Just because you are somewhat more intelligent than your peers does not mean that you have the ability to grasp social constructs/mores/values/behaviors properly.
Being brilliant is very likely to be a very lonely place. Connecting the dots between humans is a type of intelligence that most computer geeks do not have. If this kid _did_ have this ability, he could see the administration nonsense for what it was...a warning.
Kiss off. I hate librarians. They were always looking at which books I checked out, etc., as if it were any of their business.
And if the LOC doesn't digitize, private publishers will, based on DEMAND, fool. Your library will become even less significant.
I dreamed, as a child, of a time when all books were available on line. I looked up books in catalogs on green screens at my neighborhood library, and 90% of them were never available. That SUCKED! Of course I was too poor to get to where they were...and of course the library exchange program was WEAK and LIMITED.
So now that my dream of a digitized, widely available library with every book in the universe on line...some pompous asshole that looks and smells of old fart with reason to keep education and access to information within the hallowed halls of hell...tries to stop progress.
Well, don't worry, Billington. You will be overrun. Books will be digital, and knowledge will be for everyone. The internet will speed the LOC to its useless, archaic, limited existence.
When this happens, we will all be rich with the last stronghold of control that old farty assholes have...information.
I agree with Kintanon completely. I have every reason to believe that blacks doing tech jobs _have_ to know what they are talking about, because they are under a microscope. I have a job where the CIO is a complete idiot (most of the company thinks so!) but is a white guy so its okay. I'm a black girl, and as such, I run into much prejudice, but because I know my stuff, people shut up and leave me alone. Thank GOD for TECHNOLOGY!!!! I finally have a career where there is tangible evidence of my prowess--everyone loves me cuz I keep the network humming! Sharkfish
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Ynos (pronounced winos) is Sony spelled backward.
hhttp://endangeredit.xlan.org/story/2005/7/4/91825 /02357
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http://discuss.joelonsoftware.com/default.asp?off. 9.155251.0
...come before social interests? Nah. Couldn't be.
really does pay off!
...wonderful. Chicago has great public transportation, and since I live in the city, I don't feel the need to own a car. However, there are times when a car is handy, such as when I bought a 35 inch TV. I-Go let me rent a van/SUV which looked darned near brand new. After keying in the code, the ignition turned and off I went. I had the car for six hours...returned it right on time on a weekend evening and went home to enjoy my new TV and home gym. No, I didn't aim to buy gym equipment that day, but what the heck, I had the vehicle... I hope this concept grows. It is very convenient and makes good sense. The suburbs are great for shopping....but that's about it...need a car to get there when I have to suffer the trip to "homogeneous land".
Good point. We are depressed. We are all in dead-end careers that took us, minimally, a 4 year degree and 4-10 years of study and experience and now our financial worth on the job market is....well, zilch when there are few jobs. For most of us in our thirties, switching careers is like trying to find your one true love....the harder you look, the more desperate you become, the less likely you'll succeed.
If you don't take joy in writing code, get out. Now. It doesn't get better. Period.
I'll stick to reading science fiction. At least the hero gets to fly around in space ships, or build something to save mankind. Living vicariously through a science fiction hero is always better than reading about how ridiculous my current life has become.
I forgot to respond to the other issue...that of 'should whites today be responsible for yesterday'.
The point isn't who is responsible. We are collectively responsible, blacks and whites. Our situation is such that the harder whites refuse to acknowledge the pain of blacks, the more blacks demand it. As you can see, this problem is bringing our whole country down.
You can continue to harp on "but WE didn't do it, THEY did it!" and watch us spiral downward, or accept that not accepting responsibility and continuing to reap the reward of treating blacks as animals while our children inherit the same pain.
"Out of curiousity, should Asians apologize? If not, what about whites whose ancestors were not present in the 19th century?"
In order to continue enslaving blacks, they were supposed inferior. This rationale was perfected in the 3/4ths or was it 2/3rds person clause in the Constitution or whatever. Asians were never supposed, in a legal fashion, to be less than human.
The elephant in the room is that we Americans cannot state in any way that one child is "better" or smarter than another without making every effort to include the excluded.
The US has this problem because of the legacy of slavery and the wounds from it that have not healed.
It won't be fixed until the "majority", that is, white people, apologize collectively and sincerely, and blacks admit that harping on it isn't going to get them that apology. The healing must begin somewhere.
I know it sounds off topic, and irrelevant, but the deep, hard anger from blacks and whites about this issue won't go away, and it is the basis for the problem which you speak of.
link to clearstation.com
hey....can this be for real? How can we stop this??????????
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The FBI investigated someone's apartment in Coral Springs today. sharkfish
The FBI went to Coral Springs, same city as the address I posted from networksolutions.com
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http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2001/09/12/fbi/i
hmmm. Perhaps, but I'm sure 01.com is going to get some questioning.
holy shiat that guy is in Florida, where the feds are working up search warrants to go ASAP!
Registrant:
ASI (SOLLOG3-DOM)
3116 N Federal Hwy #213
Lighthouse Point, FL 33064
Domain Name: SOLLOG.COM
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Billing Contact:
Domain Register (DR849-ORG) domains@THEASI.NET
AIS
4613 University Dr Number 311
Coral Springs, FL 33067
US
Unlisted
That was a Denzel Washington film.
--a Black slashdotter.
In addition, being book smart does not qualify a person to have common sense. This child obviously was missing some of the connections between his actions and the ramifications of those actions. This is typical of many of the superb technology people I have met that are adults, even.
Just because you are somewhat more intelligent than your peers does not mean that you have the ability to grasp social constructs/mores/values/behaviors properly.
Being brilliant is very likely to be a very lonely place. Connecting the dots between humans is a type of intelligence that most computer geeks do not have. If this kid _did_ have this ability, he could see the administration nonsense for what it was...a warning.
It's called the Guttenberg Project. Know it, love it, volunteer for it. We are digitizing our asses off! So it's happening with or without librarians.
Sharkfish
Kiss off. I hate librarians. They were always looking at which books I checked out, etc., as if it were any of their business.
And if the LOC doesn't digitize, private publishers will, based on DEMAND, fool. Your library will become even less significant.
I dreamed, as a child, of a time when all books were available on line. I looked up books in catalogs on green screens at my neighborhood library, and 90% of them were never available. That SUCKED! Of course I was too poor to get to where they were...and of course the library exchange program was WEAK and LIMITED.
So now that my dream of a digitized, widely available library with every book in the universe on line...some pompous asshole that looks and smells of old fart with reason to keep education and access to information within the hallowed halls of hell...tries to stop progress.
Well, don't worry, Billington. You will be overrun. Books will be digital, and knowledge will be for everyone. The internet will speed the LOC to its useless, archaic, limited existence.
When this happens, we will all be rich with the last stronghold of control that old farty assholes have...information.
Sharkfish
I agree with Kintanon completely. I have every reason to believe that blacks doing tech jobs _have_ to know what they are talking about, because they are under a microscope. I have a job where the CIO is a complete idiot (most of the company thinks so!) but is a white guy so its okay. I'm a black girl, and as such, I run into much prejudice, but because I know my stuff, people shut up and leave me alone. Thank GOD for TECHNOLOGY!!!! I finally have a career where there is tangible evidence of my prowess--everyone loves me cuz I keep the network humming! Sharkfish