Is English your first language? The table explains how to say "I am" rather than "I are", or "you are" in place of "you is". Perhaps I just grew up in an area that spoke fairly clean English, but I just don't meet many native English speakers that struggle with these.
I have always considered writing my worst subject because I have never really come up with an orginized system for presenting non-crucial information, and becuase my to-the-point writing style makes creating long winded traditional essays difficult. On the other hand, the benifit to my style of writing enables me to present logical or factual information in a short, concise manner. Although it doesn't win me any points in a literary setting, it does make me efficient at teaching or explaining complex subjects clearly.
Why does Sun have to open source the JRE in order to have it bundled? I don't remember seeing anything in the GPL that says it can't share disk space with non-GPL binaries.
I have always bashed certs and rightfully so because about 50% of the certs on my resume required little more effort than taking the exam.
I decided to take the plunge for 3 reasons:
1. There are people I know with more experience than me struggling to learn the material for some of these exams, so if nothing else they prove I am at least not one of them.
2. The easier certs are useful because you know the HR guy screening your resume will recognize them.
3. The next time I am at a party and someone tells Joe PC guy I work with computers I don't have to here him tell me how facking awesome he is because he is A+ hardware _AND_ software. Laughing in response is considered rude, holding ~15 certifications and laughing in response adds perspective:)
Fist, the typo in "curriculum" only proves I didn't need to spell check my post.
Second, people always point out the "teamwork" aspects of school as a reason people should hire degrees, but having completed all but 2 semesters of my degree I call BS. I just don't think it is something very easy to teach. I am pretty sure I learned more about it during the 6 years I was in the military or the 5 years I have been in my profession than I did while I was in school.
Either way, as I have previously said about certifications, if you can't beat 'em join 'em. Nearly all the jobs I have found interesting require the degree and I have the time now to complete it, so I am going back to school next semester. Maybe by this time next year I will be selling companies on my awesome teamwork skills my degree is proof of.
I do not believe that public schools and low taxes cannot coexist because education is only a small fraction of tax money. I believe that there should be some set standards in place for education and it will need some governing body to oversee it. With that said, my idea for school is a hybrid between the tax funded institutions we have today, and the privately funded colleges we have today. Rather than give everyone the same useless thing (a HS diploma) for 13 years of differing efforts, I believe schools should allow students to take condensed versions of many of their classes. Later on students can take (for pay) college level classes right at the school and leave with a pile of credits or an associates degree that is transferable to most universities.
This would:
1: Provide extra money for the school
2: Provide extra income for teachers to make teaching a more attractive career path
3: Be lower cost to students and parents than traditional universities.
4: Allow students a transition rather than having to get a job, become independent, move away, start college, and become an adult all in the same month.
5: Reduce the number of filler credits needed later on at traditional universities
6: Give students at least one reason not to sleep through class.
As for parental control, I believe this should be left to private schools. It is just too easy for 1 or 2 powerful parents to corrupt a small school like the one I attended into canning Evolution outright and teaching only ID. I favor "small government" but not thousands of decentralized "small governments". I oppose the fact that we have laws at Federal, State, County, AND Town/City level. I believe in greater centralization for basic functions of government. It is my _local_ government that fined me for loitering when I was ~15 for riding my bike to the store with another kid that needed something there. Decentralization would mean local officials have nobody to answer to which would lead to greater corruption. Complete decentralization of the school system would equate to the same thing and multiple competing educational standards would lead to increased textbook costs and other problems (So I am for centralization which would explain in part my position on the National ID).
On to the prison thing: They don't have as many prisoners in China because they don't treat criminals like they are running a day care. 1 bullet in the back of the head and bill the family 38 cents for the round. This is not a solution to all crimes, but it certainly is a better deterrent to would-be criminals than the current revolving door legal system in place today (greater accountability = greater freedom).
Your point on prison labor holds merit, and although I doubt they could earn the (I think) $40,000/year required to keep them imprisoned, I am sure they could do something more constructive than "crime school" which is about all they accomplish today.
Yes, but on the flip side I know people who have been to college and have 8 or 10 years experience doing something. They are terrible at what they do but you sure wouldn't be able to guess by looking at their resumes. Some of those same people have spent thousands in classes and years trying to get entry level certifications like A+, Net+, or CCNA. If they can't even swing something as simple as A+ how long do you think it would take them to get good at a new job?
I don't even spend money on cert classes, I can study for (read a book) most certifications in 2 - 3 weeks. I got 8 certifications last year for a cost of about $2,000 including books (Most of which in a 4 month period of sleep depravation ). It took me 3 days to study for the A+ software exam and I scored almost 20% higher than I needed. I never finished my degree, but I self studied nearly everything in the carricilum in ~4 months. I was able to do this becasue in school I spent only a few hours a week attending classes in my major.
You can't go to collage and major in competence. The people in my company without degrees started at the bottom and worked their way up vs. just being placed into mid to high level positions due to an impressive résumé. For this reason, nearly all of the worst people I have worked with have had impressive educational credentials.
Maybe I should really be calling myself "independent", but I happen to agree with more of the libertarian views than any of the major parties in the US.
I don't really agree with the socialist ideals brought on by the Democratic party or their anti 2nd amendment nature. I support some of the economic views and "small government" model said to be associated with the Republican party, but today's republican party is for anything but "small government". The Republican view of personal freedoms are also more conservative than mine.
So I support the greater personal freedoms of the Democratic party, and the greater economic freedom of the Republican party.
I also believe in National ID, and harsher punishment for things that are crimes. I believe prisoners should be required to work 40 hours a week to counter the taxpayers expenses of supporting them. Prisoners able but unwilling to work the 40 hours/week can be kept in 6' cubed bird cages in the prison basement and be fed bread and water.
I know people reluctant to go from working part time to working full time because they would end up worse off after losing government assistance only to pay more in taxes. A "small government" (lower tax) society I believe would be effective because people willing to go the extra mile could actually be rewarded for it rather than punished by becoming a tax slave to the non working or criminal populace and the "Team America World Police".
As for your mention of tax funded health care, schooling, and I'll add retirement: I believe there should be K-12 type public schools, and colleges should be largely privatized as it is today (I have a few ideas that I believe would fix the education system but that is another discussion). Health care and retirement could be privatized if people were not already spending so much of their money in taxes.
So these are (some) of my views in a nutshell, if you know a better party I could claim association with, I would be happy to take a look.
By stating that the discrimination is OK you are making an assumption. Even within Libertarianism there are other (documented) factions with differing points of view (Minarchism, Agorism, Geolibertarianism, Paleolibertarianism, Neolibertarianism, and Left-libertarianism). Although my specific point of view does not align with any specific faction within libertarianism, I would say that discrimination would cross the line into "infringing on the same liberty of others". I believe most other rational libertarians would agree.
Your other point on the National ID card is mostly valid, but when you get stopped by the police for speeding they don't check your fingerprints or DNA to see if you are a fugitive from another state. I have worked with NY state police and the NYPD and believe me, they are not out there deporting immigrants. The difficulty with "illegal" immigrants is they sometimes don't have _any_ documentation and they can just give the police different names which makes it difficult to discover if they are repeat offenders (or have out of state warrants). In these cases they could just enter them into the national database under a "guestID" with their biometric credentials so if they are picked up again for something else the police have something to go on.
Being libertarian does mean I don't think people should be held accountable for their actions, if anything I believe greater accountability is the only way to achieve greater freedom.
(Re: AC) Read the post right above yours. The fact is that the warrants weather they be for armed robbery, rape, or public urination do not show. Sure the police can in the originating state can have them extradited back, if they know where they went. The problem is that if these people get arrested for something in the next state (which they tend to do), they can usually post bail and move on to yet another state before their warrants in state 1 catch up with them.
The point I was making is that you can pass an Iowa fakie that does not even resemble an actual Iowa state drivers license so long as it does not obviously look like it was glued together by a couple of 10 year olds.
With a national ID the quality of forgeries may improve, sure. But there are safeguards like biometric chips, ensuring the data on the smart chip actually matches the data you are looking at on the ID, holographic overlays to prevent doctoring etc. This may not stop all forgeries, but it does limit it to some fairly high end commercial grade equipment rather then the dorm room stuff that easily gets by today.
Perhaps you had better study libertarianism a bit more by reading these two pages first
Wouldn't my statement "I am mostly libertarian and even I support having a national ID system." imply that I am aware my opinion on this differs from that of the Libertarian Party?
How in the world did you catch that "I am mostly libertarian" part and still manage NOT to read the rest of the fucking sentance?
Additionally, since when did belonging to a specific political party require that one must subscribe to _every_ single view of that party? If this were in fact the case, do you still believe you would be able to divide most of the US population into only 2 parties?
As for you other (main) point, if someone has warrants in one state don't you think it is the right of the police in another state arresting them for something else to at least _know_ about these warrants? If the warrant is for something not considered illegal in their state (gay marrage, jaywalking, owning a gun, abortion etc.) they may also reserve the right to not care. I don't believe that if you commit an actual crime that crossing a state line should be a get out of jail free card especially in an age where interstate travel is very common.
I am "Mostly Libertarian", not an anarchist. "Libertarianism is a political philosophy advocating that individuals should be free to do whatever they wish with their person or property, as long as they do not infringe on the same liberty of others.".
Obviously not hiring someone who is black just because they are black is wrong. I still believe there is a need for a government and basic laws, I just don't believe there is a need to have citizens paying nearly 45% of their total income in taxes.
A good friend of mine is one of the people running from the Police. Want to know what his crime against humanity was? He was drinking beer, in a bar. This is against the law for him to do because was on probation. Before that he was arrested for accidentally walking into the wrong house because he was drunk. Everything he has ever been arrested for has been equally as petty; he is 25 and has been on probation since he was 15. He got in trouble then because he was driving without a license (the driver was too drunk to drive). When we were young the police harassed us for playing basketball in the park after curfew, riding bikes on a sunny day without enough reflectors, riding bikes in the road, on the sidewalk, playing golf in the park etc. I live in a town with 2 stop lights, 90 students per class (some form bordering towns), and 12 cops. Some of us had 4 wheelers, dirt bikes etc. and if the police saw us crossing the (empty) road to get to the trails they would flip the f*ck out. One time myself and another kid pulled into a local store on bicycles because he needed to buy something. Because I was at the store and not buying anything I was fined for loitering. I could go on. Obviously principles are black and white, but the size of the government and number of laws in this country are getting out of hand. As you stand up for them there are politicians trying to erode your basic rights as a citizen one loop hole at a time.
Right now you could pass an out of state license that does not actually even resemble the actual state ID basically so long as you didn't use duct tape to attach the new photo. It makes little difference where it is from so long as it isn't the state you are currently in.
To pass of a fake national ID it would need to be a fairly professional job.
To give an example, we don't have state money (well, maybe quarters) and making counterfeits of that is considered much more difficult than making fake ID's and unlike the money the fake ID's are actually intended to be inspected.
So instead of establishing a national ID we create a national database and aggregate data into it from all 50 states that would normally be associated to a national ID? This just sounds like a less reliable, more expensive, and less honest way to accomplish the same thing.
(in reply to AC)
The national ID system is one area where I do not agree with the typical libertarian view hence the reason I describe myself as "mostly libertarian" rather than entirely libertarian. Your other point such a drastic oversimplification I won't even bother to refute it.
I live on the NY/PA border and I have met people who get in trouble with the law (are wanted by the police) and they move 5 MILES SOUTH and are never picked up by the police. If they get in trouble in PA the NY warrants don't even show up on their record. People complain about the ability to keep correct records and track illegal's but regular citizens beat the system all the time just by moving state to state.
Also, if I have a fak NY ID many NY police would spot it in a second, if I hand them a fake Iowa drivers license it would slip right by.
I am mostly libertarian and even I support having a national ID system.
You are exactly right! Maybe eBay does not really even exist and MS has been all the sellers and buyers since the site began with the one eventual goal of using it to make it look like there was a shortage of Xbox 360's!!one1
The $400 or $450 price tag on the Xbox left them so sold out that the going price for one on eBay was in the $2000+ range for months. Even on the XBoxes that sold for over $10,000 the middlemen got paid but MS still lost money (-$150 or so?). It isn't too late for Sony to learn from MSFT's mistake and just sell some of them directly through eBay with an inflated price (200 or 300 extra) but with guaranteed availability.
Hmm, what do you hire for? I live in NY and I am looking for a job in network support/design out that way. I have no degree (was CS major though), a stack of certs that are worth nothing, and about 6 years of experience.
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I have always considered writing my worst subject because I have never really come up with an orginized system for presenting non-crucial information, and becuase my to-the-point writing style makes creating long winded traditional essays difficult. On the other hand, the benifit to my style of writing enables me to present logical or factual information in a short, concise manner. Although it doesn't win me any points in a literary setting, it does make me efficient at teaching or explaining complex subjects clearly.
I don't remember seeing anything in the GPL that says it can't share disk space with non-GPL binaries.
Is this what is meant by "choice"?
Thom Holwerda beat you to it :)
Perhaps people who are poor are less likely to seek medical treatment for minor illness in a country with high taxes and no free health care?
I decided to take the plunge for 3 reasons: :)
1. There are people I know with more experience than me struggling to learn the material for some of these exams, so if nothing else they prove I am at least not one of them.
2. The easier certs are useful because you know the HR guy screening your resume will recognize them.
3. The next time I am at a party and someone tells Joe PC guy I work with computers I don't have to here him tell me how facking awesome he is because he is A+ hardware _AND_ software. Laughing in response is considered rude, holding ~15 certifications and laughing in response adds perspective
Second, people always point out the "teamwork" aspects of school as a reason people should hire degrees, but having completed all but 2 semesters of my degree I call BS. I just don't think it is something very easy to teach. I am pretty sure I learned more about it during the 6 years I was in the military or the 5 years I have been in my profession than I did while I was in school.
Either way, as I have previously said about certifications, if you can't beat 'em join 'em. Nearly all the jobs I have found interesting require the degree and I have the time now to complete it, so I am going back to school next semester. Maybe by this time next year I will be selling companies on my awesome teamwork skills my degree is proof of.
I do not believe that public schools and low taxes cannot coexist because education is only a small fraction of tax money. I believe that there should be some set standards in place for education and it will need some governing body to oversee it. With that said, my idea for school is a hybrid between the tax funded institutions we have today, and the privately funded colleges we have today. Rather than give everyone the same useless thing (a HS diploma) for 13 years of differing efforts, I believe schools should allow students to take condensed versions of many of their classes. Later on students can take (for pay) college level classes right at the school and leave with a pile of credits or an associates degree that is transferable to most universities.
This would:
1: Provide extra money for the school
2: Provide extra income for teachers to make teaching a more attractive career path
3: Be lower cost to students and parents than traditional universities.
4: Allow students a transition rather than having to get a job, become independent, move away, start college, and become an adult all in the same month.
5: Reduce the number of filler credits needed later on at traditional universities
6: Give students at least one reason not to sleep through class.
As for parental control, I believe this should be left to private schools. It is just too easy for 1 or 2 powerful parents to corrupt a small school like the one I attended into canning Evolution outright and teaching only ID. I favor "small government" but not thousands of decentralized "small governments". I oppose the fact that we have laws at Federal, State, County, AND Town/City level. I believe in greater centralization for basic functions of government. It is my _local_ government that fined me for loitering when I was ~15 for riding my bike to the store with another kid that needed something there. Decentralization would mean local officials have nobody to answer to which would lead to greater corruption. Complete decentralization of the school system would equate to the same thing and multiple competing educational standards would lead to increased textbook costs and other problems (So I am for centralization which would explain in part my position on the National ID).
On to the prison thing: They don't have as many prisoners in China because they don't treat criminals like they are running a day care. 1 bullet in the back of the head and bill the family 38 cents for the round. This is not a solution to all crimes, but it certainly is a better deterrent to would-be criminals than the current revolving door legal system in place today (greater accountability = greater freedom).
Your point on prison labor holds merit, and although I doubt they could earn the (I think) $40,000/year required to keep them imprisoned, I am sure they could do something more constructive than "crime school" which is about all they accomplish today.
Thanks for replying.
You are welcome.
I don't even spend money on cert classes, I can study for (read a book) most certifications in 2 - 3 weeks. I got 8 certifications last year for a cost of about $2,000 including books (Most of which in a 4 month period of sleep depravation ). It took me 3 days to study for the A+ software exam and I scored almost 20% higher than I needed. I never finished my degree, but I self studied nearly everything in the carricilum in ~4 months. I was able to do this becasue in school I spent only a few hours a week attending classes in my major.
You can't go to collage and major in competence. The people in my company without degrees started at the bottom and worked their way up vs. just being placed into mid to high level positions due to an impressive résumé. For this reason, nearly all of the worst people I have worked with have had impressive educational credentials.
I don't really agree with the socialist ideals brought on by the Democratic party or their anti 2nd amendment nature. I support some of the economic views and "small government" model said to be associated with the Republican party, but today's republican party is for anything but "small government". The Republican view of personal freedoms are also more conservative than mine.
So I support the greater personal freedoms of the Democratic party, and the greater economic freedom of the Republican party.
I also believe in National ID, and harsher punishment for things that are crimes. I believe prisoners should be required to work 40 hours a week to counter the taxpayers expenses of supporting them. Prisoners able but unwilling to work the 40 hours/week can be kept in 6' cubed bird cages in the prison basement and be fed bread and water.
I know people reluctant to go from working part time to working full time because they would end up worse off after losing government assistance only to pay more in taxes. A "small government" (lower tax) society I believe would be effective because people willing to go the extra mile could actually be rewarded for it rather than punished by becoming a tax slave to the non working or criminal populace and the "Team America World Police".
As for your mention of tax funded health care, schooling, and I'll add retirement: I believe there should be K-12 type public schools, and colleges should be largely privatized as it is today (I have a few ideas that I believe would fix the education system but that is another discussion). Health care and retirement could be privatized if people were not already spending so much of their money in taxes.
So these are (some) of my views in a nutshell, if you know a better party I could claim association with, I would be happy to take a look.
You mean it might be somene not selling their knowledge on DVD's for $50 each? Think McDojo with an online drive through.
Your other point on the National ID card is mostly valid, but when you get stopped by the police for speeding they don't check your fingerprints or DNA to see if you are a fugitive from another state. I have worked with NY state police and the NYPD and believe me, they are not out there deporting immigrants. The difficulty with "illegal" immigrants is they sometimes don't have _any_ documentation and they can just give the police different names which makes it difficult to discover if they are repeat offenders (or have out of state warrants). In these cases they could just enter them into the national database under a "guestID" with their biometric credentials so if they are picked up again for something else the police have something to go on.
Being libertarian does mean I don't think people should be held accountable for their actions, if anything I believe greater accountability is the only way to achieve greater freedom.
I have heard rumor that the Prom Ninja is going to be Masaaki Hatsumi's successor.
Sure the police can in the originating state can have them extradited back, if they know where they went. The problem is that if these people get arrested for something in the next state (which they tend to do), they can usually post bail and move on to yet another state before their warrants in state 1 catch up with them.
Is this the best you people have got?
With a national ID the quality of forgeries may improve, sure. But there are safeguards like biometric chips, ensuring the data on the smart chip actually matches the data you are looking at on the ID, holographic overlays to prevent doctoring etc. This may not stop all forgeries, but it does limit it to some fairly high end commercial grade equipment rather then the dorm room stuff that easily gets by today.
Several centuries ago it was not common for people to have family and friends in 4 or 5 diffent states and you could not go from NY to CA in ~6 hours.
Wouldn't my statement "I am mostly libertarian and even I support having a national ID system." imply that I am aware my opinion on this differs from that of the Libertarian Party?
How in the world did you catch that "I am mostly libertarian" part and still manage NOT to read the rest of the fucking sentance?
Additionally, since when did belonging to a specific political party require that one must subscribe to _every_ single view of that party? If this were in fact the case, do you still believe you would be able to divide most of the US population into only 2 parties?
As for you other (main) point, if someone has warrants in one state don't you think it is the right of the police in another state arresting them for something else to at least _know_ about these warrants? If the warrant is for something not considered illegal in their state (gay marrage, jaywalking, owning a gun, abortion etc.) they may also reserve the right to not care.
I don't believe that if you commit an actual crime that crossing a state line should be a get out of jail free card especially in an age where interstate travel is very common.
Obviously not hiring someone who is black just because they are black is wrong. I still believe there is a need for a government and basic laws, I just don't believe there is a need to have citizens paying nearly 45% of their total income in taxes.
A good friend of mine is one of the people running from the Police. Want to know what his crime against humanity was? He was drinking beer, in a bar. This is against the law for him to do because was on probation. Before that he was arrested for accidentally walking into the wrong house because he was drunk. Everything he has ever been arrested for has been equally as petty; he is 25 and has been on probation since he was 15. He got in trouble then because he was driving without a license (the driver was too drunk to drive). When we were young the police harassed us for playing basketball in the park after curfew, riding bikes on a sunny day without enough reflectors, riding bikes in the road, on the sidewalk, playing golf in the park etc. I live in a town with 2 stop lights, 90 students per class (some form bordering towns), and 12 cops. Some of us had 4 wheelers, dirt bikes etc. and if the police saw us crossing the (empty) road to get to the trails they would flip the f*ck out. One time myself and another kid pulled into a local store on bicycles because he needed to buy something. Because I was at the store and not buying anything I was fined for loitering. I could go on. Obviously principles are black and white, but the size of the government and number of laws in this country are getting out of hand.
As you stand up for them there are politicians trying to erode your basic rights as a citizen one loop hole at a time.
To pass of a fake national ID it would need to be a fairly professional job.
To give an example, we don't have state money (well, maybe quarters) and making counterfeits of that is considered much more difficult than making fake ID's and unlike the money the fake ID's are actually intended to be inspected.
So instead of establishing a national ID we create a national database and aggregate data into it from all 50 states that would normally be associated to a national ID? This just sounds like a less reliable, more expensive, and less honest way to accomplish the same thing.
(in reply to AC) The national ID system is one area where I do not agree with the typical libertarian view hence the reason I describe myself as "mostly libertarian" rather than entirely libertarian. Your other point such a drastic oversimplification I won't even bother to refute it.
I admire the sense of humor of the nimtard who moderated this "+3, Informative"
Also, if I have a fak NY ID many NY police would spot it in a second, if I hand them a fake Iowa drivers license it would slip right by.
I am mostly libertarian and even I support having a national ID system.
You are exactly right! Maybe eBay does not really even exist and MS has been all the sellers and buyers since the site began with the one eventual goal of using it to make it look like there was a shortage of Xbox 360's!!one1
The $400 or $450 price tag on the Xbox left them so sold out that the going price for one on eBay was in the $2000+ range for months. Even on the XBoxes that sold for over $10,000 the middlemen got paid but MS still lost money (-$150 or so?). It isn't too late for Sony to learn from MSFT's mistake and just sell some of them directly through eBay with an inflated price (200 or 300 extra) but with guaranteed availability.
Hmm, what do you hire for? I live in NY and I am looking for a job in network support/design out that way. I have no degree (was CS major though), a stack of certs that are worth nothing, and about 6 years of experience.