Or what about all of those folks getting AS degrees?
Do you really need 2 years of math (thru calc 2 w/ diff equations), physics w/ calc, and chemistry to be a good server admin? Cable monkey? Cisco kid? I can understand the math for some aspects of programming, and the chem and physics for an even smaller sub set, but for server management, user/account management, etc? Get real.
I've got one of those AS degrees (and a TON of real world experience), I teach a Linux Admin class for those degrees, and while I'd love the software engineering program at the local university, the pre-req classes are keeping me out - because software engineering is part of the college of engineering, so I need to have the same courses going in as a chemical engineering student, a civil/mechanical engineering student, etc.
But there are always a few students each semester that make you really glad you were teaching...
And, the hours are typically flexible enough (a FT instructor here at the college I work for has to be on campus about 25 hours a week) that having your own consulting gig on the side to make some extra $ is very possible.
Not to mention (still) good state health and retirement benefits, extra pay for working summers (or the whole summer off), etc.
Of course, it would help if a high school diploma meant more than "johnny showed up every day and didn't distract anyone".... seriously. When I graduated HS in '89, the polices were changed so that as long as you showed up every day, didn't cause a disturbance, didn't sleep, and didn't die you would get a 60... get 1 point anywhere on anything, and you now have a greater than 60 average so you pass...
I teach a intro to linux class at a community college (whoops... just college. we offer 4 year degrees now in a couple of subjects so legally we can't be called community anymore) and I have students that can't follow a set of 10 directions... that a secretary for the English department can (because I have her test stuff like this). They can't think critically, problem solve on their own, apply past experience to current problems, or even do a decent google search.
So yeah, at this point I'd say an AA or AS degree is what a HS diploma was 30 years ago...
Actually, it matters for anyone doing stuff complicated (usually needlessly) on the web that has to support something other than Microsoft... like learning management systems.
But they have... the GCA of '68 added on punishment to those already convicted and out of prison - no more gun ownership. Same with the various sex offender registries, etc. All retroactive punishment, added on to whatever the judge gave you to begin with....
Lets not forget the lack of a stable ABI for the linux kernel.. something that is done on purpose to avoid binary blobs. Which I can sort of understand, from the developers point of view, if they want to minimize such things. As an end user though, I'd rather just have good stable software that supports a large variety of good hardware, and if using a binary blob is required for that, so be it.
Especially with the wacky ways some things are taught. I got in trouble a few weeks ago with my daughter's math teacher - they were working on ratios, and finding different ways of showing the same ratio. Daughter was expected to use a ratio table, and go thru 3 different sets of values to arrive at the 4th set. I showed her how to do it with algebra. I thought it was easier, daughter thinks it is easier (and even fun! cool, i'm learning algebra) but the teacher called me in for a conference....
Nope, but the ATFE may decide that it is an AOW, etc. Of course, they've ruled in the past that a shoelace is a machine gun, and recently that a copper pot scrubber is a suppressor.
* antiques from 1898 and prior or some replicas thereof
The actual gun (not the model, but the actual gun) must have been made before 1/1/1899... so while the 1898 Mauser was in production thru the end of WW2, and you can swap parts back and forth w/ no issues, only the ones actually made in 1898 count as non-guns. The replicas only count if they are either black powder (and thus non-regulated anyway) or use obsolete no longer available ammo (44 pinfire, 44 rimfire, 25 rimfire, etc)
As far as federal licensing goes, either you are a 01 FFL (normal FFL dealer), 02 FFL (pawn shop FFL), or 03 FFL (Curio & Relic, aka "crusty and rusty"). There are limitations on what each one can do, for example the 03 FFL (C&R) isn't for doing business but rather for a personal collection (and what is considered collectible is regulated). The stuff you hear about regarding NFA stuff (suppressors, short barrel rifles, full auto) isn't properly called Class 3 - there is just a SOT (special occupation tax) on a regular 01 FFL. And again, several levels of that - dealer, manufacturer/repair, importer, destructive devices, etc.
Wonder what part of "shall not be infringed" this all falls under...
Actually, you can make a rifle, pistol, shotgun, doesn't matter. As long as you don't violate teh NFA (no full auto, gotta get the tax stamp for SBR/SBS/AOW) you are good. And since the receiver (serial numbered part) is the "gun" by fed definition, that is all you need to make - slap a parts kit on it and you are done. Just can't make 'em for resale... Do a google for "80% receiver"
Yup. But for sensible policies to be in place, everyone that works in the ITS department needs to put the S back in - it is Service, not systems, support, or anything else starting with S.
Granted, the bean counters, janitors, whatever should be able to do Just What They Want, but they need to be able to approach the ITS staff and say "Here's the task that we want to accomplish, what do you have that we can do it with?". Or "We're having this problem - what can you do to help". Or "Here's our process - do you see anything that can make it easier or more efficient"
For example, imagine that ITS is facilities and the users are the secretary pool. Now, it gets cold, but facilities won't adjust the heater properly... so all of the secretaries run out to walmart on lunch and buy space heaters to put under their desk. Aside from the potential fire issue, suddenly the circuits start blowing because there is too much load on 'em. Facilities shows up to fix it repeatedly, but then the circuit flopper says "Hey, this keeps happening 'cause of all y'alls space heaters... why you have them" And the secretaries say "Because *you* (your department) won't give us the heater set to 65 degrees and keep us halfway comfortable so we can work". And so the circuit flopper should either a) suggest to the guy in charge of the ac/heat settings that he needs to change 'em, or b) suggest to The Powers That Be that perhaps upgrading the secretarial pool area from a single 20amp circuit to something more reasonable for the needs would be appropriate.
But then, I'm an optimist... but then again, I'm the sole Linux user in my whole organization, I don't break stuff, and my entire support request history has been along the lines of "whats the server dns name for the imap server and smpt server" or "you know that construction down the hall from me? Yeah, my desktop is reporting that the network media is disconnected... and I just saw Bubba in the wiring closet with some shears..."
So instead, find out what the STEM type teachers in your local middle/high school need, and give them a grant of $ w/ condition that it is used to purchase such items.
School board stuff is tax deductible. And I think every poster on/. would like to see more/better STEM teaching...
As a middle aged guy, that is why I ended up with an iPhone. My previous 3 phones (every 2 years, broken or not) really made me made because they made using it as Just A Phone so hard. When I was shopping for my new one earlier this year, I got the iPhone 3gs because it was so easy to use as Just A Phone.
Not to mention that Jews are mandated to educate their kids - gotta read from the Torah, etc. So clerical tasks, etc. were going to the educated. And the ones that were OK with handling money.
Same here, but instead I was nearly failed for "not showing my work and cheating off other students" although I was always the first student done w/ the test.
Miller vs US re: the NFA of '34 said that his sawed off shotgun and full auto stuff wasn't protected because they weren't common military arms of the times.... of course, they are now.
Which means I guess that grandpa's duck gun isn't protected, but the part of the '84 FOPA that cuts off new additions of full auto stuff to the NFA registry is unconstitutional...
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Or what about all of those folks getting AS degrees?
Do you really need 2 years of math (thru calc 2 w/ diff equations), physics w/ calc, and chemistry to be a good server admin? Cable monkey? Cisco kid? I can understand the math for some aspects of programming, and the chem and physics for an even smaller sub set, but for server management, user/account management, etc? Get real.
I've got one of those AS degrees (and a TON of real world experience), I teach a Linux Admin class for those degrees, and while I'd love the software engineering program at the local university, the pre-req classes are keeping me out - because software engineering is part of the college of engineering, so I need to have the same courses going in as a chemical engineering student, a civil/mechanical engineering student, etc.
But there are always a few students each semester that make you really glad you were teaching...
And, the hours are typically flexible enough (a FT instructor here at the college I work for has to be on campus about 25 hours a week) that having your own consulting gig on the side to make some extra $ is very possible.
Not to mention (still) good state health and retirement benefits, extra pay for working summers (or the whole summer off), etc.
Of course, it would help if a high school diploma meant more than "johnny showed up every day and didn't distract anyone" .... seriously. When I graduated HS in '89, the polices were changed so that as long as you showed up every day, didn't cause a disturbance, didn't sleep, and didn't die you would get a 60... get 1 point anywhere on anything, and you now have a greater than 60 average so you pass...
I teach a intro to linux class at a community college (whoops... just college. we offer 4 year degrees now in a couple of subjects so legally we can't be called community anymore) and I have students that can't follow a set of 10 directions... that a secretary for the English department can (because I have her test stuff like this). They can't think critically, problem solve on their own, apply past experience to current problems, or even do a decent google search.
So yeah, at this point I'd say an AA or AS degree is what a HS diploma was 30 years ago...
And as a parent of 3, I can say that they are still parasitic for many many years afterwards....
Actually, it matters for anyone doing stuff complicated (usually needlessly) on the web that has to support something other than Microsoft... like learning management systems.
I wonder how this new version will compare to FlightGear ?
http://www.flightgear.org/
But they have... the GCA of '68 added on punishment to those already convicted and out of prison - no more gun ownership. Same with the various sex offender registries, etc. All retroactive punishment, added on to whatever the judge gave you to begin with....
Lets not forget the lack of a stable ABI for the linux kernel.. something that is done on purpose to avoid binary blobs. Which I can sort of understand, from the developers point of view, if they want to minimize such things. As an end user though, I'd rather just have good stable software that supports a large variety of good hardware, and if using a binary blob is required for that, so be it.
Lets go back a few hundred years. Should classes that use printed books (Thanks Gutenberg!) be about book binding and press plate preparation?
Especially with the wacky ways some things are taught. I got in trouble a few weeks ago with my daughter's math teacher - they were working on ratios, and finding different ways of showing the same ratio. Daughter was expected to use a ratio table, and go thru 3 different sets of values to arrive at the 4th set. I showed her how to do it with algebra. I thought it was easier, daughter thinks it is easier (and even fun! cool, i'm learning algebra) but the teacher called me in for a conference....
Linode allows you to create multiple disk images, and mount them wherever you like... changing distros is easy-peasy...
Nope, but the ATFE may decide that it is an AOW, etc. Of course, they've ruled in the past that a shoelace is a machine gun, and recently that a copper pot scrubber is a suppressor.
* antiques from 1898 and prior or some replicas thereof
The actual gun (not the model, but the actual gun) must have been made before 1/1/1899 ... so while the 1898 Mauser was in production thru the end of WW2, and you can swap parts back and forth w/ no issues, only the ones actually made in 1898 count as non-guns. The replicas only count if they are either black powder (and thus non-regulated anyway) or use obsolete no longer available ammo (44 pinfire, 44 rimfire, 25 rimfire, etc)
As far as federal licensing goes, either you are a 01 FFL (normal FFL dealer), 02 FFL (pawn shop FFL), or 03 FFL (Curio & Relic, aka "crusty and rusty"). There are limitations on what each one can do, for example the 03 FFL (C&R) isn't for doing business but rather for a personal collection (and what is considered collectible is regulated). The stuff you hear about regarding NFA stuff (suppressors, short barrel rifles, full auto) isn't properly called Class 3 - there is just a SOT (special occupation tax) on a regular 01 FFL. And again, several levels of that - dealer, manufacturer/repair, importer, destructive devices, etc.
Wonder what part of "shall not be infringed" this all falls under...
Actually, you can make a rifle, pistol, shotgun, doesn't matter. As long as you don't violate teh NFA (no full auto, gotta get the tax stamp for SBR/SBS/AOW) you are good. And since the receiver (serial numbered part) is the "gun" by fed definition, that is all you need to make - slap a parts kit on it and you are done. Just can't make 'em for resale... Do a google for "80% receiver"
Yup. But for sensible policies to be in place, everyone that works in the ITS department needs to put the S back in - it is Service, not systems, support, or anything else starting with S.
Granted, the bean counters, janitors, whatever should be able to do Just What They Want, but they need to be able to approach the ITS staff and say "Here's the task that we want to accomplish, what do you have that we can do it with?". Or "We're having this problem - what can you do to help". Or "Here's our process - do you see anything that can make it easier or more efficient"
For example, imagine that ITS is facilities and the users are the secretary pool. Now, it gets cold, but facilities won't adjust the heater properly... so all of the secretaries run out to walmart on lunch and buy space heaters to put under their desk. Aside from the potential fire issue, suddenly the circuits start blowing because there is too much load on 'em. Facilities shows up to fix it repeatedly, but then the circuit flopper says "Hey, this keeps happening 'cause of all y'alls space heaters... why you have them" And the secretaries say "Because *you* (your department) won't give us the heater set to 65 degrees and keep us halfway comfortable so we can work". And so the circuit flopper should either a) suggest to the guy in charge of the ac/heat settings that he needs to change 'em, or b) suggest to The Powers That Be that perhaps upgrading the secretarial pool area from a single 20amp circuit to something more reasonable for the needs would be appropriate.
But then, I'm an optimist... but then again, I'm the sole Linux user in my whole organization, I don't break stuff, and my entire support request history has been along the lines of "whats the server dns name for the imap server and smpt server" or "you know that construction down the hall from me? Yeah, my desktop is reporting that the network media is disconnected... and I just saw Bubba in the wiring closet with some shears..."
So instead, find out what the STEM type teachers in your local middle/high school need, and give them a grant of $ w/ condition that it is used to purchase such items.
School board stuff is tax deductible. And I think every poster on /. would like to see more/better STEM teaching...
As a middle aged guy, that is why I ended up with an iPhone. My previous 3 phones (every 2 years, broken or not) really made me made because they made using it as Just A Phone so hard. When I was shopping for my new one earlier this year, I got the iPhone 3gs because it was so easy to use as Just A Phone.
Now get off my lawn...
Not to mention that Jews are mandated to educate their kids - gotta read from the Torah, etc. So clerical tasks, etc. were going to the educated. And the ones that were OK with handling money.
Lots of good points like this in "Why Jews Don't Farm" - http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/everyday_economics/2003/06/why_jews_dont_farm.html
Same here, but instead I was nearly failed for "not showing my work and cheating off other students" although I was always the first student done w/ the test.
Sadly since the www.google.com/linux and www.google.com/bsd specific searches went buh-bye a few months back, you are correct...
Of course, if they include the source code, and possibly rename the app, perfectly legal to do...
See points 1, 2 and 4 of the Open Source Definition http://www.opensource.org/osd.html
You should read "Scroogled" by Cory Doctorow ... http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html
Miller vs US re: the NFA of '34 said that his sawed off shotgun and full auto stuff wasn't protected because they weren't common military arms of the times.... of course, they are now.
Which means I guess that grandpa's duck gun isn't protected, but the part of the '84 FOPA that cuts off new additions of full auto stuff to the NFA registry is unconstitutional...
Yes, that was my envelope that I put at the bottom of that trash pile...
You got 27 8x10 full color pictures with notes on the back to prove it?
There was a dust up in the 1860s that kinda put that thought to rest...