Some of us older folk remember that high schools in the US used to HAVE these vocational training programs --- underfunding by anti-tax zealots destroyed them all. Lately, community colleges are trying to take up the slack with vocational programs, but again, the anti-tax zealots are undercutting them.
These people are starting to remind me of the sort that doesn't change the oil in their car because 'it saves money this month' - when the car explodes later, they blame the car or the design, not themselves.
Lets blame employERS for requiring 4 yr college degrees where a 2yr would have sufficed or none was needed. Or perhaps the collapse of what a high school diploma means in terms of skill levels. Or the eradication of high school vocational studies because taxpayers would rather build jails than fund schools.
So far, the rulings I've seen have relied on the fact that torrents, by definition, are uploading material as they download. I've not seen any rulings against Direct Downloads - only against filesharing using torrent protocols.
Granted, that may be because they're basically screwed in trying to detect a DDL without committing various criminal offenses... but so it goes.
I do believe we can officially cross North Korea out as a "communist state" and put it in the Theocracy column.
He is a god with Elvis at his right hand.... o.O
You've just articulated a deeply seated annoyance I have at the casual use of the word "friend" for Facebook... or many other interactions. *friends* are someone who'd do what you describe... who might even throw themselves on a hand grenade to protect you and his other friends.
The dilution of that word, particularly in regard to Facebook, is a smearing of vocabulary.
The problem with this ruling is that it doesn't address what those two pilots were doing --- trying to figure out the latest "point-headed boss FUD corporate BS" that was being hoisted on them. They weren't "playing Minesweeper" they were doing company work... kind of like the long-haul truckers expected to spend ridiculous times driving and yet still do all the corporate BS so they do it while driving.
He was someone who is going to be beaten if he doesn't make enough "sales", kind of like how they beat the servants if they don't keep your iced tea topped off.
About the only credence I can give the source article at all... is that many people (young or old) now appear to be terrified of SILENCE. People who cannot keep from saying inane shit when a silence looms. People who must have music running, the tv running. People who are constantly buzzing from info point to info point using the web or their cell. The ability to *just sit* (meditate, listen to silence, sit in the dandelion patch) just drives them stark raving scared.
Its a bit like the Hitchhiker's Guide remarks about people who won't stop jabbering for fear they might begin to *think*.
I understand being without the "luxuries" of talking to and seeing people (isolated confinement) also make one "quite alone and secluded". Can we start shooting idiots who keep using the word "addiction" for anything and everything that one uses in life? Is this grant scrounging or what?
I'm addicted to oxygen, omfg think of the children.
Oh, and will we ever get mod points to shoot down stupid-ass articles like this piece of intellectual failure crap that fails to look critically at the source?
Depends... there's a faction of Chinese (usually young) who are over-the-top irrational nationalists (fenqing) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenqing
They are exactly the type who'd chase down those who "demean China".
I certainly wouldn't dignify it as 'warfare'. Checked YOUR own logs lately (or do you keep logs)? Every IP is routinely "attackedf" a few hundred times a day. This is misuse of the word "war" as the "War on Drugs".... "We've always been at war with Oceania".
Kudos for Schmidt. This was simply another instance of the previous administration talking out of its ass to further erode domestic privacy and create bogeymen while the *real* problems just saunter about.
Agreed.
Gee, and here I thought the problem was non-participatory and absent parents through a couple of generations now.
Anecdote: the best and brightest kids I know who volunteer and assist in charity or also intensely avid gamers.
I'm up for that. Actually, dumping them on the judge's lawn might be the next best thing. What an inordinately stupid ruling. Sooooooo, if my kid *sketches a public piece of art (or hell, wanders into an art museum and sketches) - this is verboten?
Sounds like the wrong rules were invoked.
This sounds like they've taken a cue from the MMO market. Essentially, you're running a client to access a mothership server -- a "one person" world.
Wait... next they'll decide to make games subscription based instead of "one time purchase":)
yes.... the book selection circus in Texas has been a national crisis for several decades. Glad to see someone else is starting to notice.
The real question is WHY school boards across the country still use the output of this moonbat-manipulated process to choose books?
Everyone who got an RC knows this (or should). DuH? It was a great free ride while it lasted. My game machine upgrade will include a win7 OS. My work machine will continue as an Ubuntu critter... so it goes:)
aye.... parents (in the majority) don't seem to understand they're still the central part of the educational process and they've signed up for the 3rd generation results of the Dr. Spock "we're all adorable creative little Bohemians and everything we do is wonderful"
I also find that perfectly correct spellings are often punished by spelling dictionaries... particularly older and archaic words. The dictionary also fails to consider grammar and will suggest incorrect spellings. Never mind the Canadian or British spellings of words....
I grew up being taught it was spelled "theatre" in the the US. Now every dictionary beats me up for it, insisting it is spelled "theater".
As a fellow American who is also surrounded by mostly idiots.... I say we band together and take over a nice state. (The problem is that organizing intellectuals tends to be like herding cats.) The anti-intellectualism has reached a point here where I argue that the US has already passed into a Dark Age. It is just shinier than the last one. People in a Dark Age rarely realize they're in one.
Actually, I do try to use proper grammar conventions in IRC, IM, forums, etc. I'll break the rules to simulate spoken dialog like "heh" or "ermmmm...". The *occasional* emoticon is useful... meh.:)
Sometimes I think it will be the NFL that finally breaks the camel's back of copyright mutation rather than the MPAA/RIAA idiots. The NFL takes the farce of "intellectual property" to such absurd levels that even congressmen might be able to see the lack of clothing.
Disclosure: I am 50, I don't watch more than a few hours per week.
I'll watch *entertaining* television ads. However, they stop being entertaining after the fifth or sixth viewing. When I see the *same* commercial 5 or 6 times in a two hour block, the advertzoids have lost my willingness to view their ad.
Non-entertaining ads lose immediately. Shouting at me loses immediately. Gross repetition of the same ad loses immediately.
Ads I'm really willing to watch are the ones that evolve or tell a story over a few chained commercials. I don't care if it costs them more - if they want me to watch it, they have to work harder.
Frankly, I'd like to see fewer commercials per hour, or bundled at the hour marks -- and I'd be willing to tolerate product placement within a series like they used to do in the 1950s and 60s. Believe it or not that was less intrusive and actually more enticing to buy the product because you saw it used in context. (mmmmmm, Blammo's Evaporated Milk made these cookies scrumptious, don't you think, George?)
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The "think of the children" crowd strikes me as being exactly that -- THEY'RE the ones with creepy skeletons in their heads, um, closets.
Some of us older folk remember that high schools in the US used to HAVE these vocational training programs --- underfunding by anti-tax zealots destroyed them all. Lately, community colleges are trying to take up the slack with vocational programs, but again, the anti-tax zealots are undercutting them. These people are starting to remind me of the sort that doesn't change the oil in their car because 'it saves money this month' - when the car explodes later, they blame the car or the design, not themselves.
Lets blame employERS for requiring 4 yr college degrees where a 2yr would have sufficed or none was needed. Or perhaps the collapse of what a high school diploma means in terms of skill levels. Or the eradication of high school vocational studies because taxpayers would rather build jails than fund schools.
So far, the rulings I've seen have relied on the fact that torrents, by definition, are uploading material as they download. I've not seen any rulings against Direct Downloads - only against filesharing using torrent protocols. Granted, that may be because they're basically screwed in trying to detect a DDL without committing various criminal offenses... but so it goes.
Wasn't a very hot cup of tea involved? Or wait, that's was Improbability Drive...
I do believe we can officially cross North Korea out as a "communist state" and put it in the Theocracy column. He is a god with Elvis at his right hand.... o.O
Why are you automatically at ease with a corporation versus a government? Neither one has *your* best interests in mind when dealing with you.
You've just articulated a deeply seated annoyance I have at the casual use of the word "friend" for Facebook... or many other interactions. *friends* are someone who'd do what you describe... who might even throw themselves on a hand grenade to protect you and his other friends. The dilution of that word, particularly in regard to Facebook, is a smearing of vocabulary.
The problem with this ruling is that it doesn't address what those two pilots were doing --- trying to figure out the latest "point-headed boss FUD corporate BS" that was being hoisted on them. They weren't "playing Minesweeper" they were doing company work... kind of like the long-haul truckers expected to spend ridiculous times driving and yet still do all the corporate BS so they do it while driving.
He was someone who is going to be beaten if he doesn't make enough "sales", kind of like how they beat the servants if they don't keep your iced tea topped off.
About the only credence I can give the source article at all... is that many people (young or old) now appear to be terrified of SILENCE. People who cannot keep from saying inane shit when a silence looms. People who must have music running, the tv running. People who are constantly buzzing from info point to info point using the web or their cell. The ability to *just sit* (meditate, listen to silence, sit in the dandelion patch) just drives them stark raving scared. Its a bit like the Hitchhiker's Guide remarks about people who won't stop jabbering for fear they might begin to *think*.
I understand being without the "luxuries" of talking to and seeing people (isolated confinement) also make one "quite alone and secluded". Can we start shooting idiots who keep using the word "addiction" for anything and everything that one uses in life? Is this grant scrounging or what? I'm addicted to oxygen, omfg think of the children. Oh, and will we ever get mod points to shoot down stupid-ass articles like this piece of intellectual failure crap that fails to look critically at the source?
Depends... there's a faction of Chinese (usually young) who are over-the-top irrational nationalists (fenqing) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenqing They are exactly the type who'd chase down those who "demean China".
I certainly wouldn't dignify it as 'warfare'. Checked YOUR own logs lately (or do you keep logs)? Every IP is routinely "attackedf" a few hundred times a day. This is misuse of the word "war" as the "War on Drugs".... "We've always been at war with Oceania". Kudos for Schmidt. This was simply another instance of the previous administration talking out of its ass to further erode domestic privacy and create bogeymen while the *real* problems just saunter about.
Agreed. Gee, and here I thought the problem was non-participatory and absent parents through a couple of generations now. Anecdote: the best and brightest kids I know who volunteer and assist in charity or also intensely avid gamers.
I'm up for that. Actually, dumping them on the judge's lawn might be the next best thing. What an inordinately stupid ruling. Sooooooo, if my kid *sketches a public piece of art (or hell, wanders into an art museum and sketches) - this is verboten? Sounds like the wrong rules were invoked.
This sounds like they've taken a cue from the MMO market. Essentially, you're running a client to access a mothership server -- a "one person" world. Wait... next they'll decide to make games subscription based instead of "one time purchase" :)
yes.... the book selection circus in Texas has been a national crisis for several decades. Glad to see someone else is starting to notice. The real question is WHY school boards across the country still use the output of this moonbat-manipulated process to choose books?
Everyone who got an RC knows this (or should). DuH? It was a great free ride while it lasted. My game machine upgrade will include a win7 OS. My work machine will continue as an Ubuntu critter... so it goes :)
aye.... parents (in the majority) don't seem to understand they're still the central part of the educational process and they've signed up for the 3rd generation results of the Dr. Spock "we're all adorable creative little Bohemians and everything we do is wonderful"
I also find that perfectly correct spellings are often punished by spelling dictionaries... particularly older and archaic words. The dictionary also fails to consider grammar and will suggest incorrect spellings. Never mind the Canadian or British spellings of words.... I grew up being taught it was spelled "theatre" in the the US. Now every dictionary beats me up for it, insisting it is spelled "theater".
As a fellow American who is also surrounded by mostly idiots.... I say we band together and take over a nice state. (The problem is that organizing intellectuals tends to be like herding cats.) The anti-intellectualism has reached a point here where I argue that the US has already passed into a Dark Age. It is just shinier than the last one. People in a Dark Age rarely realize they're in one.
Actually, I do try to use proper grammar conventions in IRC, IM, forums, etc. I'll break the rules to simulate spoken dialog like "heh" or "ermmmm...". The *occasional* emoticon is useful... meh. :)
Sometimes I think it will be the NFL that finally breaks the camel's back of copyright mutation rather than the MPAA/RIAA idiots. The NFL takes the farce of "intellectual property" to such absurd levels that even congressmen might be able to see the lack of clothing.
Disclosure: I am 50, I don't watch more than a few hours per week. I'll watch *entertaining* television ads. However, they stop being entertaining after the fifth or sixth viewing. When I see the *same* commercial 5 or 6 times in a two hour block, the advertzoids have lost my willingness to view their ad. Non-entertaining ads lose immediately. Shouting at me loses immediately. Gross repetition of the same ad loses immediately. Ads I'm really willing to watch are the ones that evolve or tell a story over a few chained commercials. I don't care if it costs them more - if they want me to watch it, they have to work harder. Frankly, I'd like to see fewer commercials per hour, or bundled at the hour marks -- and I'd be willing to tolerate product placement within a series like they used to do in the 1950s and 60s. Believe it or not that was less intrusive and actually more enticing to buy the product because you saw it used in context. (mmmmmm, Blammo's Evaporated Milk made these cookies scrumptious, don't you think, George?)