And their CEO now wants to be President of the United States.
You mean the one who says marijuana can't be legalized, because she buried a child due to drugs, except that the child was her 35 year old step-daughter, was an alcoholic and was addicted to prescription drugs? Age and cause of death don't make it any less tragic, but it also doesn't support her opposition to drug legalization.
Any chance this book is available for my IoT toaster, so I can read it while waiting for my toast?
No, silly. It's available as an ePub. You're going to be using your IoT toaster app on your phone anyway, so you may as well read it on that. Your IoT toaster will send you a push notification when it's done.
Technology should be used to augment classroom instruction, not replace it. Sadly, too many administrators & politicians seem to fall into the "This Will Revolutionize Education" mentality. Even when I was studying computer science, none of my courses was in an actual computer room. We had 3 hours of lecture for theory and then a 2 hour lab for application, plus extra hours outside of class time for homework. I almost loathe having to teach in a computer classroom, because some students are busy screwing around with "social media" instead of paying attention.
There is nothing the FBI, NSA, CIA, DIA, Google, or Facebook can discover that cannot be discovered by the general public
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there fixed it for you!
I'd be a lot less worried about the last two than the first four, or any other alphabet agency for that matter. It's extraordinarily unlikely that Google or Facebook would ever send men with guns to your house or freeze your assets without explanation.
Among people who understand what McAfee software was intended to do, the Lessig/Sanders ticket probably has that demographic tied up.
Did you mean Lessig/Sanders as an either-or, or do you think there's a possibility of a Lessig for president and Sanders as his VP? Don't think that would ever be a possibility. If McAfee decides to run, his new party can be called the Vanity party, and Lessig can join him.
If it was received by some supernatural source, from an all powerful and all knowing being... Why would it feel bound to use newly generated paper. If it was all knowing, it would create the book outside of space time, when it felt making it a book it would.
I might be wrong, but my understanding is he was given the words of the Quran from an angel, and then had a scribe write the words down at a later time. If the paper AND the ink are both older than Muhammad, then that would completely falsify the claim that Muhammad gave the world the Quran, which in turn would falsify Islam itself. It would be comparable to the Sanhedrin producing Jesus's corpse after the apostles claimed he was resurrected from the dead.
Hillary had her own mail server. Big deal. That doesn't make me dislike her any more than I already do because all politicians are clueless about technology.
I'm unconvinced. You addressed partial instances while ignoring all the others. What's reliable food labeling? Are you sure what we have now is reliable, even with the government continuously changing it's food guidelines? You can say that it's based on science, but the science is always at odds with itself. There was an article on/. not too long ago about what a miserable failure food science has been.
What's ridiculous is comparing growing food to manufacturing automobiles, and you totally ignored the part about farmer's markets. Many people can & do grow their own food, others have community gardens, and farmer's markets are available in almost every town & city in the country. So are natural/organic stores.
And your seat belt argument isn't even close to correct. Seat belts were in place in automobiles well before seat belt laws were created. You may be thinking of laws making the wearing of seat belts compulsory, but the belts were in place by the manufacturers well before any laws came into effect.
1. I asked him if he liked food labeling, and he said yes, but that if people like labels then they could just demand them in the free market.
2. I said yes, but labeling isn't in the interests of any producer, so if none of them labeled, then would customers just choose to starve to death?
Done. I won. He even admitted it and I think he slightly softened his rhetoric after that.
Points to consider:
- Many businesses who produce gluten-free, vegetarian, non-gmo, Halal or Kosher foods, etc. voluntarily label their products as such because it IS in their interest. - Other businesses might see labeling their food as a competitive advantage if everyone else stopped labeling theirs.
- People may buy some non-labeled foods in the short term, but in the long term would seek other alternatives, such as growing their own in a garden or buying from the local farmer's market.
You won your debate with your friend, but you did not win the debate. He gave up too easily.
What you said is demonstrably wrong and should be obvious to anyone with any education above third grade or so.
"I stubbed my toe! Curse those puritans, source of all pain and misery!" Life is so much easier when it's somebody else's fault, and when you don't have to take responsibility for your own actions.
100% of the worlds pain and misery come from these people who find glee in forcing their beliefs on others.
Ironic coming from the guy who says this:
College level should be 100% free to citizens in the USA, there is no reason at all to have to charge for classes up to associates, and it should be inexpensive to get to bachelors and beyond. (Original Source)
You have no problem with forcing everyone to pay for college for some people at gunpoint, but a huge problem with some people looking down their nose at others for intentionally looking to cheat on their spouses.
(Posting as AC, even though I've never gone near the site, because I'm stuck with this country's puritanical environment and the consequences it imposes for even talking about ethical decisions that don't fit the standard mold. And, yeah, I guess I'm a bit of a coward.)
Replying as AC, to tell you that you forgot to mark the "Post Anonymously" checkbox, even though I've never posted AC before, because I'm stuck with this site's puritanical environment and the consequences it imposes for even talking about posting as AC and not using the preview button.
The bad news is the nearest local service provider (an Apple Store) is about 45 miles away. Maybe the fact that I'm eligible is also bad news, since I have had some blurry photos. There's a beautiful buck that's been wandering around in the farm field behind our house, and I've tried to get some photos of him, but they turn out blurry enough that you can't make out his antlers.:-/
What GP clearly means is that University education should be at no (or little) cost to the students. You're being willfully obtuse here.
It will be little or not cost for them to attend, but they will pay for it the rest of their lives in the form of taxes. So will those who *don't* go to college. Meanwhile, Biff and Skippy get a taxpayer-subsidized 4 year frat party. People tend to not value things that they don't think costs them anything. Free sounds like a nice idea, until you consider the consequences. And yeah, I'm still paying my student loans.
Don't see too many Macs from 2007 still in use. I got a new work iMac about two years back which was nice since the previous one (~2010) was almost too slow to use.
I have a 27" 2010 iMac at home, and it works fine. The only upgrade I did to it was to add 2 4GB DIMMs to bring it up to 12 GB total. My in-laws & cousin both have 2008 iMacs. The in-laws use a 20" at their business. My cousin uses his 24" iMac mostly for web surfing & e-mail.
There was a time I understood this during the PPC era of mac, but now that macs run on commodity, non specialized CISC based x86, I have no idea why they retain their value.
Well, for instance, I have a 17" 2011 MacBook Pro. It's still running strong on Yosemite, despite only having 8 GB RAM & 512 MB Video card. I don't do a whole lot of gaming, but I've been able to still play games like Civilization: Beyond Earth & Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut, etc. without issue. I mostly use it for writing apps with Xcode nowadays, but it works fine for all other tasks (email, web browsing, etc.) as well. It meets my needs and will probably continue to function well for a few more years. You typically don't get that kind of longevity/performance from a Windows PC.
Yes, but why do you need one? CDL's are typically for driving freight bearing vehicles. I have a chauffeur licence, and it only required a small additional fee & another test, which was not too difficult. That should be sufficient for any driver carrying passengers.
Especially when it comes to textbooks. I used to get complimentary teacher copies from publishers, and then you'd have to lug them around, bookmark them, etc. Now I get all of my textbooks via CourseSmart, which allows you to download them for free as long as you have a teacher account. It saves a ton of time, since I don't have to fill out forms and wait for a sales rep's approval., etc. Plus, if I want to find something in my book, cmd+f is much quicker than going to the index then flipping through pages.
When it comes to reading, I have a Kindle Paperwhite. I didn't want to get a Fire, because then it would probably get used more for social media, gaming & watching videos. I wanted to make sure it was used for it's intended purpose, instead of spending hours wasting time on other things. I haven't used it as much as I would like, but the battery life on that thing is pretty amazing.
There are times, however, when I just want to pick up a hard copy of a book. There's just something nostalgic about it.
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You know, that there exists apps to calculate a tip says that a shocking amount of people can't do this very basic bit of math.
Some of them also help split the bill & can do the tips on each order. Not terribly difficult to do, but made easier with an app.
And their CEO now wants to be President of the United States.
You mean the one who says marijuana can't be legalized, because she buried a child due to drugs, except that the child was her 35 year old step-daughter, was an alcoholic and was addicted to prescription drugs? Age and cause of death don't make it any less tragic, but it also doesn't support her opposition to drug legalization.
Any chance this book is available for my IoT toaster, so I can read it while waiting for my toast?
No, silly. It's available as an ePub. You're going to be using your IoT toaster app on your phone anyway, so you may as well read it on that. Your IoT toaster will send you a push notification when it's done.
Technology should be used to augment classroom instruction, not replace it. Sadly, too many administrators & politicians seem to fall into the "This Will Revolutionize Education" mentality. Even when I was studying computer science, none of my courses was in an actual computer room. We had 3 hours of lecture for theory and then a 2 hour lab for application, plus extra hours outside of class time for homework. I almost loathe having to teach in a computer classroom, because some students are busy screwing around with "social media" instead of paying attention.
There very well could be an alien species out there is just discovering radio while having already engaged in interstellar travel.
You can't be serious.
I don't know. In Civilization, you can discover the computer before you discover calendars...
There is nothing the FBI, NSA, CIA, DIA, Google, or Facebook can discover that cannot be discovered by the general public
. there fixed it for you!
I'd be a lot less worried about the last two than the first four, or any other alphabet agency for that matter. It's extraordinarily unlikely that Google or Facebook would ever send men with guns to your house or freeze your assets without explanation.
Among people who understand what McAfee software was intended to do, the Lessig/Sanders ticket probably has that demographic tied up.
Did you mean Lessig/Sanders as an either-or, or do you think there's a possibility of a Lessig for president and Sanders as his VP? Don't think that would ever be a possibility. If McAfee decides to run, his new party can be called the Vanity party, and Lessig can join him.
I made a "B' in 2nd level calculus, so hence I am "bad at math".
Maybe you should have tried making integrals...
If it was received by some supernatural source, from an all powerful and all knowing being... Why would it feel bound to use newly generated paper. If it was all knowing, it would create the book outside of space time, when it felt making it a book it would.
I might be wrong, but my understanding is he was given the words of the Quran from an angel, and then had a scribe write the words down at a later time. If the paper AND the ink are both older than Muhammad, then that would completely falsify the claim that Muhammad gave the world the Quran, which in turn would falsify Islam itself. It would be comparable to the Sanhedrin producing Jesus's corpse after the apostles claimed he was resurrected from the dead.
Muhammad did not receive the Quran from heaven... but instead collected texts and scripts that fit his political agenda.
Muslims will counter this claim by stating Muhammad was an illiterate, but that's probably not the case.
Hillary had her own mail server. Big deal. That doesn't make me dislike her any more than I already do because all politicians are clueless about technology.
Yeah, because that's the only thing she's ever done.
A guy who runs a web site for cheaters has more integrity than a certain presidential candidate...
I'm unconvinced. You addressed partial instances while ignoring all the others. What's reliable food labeling? Are you sure what we have now is reliable, even with the government continuously changing it's food guidelines? You can say that it's based on science, but the science is always at odds with itself. There was an article on /. not too long ago about what a miserable failure food science has been.
What's ridiculous is comparing growing food to manufacturing automobiles, and you totally ignored the part about farmer's markets. Many people can & do grow their own food, others have community gardens, and farmer's markets are available in almost every town & city in the country. So are natural/organic stores.
And your seat belt argument isn't even close to correct. Seat belts were in place in automobiles well before seat belt laws were created. You may be thinking of laws making the wearing of seat belts compulsory, but the belts were in place by the manufacturers well before any laws came into effect.
1. I asked him if he liked food labeling, and he said yes, but that if people like labels then they could just demand them in the free market.
2. I said yes, but labeling isn't in the interests of any producer, so if none of them labeled, then would customers just choose to starve to death?
Done. I won. He even admitted it and I think he slightly softened his rhetoric after that.
Points to consider:
- Many businesses who produce gluten-free, vegetarian, non-gmo, Halal or Kosher foods, etc. voluntarily label their products as such because it IS in their interest.
- Other businesses might see labeling their food as a competitive advantage if everyone else stopped labeling theirs.
- People may buy some non-labeled foods in the short term, but in the long term would seek other alternatives, such as growing their own in a garden or buying from the local farmer's market.
You won your debate with your friend, but you did not win the debate. He gave up too easily.
It's better and faster to get two teenage boys with semaphore flags and binoculars than to attempt DSL.
Depends. Do they know Wuthering Heights?
That's not really ironic. Presumably GP thinks the pain and misery caused would be worth it.
Much like the "puritans" believe the same thing about forcing their beliefs.
What you said is demonstrably wrong and should be obvious to anyone with any education above third grade or so.
"I stubbed my toe! Curse those puritans, source of all pain and misery!" Life is so much easier when it's somebody else's fault, and when you don't have to take responsibility for your own actions.
100% of the worlds pain and misery come from these people who find glee in forcing their beliefs on others.
Ironic coming from the guy who says this:
College level should be 100% free to citizens in the USA, there is no reason at all to have to charge for classes up to associates, and it should be inexpensive to get to bachelors and beyond. (Original Source)
You have no problem with forcing everyone to pay for college for some people at gunpoint, but a huge problem with some people looking down their nose at others for intentionally looking to cheat on their spouses.
(Posting as AC, even though I've never gone near the site, because I'm stuck with this country's puritanical environment and the consequences it imposes for even talking about ethical decisions that don't fit the standard mold. And, yeah, I guess I'm a bit of a coward.)
Replying as AC, to tell you that you forgot to mark the "Post Anonymously" checkbox, even though I've never posted AC before, because I'm stuck with this site's puritanical environment and the consequences it imposes for even talking about posting as AC and not using the preview button.
The bad news is the nearest local service provider (an Apple Store) is about 45 miles away. Maybe the fact that I'm eligible is also bad news, since I have had some blurry photos. There's a beautiful buck that's been wandering around in the farm field behind our house, and I've tried to get some photos of him, but they turn out blurry enough that you can't make out his antlers. :-/
What GP clearly means is that University education should be at no (or little) cost to the students. You're being willfully obtuse here.
It will be little or not cost for them to attend, but they will pay for it the rest of their lives in the form of taxes. So will those who *don't* go to college. Meanwhile, Biff and Skippy get a taxpayer-subsidized 4 year frat party. People tend to not value things that they don't think costs them anything. Free sounds like a nice idea, until you consider the consequences. And yeah, I'm still paying my student loans.
Don't see too many Macs from 2007 still in use. I got a new work iMac about two years back which was nice since the previous one (~2010) was almost too slow to use.
I have a 27" 2010 iMac at home, and it works fine. The only upgrade I did to it was to add 2 4GB DIMMs to bring it up to 12 GB total. My in-laws & cousin both have 2008 iMacs. The in-laws use a 20" at their business. My cousin uses his 24" iMac mostly for web surfing & e-mail.
There was a time I understood this during the PPC era of mac, but now that macs run on commodity, non specialized CISC based x86, I have no idea why they retain their value.
Well, for instance, I have a 17" 2011 MacBook Pro. It's still running strong on Yosemite, despite only having 8 GB RAM & 512 MB Video card. I don't do a whole lot of gaming, but I've been able to still play games like Civilization: Beyond Earth & Deus Ex: Human Revolution Director's Cut, etc. without issue. I mostly use it for writing apps with Xcode nowadays, but it works fine for all other tasks (email, web browsing, etc.) as well. It meets my needs and will probably continue to function well for a few more years. You typically don't get that kind of longevity/performance from a Windows PC.
Yes, but why do you need one? CDL's are typically for driving freight bearing vehicles. I have a chauffeur licence, and it only required a small additional fee & another test, which was not too difficult. That should be sufficient for any driver carrying passengers.
Especially when it comes to textbooks. I used to get complimentary teacher copies from publishers, and then you'd have to lug them around, bookmark them, etc. Now I get all of my textbooks via CourseSmart, which allows you to download them for free as long as you have a teacher account. It saves a ton of time, since I don't have to fill out forms and wait for a sales rep's approval., etc. Plus, if I want to find something in my book, cmd+f is much quicker than going to the index then flipping through pages.
When it comes to reading, I have a Kindle Paperwhite. I didn't want to get a Fire, because then it would probably get used more for social media, gaming & watching videos. I wanted to make sure it was used for it's intended purpose, instead of spending hours wasting time on other things. I haven't used it as much as I would like, but the battery life on that thing is pretty amazing.
There are times, however, when I just want to pick up a hard copy of a book. There's just something nostalgic about it.