Please show me where in the Constitution, or anywhere in any level of government in the United States, it says one has a right to a college education.
Please show me where the government is restricted to only doing things that are in the constitution. That document limits federal power, but funding education for the people doesn't require new powers.
Mortages are backed by tangible collateral. Students loans are not. So OF COURSE the interest rates on student loans are higher! In free market, they would essential be priced the same as credit card debt.
So what? We should be giving loans at below market rates to subsidise the outrageous cost of education.
that doesn't mean that you as a student are entitled to anything.
How is this relevant?
(My coworker from India tells me that nobody owes student loans there; the schools are cheaper, and financing their children's education is the top priority of parents.)
If only it were a priority here - seems we've got a bad case of american idol.
I don't understand the inkjet thing, myself - I have a laser I paid about $800 for in 2002 and I've replaced the toner once (I think). I can replace it with another (same model) for $150 and expect it to last a decade - why buy an inkjet?
And thousands WERE in their place, and did not. How many people were in the homebrew computer scene at the time? How many dinked around and wrote their own versions of BASIC? How many started their own companies? How many succeeded? How many had the same exact background and opportunities... and did nothing?
Ask Woz. He was there and figured out how to sell a $500 computer that cost $250 to make.
Many people have been at the helm of Apple, and only one has driven it to success. Twice. Is that luck? Would just anyone have made the same choices? Would just anyone have had the same insights? Would just anyone have the same vision and commitment and drive?
Steve is just a freak - the sort of guy who can sell anything to anyone. Watch the video above. It's really long, but there's a whole lot about what launched apple.
The trick is to recognize that and stick a large chunk of change in something like JNJ or KO so you're guaranteed a nice return even if you screw up later.
Sounds like they're doing the iphone app for street cred more than as a way to make money. Reminds me of the saying "with sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine".
You're thinking of 'deus ex machina' [wikipedia.org], which is a plot device along the lines of "and suddenly a god-like being appeared and fixed everything".
Yeah, but what's that Q guy got to do with it?
fucked if I know. Half the time, he just makes things worse - kind of a crappy god, if you ask me.
What the A-Team taught me was that all it takes to build an impregnable armored vehicle is a few empty 50 gallon drums. We'd have this Afghanistan thing wrapped up tomorrow if they could just ship a bunch of vans, empty 50 gal. drums and a welding torch or two over there.
And burn notice taught me that phone books work great in a pinch.
who needs to excuse it? FOSS isn't a homogenous thing and it's not really a social movement; some projects are better than others in dealing with women - if you want to try and change that, good luck: it's hard and thankless work, and you don't get to dictate to anybody to get it done.
If I don't ask someone out, I don't get dates - It's that simple. If women were more forward, I'd be less forward. Of course, I don't go with the ambush proposition, so maybe you aren't talking about me.
So would I, but I'm a guy so I have to do the asking. Usually, it goes like this:
See cute girl about the right age. Frequently indian or asian
Try to spot a ring without looking creepy - the ring is usually present because, let's be honest, lots of guys have similar tastes in women.
Approach them when they aren't already talking - bad juju to barge into a conversation
Chat a bit, feel them out and maybe do the asking. Gotta do a couple minutes of chatting to avoid crazies, married people you missed, and people already dating - feels like a jerk move
For instance, when was the last time you saw a movie with an Asian American hero who didn't either (1) know kung fu or (2) flail helplessly in the clutches of his own geekery?
Harold and Kumar comes to mind. Also, king of the hill.
When have you seen an Asian American love interest?
Why specifically Asian American? Lots of Asian women are a love interest, and Jackie Chan (not asian american) has been a love interest in a lot of his movies. The only thing that bugs me is all the asian people who end up playing Japanese characters - sort of an 'all look alike' thing combined with Japan's jackassery in the region makes me view it as insulting.
Have you ever noticed that if there's a black character in an action movie, he's almost certainly one of the first to die, and nearly guaranteed to be dead by the end?
See Denzel Washington for counterexamples.
I won't go on, but these sorts of cases have a powerful effect on society's perception of people of color, and on PoC's perceptions of themselves, too.
You mean Black people, right? You know what else influences black people's perception? The idea that studying hard and doing well in school is selling out and that the only/best way out of the projects is dealing drugs. The bling culture that rap popularizes can't be good either.
The joke was not about religion, but about having sex with women who have not used his favourite text editor - he's comparing initiation into the rites of EMACS to having sex;
No, it was about introducing new people to emacs. He switches the gender back and forth or leaves it out at his whim. And yes, opening yourself to what emacs is is very much like having sex the first time - it will change your attitude about a lot of things and open up a new world.
RMS is simply trying to misdirect talking about religion because he's embarrassed about what he said.
I can't really see RMS being embarrassed about anything.
My goal: to raise a daughter who's writing Android apps for the elementary school science fair.
Good luck with that. My goal is to raise kids that follow their own path, not something beholden to some larger agenda. Gender roles are part social, but there is a large biological component.
I hate to break it to you, but when you as a group go around telling people they're going to have to change because someone is offended, you're going to get a lot of flack. If Feminism stuck to the message of 'a fair chance for everybody', it'd be a whole lot more palatable than rants about sexism in the OSS community. Sure, the Debian death threats were over the top, and Ruby presentations could generally do without random naked chicks, but don't paint the whole community (communities?) with the same brush.
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Please show me where in the Constitution, or anywhere in any level of government in the United States, it says one has a right to a college education.
Please show me where the government is restricted to only doing things that are in the constitution. That document limits federal power, but funding education for the people doesn't require new powers.
Mortages are backed by tangible collateral. Students loans are not. So OF COURSE the interest rates on student loans are higher! In free market, they would essential be priced the same as credit card debt.
So what? We should be giving loans at below market rates to subsidise the outrageous cost of education.
that doesn't mean that you as a student are entitled to anything.
How is this relevant?
(My coworker from India tells me that nobody owes student loans there; the schools are cheaper, and financing their children's education is the top priority of parents.)
If only it were a priority here - seems we've got a bad case of american idol.
wouldn't be much of a killer app if it did.
Why bother? Even money it doesn't mean anything.
Maybe they should spend more effort on making nonschlock movies, huh?
Nah, there's a filter in front of the sensor. Remove that (or switch it to IR-only) and you're golden.
I don't understand the inkjet thing, myself - I have a laser I paid about $800 for in 2002 and I've replaced the toner once (I think). I can replace it with another (same model) for $150 and expect it to last a decade - why buy an inkjet?
you have to remember that he must have built up a pretty good software business for IBM to visit him at all
It helps if your mother can put a kind word in the right ear, but yeah, you still have to deliver.
And thousands WERE in their place, and did not. How many people were in the homebrew computer scene at the time? How many dinked around and wrote their own versions of BASIC? How many started their own companies? How many succeeded? How many had the same exact background and opportunities... and did nothing?
Ask Woz. He was there and figured out how to sell a $500 computer that cost $250 to make.
Many people have been at the helm of Apple, and only one has driven it to success. Twice. Is that luck? Would just anyone have made the same choices? Would just anyone have had the same insights? Would just anyone have the same vision and commitment and drive?
Steve is just a freak - the sort of guy who can sell anything to anyone. Watch the video above. It's really long, but there's a whole lot about what launched apple.
Counterpoint: Microsoft Pink Danger - at least apple has a somewhat coherent strategy.
The trick is to recognize that and stick a large chunk of change in something like JNJ or KO so you're guaranteed a nice return even if you screw up later.
Sounds like they're doing the iphone app for street cred more than as a way to make money. Reminds me of the saying "with sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine".
Yeah, but what's that Q guy got to do with it?
fucked if I know. Half the time, he just makes things worse - kind of a crappy god, if you ask me.
Butlerian Jihad, anybody?
sorry dude, good katanas already come with cruise control.
What the A-Team taught me was that all it takes to build an impregnable armored vehicle is a few empty 50 gallon drums. We'd have this Afghanistan thing wrapped up tomorrow if they could just ship a bunch of vans, empty 50 gal. drums and a welding torch or two over there.
And burn notice taught me that phone books work great in a pinch.
who needs to excuse it? FOSS isn't a homogenous thing and it's not really a social movement; some projects are better than others in dealing with women - if you want to try and change that, good luck: it's hard and thankless work, and you don't get to dictate to anybody to get it done.
If I don't ask someone out, I don't get dates - It's that simple. If women were more forward, I'd be less forward. Of course, I don't go with the ambush proposition, so maybe you aren't talking about me.
- The USAF considers it still necessary [74.125.93.132] to actively recruit minorities into the officer corps, which is over 80% white.
So what? An officer corp that's 80% white in a country that's 75% white doesn't bother me.
For instance, when was the last time you saw a movie with an Asian American hero who didn't either (1) know kung fu or (2) flail helplessly in the clutches of his own geekery?
Harold and Kumar comes to mind. Also, king of the hill.
When have you seen an Asian American love interest?
Why specifically Asian American? Lots of Asian women are a love interest, and Jackie Chan (not asian american) has been a love interest in a lot of his movies. The only thing that bugs me is all the asian people who end up playing Japanese characters - sort of an 'all look alike' thing combined with Japan's jackassery in the region makes me view it as insulting.
Have you ever noticed that if there's a black character in an action movie, he's almost certainly one of the first to die, and nearly guaranteed to be dead by the end?
See Denzel Washington for counterexamples.
I won't go on, but these sorts of cases have a powerful effect on society's perception of people of color, and on PoC's perceptions of themselves, too.
You mean Black people, right? You know what else influences black people's perception? The idea that studying hard and doing well in school is selling out and that the only/best way out of the projects is dealing drugs. The bling culture that rap popularizes can't be good either.
The joke was not about religion, but about having sex with women who have not used his favourite text editor - he's comparing initiation into the rites of EMACS to having sex;
No, it was about introducing new people to emacs. He switches the gender back and forth or leaves it out at his whim. And yes, opening yourself to what emacs is is very much like having sex the first time - it will change your attitude about a lot of things and open up a new world.
RMS is simply trying to misdirect talking about religion because he's embarrassed about what he said.
I can't really see RMS being embarrassed about anything.
Um, mammaries of fare thee well?
Angels on a pin (of indeterminate gender OF COURSE).
Of course - angels are androgynes since they don't reproduce, right?
My goal: to raise a daughter who's writing Android apps for the elementary school science fair.
Good luck with that. My goal is to raise kids that follow their own path, not something beholden to some larger agenda. Gender roles are part social, but there is a large biological component.
I hate to break it to you, but when you as a group go around telling people they're going to have to change because someone is offended, you're going to get a lot of flack. If Feminism stuck to the message of 'a fair chance for everybody', it'd be a whole lot more palatable than rants about sexism in the OSS community. Sure, the Debian death threats were over the top, and Ruby presentations could generally do without random naked chicks, but don't paint the whole community (communities?) with the same brush.