I have no problem with decadence (mmm.. foie gras).
However, people who drive to the corner store (and don't have some special reason other than laziness) are polluting my world with their car fumes. (air pollution has been shown to be more caused by vehicles than by industry).And people in say, Arizona, who put in swimming pools even though the US has water shortages are indeed being greedy (better property values).
Not everything is wrong with our lifestyles but people seem to expect to improve our world without making any sort of changes. If someone is healthy I don't think it's unreasonable to expect them to walk, cycle, or take public transit at least some of the time. If everyone did that (ie. became less self-centred and lazy) then it would make a huge difference. If everyone goes around expecting someone else to change, it's not going to happen. It's not pseudo-religious to make the connection to treating our world better to behavioural traits.
Ok, so maybe the food and oil shortages are artificial, but I must say that is probably caused by greed in the political system. However, fresh water shortages ARE real. besides, the parent post was claiming that we needed the resources from the moon... if we have no shortages then why do we need to look elsewhere for stuff unless it's better stuff than Earth has. (But I have to wonder if we really know the effect of importing these things from space will overall be beneficial)
Indeed, we should scour the universe for more exploitive possibilities and waste and spoil and mistreat just like we do here.
I seriously hope you were being sarcastic. The earth is a finite resource which means we should treat it carefully and ration it and not overuse it... NOT that we should look elsewhere so we can continue to be wasteful. The only reason there are food and water and oil and etc shortages is because people ARE shortsighted. When people stop building swimming pools in their backyards and start riding their bike or taking public transit to work and and and.... we will not have shortages. We have enough to support us here, we just are lazy, greedy, short-sighted creatures.
In my mind, the moon should be untouched, it is not territory owned by any particular country with which they can do as they please. (Maybe after a unanimous vote by all humans...)
And particularly since the moon plays a role in several religions, I think it should remain relatively untouched. (I say relatively because people visiting it in the manner achieved so far aren't really doing much)
asteroids I have no particular attachment to and I don't care one way or the other if they are mined.
Everyone should read the Grapes of Wrath in school. It clearly portrays how you CANNOT accept lower wages than you are worth because in the end you are just making it worse for everyone. They'll decide to lower wages again and if you refuse to work, they'll fire you and hire someone "who's just glad to have a job". It's people who have this "just glad to be working" mentality that make the marketplace worse for employees. Of course, you shouldn't have ridiculous requests, but if people don't stick together on certain basic employee rights then everyone gets screwed. This is why unions are useful. They help people stick together and prevent the "just glad to have a job" people from making it impossible for someone with reasonable pay/overtime/benefits expectations to get a job.
If there weren't people breaking in and leaving notes, we wouldn't NEED to lock our doors. Of course, outside the analogy this is impossible to expect to happen. Mean and stupid people exist. sigh...
Saying that he did people a favour is equivalent to the following scenario:
Consider a small town where everyone trusts their neighbours and no one locks their doors. Then along comes the oh-so-helpful burgler who waltzes into these houses. (maybe he takes something, maybe he just leaves a note saying "I was here"), but then the residents are worried and scared he might come back, so they all buy locks and lock their doors.
Even if he didn't take something, I don't think you could really claim that the burgler did a positive thing... he spoiled the trust and made people fearful. Maybe you can say someone would eventually come along and do something *really* evil, but that doesn't make the first guy into a Good Guy. It just makes him a Lesser Bad Guy.
I agree that Kevin was treated in a horribly unjust way and punished far beyond what his crimes deserved, but that doesn't make his actions praiseworthy. Maybe he didn't intend to cause any loss or harm, and that's great, but to call his actions a great service is quite juvenile and really shows a limited consideration of the facts.
Read this article (hilarious in it's own right) about the postal experiments
In particular note the bit about the fish and seaweed being mailed: "postal supervisor warned our mailing specialist that he could be fined for mail service abuse, even as a recipient, should this happen again."
I think just signing the guy up for mailing lists is missing out on the truly beautiful possibilities offered by the USPS.
And afterall, he's welcome to call the numbers listed on the catalogs and advertisments and asked to be removed from their mailing lists in the future. It's just so simple I don't know why he's complaining... afterall he recieves this information for free, he doesn't have to pay the Post Office to recieve his mail!
losing money on bandwidth? THat's an operating expense. THat's like saying that a store loses money on rent because I looked in their store but didn't buy anything. Sorry, but that's just business.
Yhey make their money based on how many people click through on ads not whether or not I see the ad, so that argument is irrelevant.
I never click on ads, so they aren't losing anything from me. Even if they made money based on how many people saw ads, as far as their server is concerned I still "saw" the ad, my browser just replaced it with a blank spot on my end.
Libraries in general have way more books than they could possibly have terminals. It's quite possible for all terminals to be occupied yet no two people using the same book. This means, I can't study, but in a traditional library I could.
Having electronic copies of assignments and lecture notes available is great (I get that at my far-from-paperless university), but I also find it easier to study from notes that I wrote, partly because the writing is familiar and I can remember writing it and the lecture that went with it, but also because I can have many pages all laid out around me at the same time. I would find an iPaq screen very very restrictive.
I wonder how many of those students end up writing notes out on paper later anyhow?
My eyes get sore after a certain amount of time staring at a computer screen... if I had to do all my studying/reading/working on computer screens (of various sizes/shapes) I would kill my eyesight. Especially since the iPaq's are way smaller than your average text book. I think the graduating class will all have squints.
I agree that upon reading the article, it seems clear that there was excessive collaboration in this case. However, the policies described still sound a bit execessive. Not being able to compare solutions? (Oh look, I got a different answer, now I'll go off and double check my work). Not being able to discuss assignments? The guidelines they give us for cooperation at the Univ of Waterloo is to discuss assignments but don't write anything down, or only use a whiteboard. Then, wait at least an hour before writing a solution up. This is very useful because it means you can work together if you don't understand something, but you need to understand it in order to be able to write the solution later and thus what you hand in will be your own work.
The bit about a new policy saying students will not being allowed to look for answers anywhere other than course material or Georgia Tech staff?! That's what research and learning is all about: using any resource available to you. This doesn't directly map to plagiarism and cheating. For example, using an alternate text book often helps more clearly understand a concept not well explained in the assigned text. Lastly, how on earth did they manage to write down "He was trying to learn it" in any context that makes sense?
as usual, this is very USA-centric. Not that I don't think this foolish bill should be stopped (chewed up, stamped on, burnt, buried in a volcano, etc), but it will just make working on free software in other countries more attractive.
just out of curiosity, if I am at a terminal in the US, but remotely logged into a machine outside the US, does that count as exporting my code?
I forget where i read this, but I thought it summed things up nicely.
"Beware `we should...', extend a hand to `how do I...'"
The point being that people who do nothing but talk and argue over details are not going to assist in moving forward and worse, are likely to slow things down.
I don't know how much pressure there is from the gov't on businesses in Canada regarding crypto. I doubt they are responsible for this service being shut down, though.
Many universities offer co-op programs where you take work terms for which you have to write resumes, read and apply to job postings, get through interviews and get hired. At the university of waterloo, it takes 5 years to do a co-op undergrad, and you get no summers off... each term is either a school term or a work term. At the end of the program you have 2 full years of work experience from 6 4-month terms.
This provides a nice counterpoint to what is learned on campus. It is more practical than theoretical and provides some of the training that a normal graduate would get from an entry-level position. It gives you a chance to apply some of the theoretical knowledge from classes in the real world.
The type of thinking required in university is different from most high
schools. In high school you have to know how to research and regurgitate...
the teachers tell you exactly what they want you to do. In a good
university course you have to research and analyse the information you find.
There is much less direction from good professors, rather you are expected to
figure out what to do on your own and to realise that there isn't just one
right way to do things.
University is about getting some basic knowledge in a number of fields so
you learn how to think about different types of problems. How you tackle a
history essay is different from a mathematical proof is different from a
studio art assignment. University is meant to make you a well-educated
person, not a well-trained person. If you are concerned about your
technical skills in a particular field, go to a technical/vocational institute
and take a training course. University is not job-training.
If I find the ads on a site truly annoying (popups are bad, but so are ads that I can't filter when I turn on junkbuster) I will stop going to that site. The less intrusive/annoying the ads on a site are, the more likely I am to click on one when it interests me. Some days though, I just don't feel like seeing ads at all and I want to be able to turn on junkbuster and have an ad-free experience. Since these ads at salon.com involve an extra page, that doesn't sound like it would be possible.
For me, the most effective ads are those that are entertaining/interesting regardless of the product and/or about something I want more info on... this applies to billboards, televison and the web.
The license doesn't have to be the same one as long as they are compatible. gnu.org has this list of compatible licenses.. note that the modified BSD license is included as compatible.
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However, people who drive to the corner store (and don't have some special reason other than laziness) are polluting my world with their car fumes. (air pollution has been shown to be more caused by vehicles than by industry).And people in say, Arizona, who put in swimming pools even though the US has water shortages are indeed being greedy (better property values).
Not everything is wrong with our lifestyles but people seem to expect to improve our world without making any sort of changes. If someone is healthy I don't think it's unreasonable to expect them to walk, cycle, or take public transit at least some of the time. If everyone did that (ie. became less self-centred and lazy) then it would make a huge difference. If everyone goes around expecting someone else to change, it's not going to happen. It's not pseudo-religious to make the connection to treating our world better to behavioural traits.
Ok, so maybe the food and oil shortages are artificial, but I must say that is probably caused by greed in the political system. However, fresh water shortages ARE real. besides, the parent post was claiming that we needed the resources from the moon ... if we have no shortages then why do we need to look elsewhere for stuff unless it's better stuff than Earth has. (But I have to wonder if we really know the effect of importing these things from space will overall be beneficial)
Cuz you know, I really don't trust the American gov't any more than the Chinese gov't. Both are toxic nations.
What? So we screwed up here, we should just keep making the same mistakes?
I seriously hope you were being sarcastic. The earth is a finite resource which means we should treat it carefully and ration it and not overuse it... NOT that we should look elsewhere so we can continue to be wasteful. The only reason there are food and water and oil and etc shortages is because people ARE shortsighted. When people stop building swimming pools in their backyards and start riding their bike or taking public transit to work and and and .... we will not have shortages. We have enough to support us here, we just are lazy, greedy, short-sighted creatures.
And particularly since the moon plays a role in several religions, I think it should remain relatively untouched. (I say relatively because people visiting it in the manner achieved so far aren't really doing much)
asteroids I have no particular attachment to and I don't care one way or the other if they are mined.
Everyone should read the Grapes of Wrath in school. It clearly portrays how you CANNOT accept lower wages than you are worth because in the end you are just making it worse for everyone. They'll decide to lower wages again and if you refuse to work, they'll fire you and hire someone "who's just glad to have a job". It's people who have this "just glad to be working" mentality that make the marketplace worse for employees. Of course, you shouldn't have ridiculous requests, but if people don't stick together on certain basic employee rights then everyone gets screwed. This is why unions are useful. They help people stick together and prevent the "just glad to have a job" people from making it impossible for someone with reasonable pay/overtime/benefits expectations to get a job.
If there weren't people breaking in and leaving notes, we wouldn't NEED to lock our doors. Of course, outside the analogy this is impossible to expect to happen. Mean and stupid people exist. sigh ...
Heh, you just proved Godwin's Law. You lose.
Consider a small town where everyone trusts their neighbours and no one locks their doors. Then along comes the oh-so-helpful burgler who waltzes into these houses. (maybe he takes something, maybe he just leaves a note saying "I was here"), but then the residents are worried and scared he might come back, so they all buy locks and lock their doors.
Even if he didn't take something, I don't think you could really claim that the burgler did a positive thing ... he spoiled the trust and made people fearful. Maybe you can say someone would eventually come along and do something *really* evil, but that doesn't make the first guy into a Good Guy. It just makes him a Lesser Bad Guy.
I agree that Kevin was treated in a horribly unjust way and punished far beyond what his crimes deserved, but that doesn't make his actions praiseworthy. Maybe he didn't intend to cause any loss or harm, and that's great, but to call his actions a great service is quite juvenile and really shows a limited consideration of the facts.
In particular note the bit about the fish and seaweed being mailed: "postal supervisor warned our mailing specialist that he could be fined for mail service abuse, even as a recipient, should this happen again."
I think just signing the guy up for mailing lists is missing out on the truly beautiful possibilities offered by the USPS.
And afterall, he's welcome to call the numbers listed on the catalogs and advertisments and asked to be removed from their mailing lists in the future. It's just so simple I don't know why he's complaining... afterall he recieves this information for free, he doesn't have to pay the Post Office to recieve his mail!
And some of us really do never click on ads.
I never click on ads, so they aren't losing anything from me. Even if they made money based on how many people saw ads, as far as their server is concerned I still "saw" the ad, my browser just replaced it with a blank spot on my end.
Having electronic copies of assignments and lecture notes available is great (I get that at my far-from-paperless university), but I also find it easier to study from notes that I wrote, partly because the writing is familiar and I can remember writing it and the lecture that went with it, but also because I can have many pages all laid out around me at the same time. I would find an iPaq screen very very restrictive.
I wonder how many of those students end up writing notes out on paper later anyhow?
My eyes get sore after a certain amount of time staring at a computer screen... if I had to do all my studying/reading/working on computer screens (of various sizes/shapes) I would kill my eyesight. Especially since the iPaq's are way smaller than your average text book. I think the graduating class will all have squints.
The bit about a new policy saying students will not being allowed to look for answers anywhere other than course material or Georgia Tech staff?! That's what research and learning is all about: using any resource available to you. This doesn't directly map to plagiarism and cheating. For example, using an alternate text book often helps more clearly understand a concept not well explained in the assigned text. Lastly, how on earth did they manage to write down "He was trying to learn it" in any context that makes sense?
clean
dressed tidily, if casually
socially adjusted
not likely to need to interact with clients
We may have some unusual needs for our work environment and many of the other replies have well explained the reasons for these.
just out of curiosity, if I am at a terminal in the US, but remotely logged into a machine outside the US, does that count as exporting my code?
"Beware `we should...', extend a hand to `how do I...'"
The point being that people who do nothing but talk and argue over details are not going to assist in moving forward and worse, are likely to slow things down.
I don't know how much pressure there is from the gov't on businesses in Canada regarding crypto. I doubt they are responsible for this service being shut down, though.
This provides a nice counterpoint to what is learned on campus. It is more practical than theoretical and provides some of the training that a normal graduate would get from an entry-level position. It gives you a chance to apply some of the theoretical knowledge from classes in the real world.
University is about getting some basic knowledge in a number of fields so you learn how to think about different types of problems. How you tackle a history essay is different from a mathematical proof is different from a studio art assignment. University is meant to make you a well-educated person, not a well-trained person. If you are concerned about your technical skills in a particular field, go to a technical/vocational institute and take a training course. University is not job-training.
For me, the most effective ads are those that are entertaining/interesting regardless of the product and/or about something I want more info on... this applies to billboards, televison and the web.
The license doesn't have to be the same one as long as they are compatible. gnu.org has this list of compatible licenses.. note that the modified BSD license is included as compatible.
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