Teachers are not the only ones who are powerless to do anything about violent children. Parents are similarly not allowed to discipline their own children any longer.
My parents spanked the shit out of me when I screwed up, and today I'm really glad they did. Parents can't do that today, unfortunately, which is why we have an entire generation of completely undisciplined and unruly children with a huge sense of entitlement. We give them gold stars for failure... what did we expect?
both suck... I wish they would put just 10% of the revenue from ink sales into developing software and drivers that actually WORK. God.. it's miserable trying to keep their printers working properly, especially on a network.
.. that the time spent google PacMan would have otherwise been spent working.
It's entirely possible that the time spent google PacMan would have otherwise been spent in some other non-productive way.
Also, most salaried employees work casual overtime that does not get reported, so the notion that all time spent playing Google Pacman was a productivity hit is just false.
If you don't stand up to a bully, you'll only look like an attractive target to other bullies, and other non-bullies who might feel inclined to bully you because they know you won't respond.
There's not just physical bullying either. Look at just about any teenage girl today. They're the most vile, fire-breathing, hostile creatures that walk the face of the Earth today, and they won't think twice about emotionally bullying a peer to the point of suicide.
Failing to stand up just means you get bullied more, with sometimes fatal results.
Actually, the whole point behind ReadyBoost was to put the swap data on a flash drive because it gave such a large perceived increase in system performance. Doing thousands of tiny random read/writes to even a slow USB flash drive is better than doing it to a platter...
"what the hell service did you have that was over $130 a month?"
Verizon ExtremeHD (58) + Movie Pack (26) + 2 DVRs (32) + 3 "Dumb" (12) Converters = Total of $128
Taxes push it over $130.
The Bluray player was $159 at costco, and a Netflix subscription is under $15. I designed and built my own antenna, so that was just the cost of copper and brass tubing (it's a 12dBi Log-Periodic Dipole Array that lives in my attic).
Please note that I am not claiming to have the same variety and availability of programming now that we did when we had the expensive service. Your change would have been a wash because it is obvious you were trying not to lose functionality or programming.
My wife and I just purchased a Bluray player that does Netflix, Amazon, and several other on-demand video services. I also installed an HDTV in the attic and ran the signal down to both of our HDTVs. We still have to pay Verizon for internet access, but we no longer have a $100+ video bill every month.
There's only so much money to be made spinning reference boards... nobody actually designs a video card. They just spin the reference artwork provided by the chip manufacturers, with maybe a couple of modifications like silk screen color, heat sinks, and stickers. It's just a race to the bottom to see who can do it the cheapest.
Is there a constitutional law that was properly added to "the books" that requires copiers have "secure option," that sellers notify buyers of privacy concerns, and so on? Or, is Obama's administration just legislating by decree again?
I was at my parents' house over the weekend helping clean out the garage, and we found boxes and boxes of 5.25 and 3.5 floppies, in single, double, and high density, containing all kinds of memories of my childhood, including hundreds of disks of files I downloaded from BBSes, utilities, programs, games, school papers written in Deskmate and Scripsit (on my COCO3!), and so on.
I've spent the last 3 days trying to recover data from them, but only about 5% of the disks are still readable. I wish I had done something like this as technology advanced over the years. I currently have all of my data going back to about 1996... but not much before that.
As of today, it is indeed illegal to use obscene language in PA, if there is INTENT to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm.
This will be a test case, for sure.
5503. Disorderly conduct.
(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of disorderly
conduct if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance
or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he:
(1) engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or
tumultuous behavior;
(2) makes unreasonable noise;
(3) uses obscene language, or makes an obscene gesture;
or
(4) creates a hazardous or physically offensive
condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of
the actor.
(b) Grading.--An offense under this section is a misdemeanor
of the third degree if the intent of the actor is to cause
substantial harm or serious inconvenience, or if he persists in
disorderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to
desist. Otherwise disorderly conduct is a summary offense.
(c) Definition.--As used in this section the word "public"
means affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which
the public or a substantial group has access; among the places
included are highways, transport facilities, schools, prisons,
apartment houses, places of business or amusement, any
neighborhood, or any premises which are open to the public.
"In 4G areas, it might be a formidable option for anyone who hates their ISP *ehem* Comcast *ehem.*"
Not really... I tried a 4G service out last week and the latency was so horrible that it wouldn't matter if it had a 100Mbit transport, it'd still be slow as all hell and basically useless.
Latency to the gateway was between 75 and 125ms. That's horrible every day of the week.
In fact, it's the #1 mistake that small businesses and sole proprietors make, and the #1 way small businesses have their corporate veil pierced.
If you have an LLC, you are only protected as long as you maintain your corporate veil. This REQUIRES that you have completely separate bank accounts, tax ID numbers, accounting databases, and everything. Commingling of personal and business assets is the first thing a lawyer will look for when he's trying to get to your personal assets (like your house, savings, 401k, etc) through suing your small business.
Furthermore, if you have business insurance, it will NOT COVER YOU if your corporate veil is successfully pierced. Business insurance only covers legitimate business activities, and commingling your personal and business assets means your business is not strictly business.
So, you would be in the "not-so-bright" category for sure if you did NOT get a separate account.
Getting a separate account does not mean you know you're doing something wrong. It means you know you are doing something RIGHT.
I would have grave concerns about weakening the surrounding geology in a way that caused a massive rupturing of the wellhead. The geology of that area is incredibly diverse, with all kinds of different rock formations from different geologic era.
All you would need to do is set off a nuke in a well that had a lot of water or other gases dissolved in the rock, or distributed within it, and the heat would cause it all to instantly evaporate and blow the entire wellhead to smithereens, leaving a giant hole into the deposit with no hope of sealing it.
They're ALREADY drilling a new well - the relief well is already underway, but there is going to be a long time before they reach the current one, so they may as well try everything else plausible in the meantime.
"So the higher the frequency of your signal, the more bandwidth you can get. Easy to understand why. However there is a tradeoff, and that is distance/penetration."
I think most geeks here would be thrilled to penetrate at any distance...
Don't let the spin fool you. It would be impossible for Obama to find someone to the left of justice Stevens. Therefore, even replacing him with a fire breathing, man-hating lesbian liberal would be a move to the right.
Before humans invented written text, we learned by watching and listening. That's what we are programmed to do - watch and listen. Hell, how do we learn to speak? We listen to other people do it, and watch their lips move, and then mimic that as we listen to ourselves try to reproduce those sounds.
In many respects, interactive audio/visual methods are a more natural way for humans to learn than reading text.
...waking up one morning without Internet access at all because you used too much of your "unlimited" service or downloaded more than some magical, super-secret number of bytes that nobody knows.
"I've never understood how people completely fail at working at a remote machine."
Me either. Everything I need to use works just fine over RDP, even with the VPN overhead. Finding a hotel with decent wireless internet is absolutely trivial these days, and the same goes for airports, restaurants, and so on.
Even when I'm in a pinch and have to use the Bluetooth modem in my cheap Samsung slider phone, it's workable if I really crank down on the bandwidth settings in the RDP client and the eye candy in windows.
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Teachers are not the only ones who are powerless to do anything about violent children. Parents are similarly not allowed to discipline their own children any longer.
My parents spanked the shit out of me when I screwed up, and today I'm really glad they did. Parents can't do that today, unfortunately, which is why we have an entire generation of completely undisciplined and unruly children with a huge sense of entitlement. We give them gold stars for failure... what did we expect?
both suck... I wish they would put just 10% of the revenue from ink sales into developing software and drivers that actually WORK. God.. it's miserable trying to keep their printers working properly, especially on a network.
.. that the time spent google PacMan would have otherwise been spent working.
It's entirely possible that the time spent google PacMan would have otherwise been spent in some other non-productive way.
Also, most salaried employees work casual overtime that does not get reported, so the notion that all time spent playing Google Pacman was a productivity hit is just false.
The point I was trying to make was that there are those who aren't normally bullies, but might commit the "crime of opportunity."
I.e. most people aren't thieves, but would at least think about stealing a pile of cash if they know 100% that they would definitely get away with it.
If you don't stand up to a bully, you'll only look like an attractive target to other bullies, and other non-bullies who might feel inclined to bully you because they know you won't respond.
There's not just physical bullying either. Look at just about any teenage girl today. They're the most vile, fire-breathing, hostile creatures that walk the face of the Earth today, and they won't think twice about emotionally bullying a peer to the point of suicide.
Failing to stand up just means you get bullied more, with sometimes fatal results.
Actually, the whole point behind ReadyBoost was to put the swap data on a flash drive because it gave such a large perceived increase in system performance. Doing thousands of tiny random read/writes to even a slow USB flash drive is better than doing it to a platter...
"what the hell service did you have that was over $130 a month?"
Verizon ExtremeHD (58) + Movie Pack (26) + 2 DVRs (32) + 3 "Dumb" (12) Converters = Total of $128
Taxes push it over $130.
The Bluray player was $159 at costco, and a Netflix subscription is under $15. I designed and built my own antenna, so that was just the cost of copper and brass tubing (it's a 12dBi Log-Periodic Dipole Array that lives in my attic).
Please note that I am not claiming to have the same variety and availability of programming now that we did when we had the expensive service. Your change would have been a wash because it is obvious you were trying not to lose functionality or programming.
Apples and Oranges
... HDTV *antenna* in the attic ...
My wife and I just purchased a Bluray player that does Netflix, Amazon, and several other on-demand video services. I also installed an HDTV in the attic and ran the signal down to both of our HDTVs. We still have to pay Verizon for internet access, but we no longer have a $100+ video bill every month.
There's only so much money to be made spinning reference boards... nobody actually designs a video card. They just spin the reference artwork provided by the chip manufacturers, with maybe a couple of modifications like silk screen color, heat sinks, and stickers. It's just a race to the bottom to see who can do it the cheapest.
Is there a constitutional law that was properly added to "the books" that requires copiers have "secure option," that sellers notify buyers of privacy concerns, and so on? Or, is Obama's administration just legislating by decree again?
I was at my parents' house over the weekend helping clean out the garage, and we found boxes and boxes of 5.25 and 3.5 floppies, in single, double, and high density, containing all kinds of memories of my childhood, including hundreds of disks of files I downloaded from BBSes, utilities, programs, games, school papers written in Deskmate and Scripsit (on my COCO3!), and so on.
I've spent the last 3 days trying to recover data from them, but only about 5% of the disks are still readable. I wish I had done something like this as technology advanced over the years. I currently have all of my data going back to about 1996... but not much before that.
As of today, it is indeed illegal to use obscene language in PA, if there is INTENT to cause public inconvenience, annoyance, or alarm.
This will be a test case, for sure.
5503. Disorderly conduct.
(a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of disorderly
conduct if, with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance
or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, he:
(1) engages in fighting or threatening, or in violent or
tumultuous behavior;
(2) makes unreasonable noise;
(3) uses obscene language, or makes an obscene gesture;
or
(4) creates a hazardous or physically offensive
condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of
the actor.
(b) Grading.--An offense under this section is a misdemeanor
of the third degree if the intent of the actor is to cause
substantial harm or serious inconvenience, or if he persists in
disorderly conduct after reasonable warning or request to
desist. Otherwise disorderly conduct is a summary offense.
(c) Definition.--As used in this section the word "public"
means affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which
the public or a substantial group has access; among the places
included are highways, transport facilities, schools, prisons,
apartment houses, places of business or amusement, any
neighborhood, or any premises which are open to the public.
"The study was inconclusive because it did not come to the conclusion that we wanted."
I'm starting to see a pattern here...
I concur with this statement. It's called "nonionizing" radiation for a reason.
"In 4G areas, it might be a formidable option for anyone who hates their ISP *ehem* Comcast *ehem.*"
Not really... I tried a 4G service out last week and the latency was so horrible that it wouldn't matter if it had a 100Mbit transport, it'd still be slow as all hell and basically useless.
Latency to the gateway was between 75 and 125ms. That's horrible every day of the week.
In fact, it's the #1 mistake that small businesses and sole proprietors make, and the #1 way small businesses have their corporate veil pierced.
If you have an LLC, you are only protected as long as you maintain your corporate veil. This REQUIRES that you have completely separate bank accounts, tax ID numbers, accounting databases, and everything. Commingling of personal and business assets is the first thing a lawyer will look for when he's trying to get to your personal assets (like your house, savings, 401k, etc) through suing your small business.
Furthermore, if you have business insurance, it will NOT COVER YOU if your corporate veil is successfully pierced. Business insurance only covers legitimate business activities, and commingling your personal and business assets means your business is not strictly business.
So, you would be in the "not-so-bright" category for sure if you did NOT get a separate account.
Getting a separate account does not mean you know you're doing something wrong. It means you know you are doing something RIGHT.
I would have grave concerns about weakening the surrounding geology in a way that caused a massive rupturing of the wellhead. The geology of that area is incredibly diverse, with all kinds of different rock formations from different geologic era.
All you would need to do is set off a nuke in a well that had a lot of water or other gases dissolved in the rock, or distributed within it, and the heat would cause it all to instantly evaporate and blow the entire wellhead to smithereens, leaving a giant hole into the deposit with no hope of sealing it.
They're ALREADY drilling a new well - the relief well is already underway, but there is going to be a long time before they reach the current one, so they may as well try everything else plausible in the meantime.
"So the higher the frequency of your signal, the more bandwidth you can get. Easy to understand why. However there is a tradeoff, and that is distance/penetration."
I think most geeks here would be thrilled to penetrate at any distance...
Don't let the spin fool you. It would be impossible for Obama to find someone to the left of justice Stevens. Therefore, even replacing him with a fire breathing, man-hating lesbian liberal would be a move to the right.
but... but!!! Did she have her purse dog with her?!?!?!
Before humans invented written text, we learned by watching and listening. That's what we are programmed to do - watch and listen. Hell, how do we learn to speak? We listen to other people do it, and watch their lips move, and then mimic that as we listen to ourselves try to reproduce those sounds.
In many respects, interactive audio/visual methods are a more natural way for humans to learn than reading text.
...waking up one morning without Internet access at all because you used too much of your "unlimited" service or downloaded more than some magical, super-secret number of bytes that nobody knows.
"I've never understood how people completely fail at working at a remote machine."
Me either. Everything I need to use works just fine over RDP, even with the VPN overhead. Finding a hotel with decent wireless internet is absolutely trivial these days, and the same goes for airports, restaurants, and so on.
Even when I'm in a pinch and have to use the Bluetooth modem in my cheap Samsung slider phone, it's workable if I really crank down on the bandwidth settings in the RDP client and the eye candy in windows.
And, to answer the AC: Yes, I own the company.