So, you leave your kids at home just like your computer.
Yeah, if you're single, get a friend to sit while you buy groceries.
Oh, and I don't suggest punishing your kid in a store nowadays, nine times out of ten some do-gooder will call CPS on you. And punishing later doesn't work until they are past the age of screaming fits anyway.
Carry them out of the store in an undignified manner - even at 2, they should get embarrasment. Alternately, watch them throw the tantrum, and when they get winded/tired, ask them to do it again.
Oh, and this happens every single time you go to the store. Like clockwork.
Simple solution - don't take your kids out if he's being a shit.
You will cave in. You don't know you will, but trust me--and every other parent out there--you will cave, and buy it whatever it wants to just shut it up.
The kid will want them, the marketers will make sure of that, and you'll either have to buy 'em or deal with the crazed screaming/whining/sulking that will ensue.
That's the part where you take the kid home and dinner sucks because it's whatever you have in the house.
Regarding the FCC... The FCC has no authority in this domain
Yeah, I'd suppose that the FTC would be more appropriate. That said, this is a perfect place for the feds to stomp on Comcast. I know, contracts are holy writ, but sometimes it makes more sense just to pass a law.
If you are an elitist jerk who gives em the impression you are doing me a favor by interviewing.
What if you really are that good? Fact is, if you're hiring and it's a tight market, the candidate is doing you a favor. Perhaps you just want to maintain the illusion that you're doing them a favor by interviewing them.
I also dont have any need for dilbert principle folks who are in waaaay over their heads and cannot configure a server without serious handholding or an in depth checklist.
Speaking as a software guy who can build boxes, why would you ever build a box without a checklist? Sysadminry is all about obsessive attention to detail and streamlining your job so you can slack off while the hardware hums.
Ageing technologies like Unix and mainframe are on the way out of what you need to know these days.
Yeah, these days, it's all Linux.
the Unix side can't provide the kinds of availability numbers we can and the upper-ups are getting tired of hearing the financial systems aren't available so often.
IMO, this is more a function of the ability of your admins and the fact that you're using Oracle Apps.
Foreign workers are well paid (by definition, given the kind of visa they need to enter the country) so they are not driving salaries down
Of course they are - increased supply means lower prices.
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Just because you can run an OC192 on fiber doesn't mean your equipment can support it. Here's how it works: OC192 stuff is really expensive, but slower stuff is cheaper. You run single mode fiber because that's about the same price as multimode, then you pick the routers on each end that meet your need (plus some headroom). When they get overloaded, but the next step up - it'll be cheaper then.
Those are just their legal departments trying to build precedent for future legal actions. They're worried about real, actual damage when private, secret, or sensitive data is released through the same channels and nobody cooperates in removing it or halting its spread.
I'd rather have real data spread around than silence someone because of what they might say.
You idealistic types can gnash your teeth about the curtailing of your online freedoms, but what you're failing to grasp is the simple fact that Your Opinion Is Not Perfect.
So what? I have the right to say what I feel.
when pictures stolen from your webcam of you and your wife engaging in something that you think should be legal but isn't, are circulated to every major visitor-supported voyeur pornsite, you'll be sitting there thinking that maybe, just maybe, being forced to trust anonymous individuals on the Internet who are well beyond the reach of any punishment you can effect, isn't the utopia you thought it would be.
heh, this is exactly like shutting someone down because you don't like what they say.
I think you are confusing freedom and truth. No matter how obvious is some fact to you, you have to let other people explore different opinions or even be misled.
Nope, the current evolution debate isn't about truth - it's about trying to force religion into a science class. Science isn't concerned with truth, anyway - that's philosophy.
What do you think of requiring teachers to vary the lesson plans based on official government positions?
That's kind of vague - the government has official positions on things like math requirements, which are completely boring. I'd be pissed if the science teacher was forced to even mention the Creationist moonbats, though.
How would you feel if your kids were sent to a madrasah for half a day and made to do homework for many hours afterwards?
That's fine. It'd quickly be a contest to see who can make the teacher cry. As it stands, we don't have that and it would be illegal to do it here. That's part of what the fight against evolution is all about - trying to install a madrasah here.
It doesn't require anything of teachers. It just give teachers a chance to be intellectually honest and parents a choice in their childrens' education.
Requiring teachers to vary the lesson plan based on the parents' religion is an establishment of religion.
The same someone who is trying to install democracy in two radical islamic countries?
Yeah, like we're trying to do that. Not gonna happen.
On the other hand, there are natural differences in people's talent and their own carrier choices - there are more talanted black dancers/singers/basketball players,
It's not because they're black. It's because they're poor (you can play bball with minimal equipment and it gets you out of the ghetto). In the 20s, it was jewish kids playing bball. I would dispute the numbers on dancers and singers, by the way.
So you bought into the idea that government choosing ideology and theories that will be imposed on all children in the country is "free thought" and individual parents choosing schools "indoctrination"? Nice!
parents have far more influence over their kids than the school. Spend time with your kids and it won't matter.
So which "naturistic god" did the founding fathers believe to have lived 1786 years before the ratification of the Constitution?
Yeah, because that isn't just the fancy way to declare what year it was.
Your conclusions from your cited passage do not make any sense. The simple occurrence of the word "Nature" is not a pass to read any naturalistic philosophy you deem fit into the statement.
It's a reference to Nature's God, which is a known entity apart from the rather brutal yahweh.
"state of nature"
This means chaos, by the way. It's not what you think.
The architects of the Declaration and the Constitution were either Christian or raised Christian
This is flatly contradicted by tons of primary source information about the founding fathers. No need to nose through the specifics of their two most famous documents.
It's an unwinnable proposition. Teaching and grading students on theories that contradict their (or their parents') religious believes is itself a form of religious education.
Bullshit. Accepting that requires teachers to pander to whatever religion the parents have, which is an establishment of religion. The best thing to do is have the parents teach the kids how to deal with the difference.
Abstinence is the only sure way to avoid pregnancy (shouldn't we be teaching kids oral sex and same-sex experimentation if that's the only goal of sex ad)?
That's a religious argument - it's only being pushed by religious lobbies, and is actually less effective than condoms and the pill.
Democracy is the best form of government for every society
Then why don't we have one? Someone needs to go back to civics class.
All races and both genders are EXACTLY the same in all aspects and will be equally good at EVERY job in EXACTLY equal percentage of the corresponding population.
They are the same before the law, and you'd have trouble finding legitimate racial diffs in jobs, although some physical work is done better by men. Doesn't mean you get to tell a woman no for that construction job - you have to have a reason other than her breasts.
We don't need all our children brainwashed by the government into one single way of thinking, be it religious, political or scientific.
Says the person apparently defending the challenge to evolution going on in our schools. You preach about not indoctrinating the young while pushing an agenda of indoctrination. Nice.
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But what if you were the Police office who unfairly got poor reviews because you arested someone who deserved it...
Man up, nancy-boy.
I'm recounting the tactics used on me. If they work on a willful, smart, ADHD brat of a 2 year old, they should work on just about anyone.
So, you leave your kids at home just like your computer.
Yeah, if you're single, get a friend to sit while you buy groceries.
Oh, and I don't suggest punishing your kid in a store nowadays, nine times out of ten some do-gooder will call CPS on you. And punishing later doesn't work until they are past the age of screaming fits anyway.
Carry them out of the store in an undignified manner - even at 2, they should get embarrasment. Alternately, watch them throw the tantrum, and when they get winded/tired, ask them to do it again.
It's not often that you can make money doing leisure activities, so any net gain is fine.
Oh, and this happens every single time you go to the store. Like clockwork.
Simple solution - don't take your kids out if he's being a shit.
You will cave in. You don't know you will, but trust me--and every other parent out there--you will cave, and buy it whatever it wants to just shut it up.
No, I will punish the behavior.
The kid will want them, the marketers will make sure of that, and you'll either have to buy 'em or deal with the crazed screaming/whining/sulking that will ensue.
That's the part where you take the kid home and dinner sucks because it's whatever you have in the house.
Regarding the FCC... The FCC has no authority in this domain
Yeah, I'd suppose that the FTC would be more appropriate. That said, this is a perfect place for the feds to stomp on Comcast. I know, contracts are holy writ, but sometimes it makes more sense just to pass a law.
rubber gloves. Get the thick ones, too.
Nah, you can make windows be reliable, but in my experience, unix is easier to tame.
If you are an elitist jerk who gives em the impression you are doing me a favor by interviewing.
What if you really are that good? Fact is, if you're hiring and it's a tight market, the candidate is doing you a favor. Perhaps you just want to maintain the illusion that you're doing them a favor by interviewing them.
I also dont have any need for dilbert principle folks who are in waaaay over their heads and cannot configure a server without serious handholding or an in depth checklist.
Speaking as a software guy who can build boxes, why would you ever build a box without a checklist? Sysadminry is all about obsessive attention to detail and streamlining your job so you can slack off while the hardware hums.
Repeat after me: macroeconomics works. Increasing the supply of anything results in depressed price.
35k out here in seattle means you make a few bucks over minimum wage. People trying to hire software guys for that deserve to go bankrupt.
When they grow up, they frequently write most of the engine in C/C++ so maintenance isn't such a chore.
Ageing technologies like Unix and mainframe are on the way out of what you need to know these days.
Yeah, these days, it's all Linux.
the Unix side can't provide the kinds of availability numbers we can and the upper-ups are getting tired of hearing the financial systems aren't available so often.
IMO, this is more a function of the ability of your admins and the fact that you're using Oracle Apps.
Foreign workers are well paid (by definition, given the kind of visa they need to enter the country) so they are not driving salaries down
Of course they are - increased supply means lower prices.
Just because you can run an OC192 on fiber doesn't mean your equipment can support it. Here's how it works: OC192 stuff is really expensive, but slower stuff is cheaper. You run single mode fiber because that's about the same price as multimode, then you pick the routers on each end that meet your need (plus some headroom). When they get overloaded, but the next step up - it'll be cheaper then.
I have the right to lie too. If I do, you can sue me if it's defamatory.
Those are just their legal departments trying to build precedent for future legal actions. They're worried about real, actual damage when private, secret, or sensitive data is released through the same channels and nobody cooperates in removing it or halting its spread.
I'd rather have real data spread around than silence someone because of what they might say.
You idealistic types can gnash your teeth about the curtailing of your online freedoms, but what you're failing to grasp is the simple fact that Your Opinion Is Not Perfect.
So what? I have the right to say what I feel.
when pictures stolen from your webcam of you and your wife engaging in something that you think should be legal but isn't, are circulated to every major visitor-supported voyeur pornsite, you'll be sitting there thinking that maybe, just maybe, being forced to trust anonymous individuals on the Internet who are well beyond the reach of any punishment you can effect, isn't the utopia you thought it would be.
heh, this is exactly like shutting someone down because you don't like what they say.
I think you are confusing freedom and truth. No matter how obvious is some fact to you, you have to let other people explore different opinions or even be misled.
Nope, the current evolution debate isn't about truth - it's about trying to force religion into a science class. Science isn't concerned with truth, anyway - that's philosophy.
What do you think of requiring teachers to vary the lesson plans based on official government positions?
That's kind of vague - the government has official positions on things like math requirements, which are completely boring. I'd be pissed if the science teacher was forced to even mention the Creationist moonbats, though.
How would you feel if your kids were sent to a madrasah for half a day and made to do homework for many hours afterwards?
That's fine. It'd quickly be a contest to see who can make the teacher cry. As it stands, we don't have that and it would be illegal to do it here. That's part of what the fight against evolution is all about - trying to install a madrasah here.
It doesn't require anything of teachers. It just give teachers a chance to be intellectually honest and parents a choice in their childrens' education.
Requiring teachers to vary the lesson plan based on the parents' religion is an establishment of religion.
The same someone who is trying to install democracy in two radical islamic countries?
Yeah, like we're trying to do that. Not gonna happen.
On the other hand, there are natural differences in people's talent and their own carrier choices - there are more talanted black dancers/singers/basketball players,
It's not because they're black. It's because they're poor (you can play bball with minimal equipment and it gets you out of the ghetto). In the 20s, it was jewish kids playing bball. I would dispute the numbers on dancers and singers, by the way.
So you bought into the idea that government choosing ideology and theories that will be imposed on all children in the country is "free thought" and individual parents choosing schools "indoctrination"? Nice!
parents have far more influence over their kids than the school. Spend time with your kids and it won't matter.
So which "naturistic god" did the founding fathers believe to have lived 1786 years before the ratification of the Constitution?
Yeah, because that isn't just the fancy way to declare what year it was.
Your conclusions from your cited passage do not make any sense. The simple occurrence of the word "Nature" is not a pass to read any naturalistic philosophy you deem fit into the statement.
It's a reference to Nature's God, which is a known entity apart from the rather brutal yahweh.
"state of nature"
This means chaos, by the way. It's not what you think.
The architects of the Declaration and the Constitution were either Christian or raised Christian
This is flatly contradicted by tons of primary source information about the founding fathers. No need to nose through the specifics of their two most famous documents.
It's an unwinnable proposition. Teaching and grading students on theories that contradict their (or their parents') religious believes is itself a form of religious education.
Bullshit. Accepting that requires teachers to pander to whatever religion the parents have, which is an establishment of religion. The best thing to do is have the parents teach the kids how to deal with the difference.
Abstinence is the only sure way to avoid pregnancy (shouldn't we be teaching kids oral sex and same-sex experimentation if that's the only goal of sex ad)?
That's a religious argument - it's only being pushed by religious lobbies, and is actually less effective than condoms and the pill.
Democracy is the best form of government for every society
Then why don't we have one? Someone needs to go back to civics class.
All races and both genders are EXACTLY the same in all aspects and will be equally good at EVERY job in EXACTLY equal percentage of the corresponding population.
They are the same before the law, and you'd have trouble finding legitimate racial diffs in jobs, although some physical work is done better by men. Doesn't mean you get to tell a woman no for that construction job - you have to have a reason other than her breasts.
We don't need all our children brainwashed by the government into one single way of thinking, be it religious, political or scientific.
Says the person apparently defending the challenge to evolution going on in our schools. You preach about not indoctrinating the young while pushing an agenda of indoctrination. Nice.
Well, I'm an atheist and I find some value in it. Fallible doesn't mean worthless or else nothing would be worth anything.