What do you mean "They havn't caught up" you dolt. The author needs to realize that people who worry about what others are wearing are wasting time, space, air etc.
If you encounter customers, fine, dress up. As managment, if you are worrying about what Bob in engineering is wearing, then you have your priorities sorely messed up. Perhaps worrying about ways to make the company profitable would be better. Or, (gasp), how to make the office a nicer place for your employees to work.
If you judge someone by what they are wearing then you are missing out on some very talented, brilliant people. Quite frankly I question the intellegence of some guy who preens himself for 90 minutes every morning to get each strand of his used-car-salesman due slicked back.
I'm aware. You make a good point. However i'd argue against that as well. I really don't want to churn up that debate here since it's off topic. Drug testing is good if you drive a truck because you could kill people. However if you have some deskjob then they should fire you if you do a bad job and otherwise mind their buisness. If they suspect you do drugs they can also contact the PROPER authorities and report you.
But again on the subject of school and children. It really isn't the schools place to punnish my kid for what he writes on the internet at home. If it they don't like it then they can call me. If it's illegal (such as threatening people) then they should call the cops. It is not their place to punnish for that act.
There is also a difference between an employer and a public school. If I'm publicly trashing my employer they can feel free to choose to stop paying me. However a public education is a service provide by the governement to my kids. In my opinion they don't have a right to interfere with that (ie suspension) because of something my kid did at home. Just like they can't take away your voting rights just because you crit the governemnet on the internet. It's just not their buisness. Call the parent, call the cops, or butt out.
You said it. The employer can have rules about what happens on the EMPLOYERS time and the school can say what happens on the SCHOOL'S time. I don't expect my employer to tell me what I can do In my house and the school shouldn't have a say in what MY kids do in my house either.
Of course the school will have rules while my kid is there and my child must obey them.
Cool, what set of morals should they teach. Yours or Bob's?
Bob says your girls can't be on the swim team because it's not moral for them to expose their skin.
Bob says the teachers should hit your kit if he swears.
Bob says it is not moral to teach science because it is against HIS religion
Sorry, parents get to teach their kids the morals and values that THEY choose.
First of all let me say that teachers have a very difficult job and I couldn't respect them more.
Second, it is awsome that you stepped in to protect the child.
Of course, as a human being, you should help the kid being beaten up. However off of school property it is the police that should who have the authority. The kid who did the assaulting should be punnished by the law but not by the school. I'm not saying that the school shouldn't call the cops or even detain the kid who did the fighting but It is not their place to suspend if the offense didn't occur on their property. Off of their property there are police and courts to deal out the justice.
It is very sad that some parents don't parent, however that fact doesn't give the school the right to take over that job outside of school. It is great that you have afterschool programs and if someone is bad during the after school program then the school has full authority to do what they will.
This is simply a matter of authority. When I was in high school I got a ticket for reckless driving. It occured on a sunday 100 miles away from school. I was doing donuts at my families cabin. I was punnished by the proper authorities. The police ticketed me and put points on my license and my parents grounded me from driving the car. Unfortunatly for me when my school found out I was suspended from participating in sporting events for 3 weeks. This type of this is simply not their buisness. It is also not their buisness what kids do on the internet at home. Fine inform the parent if the activity is bad or call the cops if it's illegal but an in-school punnishment is simply out-of-place.
Again thank you for teaching, I DO have the highest respect for teachers and schools.
This is wonderful!! There is a current trend where schools think they have authority outside of school hours/property. As a parent I feel that it is NONE of the schools buisness what my child does outside of school period. If threatening comments are made they of course have the right to call the police who DO have authority outside of school. However it is NEVER appropriate to levy a school punnishment (like detention or removal of privilages) for an activity outside school. It's just a power grab to make the administrators feel more important than they are. Worry about education and keeping kids safe while at school. Leave the parenting to me and any criminal punnishments to the police.
Dude, they arn't talking about regular DVDs. They are talking about 'Screeners' These are DVDs of the movies that are nomiated for an Oscar. The members of the acadamy then watch them and vote. Most of the movies have NOT been released on DVD yet.
The trouble they have with these is that people leak them. When their movie is released on the internet 2 months before the DVD is available to buy it can really hurt them. So they have been playing with stuff like digital watermards and stuff JUST for the screeners.
Now I'm with most slashdotters when it comes to fair-use. I don't want my damn DVDs encrypted or copy protected. Not because I want to steal them but because I may want to back them up or put them on my computer. Anyway I'm with the studio's when it comes to the screeners. They have sent pre-release versions of thier product to a limited set of reviewers and they don't deserve to have their movies released prematurely onto the internets.
They send only 1 gram of the remains and they remain attached to the rocket stage until is deorbits. The remains are a secondary payload attached to a real mission of launching sats into space. Therefore they do not cause any extra space junk. The cost is minnimal based on the amount of remains sent. RTFA
Yet another debate about whether something is art or science.
What possible value can knowing the answer have? Just another lifetime acedemic inventing something arbitrary to talk about instead of doing something useful.
There are a million questions to be explored that might actually provide some value to the world. Art or Science is NOT one of them. If I declared today that Chemestry was and art it wouldn't change anything. Nobody would benefit from knowing it is an art. Why don't you instead analyze the character traits that make up a good/bad hacker or something. At least somebody would have a chance at using your information.
Fine. And you recieving my money is a privilage not a right. I'll start giving it to you again when you get your head out of the 1980s and deliver me content in a way that I would like to use it.
I have no problem with a company protecting it's material but as a customer I need to be able to play it in the following places. CD player, linux computer at work, windows and linux computers at home, on my mobile phone, in my car and on my portable music player.
I must say though, how can you be horrified by a $200,000 / month burn rate without qualifying it by how many employees, type of buisness etc?
I ask because I know of a startup with a burn rate well over that. However they have 34 employees (the salaries alone can equal that) and they produce custom hardware so it costs them ~$150,000 just to tape-out 1 chip and put together a few prototypes.
A $200k burn rate is huge if you are 5 people writing software but not so much for a larger startup with different types of costs.
So, if they can charge men more for car insurance because statistically they are worse drivers then can employers pay women less because statistically they are less intellegent?
NOTE: I'm ripping on the car insurance, not advocating paying women less. It's all foolishness.
It all sucked. Granted. However those bombs scared the world (including the US) into never using atomic bombs again. And that happened when they were small 10kiloton. Imagin if the worlds first intro to nukes-used-on-people had been a 100megaton bom? Current bombs are like 10000 of those bombs all at once.
I feel for the innocents that were killed but I am thankful that the lesson was learned while the bombs were so small.
Obvoiusly you didn't read my post of your making arguments as to whether programming is art or not. I simply said it doesn't matter and questioned what could be gained by knowing either way.
I don't want to get into a discussion about the definition of art but I think it is over-the-top to say that anything that requires imagination is art. It takes imagination to design a toaster but it's not necessarily art.
You make a fine point that it is important to understand whether these things can be replaced by automata but I don't think art is the right criteria. There are computer programs that can compose music in the style of mozart. A human that can do that is called an artist but a machine can actually do it. Whether coding is art or not will not tell us if we can be replaced by a machine. There are better criteria for that.
Good point. I agree comp sci should be it's own catagory. However if it was in the art dept you'd be able to make the same complaint that you had to do a bunch of sculpting that wouldn't see real world use.:)
What a load of pseudo-intellectual drivel.
Coders do what they must to get the job done. Some
because it's a job and some because they love it.
It's like a janitor
contemplating whether a clean hall is art. Why not spend your time
examining better methods of developing portable/maintainable code or
something. I mean really, let's say you get your answer. "It is art"
or "It isn't art", what has been accomplished other than the ability
to puff up about what you do?
This is no different than a bunch of tools contemplating what makes
them l337.
BTW I'm not arguing for or against whether it is art. I strike only
on the sillyness of the question.
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What do you mean "They havn't caught up" you dolt. The author needs to realize that people who worry about what others are wearing are wasting time, space, air etc.
If you encounter customers, fine, dress up. As managment, if you are worrying about what Bob in engineering is wearing, then you have your priorities sorely messed up. Perhaps worrying about ways to make the company profitable would be better. Or, (gasp), how to make the office a nicer place for your employees to work.
If you judge someone by what they are wearing then you are missing out on some very talented, brilliant people. Quite frankly I question the intellegence of some guy who preens himself for 90 minutes every morning to get each strand of his used-car-salesman due slicked back.
END VENT.
I'm aware. You make a good point. However i'd argue against that as well. I really don't want to churn up that debate here since it's off topic. Drug testing is good if you drive a truck because you could kill people. However if you have some deskjob then they should fire you if you do a bad job and otherwise mind their buisness. If they suspect you do drugs they can also contact the PROPER authorities and report you.
But again on the subject of school and children. It really isn't the schools place to punnish my kid for what he writes on the internet at home. If it they don't like it then they can call me. If it's illegal (such as threatening people) then they should call the cops. It is not their place to punnish for that act.
There is also a difference between an employer and a public school. If I'm publicly trashing my employer they can feel free to choose to stop paying me. However a public education is a service provide by the governement to my kids. In my opinion they don't have a right to interfere with that (ie suspension) because of something my kid did at home. Just like they can't take away your voting rights just because you crit the governemnet on the internet. It's just not their buisness. Call the parent, call the cops, or butt out.
You said it. The employer can have rules about what happens on the EMPLOYERS time and the school can say what happens on the SCHOOL'S time. I don't expect my employer to tell me what I can do In my house and the school shouldn't have a say in what MY kids do in my house either.
Of course the school will have rules while my kid is there and my child must obey them.
Cool, what set of morals should they teach. Yours or Bob's?
Bob says your girls can't be on the swim team because it's not moral for them to expose their skin.
Bob says the teachers should hit your kit if he swears.
Bob says it is not moral to teach science because it is against HIS religion
Sorry, parents get to teach their kids the morals and values that THEY choose.
First of all let me say that teachers have a very difficult job and I couldn't respect them more.
Second, it is awsome that you stepped in to protect the child.
Of course, as a human being, you should help the kid being beaten up. However off of school property it is the police that should who have the authority. The kid who did the assaulting should be punnished by the law but not by the school. I'm not saying that the school shouldn't call the cops or even detain the kid who did the fighting but It is not their place to suspend if the offense didn't occur on their property. Off of their property there are police and courts to deal out the justice.
It is very sad that some parents don't parent, however that fact doesn't give the school the right to take over that job outside of school. It is great that you have afterschool programs and if someone is bad during the after school program then the school has full authority to do what they will.
This is simply a matter of authority. When I was in high school I got a ticket for reckless driving. It occured on a sunday 100 miles away from school. I was doing donuts at my families cabin. I was punnished by the proper authorities. The police ticketed me and put points on my license and my parents grounded me from driving the car. Unfortunatly for me when my school found out I was suspended from participating in sporting events for 3 weeks. This type of this is simply not their buisness. It is also not their buisness what kids do on the internet at home. Fine inform the parent if the activity is bad or call the cops if it's illegal but an in-school punnishment is simply out-of-place.
Again thank you for teaching, I DO have the highest respect for teachers and schools.
Wow. This got modded as Troll? I'm an american and I'd call it 'Insightful'
This is wonderful!! There is a current trend where schools think they have authority outside of school hours/property. As a parent I feel that it is NONE of the schools buisness what my child does outside of school period. If threatening comments are made they of course have the right to call the police who DO have authority outside of school. However it is NEVER appropriate to levy a school punnishment (like detention or removal of privilages) for an activity outside school. It's just a power grab to make the administrators feel more important than they are. Worry about education and keeping kids safe while at school. Leave the parenting to me and any criminal punnishments to the police.
No, it's a rip on Pres. Bush. During the debates he referred to the internet as.... (furrow your brow) "The internets"
Dude, they arn't talking about regular DVDs. They are talking about 'Screeners' These are DVDs of the movies that are nomiated for an Oscar. The members of the acadamy then watch them and vote. Most of the movies have NOT been released on DVD yet.
The trouble they have with these is that people leak them. When their movie is released on the internet 2 months before the DVD is available to buy it can really hurt them. So they have been playing with stuff like digital watermards and stuff JUST for the screeners.
Now I'm with most slashdotters when it comes to fair-use. I don't want my damn DVDs encrypted or copy protected. Not because I want to steal them but because I may want to back them up or put them on my computer. Anyway I'm with the studio's when it comes to the screeners. They have sent pre-release versions of thier product to a limited set of reviewers and they don't deserve to have their movies released prematurely onto the internets.
They send only 1 gram of the remains and they remain attached to the rocket stage until is deorbits. The remains are a secondary payload attached to a real mission of launching sats into space. Therefore they do not cause any extra space junk. The cost is minnimal based on the amount of remains sent. RTFA
Yet another debate about whether something is art or science.
What possible value can knowing the answer have? Just another lifetime acedemic inventing something arbitrary to talk about instead of doing something useful.
There are a million questions to be explored that might actually provide some value to the world. Art or Science is NOT one of them. If I declared today that Chemestry was and art it wouldn't change anything. Nobody would benefit from knowing it is an art. Why don't you instead analyze the character traits that make up a good/bad hacker or something. At least somebody would have a chance at using your information.
BAH
Fine. And you recieving my money is a privilage not a right. I'll start giving it to you again when you get your head out of the 1980s and deliver me content in a way that I would like to use it.
I have no problem with a company protecting it's material but as a customer I need to be able to play it in the following places. CD player, linux computer at work, windows and linux computers at home, on my mobile phone, in my car and on my portable music player.
Good point. Got it.
Good notes, thank you!
I must say though, how can you be horrified by a $200,000 / month burn rate without qualifying it by how many employees, type of buisness etc?
I ask because I know of a startup with a burn rate well over that. However they have 34 employees (the salaries alone can equal that) and they produce custom hardware so it costs them ~$150,000 just to tape-out 1 chip and put together a few prototypes.
A $200k burn rate is huge if you are 5 people writing software but not so much for a larger startup with different types of costs.
So, if they can charge men more for car insurance because statistically they are worse drivers then can employers pay women less because statistically they are less intellegent?
NOTE: I'm ripping on the car insurance, not advocating paying women less. It's all foolishness.
This can be proved experimentally. Not only that but there are quantum encryption products that rely on this simple fact.
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r king/Quantum_Cryptography.html
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1130877,00.a
http://www.bbn.com/For_Government_Customers/Netwo
It all sucked. Granted. However those bombs scared the world (including the US) into never using atomic bombs again. And that happened when they were small 10kiloton. Imagin if the worlds first intro to nukes-used-on-people had been a 100megaton bom? Current bombs are like 10000 of those bombs all at once.
I feel for the innocents that were killed but I am thankful that the lesson was learned while the bombs were so small.
Fair enough.
Obvoiusly you didn't read my post of your making arguments as to whether programming is art or not. I simply said it doesn't matter and questioned what could be gained by knowing either way.
I don't want to get into a discussion about the definition of art but I think it is over-the-top to say that anything that requires imagination is art. It takes imagination to design a toaster but it's not necessarily art.
You make a fine point that it is important to understand whether these things can be replaced by automata but I don't think art is the right criteria. There are computer programs that can compose music in the style of mozart. A human that can do that is called an artist but a machine can actually do it. Whether coding is art or not will not tell us if we can be replaced by a machine. There are better criteria for that.
Ok it's art. My point is that it's a question and classification that serves no useful purpose. I wasn't arguing that it isn't art.
Good point. I agree comp sci should be it's own catagory. However if it was in the art dept you'd be able to make the same complaint that you had to do a bunch of sculpting that wouldn't see real world use. :)
How odd. I write seriously and call out the uselessness of the question and I get a troll? Am I missing the meaning of troll? Flaimbait perhaps. Bahh
What a load of pseudo-intellectual drivel. Coders do what they must to get the job done. Some because it's a job and some because they love it.
It's like a janitor contemplating whether a clean hall is art. Why not spend your time examining better methods of developing portable/maintainable code or something. I mean really, let's say you get your answer. "It is art" or "It isn't art", what has been accomplished other than the ability to puff up about what you do?
This is no different than a bunch of tools contemplating what makes them l337.
BTW I'm not arguing for or against whether it is art. I strike only on the sillyness of the question.
Based on the logic of this article. I'll be leaving now to puckup some "Horney Coeds" and take them to a farm for some "Hot barnyard action".
Spammers don't send reminders to exercise you morons! They try to get you to buy penis enlargment pills.