The Republicans don't want it solved, they've blocked EVERY attempt to put proper regulation on the oil speculation market (which is where the prices are being driven up far beyond normal market pricing) because they get tons of donations from the oil speculators and kickbacks from oil industry execs in exchange for federal subsidies.
See, this is where you are a trolling pile of shit.
My setup works fine, right now, AS IS. It's your buddies who keep trying to get me to switch, and then insult the hardware I use when - surprise surprise - the support for it under YOUR shitty platform isn't there.
See, this is precisely the standard shitty linux user attitude that causes problems.
The ATi stuff I have, I've had for years. Under a Windows install, it worked great - STILL DOES in fact. F/OSS evangelists in my area are always trying to get me to "switch over" to a MythTV / Mythbuntu-based system, which I've tried a few times (no harm to slap in an alternate hard drive and test the build for the sake of testing).
You didn't even look at the wiki page I pointed to, to see all the different sets of instructions for multiple different distributions and specific issues on each. You just went straight into your bullshit about ATi being "a vendor best avoided since the bt879 days" which is twofold stupid considering (a) all you're doing is trash-talking and (b) I wasn't even talking about capture cards, I was talking about remotes, which operate completely independent of the capture hardware.
Your own description of the situation seems to highlight why a lot of people still have a considerable amount of "skepticism" when it comes to ATI. ATI has been a "vendor best avoided" since the bt879 days.
And your attitude shows why anyone who already owns ATi equipment is going to say Fuck You in return and go about their business, most of them never to try F/OSS alternatives again since you are acting like a bunch of stuck up pricks poo-pooing existing and widely used hardware.
I don't know about cupholders, but I remember one of the trophy-wife types who was somehow working her way through an MBA (probably on her knees) when I was going through undergrad.
Come out to the parking lot, she's screaming at the BMW that had been her birthday gift from her sugar-daddy/husband a bit over a year ago, kicking the tire with her way-too-high heels, cussing up a storm because it makes a grinding noise and won't turn over to start. Tow truck shows up, guy asks her when her last oil change was.
Response of girl with more tit-silicone mass than brain mass: "you have to change the oil? Nobody told me that!"
The larger picture is, the programmers often ACTIVELY reject offers of critical help on interface design and usability, not to mention requests to streamline the installation of basic hardware such as remote controls. For instance, the Mythbuntu page for using ATi Remote Wonder remotes, which were immensely popular and are still readily available in retail packaged alone or with ATi's capture boards including the All-In-Wonder HD line. Setup for these things is a nightmare - command line garbage, edit this or that file, go see "this other page" to find out how to get all the buttons working.
Would it REALLY be hard to set up a script that could enable the necessary settings? Of course not, they've done it for a number of the other remotes by outfites like Hauppauge. But because scripting that isn't "sexy" and some of the programmers are still acting all butthurt about ATi not having open drivers before AMD bought them out, none of the MythTV or Mythbuntu team want to get off their ass and integrate such a script into the main trunk even if someone from the outside submitted it.
It's shit like this that hinders F/OSS adoption by the larger population.
It also leads the nation in creating shit-wage jobs, their vaunted "economic miracle" turned out to be just an accounting trick hidden by their only-done-biennially governmental structure. The moment they had to budget, everything came due, they found out 60% of the "new jobs" they had created were minimum wage jobs, their unemployment STILL was middle of the road for the country, and they're sitting almost dead last in education right now thanks to the retards in the legislature fucking over the public school system.
But don't worry, because the rich republican assholes who control the legislature all send their kids to private school and don't give a crap about the rest of the population.
I just realized I'm forgetting one. That one guy... uh... what was his name... uh... thinking...it's on the tip of my tongue... can't quite remember... sorry, lost it. "Oops."
Carter was a disaster as a president. However, the Republicans since 1980 have made a point of nominating the dimmest bulbs in the box.
Reagan? Already senile. His was a Weekend At Bernie's presidency. Bush the Elder? A retread, complete with barfing on foreign dignitaries. Then they moved on. BobDole... yeah. Shrub the Younger, whose intelligence could be measured in scoops of raisin bran. McCain, who while a "war hero" from years prior basically campaigned like a zombie.
And then we get the "brain trust" of this latest batch. Herman "couldn't even make an edible pizza" Cain. Mitt "robber baron" Romney. Rick Sanctimonous, champion of home schooling and anti-science rants. Michelle "hehe, I went into law because my hubby said we were done having babies and I should make myself useful in the daytimes before his nightly blowjob" Bachmann. And of course Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, who "historians" who have a running bet to top each other and misrepresent American history in a worse way.
A friend of mine has a better word for these sorts of idiots - they're known as Brain Donors. Kind of like kidney donors, they obviously donated a long while ago and somehow are alive without a functioning brain.
That 6 years is the Bachelor's PLUS THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS you mindless buffoon.
4 years in the program to complete just a Bachelor's (without an added Minor) at 18 hours per semester and YES, the program I'm referring to requires you to have dean's office signoff to enroll in more than 15 because they aren't allowed to mark a lab session as more than 1 credit hour. The certification process thanks to a RETARDican legislature requires them to take on a Minor, which adds on at least a year to year and a half in other credits. The certification process also requires 2 years spent as a student teacher (4 semesters, up to 2 done over summer) to get certified, again thanks to a RETARDican legislature who keep upping the certification requirements to "insist on better teachers" so that they get "better value" for the education budgets they keep attacking like an axe murderer.
Think of it this way from your program: 4 years with "18 hours a semester" PLUS 1 year for internship.
What they have to go through: 4 years Bachelor's at full load (15) every semester including labs. +1 year for Minor (Min: 25 credit hours with no overlap to their existing degree plan) +2 years for in-class student teaching, only 2 semesters of which can be done over summers (so, minimum 1.5 years to complete it). Can POSSIBLY be done with 0.5 year overlap on a semester if you can get enough night courses or online-based courses scheduled.
THAT is the real world of trying to become a teacher. Now you've had an education on the subject, you ignorant moron.
You're obviously a retard who never went through school.
Teaching programs aren't a "4 year" program. They have a required 4 year Bachelor's with a required Minor as well, which usually pushes the program above the maximum 4-year hours into 5-year territory. Then there's the minimum 2 years of student teaching that has to be scheduled as well to get certification before they're allowed to be licensed as a teacher.
Getting a Bachelor's in Education (or alternatively, a Math or Science Bachelor's with a Minor in Education) and becoming a certified, employable teacher is a 5 year minimum process pushing 18 credit hours per semester (above 15 is considered overload BTW) or realistically, 6 years.
As for the salary you quoted, you're plain wrong. Teachers don't "work 9 months out of the year", they either have to sign on working summer terms, they have an alternative summer job, or they have a spouse who supports them through the summer. Most of them that don't work summer school spend their time taking the classes required to maintain certification, which is grad level work and eats up a hell of a lot of time.
I know many, many teachers. And for the lies you have told about them you are a worthless, subhuman pile of shit.
In your country it's been abuses by the Muslim groups - for instance, claiming anyone opposed to legalizing polygamy is engaging in "hate speech against the Koran."
The theoretical implications of the Canadian approach seem worse than the US approach, however I think in the practical world they work out much better.
Right up until you piss off the $cientologists, or the Mormons, or the Muslims, by saying something about their "prophet" that they interpret as derogatory (which you may well have intended as same) and they start to sue and harass you in court for "hate speech."
Meanwhile, the idea of being strip-searched before being put into prison seems to be an unfortunate side effect of the way we run prisons. If you haven't heard, smuggling items into prisons is pretty fucking big business. And they get downright creative about it. So if you're running a prison, then yes, you turn out to have a vested security interest in strip-searching anyone who comes in, whether they're there doing 10-to-20 or they're in for a short stint on failure to pay traffic tickets.
It sucks, and it's humiliating for those who are strip searched due to minor crimes or worse yet, court system fuck-ups (which is part of what this case had going for it to make a sympathetic plaintiff) but the alternative is the crime and drug gangs just having a few guys whose job it is to get arrested for running enough stoplights to smuggle stuff in to the leaders on a 30-day pass and pass messages back and forth from the outside too.
Blaming the teachers' unions proves you are a fucking retard who listens to too much Rush Limbaugh.
Where you should blame are the fucking Retardicans who demand to have a first-rate educational system while not wanting to pay a fucking dime of taxes to support it.
You want to know why school IT is "bottom of the barrel"? It's because the schools themselves are physically falling apart. Class sizes are 35 kids or larger now, up from 25 a decade ago, despite decades of studies showing that education quality declines with larger class sizes. Most schools have computers that are 6-7 years old and barely holding together, school infrastructure for email and web outreach is likewise a joke, and as likely as not it's all administered by the one tech-savvy teacher on staff who gets a measly 8-10 grand bonus per *YEAR* to spend an extra 20 hours a week trying to hold it all together with duct tape and baling wire.
They can barely convince teachers to keep teaching in the system as it is. Why? Because it's shit wages forever, you have to spend at least 5 grand a year on "continuing education" and take outside classes on your own just to fucking remain certified, you have to spend your own money on any classroom materials other than the books chosen by the curriculum administrators and the chalkboard or whiteboard in the front of the room, and then when the next budget crunch comes around, all the teachers in the state have to take a pay cut and then get blamed for being "the problem", like the fucking Retardicans and that college failout retard Scott Walker in Wisconsin pulled recently.
You want to have schools that teach well and give all kids an opportunity for a good education? LEARN TO BE WILLING TO PAY FOR IT. The US educational system, thanks to the Retardicans, is like trying to pay Yugo prices for a car but expecting you'll get a Lamborghini. NOT. FUCKING. GOING. TO. HAPPEN.
Pretty soon, the US will have less online freedom than the rest of the world.
And here they come bitching about other nations?
Start by repealing the DMCA and the other crap that followed, and stop trying to impose US law on other countries, THEN you can talk about online freedom.
If you want a good back-of-the-envelope measurement and don't trust the solar guys, why not just buy a cheap time-lapse camera, set it to record every half hour or so, and check the solar coverage on the images of some representative days?
"Conservatives" have begun to distrust science since 1970, which is the point at which Nixon began the GOP's running with the "Southern Strategy" and the GOP began to asymptotically approach definition as a collection of religious wack-jobs and robber barons. Religious wack-jobs distrust science because they believe their cult's book trumps science, and robber barons don't really distrust science, but they dislike when its conclusions lead to government policies stopping them from making a quick buck by destroying the environment and the lives of the general population.
Precisely. Consider what happened with water in my area; we entered a conservation phase, and they promptly jacked up the water rates "to ensure minimum funding to maintain the system." Water conservation phase ended, usage increased and... hey look the rate stayed the fucking same.
Reminds me of seasonal gas price hiking. Nothing to do with politics, everything to do with greedy-ass oil execs and Saudi princes.
On the one hand they scream (after MASSIVELY SUBSIDIZING their puppetmasters in the big oil companies and the corn lobby) about the subsidization of companies like Solyndra. They do this ignoring the fact that it didn't work because China was engaging in dumping and any trade with China is fundamentally unfair trade due to Chinese environmental-destruction and slave-labor practices.
Then they complain about how Solar power is "not financially viable", and likewise for wind, geothermal, and pretty much every other renewable resource we've got. The Republicans gave the corn lobby a massive gift when Dumbya's administration outlawed MTBE and forced 10% corn ethanol into gas nationwide, despite the fact that corn ethanol is a net loss of energy (1.8 units used for every 1 unit produced) to make. The subsidization of the oil industry is orders of magnitude larger than any subsidization we've ever given to clean power.
It's like when 50 years ago the Democrats became beholden to the Teamsters; in came big trucking and the subsidized interstate system, meanwhile rail shipping - far more energy efficient for long distances - got fucked up the ass having to eat the costs of maintaining the rail lines unsubsidized.
If you see a government policy that's fucked up on energy, follow the money. Chances are, this decade there's a Koch hand behind it - the decade you choose you may find someone else.
They do it today. Documented proof has been provided of the Kochs sending provocateurs into various OWS protests, as well as the protests against Scott Walker in WI.
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You'll never get gas price rigging solved.
The Republicans don't want it solved, they've blocked EVERY attempt to put proper regulation on the oil speculation market (which is where the prices are being driven up far beyond normal market pricing) because they get tons of donations from the oil speculators and kickbacks from oil industry execs in exchange for federal subsidies.
See, this is where you are a trolling pile of shit.
My setup works fine, right now, AS IS. It's your buddies who keep trying to get me to switch, and then insult the hardware I use when - surprise surprise - the support for it under YOUR shitty platform isn't there.
See, this is precisely the standard shitty linux user attitude that causes problems.
The ATi stuff I have, I've had for years. Under a Windows install, it worked great - STILL DOES in fact. F/OSS evangelists in my area are always trying to get me to "switch over" to a MythTV / Mythbuntu-based system, which I've tried a few times (no harm to slap in an alternate hard drive and test the build for the sake of testing).
You didn't even look at the wiki page I pointed to, to see all the different sets of instructions for multiple different distributions and specific issues on each. You just went straight into your bullshit about ATi being "a vendor best avoided since the bt879 days" which is twofold stupid considering (a) all you're doing is trash-talking and (b) I wasn't even talking about capture cards, I was talking about remotes, which operate completely independent of the capture hardware.
Your own description of the situation seems to highlight why a lot of people still have a considerable amount of "skepticism" when it comes to ATI. ATI has been a "vendor best avoided" since the bt879 days.
And your attitude shows why anyone who already owns ATi equipment is going to say Fuck You in return and go about their business, most of them never to try F/OSS alternatives again since you are acting like a bunch of stuck up pricks poo-pooing existing and widely used hardware.
I don't know about cupholders, but I remember one of the trophy-wife types who was somehow working her way through an MBA (probably on her knees) when I was going through undergrad.
Come out to the parking lot, she's screaming at the BMW that had been her birthday gift from her sugar-daddy/husband a bit over a year ago, kicking the tire with her way-too-high heels, cussing up a storm because it makes a grinding noise and won't turn over to start. Tow truck shows up, guy asks her when her last oil change was.
Response of girl with more tit-silicone mass than brain mass: "you have to change the oil? Nobody told me that!"
In a nutshell.
The larger picture is, the programmers often ACTIVELY reject offers of critical help on interface design and usability, not to mention requests to streamline the installation of basic hardware such as remote controls. For instance, the Mythbuntu page for using ATi Remote Wonder remotes, which were immensely popular and are still readily available in retail packaged alone or with ATi's capture boards including the All-In-Wonder HD line. Setup for these things is a nightmare - command line garbage, edit this or that file, go see "this other page" to find out how to get all the buttons working.
Would it REALLY be hard to set up a script that could enable the necessary settings? Of course not, they've done it for a number of the other remotes by outfites like Hauppauge. But because scripting that isn't "sexy" and some of the programmers are still acting all butthurt about ATi not having open drivers before AMD bought them out, none of the MythTV or Mythbuntu team want to get off their ass and integrate such a script into the main trunk even if someone from the outside submitted it.
It's shit like this that hinders F/OSS adoption by the larger population.
It also leads the nation in creating shit-wage jobs, their vaunted "economic miracle" turned out to be just an accounting trick hidden by their only-done-biennially governmental structure. The moment they had to budget, everything came due, they found out 60% of the "new jobs" they had created were minimum wage jobs, their unemployment STILL was middle of the road for the country, and they're sitting almost dead last in education right now thanks to the retards in the legislature fucking over the public school system.
But don't worry, because the rich republican assholes who control the legislature all send their kids to private school and don't give a crap about the rest of the population.
having a temper-tantrum because you feel you worked real hard to get one of the easiest degrees
Fuck you, you retarded son of a bitch. You just proved how little you know about the education system.
I just realized I'm forgetting one. That one guy... uh... what was his name... uh... thinking...it's on the tip of my tongue... can't quite remember... sorry, lost it. "Oops."
Carter was a disaster as a president. However, the Republicans since 1980 have made a point of nominating the dimmest bulbs in the box.
Reagan? Already senile. His was a Weekend At Bernie's presidency.
Bush the Elder? A retread, complete with barfing on foreign dignitaries.
Then they moved on. BobDole... yeah. Shrub the Younger, whose intelligence could be measured in scoops of raisin bran. McCain, who while a "war hero" from years prior basically campaigned like a zombie.
And then we get the "brain trust" of this latest batch. Herman "couldn't even make an edible pizza" Cain. Mitt "robber baron" Romney. Rick Sanctimonous, champion of home schooling and anti-science rants. Michelle "hehe, I went into law because my hubby said we were done having babies and I should make myself useful in the daytimes before his nightly blowjob" Bachmann. And of course Sarah Palin and Newt Gingrich, who "historians" who have a running bet to top each other and misrepresent American history in a worse way.
A friend of mine has a better word for these sorts of idiots - they're known as Brain Donors. Kind of like kidney donors, they obviously donated a long while ago and somehow are alive without a functioning brain.
That 6 years is the Bachelor's PLUS THE CERTIFICATION PROCESS you mindless buffoon.
4 years in the program to complete just a Bachelor's (without an added Minor) at 18 hours per semester and YES, the program I'm referring to requires you to have dean's office signoff to enroll in more than 15 because they aren't allowed to mark a lab session as more than 1 credit hour. The certification process thanks to a RETARDican legislature requires them to take on a Minor, which adds on at least a year to year and a half in other credits. The certification process also requires 2 years spent as a student teacher (4 semesters, up to 2 done over summer) to get certified, again thanks to a RETARDican legislature who keep upping the certification requirements to "insist on better teachers" so that they get "better value" for the education budgets they keep attacking like an axe murderer.
Think of it this way from your program:
4 years with "18 hours a semester"
PLUS 1 year for internship.
What they have to go through:
4 years Bachelor's at full load (15) every semester including labs.
+1 year for Minor (Min: 25 credit hours with no overlap to their existing degree plan)
+2 years for in-class student teaching, only 2 semesters of which can be done over summers (so, minimum 1.5 years to complete it). Can POSSIBLY be done with 0.5 year overlap on a semester if you can get enough night courses or online-based courses scheduled.
THAT is the real world of trying to become a teacher. Now you've had an education on the subject, you ignorant moron.
You're obviously a retard who never went through school.
Teaching programs aren't a "4 year" program. They have a required 4 year Bachelor's with a required Minor as well, which usually pushes the program above the maximum 4-year hours into 5-year territory. Then there's the minimum 2 years of student teaching that has to be scheduled as well to get certification before they're allowed to be licensed as a teacher.
Getting a Bachelor's in Education (or alternatively, a Math or Science Bachelor's with a Minor in Education) and becoming a certified, employable teacher is a 5 year minimum process pushing 18 credit hours per semester (above 15 is considered overload BTW) or realistically, 6 years.
As for the salary you quoted, you're plain wrong. Teachers don't "work 9 months out of the year", they either have to sign on working summer terms, they have an alternative summer job, or they have a spouse who supports them through the summer. Most of them that don't work summer school spend their time taking the classes required to maintain certification, which is grad level work and eats up a hell of a lot of time.
I know many, many teachers. And for the lies you have told about them you are a worthless, subhuman pile of shit.
In your country it's been abuses by the Muslim groups - for instance, claiming anyone opposed to legalizing polygamy is engaging in "hate speech against the Koran."
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The theoretical implications of the Canadian approach seem worse than the US approach, however I think in the practical world they work out much better.
Right up until you piss off the $cientologists, or the Mormons, or the Muslims, by saying something about their "prophet" that they interpret as derogatory (which you may well have intended as same) and they start to sue and harass you in court for "hate speech."
Meanwhile, the idea of being strip-searched before being put into prison seems to be an unfortunate side effect of the way we run prisons. If you haven't heard, smuggling items into prisons is pretty fucking big business. And they get downright creative about it. So if you're running a prison, then yes, you turn out to have a vested security interest in strip-searching anyone who comes in, whether they're there doing 10-to-20 or they're in for a short stint on failure to pay traffic tickets.
It sucks, and it's humiliating for those who are strip searched due to minor crimes or worse yet, court system fuck-ups (which is part of what this case had going for it to make a sympathetic plaintiff) but the alternative is the crime and drug gangs just having a few guys whose job it is to get arrested for running enough stoplights to smuggle stuff in to the leaders on a 30-day pass and pass messages back and forth from the outside too.
Blaming the teachers' unions proves you are a fucking retard who listens to too much Rush Limbaugh.
Where you should blame are the fucking Retardicans who demand to have a first-rate educational system while not wanting to pay a fucking dime of taxes to support it.
You want to know why school IT is "bottom of the barrel"? It's because the schools themselves are physically falling apart. Class sizes are 35 kids or larger now, up from 25 a decade ago, despite decades of studies showing that education quality declines with larger class sizes. Most schools have computers that are 6-7 years old and barely holding together, school infrastructure for email and web outreach is likewise a joke, and as likely as not it's all administered by the one tech-savvy teacher on staff who gets a measly 8-10 grand bonus per *YEAR* to spend an extra 20 hours a week trying to hold it all together with duct tape and baling wire.
They can barely convince teachers to keep teaching in the system as it is. Why? Because it's shit wages forever, you have to spend at least 5 grand a year on "continuing education" and take outside classes on your own just to fucking remain certified, you have to spend your own money on any classroom materials other than the books chosen by the curriculum administrators and the chalkboard or whiteboard in the front of the room, and then when the next budget crunch comes around, all the teachers in the state have to take a pay cut and then get blamed for being "the problem", like the fucking Retardicans and that college failout retard Scott Walker in Wisconsin pulled recently.
You want to have schools that teach well and give all kids an opportunity for a good education? LEARN TO BE WILLING TO PAY FOR IT. The US educational system, thanks to the Retardicans, is like trying to pay Yugo prices for a car but expecting you'll get a Lamborghini. NOT. FUCKING. GOING. TO. HAPPEN.
Pretty soon, the US will have less online freedom than the rest of the world.
And here they come bitching about other nations?
Start by repealing the DMCA and the other crap that followed, and stop trying to impose US law on other countries, THEN you can talk about online freedom.
If you want a good back-of-the-envelope measurement and don't trust the solar guys, why not just buy a cheap time-lapse camera, set it to record every half hour or so, and check the solar coverage on the images of some representative days?
Simpler than that.
"Conservatives" have begun to distrust science since 1970, which is the point at which Nixon began the GOP's running with the "Southern Strategy" and the GOP began to asymptotically approach definition as a collection of religious wack-jobs and robber barons. Religious wack-jobs distrust science because they believe their cult's book trumps science, and robber barons don't really distrust science, but they dislike when its conclusions lead to government policies stopping them from making a quick buck by destroying the environment and the lives of the general population.
This.
Precisely. Consider what happened with water in my area; we entered a conservation phase, and they promptly jacked up the water rates "to ensure minimum funding to maintain the system." Water conservation phase ended, usage increased and... hey look the rate stayed the fucking same.
Reminds me of seasonal gas price hiking. Nothing to do with politics, everything to do with greedy-ass oil execs and Saudi princes.
Tell that to the Republicans.
On the one hand they scream (after MASSIVELY SUBSIDIZING their puppetmasters in the big oil companies and the corn lobby) about the subsidization of companies like Solyndra. They do this ignoring the fact that it didn't work because China was engaging in dumping and any trade with China is fundamentally unfair trade due to Chinese environmental-destruction and slave-labor practices.
Then they complain about how Solar power is "not financially viable", and likewise for wind, geothermal, and pretty much every other renewable resource we've got. The Republicans gave the corn lobby a massive gift when Dumbya's administration outlawed MTBE and forced 10% corn ethanol into gas nationwide, despite the fact that corn ethanol is a net loss of energy (1.8 units used for every 1 unit produced) to make. The subsidization of the oil industry is orders of magnitude larger than any subsidization we've ever given to clean power.
It's like when 50 years ago the Democrats became beholden to the Teamsters; in came big trucking and the subsidized interstate system, meanwhile rail shipping - far more energy efficient for long distances - got fucked up the ass having to eat the costs of maintaining the rail lines unsubsidized.
If you see a government policy that's fucked up on energy, follow the money. Chances are, this decade there's a Koch hand behind it - the decade you choose you may find someone else.
http://boingboing.net/2011/02/25/madison-police-chief.html
Oh and fuck you.
http://my.firedoglake.com/cgrapski/2011/10/09/american-standard-editor-admits-to-being-agent-provacateur-at-d-c-museum/
They do it today. Documented proof has been provided of the Kochs sending provocateurs into various OWS protests, as well as the protests against Scott Walker in WI.
100% of normal humans recognize that said scientists had their senses of humor surgically removed at an early age.
Not just that, cops are dumb as shit thugs to start with.
They're legally allowed to refuse to hire anyone "too smart" to do the job.