If you were referring to primary and secondary schooling, public schools in particular, yeah the US school system cranks out a lot of idiots. But this is because most people ARE idiots. While we may not have the best scores of all the first-world nations, we're not THAT far below the rest either.
It's actually better than that: our test scores may suck, but our education system works pretty well. First, when you consider the massive diversity in this country (IOW, the class gap), a single score of any kind is misleading. The high education level in middle class and rural ohio is balanced by the blight in the ghettos. In addition to this variety of achievement, we've got to realize that our testing system isn't very good to begin with. Other countries that beat us on test scores, like Japan, are moving away from a strong reliance on the scores. Their main concerns are the high student suicide rate and the inability to tech anything that isn't on the test.
Libreal bias, hah! The reporters may be liberal (whatever that means), but the news is controlled by editors, and they learn very quickly to reflect the biases of the owners - people like Rupert Murdoch. I would hardly call Rupert Murdoch Liberal.
As an example of media bias, look at the media frenzy over the presidential blowjob and college pot usage, then compare it with the near silence over Bush's alleged Cocaine habit, Vietnam service defending Texas from the vietcong (sometimes), and the long history of heavy drinking.
What if you had another reason to use those ports, a reason they don't know about.[?]
Well, you could either convince your admin to open the port to you, or buy your own connection. You're in college to learn - unfettered net access is not a requirement.
I would rather they build their own industry and trade with us (and their neighbors) than whore themselves out as cheap labor. Hopefully, within 20 years, at least one or two of them will be another Japan.
To: Joe Luser's ISP From: XYZ network Subject: Attack Zombie detected
Dear Admin, Here are a list of PCs within your IP space that we have detected launching DOS attacks against our network. Most likely, the majority of them have been infected by a skript-kiddie.
... Joe Luser's IP 2003-01-10 12:10:23 DOS detected ...
thank you, Ops
Joe Luser (later that night): How come my innernet don't work?
I certainly is infeasible. There is a simple way to make this work. At the edges (and probably adjacent routers too), set a rate limit on ICMP. No tracking of IPs, just counting traffic and dropping the excess. As a bonus, the software to do this is already deployed.
Yes, you'd rather those people starved to death, than be "Exploited" by Nike.
I suppose that you're going to invoke the invisible hand and quote your macro economics professor. Something to the effect of comparative advantage. Well, we don't live in an abstraction, and there are significant differences between what nike is doing and what comparative advantage means.
Comparative advantage refers to trade between two countries with differing standards of living, and basically states that one country can make cheap stuff cheaper, thereby affording some expensive stuff that another country makes. This other country usually also buys the cheap stuff that our first country makes. There is an implication that each country has indigenous industry that makes this stuff, not simply a factory that accepts orders.
What nike is doing is price-shopping for its shoe production. This doesn't do a whole lot to help the residents, since the vast majority of the profits go to Nike. Should the factory owners try to improve their lot, Nike can just buy from someone else. Since they don't own the factory, and since they buy from many factories, they can treat one factory's price hike as a minor nuisance.
So, what we get is a country tying up its resources building something for someone else. If that someone else doesn't want it, they can't build it for a third party - they don't have the right. Basically, they're screwed. Notice that I haven't even gotten into the government's role in this (using local army to keep the workers polite and such).
What we need to start this whole invisible hand business moving is for these third world countries to start building stuff that they can then sell to everybody. They also need to bring a larger portion of the business in-house, with local brands and corporate structure. This requires stable, reasonably honest, government officials that actually care about improving the country instead of just the part that they own. Good luck - you're going to need it.
you do not have to associate your passport account to your XP user account to do anything.
You may remember that, shortly after XP came out, there was a big stink because, while not requiring passport, XP's behavior strongly suggested (especially to the computer illiterate) that it was in fact required.
Imagine your tax records program, your photo program, your databases.
So, when I get audited, I can't get at the return from 2 years ago because it was on a different computer with a different security signature. Sounds groovy.
For those who don't know, here's how it works (roughly). A4 is almost the same size as 8.5x11 (somewhat different and measured in mm). An A3 page is two A4 pages side by side. A2, 1, and 0 follow in the same way.
when we get to A0 (which is really where the whole thing starts), we get a square meter of paper in the golden proportion (about 1.618 - I think it's (sqrt(5)+1)/2).
In India and Russia, it's somewhat harder to enforce a contract than it is here, so the guys you hired may run off and sell your work to whomever.
It's a bit harder to verify credentials; the guys you hire may not know much of anything, or they might backdoor everything that they build for you. You could find, after 3 months, that you bought a pile of garbage that you will have to do over. And it's 3 months later.
It's India. If you want something, you will probably have to describe it in exacting detail. That's a lot of work, some of which you needn't do with Americans.
It's 12 hours away. Changes take at least a day to request, and probably a week.
Do you understand your own prejudice? By your logic, a person's intelligence, work ethic, and morals matter less than what class they belong to. My experience has been that there is not a strong correlation between the two. I would much rather have a smart broker who has my interests in mind than one who knows how to dress well and where the best place to have lunch is. I don't care if they're white trash or like rap.
It's not prejudice. It's a simple fact: if you live in new york, you will find a lot of black people that have no business inside of a stock exchange (a lot of white people too). Now, saying that blacks and mexicans aren't employable is racist on its face, but you must accept that the presence of black and hispanic ghettos distorts the 'labor pool'. If your population is 20 percent black, but a third of those people are poor, with absentee parents, then there won't be as many black stockbrokers or bankers. You can't just ignore reality and play the race card every time someone brings this up.
How about this: a photon has zero rest mass. However, it is never at rest, but travelling at C. It does have energy, which translates to a very little mass and does warp space time, but when it hits something, that energy goes away, and so does the photon.
I wonder if a sufficient density of photons would collapse into a black hole.
Mine are, and they're nowhere near the computers either. I think you'd be better off using this toy to route your exhaust into a big, baffled box. Add some baffling around the noise sources, and it might work out well.
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If you were referring to primary and secondary schooling, public schools in particular, yeah the US school system cranks out a lot of idiots. But this is because most people ARE idiots. While we may not have the best scores of all the first-world nations, we're not THAT far below the rest either.
It's actually better than that: our test scores may suck, but our education system works pretty well. First, when you consider the massive diversity in this country (IOW, the class gap), a single score of any kind is misleading. The high education level in middle class and rural ohio is balanced by the blight in the ghettos. In addition to this variety of achievement, we've got to realize that our testing system isn't very good to begin with. Other countries that beat us on test scores, like Japan, are moving away from a strong reliance on the scores. Their main concerns are the high student suicide rate and the inability to tech anything that isn't on the test.
Libreal bias, hah! The reporters may be liberal (whatever that means), but the news is controlled by editors, and they learn very quickly to reflect the biases of the owners - people like Rupert Murdoch. I would hardly call Rupert Murdoch Liberal.
As an example of media bias, look at the media frenzy over the presidential blowjob and college pot usage, then compare it with the near silence over Bush's alleged Cocaine habit, Vietnam service defending Texas from the vietcong (sometimes), and the long history of heavy drinking.
What if you had another reason to use those ports, a reason they don't know about.[?]
Well, you could either convince your admin to open the port to you, or buy your own connection. You're in college to learn - unfettered net access is not a requirement.
You fail to realize the value of military force in IP lawsuits. Lawyers with RPGs are invincible.
How do you plan to pay for all those fancy toys?
playing MP3s contributes to the Axis of Evil and terrorism.
Provided it's Britney Spears.
Sounds like fun. Have you tried Ultima Online?
In the same vein, is the gun you use to murder someone's avatar for his Nike's manufactured by Glock?
Perhaps they can sell rice to their neighbors. Barring that, how about tractors or education?
Well Mr. Troll or Idiot, whichever is the case, I know exactly what I am talking about... Those questions were purely rhetorical.
Well, if the question was rhetorical, why even bother asking? Were you just talking to hear yourself speak?
I would rather they build their own industry and trade with us (and their neighbors) than whore themselves out as cheap labor. Hopefully, within 20 years, at least one or two of them will be another Japan.
how about this one:
I certainly is infeasible. There is a simple way to make this work. At the edges (and probably adjacent routers too), set a rate limit on ICMP. No tracking of IPs, just counting traffic and dropping the excess. As a bonus, the software to do this is already deployed.
Can a corporation be charged with treason?
Oh, would it were true...
Here's your damned ruling:
Santa Clara county vs. Union Pacific [1886]
Yes, you'd rather those people starved to death, than be "Exploited" by Nike.
I suppose that you're going to invoke the invisible hand and quote your macro economics professor. Something to the effect of comparative advantage. Well, we don't live in an abstraction, and there are significant differences between what nike is doing and what comparative advantage means.
Comparative advantage refers to trade between two countries with differing standards of living, and basically states that one country can make cheap stuff cheaper, thereby affording some expensive stuff that another country makes. This other country usually also buys the cheap stuff that our first country makes. There is an implication that each country has indigenous industry that makes this stuff, not simply a factory that accepts orders.
What nike is doing is price-shopping for its shoe production. This doesn't do a whole lot to help the residents, since the vast majority of the profits go to Nike. Should the factory owners try to improve their lot, Nike can just buy from someone else. Since they don't own the factory, and since they buy from many factories, they can treat one factory's price hike as a minor nuisance.
So, what we get is a country tying up its resources building something for someone else. If that someone else doesn't want it, they can't build it for a third party - they don't have the right. Basically, they're screwed. Notice that I haven't even gotten into the government's role in this (using local army to keep the workers polite and such).
What we need to start this whole invisible hand business moving is for these third world countries to start building stuff that they can then sell to everybody. They also need to bring a larger portion of the business in-house, with local brands and corporate structure. This requires stable, reasonably honest, government officials that actually care about improving the country instead of just the part that they own. Good luck - you're going to need it.
you do not have to associate your passport account to your XP user account to do anything.
You may remember that, shortly after XP came out, there was a big stink because, while not requiring passport, XP's behavior strongly suggested (especially to the computer illiterate) that it was in fact required.
Imagine your tax records program, your photo program, your databases.
So, when I get audited, I can't get at the return from 2 years ago because it was on a different computer with a different security signature. Sounds groovy.
if you don't know what A0
For those who don't know, here's how it works (roughly). A4 is almost the same size as 8.5x11 (somewhat different and measured in mm). An A3 page is two A4 pages side by side. A2, 1, and 0 follow in the same way.
when we get to A0 (which is really where the whole thing starts), we get a square meter of paper in the golden proportion (about 1.618 - I think it's (sqrt(5)+1)/2).
What, you want to schedule a dish install on the airplane?!
Well, actually, it does make a difference.
Do you understand your own prejudice? By your logic, a person's intelligence, work ethic, and morals matter less than what class they belong to. My experience has been that there is not a strong correlation between the two. I would much rather have a smart broker who has my interests in mind than one who knows how to dress well and where the best place to have lunch is. I don't care if they're white trash or like rap.
It's not prejudice. It's a simple fact: if you live in new york, you will find a lot of black people that have no business inside of a stock exchange (a lot of white people too). Now, saying that blacks and mexicans aren't employable is racist on its face, but you must accept that the presence of black and hispanic ghettos distorts the 'labor pool'. If your population is 20 percent black, but a third of those people are poor, with absentee parents, then there won't be as many black stockbrokers or bankers. You can't just ignore reality and play the race card every time someone brings this up.
If you make $47k in San Francisco, you qualify for public assistance, don't forget that!
How about this: a photon has zero rest mass. However, it is never at rest, but travelling at C. It does have energy, which translates to a very little mass and does warp space time, but when it hits something, that energy goes away, and so does the photon.
I wonder if a sufficient density of photons would collapse into a black hole.
No, information wants to be anthropomorphized.
All that phrase means is that, once disseminated, it's very hard to bottle it back up.
Mine are, and they're nowhere near the computers either. I think you'd be better off using this toy to route your exhaust into a big, baffled box. Add some baffling around the noise sources, and it might work out well.