remember the first naughty film/book/magazine you saw? You weren't 18, were you?
No but it wasn't some random email either. Usually kids first get a look at explicit material through their own curiosity and effort, or because one of their peers introduced it. It doesn't just show up at their doorstep, regardless of their maturity or interest.
Also, a lot of the stuff in emails is much more explicit than has been typically available in print - we aren't talking Playboy nudity or even Hustler here. It's really nasty disturning stuff, that requires some emotional maturity to handle.
This issue of kids seeking out sexually explicit material on their own interest is different from adults using deception to send it to kids.
Oh, and part of the process of being exposed to sexually explicit material as a kid usually involved being caught by your parents and having to deal with that.
Good work, spaceyhackerlady, but I'm afraid the original post has a point.
During the days of the Cold War, every country with a political axe to grind had English language transmissions to North America.
With the demise of the Evil Empire (and other changes - South Africa no longer has a NA English service) many of these stations folded up, cut their hours, or dropped their power.
The ones that are left have been dropping out, due to a perceived lack of interest in short wave by USAians and the cost savings of Internet streaming. BBC World Service is excellent, but their transmissions to the US were dropped some years ago (they still do a few hours a day to English-speaking Central America that can be received well). Canada and Australia have faced budget curbacks (and threats to terminate the services as well).
Speaking of Canada, one of the coolest short wave things are the Canadian commercial broadcasters with low power short wave outlets. Nothing like hearing the Toronto traffic report from 2,000 miles away.
pico-ESR : Engineer brags about fixing a project design flaw, ignoring intern that did all the work
micro-ESR : Project manager brags about bringing project in on time, within budget, ignoring unclocked overtime work by engineers
milli-ESR : Upper manager gloats over his own division profitability, giving no credit to project managers
centi-ESR : Corporate CEO take full credit for exceeding analyst's earnings report. Takes credit for Fed's changes to interest rate, favorable currency exchange rate, and underpaid work done by everyone who works for him (including the ones losing their job in the latest outsourcing fiasco)
ESR : The limit as all of the above approach an impossibly high number. Requires heavy sedation. Alternates between belief is self as omnipotent Deity and as sole owner of all SCO intellectual property.
Dual use? You mean they weren't intended for these purposes? This is a business hotel near a busy international airport! I mean, when was the last time anyone ever took a family vacation in El Segundo, California?
You don't honestly think anyone needs free broadband access just to check the email from the office, do you?
My understanding is that foreign nationals are not allowed to work on ANY US Govt IT project - not just classified work, but even fairly innocuous systems for the Department of Interior.
I call it the "Full Employment for Mediocre US Programmers" act.
meanwhile, i perform consulting services - and, i simply refuse to budge from my standard rate for employment.
Lots of US blue collar workers had the same attitude in the early 1980's. The result was extended periods of unemployment that finally convinced them to accept poor paying service jobs.
You worth is not how well you think of yourself, it is what the market will pay for your skills. Markets have a funny way of changing faster than one's skills. What commands a premium rate one day will get oursourced the next
I'm sure much of the staff of "full blooded British" call centers is Indian as well. Why not provide work for the immigrants who have chosen to live in your home country?
I briefly reviewed the specs on the Pogo Web site. It mentions an external antenna connection.
What type of connection is provided? Coax? Twin-lead (yucckkkk)?
Would using a good external antenna improve the "so-so" reception? Could I use the FM feed off a Cable TV system for better reception?
How good is the basic tuner, in terms of its technical specs? Meaning how much of the so-so reception due to the antenna, and how much is inherent in the electronics?
Yes, though the classes weren't "real world project management", they were computer science courses of various sorts. Learning project management under difficult conditions is useful, however it should not consistently interfere with the other subjects being taught. This is especially true when one is paying a lot of money out of pocket for a computer science degree ("I didn't learn about finite state machines, but I can tell you all about catching flights out of Heathrow")
It does matter where you are tested or expected to learn the material from the lectures, as opposed to just the text book. The PowerPoint presentations were supposed to be the course material. Didn't make a lot of sense without the accompanying lectures. The folks organizing the class never quite connected this though.
Got an online Master's. Yes there are profs that try to skate, but generally they seemed to try to put some real effort in.
I do have some complaints, though:
The whole curricula was the standard texts and notes "grafted" onto an online interface. The material and method of moving through it was a "transplant" of a traditional class lecture, lifted onto an online format. This does not work well - kind of like taking a book, scanning each page into a graphic file, then posting this as an online version.
We were provided PowerPoint lecture notes taken from "live" lectures, though without the benefit of seeing the lectures (my suggestion : record the "real" lectures and have online students purchase as DVDs or VHS)
I missed office hours and the ability to chat with knowledgeable graduate students when I got stuck. With some conceptually difficult material, you really have to hash over it with a live mentor to understand how it works.
No real socialization with other students, owing to geography.
"Group" projects were a nightmare of conference calls, online chats, emailing drafts back and forth, etc.
The good side is it allows folks with full time jobs to get degrees. It also allows folks to get specialized degrees that may only be available at a handful of institutions.
Beginning next year, NRO will be in charge of the new Offensive Counter-Space program, which will come up with plans to specifically deny the use of near-Earth space to other nations, said Teets.
So we reserve the right to wack ANY other nation's spacecraft. And..
Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Judd Blaisdell, director of the Air Force Space Operations Office, said recently, "We are so dominant in space that I pity a country that would come up against us."
Finally.
After the administration renounced the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty last year, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made it clear that the abrogation of treaty constraints in the use of radar and tracking devices was not just for the benefit of fielding a missile-defense system, but to build better unilateral networks to manage the planet from space.
"unilateral networks to manage the planet from space" indeed!!
There was a more disturbing article I think in EE Times, where the US basically states it has a military monopoly in space, that ALL spacecraft (civilian or military) exist at its sufferance, and that the US has the option to take out any other nation's satellites.
I swear I read this recently, and can't seem to dig it up. Anyone else know the article I am talking about?
Sudan - Formerly British
Burundi - Formerly Belgian
Zimbabwe - Formerly British
Even assuming the US cares what the French think, there are enough opressive regimes outside of the French "sphere of influence" to keep us busy in military action for the next century.
Burma? Papua-New Guinea? Turkmenistan? (oops they were part of the "coalition of the willing", got to leave them alone for now).
These documents look historical to me. The Minix and early Linux communities were mixed, and I think it is unlikely they concerned themselves with keeping the code bases separate.
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No matter how much they talk about loyalty, no boss will ever risk their career sticking up for you.
When directed to cut force (or to increase the workload insanely) no boss will ever refuse to do so out of loyalty to their underlings
No but it wasn't some random email either. Usually kids first get a look at explicit material through their own curiosity and effort, or because one of their peers introduced it. It doesn't just show up at their doorstep, regardless of their maturity or interest.
Also, a lot of the stuff in emails is much more explicit than has been typically available in print - we aren't talking Playboy nudity or even Hustler here. It's really nasty disturning stuff, that requires some emotional maturity to handle.
This issue of kids seeking out sexually explicit material on their own interest is different from adults using deception to send it to kids.
Oh, and part of the process of being exposed to sexually explicit material as a kid usually involved being caught by your parents and having to deal with that.
During the days of the Cold War, every country with a political axe to grind had English language transmissions to North America.
With the demise of the Evil Empire (and other changes - South Africa no longer has a NA English service) many of these stations folded up, cut their hours, or dropped their power.
The ones that are left have been dropping out, due to a perceived lack of interest in short wave by USAians and the cost savings of Internet streaming. BBC World Service is excellent, but their transmissions to the US were dropped some years ago (they still do a few hours a day to English-speaking Central America that can be received well). Canada and Australia have faced budget curbacks (and threats to terminate the services as well).
Speaking of Canada, one of the coolest short wave things are the Canadian commercial broadcasters with low power short wave outlets. Nothing like hearing the Toronto traffic report from 2,000 miles away.
I read a book "The Victorian Internet" that told a similar tale about telegraph operators in the 19th century.
- pico-ESR : Engineer brags about fixing a project design flaw, ignoring intern that did all the work
- micro-ESR : Project manager brags about bringing project in on time, within budget, ignoring unclocked overtime work by engineers
- milli-ESR : Upper manager gloats over his own division profitability, giving no credit to project managers
- centi-ESR : Corporate CEO take full credit for exceeding analyst's earnings report. Takes credit for Fed's changes to interest rate, favorable currency exchange rate, and underpaid work done by everyone who works for him (including the ones losing their job in the latest outsourcing fiasco)
- ESR : The limit as all of the above approach an impossibly high number. Requires heavy sedation. Alternates between belief is self as omnipotent Deity and as sole owner of all SCO intellectual property.
With apologies to Scott Adams.What we really need is The Accounts Payable Department of The Future, to allow us to charge through the expenses of The Hotel Room of the Future.
You don't honestly think anyone needs free broadband access just to check the email from the office, do you?
I call it the "Full Employment for Mediocre US Programmers" act.
No, you need to find a high-paying occupation that by its nature cannot be outsourced to foreign countries.
This is why so many intelligent Americans end up being lawyers.
Lots of US blue collar workers had the same attitude in the early 1980's. The result was extended periods of unemployment that finally convinced them to accept poor paying service jobs.
You worth is not how well you think of yourself, it is what the market will pay for your skills. Markets have a funny way of changing faster than one's skills. What commands a premium rate one day will get oursourced the next
I'm sure much of the staff of "full blooded British" call centers is Indian as well. Why not provide work for the immigrants who have chosen to live in your home country?
At $3139, I'd measure the cost in VW Beetle units!
Oh God, even worse than I imagined. And they want how much for this device?
What type of connection is provided? Coax? Twin-lead (yucckkkk)?
Would using a good external antenna improve the "so-so" reception? Could I use the FM feed off a Cable TV system for better reception?
How good is the basic tuner, in terms of its technical specs? Meaning how much of the so-so reception due to the antenna, and how much is inherent in the electronics?
Yes, though the classes weren't "real world project management", they were computer science courses of various sorts. Learning project management under difficult conditions is useful, however it should not consistently interfere with the other subjects being taught. This is especially true when one is paying a lot of money out of pocket for a computer science degree ("I didn't learn about finite state machines, but I can tell you all about catching flights out of Heathrow")
It does matter where you are tested or expected to learn the material from the lectures, as opposed to just the text book. The PowerPoint presentations were supposed to be the course material. Didn't make a lot of sense without the accompanying lectures. The folks organizing the class never quite connected this though.
I do have some complaints, though:
- The whole curricula was the standard texts and notes "grafted" onto an online interface. The material and method of moving through it was a "transplant" of a traditional class lecture, lifted onto an online format. This does not work well - kind of like taking a book, scanning each page into a graphic file, then posting this as an online version.
- We were provided PowerPoint lecture notes taken from "live" lectures, though without the benefit of seeing the lectures (my suggestion : record the "real" lectures and have online students purchase as DVDs or VHS)
- I missed office hours and the ability to chat with knowledgeable graduate students when I got stuck. With some conceptually difficult material, you really have to hash over it with a live mentor to understand how it works.
- No real socialization with other students, owing to geography.
- "Group" projects were a nightmare of conference calls, online chats, emailing drafts back and forth, etc.
The good side is it allows folks with full time jobs to get degrees. It also allows folks to get specialized degrees that may only be available at a handful of institutions.Some choice quotes:
So we reserve the right to wack ANY other nation's spacecraft. And.. Finally. "unilateral networks to manage the planet from space" indeed!!I swear I read this recently, and can't seem to dig it up. Anyone else know the article I am talking about?
Q. What's the difference between the RIAA and "Jurassic Park" ?
A. One is a desert island filled with extinct man-eating reptiles. The other is a movie.
Like the Woody Allen movie ("Love and Death"?), when asked how he became such a great lover, Woody replies "I practice a lot on my own"
Burundi - Formerly Belgian
Zimbabwe - Formerly British
Even assuming the US cares what the French think, there are enough opressive regimes outside of the French "sphere of influence" to keep us busy in military action for the next century.
Burma? Papua-New Guinea? Turkmenistan? (oops they were part of the "coalition of the willing", got to leave them alone for now).
When do we start?
Sudan - watch out! Burundi - take that! Zimbabwe - you're next!
Well these USENET posts do indicate some connection here, as does this post by Linus himself.
These documents look historical to me. The Minix and early Linux communities were mixed, and I think it is unlikely they concerned themselves with keeping the code bases separate.
I remember a band named "Free Beer". Clubs were always careful to put their name in double quotes.