I fail to see how forcing someone by law to be somewhere involuntarily for 6 hours / day 5 days / week 39 weeks / year for about 12 years can not be considered a form of imprisonment. Yeah, no kidding. Just this morning my six year old insisted that he be allowed to stay at home eating candy and playing with blocks, but I instead forced him to go to prison%H%H%H%H%H%Hschool where he'll learn about numbers and colors. I hope he doesn't call the Human Rights Watch on me.
Most of your countries tax spending is footed by the rich. And why should they subsidize your lifestyle? The rich depend on public-school-educated police officers to keep them safe at home. The rich depend on public-school-educated employees to make them money. The rich depend on public-school-educated workers to build the products they buy with their money. The rich depend on public-school-educated professionals to fill their prescriptions. The rich depend on public-financed road networks to move their products. The rich depend on public-financed communication networks (like the subsidized phone system and the government-funded internet) to enable their businesses. The rich depend on public-financed military to protect their business interests overseas. The rich depend on public-financed military to protect their country from invasion. The rich depend on public-financed social, medical, and economic safety nets to prevent the type of discontent among the poor that create revolution.
The poor depend on many of the above to survive, but, in absence of those things, the poor who have nothing to lose would revolt and restructure their society to provide them. Eliminating the safety nets and social programs would make things very bad for the poor for a time, then make things better after the revolution. Eliminating the safety nets and social programs would make things better for the rich for a time, then make things much, much worse after the revolution.
The rich have gotten far more out of the system than the poor, and they have far more to lose if the system breaks down. It is only and truly fair that they pay their fair share to fund it. That fair share, proportionally, is much larger percentage of their income.
There's just not enough time in most school history classes to teach the kids something meaningful about all of the very major wars (Revolution, Civil War, WWI, WWII, Vietnam) that even some of the medium-sized wars (French and Indian, 1812, Korea) get short shrift. Why are we concentrating on the wars at all? What about the things that shaped our country's history between the wars?
My wife has been reading a 1930s high school U.S. history textbook, and has been fascinated by the descriptions of interpersonal relationships between various politicians at different stages in the country's history. The period between the War of 1812 and the Civil War in a modern text usually merits a page or two about Andrew Jackson, then the build-up to the war in terms of slavery and economic strife. The period between the Civil War and World War I often gets the same treatment.
How much about some of those wars truly matters? Who besides a history scholar cares the name of the British general in the Revolutionary War? Why cover WWI at all? Just leave that to a Western Civilization history class, which would certainly devote more time to its causes. Maybe mention it in terms of the mass-production revolution, and use it to lead into the subsequent economic boom, and leave it at that.
Talk more about the things that shaped the government, politics, and disagreements that our country still faces today, and you'll have students leaving the classes with a better understanding of the country they live in now. Memorizing dates and names from war to war leaves almost everyone forgetting everything, and never learning anything.
(Oh, and I loved my U.S. history class way back when, got a 5 on the AP test, and have done research on the Civil War. Please don't attack my credibility or say I just hate the wars or just hate history; comment on the merits of my proposal.)
Why get upset about anything you're passionate about? Why care if the author of the first two books in a trilogy decides to not write the third one? Why care if the television shows you watch jump the shark in the third season and become sitcoms? Why care if your movie trilogy is started by Stanley Kubrick but ended by Brett Ratner?
I think your answer indicates a general lack of passion that you have in your life for creativity in general. I don't think it shows anything about the rest of us.
They're scrapped, but they're not in junkyards. The government is specifically destroying them all rather than risk selling them off in any form, because the only buyer besides hobbyist collectors or museums is Iran.
As long as he manages to finance them somehow and stay in business, who cares? If you don't like his movies, do what I do: just don't go. I've seen Uwe Boll but never a Uwe Boll film. The problem as I understand it is that he doesn't write original scripts. Instead, he is often handed a gaming franchise, which he then proceeds to shit upon.
So, if you've played a video game and loved the story, environment, characters, you're already invested in the franchise and, bluntly, "care". To see Uwe Boll shit on something you care about makes you angry. Plus, it is very unlikely that a video game whose movie fared poorly in the theater will get a second motion picture in the next few decades, potentially preventing us from ever seeing a movie about a story we love.
You're point would be valid if Uwe Boll did what Woody Allen does - write his own stories - because then we could just all ignore them.
Scenario: Build a database with every possible social security number.
Next, start gathering whatever information you can and entering it in that database. By theft or purchase or whatever.
How long will it be before you can, digitally, "prove" that you are any person in that database? Or just buy / scheme / acquire access to the US passport database and have all that information pre-gathered for you.
Quoting relevant paragraphs:
Undersecretary Pat Kennedy said some records have "what computer people call flags -- we put flags on certain records that trigger a report to a supervisor that the record has been accessed," he said.
And the quote:
Supervisors recorded each instance a file was viewed because the applications in question belonged to members of a select group of several hundred citizens whose passport files were ''flagged'' for extra protection due to their visibility, the officials said. Among these people are government leaders, movie stars and athletes, the officials said.
I wanted a system similar to what you describe, with small touch-sensitive displays in each room connected back to a central music server, with browse and buy options when needed. Then I saw how much it would cost...
I think that the best option by far is to leverage the direction of commercial music technology. Buy an iPod or equivalent for each room, and load it with your entire music collection. No, it doesn't solve any of the other issues you raise, but it can be done incredibly cheaply given how the consumer market has driven down the prices for portable digital media players.
The OP was speaking in terms of social care. In other words:
The right takes care of the richest (top) first, and expects support for poorer people to trickle down through generosity or through increased job creation, etc.
The left takes care of the poorest (bottom) first, and expects support for richer people to derive from their remaining wealth (after taxes) or from the improved education base of the entire population (i.e. even the rich benefit from the pharmacist's assistant at Walgreens having a solid public education).
Is it not possible that someone at Samsung came up with the idea before Seagate, but just didn't patent it? If that's true, and Samsung could prove it, then Samsung could and would be awarded the patent instead. US law awards patents to "first to invent", not "first to file".
This is incidentally in the works to be changed. The rest of the world uses "first to file" and it is claimed that the change would reduce the paperwork required to approve patents. (Like we need more patents, sheesh.)
1. I'm remodeling my house. I go down to Home Despot/Slowes and buy a dozen smoke detectors. Would I get pulled over for being a suspected terrorist? You shouldn't need to be detected on the road and pulled over - Lowes' computer system would flag the transaction and report it automatically, so the police can swing by your house in the next day at their leisure.
What's private about passport records? Passport records contain your name, your address, your social security number, your place of birth, and a photo of you. With a sufficiently-large selection of data from the passport records, you could find someone who looked similar to you and could genuinely steal their identity in a long-lasting fashion.
What galls me is that, apparently, the database has a flag that can be set for "famous people", which causes a supervisor alert whenever the file is accessed. Where is the special alert for the rest of us? We're the ones whose data could be abused to wreak havoc on our lives and finances.
That fails to take into account the number of free drinks consumed, nor does it consider the cost of equivalent enjoyment (e.g. movie, amusement park, show) that would otherwise occupy the time.
1. Quoting Wikipedia as a source on a legal question. 2. Ignoring Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, which happened about 100 years after the Bill of Rights was created.
Stunningly ironic is that the party that goes on about those "poor minorities that need our help" has a black man making a damned good run. Seems kinda counter to the nonsense about the minorities need our help and handouts. Yeah, because of course one well-educated, charismatic member of any group is an exact representative of the status of all members of that group.
Hey, Martin Luther King, Jr., was a well-educated, charismatic man, and he is a nationally respected figure. I guess blacks have been equal since the 1960s, then, and all the issues with whites fleeing for the suburbs back when only they could because they hadn't recently been subjected to unconstitutional discrimination laws, leaving under-funded inner-city schools that make it significantly harder for the average student to move up in economic status is all nonsense, right?
I can't believe Slashdot moderators bumped that up to +5 insightful.
I've had my mac for a month. I had Mac-style mouse acceleration for 2 days.
Then, I installed Logitech's all-in-one OSX utility (the Logitech Control Center). It recognized my Logitech USB mouse and - voila - the awful acceleration was gone, swept aside by using the hardware vendor's driver instead of the one that ships with the OS.
My guess would be that the government, in the interests of national security, would simply ban discussion of the movements of heavenly bodies, as well as research on their movement patterns. We've already seen what happens when radicals start tracking heavenly bodies and make claims about their movement patterns and relationship to earth.
Note that PCB design, to a large extent, is still done in mils - which is 1/1000 of an inch. Converting millimeters to mils is a common occurrence, and woe be the designer that confuses the two.
But there are people who say that every word of the bible is literal truth. You've just attempted to claim that the bible approximated something - in other words, that it's not 100% true.
Normally we'd just ignore those people, and agree that the bible rounded something for brevity. But when those people represent a significant proportion of the voting public (fortunately, splitting their vote between two candidates), it's worth pointing out that they exist and would have burned you at the stake 300 years ago for making such a blasphemous claim.
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The rich depend on public-school-educated employees to make them money.
The rich depend on public-school-educated workers to build the products they buy with their money.
The rich depend on public-school-educated professionals to fill their prescriptions.
The rich depend on public-financed road networks to move their products.
The rich depend on public-financed communication networks (like the subsidized phone system and the government-funded internet) to enable their businesses.
The rich depend on public-financed military to protect their business interests overseas.
The rich depend on public-financed military to protect their country from invasion.
The rich depend on public-financed social, medical, and economic safety nets to prevent the type of discontent among the poor that create revolution.
The poor depend on many of the above to survive, but, in absence of those things, the poor who have nothing to lose would revolt and restructure their society to provide them. Eliminating the safety nets and social programs would make things very bad for the poor for a time, then make things better after the revolution. Eliminating the safety nets and social programs would make things better for the rich for a time, then make things much, much worse after the revolution.
The rich have gotten far more out of the system than the poor, and they have far more to lose if the system breaks down. It is only and truly fair that they pay their fair share to fund it. That fair share, proportionally, is much larger percentage of their income.
My wife has been reading a 1930s high school U.S. history textbook, and has been fascinated by the descriptions of interpersonal relationships between various politicians at different stages in the country's history. The period between the War of 1812 and the Civil War in a modern text usually merits a page or two about Andrew Jackson, then the build-up to the war in terms of slavery and economic strife. The period between the Civil War and World War I often gets the same treatment.
How much about some of those wars truly matters? Who besides a history scholar cares the name of the British general in the Revolutionary War? Why cover WWI at all? Just leave that to a Western Civilization history class, which would certainly devote more time to its causes. Maybe mention it in terms of the mass-production revolution, and use it to lead into the subsequent economic boom, and leave it at that.
Talk more about the things that shaped the government, politics, and disagreements that our country still faces today, and you'll have students leaving the classes with a better understanding of the country they live in now. Memorizing dates and names from war to war leaves almost everyone forgetting everything, and never learning anything.
(Oh, and I loved my U.S. history class way back when, got a 5 on the AP test, and have done research on the Civil War. Please don't attack my credibility or say I just hate the wars or just hate history; comment on the merits of my proposal.)
Why get upset about anything you're passionate about? Why care if the author of the first two books in a trilogy decides to not write the third one? Why care if the television shows you watch jump the shark in the third season and become sitcoms? Why care if your movie trilogy is started by Stanley Kubrick but ended by Brett Ratner?
I think your answer indicates a general lack of passion that you have in your life for creativity in general. I don't think it shows anything about the rest of us.
They're scrapped, but they're not in junkyards. The government is specifically destroying them all rather than risk selling them off in any form, because the only buyer besides hobbyist collectors or museums is Iran.
http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/pentagon_spending_900000_to_destroy_f_14_tomcats/
So, if you've played a video game and loved the story, environment, characters, you're already invested in the franchise and, bluntly, "care". To see Uwe Boll shit on something you care about makes you angry. Plus, it is very unlikely that a video game whose movie fared poorly in the theater will get a second motion picture in the next few decades, potentially preventing us from ever seeing a movie about a story we love.
You're point would be valid if Uwe Boll did what Woody Allen does - write his own stories - because then we could just all ignore them.
Next, start gathering whatever information you can and entering it in that database. By theft or purchase or whatever.
How long will it be before you can, digitally, "prove" that you are any person in that database? Or just buy / scheme / acquire access to the US passport database and have all that information pre-gathered for you.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9070398
Quoting relevant paragraphs: Undersecretary Pat Kennedy said some records have "what computer people call flags -- we put flags on certain records that trigger a report to a supervisor that the record has been accessed," he said.
Not all 18 million passport records have flags, said Kennedy. The department's Bureau of Counsel Affairs determines what records to flag, he said. Here's another link:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Passports-Privacy.html
And the quote: Supervisors recorded each instance a file was viewed because the applications in question belonged to members of a select group of several hundred citizens whose passport files were ''flagged'' for extra protection due to their visibility, the officials said. Among these people are government leaders, movie stars and athletes, the officials said.
I wanted a system similar to what you describe, with small touch-sensitive displays in each room connected back to a central music server, with browse and buy options when needed. Then I saw how much it would cost...
I think that the best option by far is to leverage the direction of commercial music technology. Buy an iPod or equivalent for each room, and load it with your entire music collection. No, it doesn't solve any of the other issues you raise, but it can be done incredibly cheaply given how the consumer market has driven down the prices for portable digital media players.
I take it you didn't read the second paragraph of my post before you responded. =p
The OP was speaking in terms of social care. In other words:
The right takes care of the richest (top) first, and expects support for poorer people to trickle down through generosity or through increased job creation, etc.
The left takes care of the poorest (bottom) first, and expects support for richer people to derive from their remaining wealth (after taxes) or from the improved education base of the entire population (i.e. even the rich benefit from the pharmacist's assistant at Walgreens having a solid public education).
This is incidentally in the works to be changed. The rest of the world uses "first to file" and it is claimed that the change would reduce the paperwork required to approve patents. (Like we need more patents, sheesh.)
What's private about passport records? Passport records contain your name, your address, your social security number, your place of birth, and a photo of you. With a sufficiently-large selection of data from the passport records, you could find someone who looked similar to you and could genuinely steal their identity in a long-lasting fashion.
What galls me is that, apparently, the database has a flag that can be set for "famous people", which causes a supervisor alert whenever the file is accessed. Where is the special alert for the rest of us? We're the ones whose data could be abused to wreak havoc on our lives and finances.
Sounds more like a farm implement to me.
That fails to take into account the number of free drinks consumed, nor does it consider the cost of equivalent enjoyment (e.g. movie, amusement park, show) that would otherwise occupy the time.
Epic fail.
1. Quoting Wikipedia as a source on a legal question.
2. Ignoring Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company, which happened about 100 years after the Bill of Rights was created.
If you want to be remembered, you should stop going around incognit000.
Sorry, couldn't resist. =p I'm not sure I could do it, but I agree with your reasoning.
I only like selected works of NIN, so I thought the free sample would be a good way to try it out.
Sadly enough, the download just doesn't work for me. Alas, it's not worth continued effort.
Hey, Martin Luther King, Jr., was a well-educated, charismatic man, and he is a nationally respected figure. I guess blacks have been equal since the 1960s, then, and all the issues with whites fleeing for the suburbs back when only they could because they hadn't recently been subjected to unconstitutional discrimination laws, leaving under-funded inner-city schools that make it significantly harder for the average student to move up in economic status is all nonsense, right?
I can't believe Slashdot moderators bumped that up to +5 insightful.
I've had my mac for a month. I had Mac-style mouse acceleration for 2 days.
Then, I installed Logitech's all-in-one OSX utility (the Logitech Control Center). It recognized my Logitech USB mouse and - voila - the awful acceleration was gone, swept aside by using the hardware vendor's driver instead of the one that ships with the OS.
My guess would be that the government, in the interests of national security, would simply ban discussion of the movements of heavenly bodies, as well as research on their movement patterns. We've already seen what happens when radicals start tracking heavenly bodies and make claims about their movement patterns and relationship to earth.
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anything scientific is carried out in meters
Note that PCB design, to a large extent, is still done in mils - which is 1/1000 of an inch. Converting millimeters to mils is a common occurrence, and woe be the designer that confuses the two.
But there are people who say that every word of the bible is literal truth. You've just attempted to claim that the bible approximated something - in other words, that it's not 100% true.
Normally we'd just ignore those people, and agree that the bible rounded something for brevity. But when those people represent a significant proportion of the voting public (fortunately, splitting their vote between two candidates), it's worth pointing out that they exist and would have burned you at the stake 300 years ago for making such a blasphemous claim.