I have to admit, I hated developing in javascript. But when I got firebug a while back I could have cried for joy. You have made a fantastic thing. I bow down to you Sir. As it stands, I have caught the Ajax bug because of firebug, Thank You.
[tinfoil hat]
Apple: Well, we are going to come out with a phone in a year or so, we would like that iPhone trademark from you.
Cisco: Well, let me get my calculator and....
Apple: Wait a sec, we would like this new phone to take advantage of VOIP, you know the stuff that ROUTS over the internet, you know that you need big, shiny, new hardware at the telco end to keep up with all the new folks that will use it once we get this going.
Cisco (grinning): Ah yes, they will need newer hardware to keep up....hmmm...what can we do to help?
Apple: When it comes out we need noise, buzz, and press.
Cisco: A lawsuit perhaps?
Apple: Very nice....who do we know in common that won't run amok?
Cisco: Let me get my rolodex.
[/tinfoil hat]
My poor gf was waiting outside the whole time - there was nobody to ask what had happened to me, she didn't know if I was going to get out or if I'd been deported or what. Surely they could have found a way for people to hook up with the rest of their group and explain things, so that they could wait back while the background checks were done ?
I hate to defend this stupidity, but I guess I can see why they do it. If you are a terroist, it would make sense to not let you communicate with your party. You know - "Crap they got me Bob, the phrase is 'The cock crowed at midnight while getting a moon tan', now hurry!" Or something else James Bond like. Meh.
You are arguing semantics...if I can walk into a courtroom and declare that your algorithms find married people and discriminates against them, whether it identifies them as married or not, I have a heck of a good case. If you step on the stand and start to try to explain your algorithms...well good luck with the average jury looking at the guys 3 kids in the courtroom.
No one really knows, though of course there are many theories. The easiest one to tag on here is of course, incest would be a problem so others were created. Though even that is a bit tricky, for after Cain kills Able and leaves he goes to the land of Nod. though some translate that "land" as "city". Moreover Cain is marked so that "if anyone kills Cain, he will suffer vengeance seven times over." (Gen 4:15) Which is odd, as at this point there is only the two(now one) brother and Adam and Eve who would he fear? Now this is a view from the english/christian old testament without the lens of history and without the rich oral tradition of the Jewish faith, but that is a whole other topic.
Lastly I will point to my sig as to why I am constantly bemused by slashdot and its theologians. For example a post above here asks about the 2 of each animal thing. Showing that their education about the Noahic flood stopped at Sunday school and then was soothed by the popular press. If they had ever picked up a bible and read the very next passage they might have a slightly different view.
I find it nice that you responded to an AC so thoroughly. You seem like a genuinely good person. I was a pre-school teacher for years, my spouse is still one (we met on the job). The crying thing is an attention device - you are wise to ignore it, but at the same time you can incorporate it - get her involved even if it is nothing more than sitting on your lap while you are on the computer, it will help her and though it is not "quality" time, it is time non-the-less. You can even let her have her own time on the computer, open any drawing program select a brush and a color and let her go to town - kids love it. I am going to stop being preachy and telling you things you already know now. Take care of that little person, the day will come all too soon when she is big and strong, and you are the little person needing help.
I would like some explanation, any explanation, about how socialized medicine magically results in waiting lists.
Meh, I will give it a shot.
15% of people dont have health insurance. My bet is that and equal number have crappy insurance People without health insurance (or good health insurance) don't see a doctor as frequently and will suffer under illness rather than shell out money to have it treated. Me for example - I have tendinitis in my heel today, I have unbelievably good health insurance, but, I will suffer through today and tomorrow. When medical care is free those people will go to the doctor more often clogging office visits up - a 30% increase in business will do that(from the above numbers). The average ER is exactly this sort of thing, People wait until their health issue becomes a crisis than they go to see the doc, waiting times in your average ER are horrendous if you are doing anything other than dying of a bleed out or heart attack. Now, when you add in the fact that once it is free, you also end up with everyone who has a sniffle thinks they need to see a doc and whammo - waiting lists to get the most trivial of procedures done.
Don't get me wrong, I advocate some form of universal care, but the reality is that the infrastructure can't take it. I work at a college that turns out nurses and we cant turn them out fast enough for the community - and we are at capacity, the list to get into the program is astounding. So the ability to maintain capacity is at capacity as well, let alone having the ability increase it (and we would if we could find nursing instructors). Medical schools are in the same boat as we are. Add in the looming elder years of the boomers and we will strain just to keep them taken care of, let alone increase the capacity of the medical field to handle a 30% rise in the number of patients.
There - I tried to explain it. I am not saying it is right, just how I see it.
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What kind of god would have allowed the brutality that is my father?
Your continuum needs fixing. It runs from God to the father who was the asshole that you got. It should run from God to the father that would have done more than beat you. As much of an asshole as he was it could have been much, much worse. Why though would God even allow that? I don't know, the other side of that coin is thanking God for making sure it wasn't much, much worse, as bad as it was, it could have been worse. There are many places to get help. Please I beg of you, never try to take your life. You are special to many people, most that you don't know. I think you are special. I will gladly help you. The world is truly a better place because you are here, and the world will be less if you are gone. I am sorry your Dad was such a shithead. I cannot change that, but I can help change your life today. seraphim_72 (at) yahoo.com - I will gladly help you. You are a person who recognizes right from wrong, you know what was done to you was wrong, that means you have grown from that, you have the seeds to be a good person. email me, I will try to help.
Spoken like someone who has never dealt with children/college students. Look at the "professional" comic that was heckled recently. And he doesn't even have to put up with it every day. You wonder why cops, teachers and other public folk "go off". Try it out sometime. I have been in the trenches, after enough people think they can crap on you and expect you to thank them for doing so... well....repect is a two way street - even if you are a kid, especially if you are a kid.
Dont assume that "recorded history" has anything to do with real history. Figure it was 6000 years ago that they wrote(chiseled/stamped into mud) down their oral history, which could go back thousands of years farther than that.
Who says the bible was never meant to be read literally? That is just a modern opinion to help religion cope with scientific progress. I'm pretty sure the Hebrews took Genesis literally 3000 years ago, and they were in a far better position to judge how it was intended to be read.
Some did, some didn't So yeah, it does go back 3000 years or so. Judaism is much less stuck in the mire of orthodoxy that Christianity is. So yeah, even back then people had different interpretations. And how many years was this before fossils were really understood? Damn smart folks those guys.
The Arms and Armor swords are painstakingly researched. The head smith at A&A is actually allowed to take the originals out of the case and measure and mold off of them. He has standing invites from the Tower of London Museum, the Wallace Museum, and others. They then recreate them in every detail. The weapons at A&A are not just look-a-likes they are as close historically accurate as you can get, steel, bindings, the whole nine yards. If you want to have a weapon in your hand that would have been in the hand of a 9th century warrior - this is where you want to be. Museum Replicas started out that way - but they have gone far off their mission. Here is an example This mess is just that, there were no Damascus viking blades, and even calling them pattern welded is at best a bad move. There are talented people that used to be part of Museum Replicas, but bad management has cheapened their product. Here ah yes the historical dark elf blade. No thanks, I prefer my smiths to have an ounce of street cred. When the Globe Shakespeare company wanted 100% authentic weapons for their set, A&A was the company they went to. You can buy fantasy blades all over the place. But, if you want a real weapon, historically accurate, like was really used - you buy A&A. And no, for all my fawnage, I don't actually work there, but I do know a heck of alot about how they work.
Daniel Watson is a hack and a charlatan. Got to watch him fumble in front of a guy with a PhD in metallurgy. "No Sir, you dont understand blades. No Mr Watson, you don't understand metal, at all." The guy imports what he sells from mexico. His people just polish it up and add the fittings. He is well know for this in the Renfaire circuit. We got him punted from the MN RenFest because of his lousy product and the inhumane way he treats his "apprentices". His blades are hard and brittle. Put one of those in a vice and hit with a hammer, my bet is that it snaps in half. Try buying a real blade instead. Go ask Daniel for your money back.
Though usually seen as a law regarding the voluntary violation of privacy I wonder if you couldn't get it to work in this case as well. One of the rules for FERPA is that
A school MAY disclose education records without consent when:
* The disclosure is to school officials who have been determined to have legitimate educational interests as set forth in the institution's annual notification of rights to students;
Now IANAL but I would bet at no point did the school ever tell you that instructors got to get your SSN. More over I bet that they ever told you they get to retain that data either. Plus, one of the rules is that the person recieving the data must be getting it for a legit reason (like it being your ID number). I can tell you this though - I work at a college in a small IT Dept, we get 2 yearly lectures about student privacy, because of FERPA. I say write the FERPA people about it, you have never seen an Institute of Higher Ed move faster than when the Feds show up and start talking funding.
Sounds like my job - I am still stuck whether I am going to put 'Chief Web Lackey' or 'Code Monkey, Second Class' on my business cards. My lead person sees no humor in it, though our boss does.:/
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.....right, I have to stop putting my food on a paper plate when I wave it..../me rolls eyes.
FFS! Really? Of all the ills the government could be fixing and they are going to hand out TV coupons?? Gads.
Sera
[tinfoil hat]
Apple: Well, we are going to come out with a phone in a year or so, we would like that iPhone trademark from you.
Cisco: Well, let me get my calculator and....
Apple: Wait a sec, we would like this new phone to take advantage of VOIP, you know the stuff that ROUTS over the internet, you know that you need big, shiny, new hardware at the telco end to keep up with all the new folks that will use it once we get this going.
Cisco (grinning): Ah yes, they will need newer hardware to keep up....hmmm...what can we do to help?
Apple: When it comes out we need noise, buzz, and press.
Cisco: A lawsuit perhaps?
Apple: Very nice....who do we know in common that won't run amok?
Cisco: Let me get my rolodex.
[/tinfoil hat]
Sera
You are arguing semantics...if I can walk into a courtroom and declare that your algorithms find married people and discriminates against them, whether it identifies them as married or not, I have a heck of a good case. If you step on the stand and start to try to explain your algorithms...well good luck with the average jury looking at the guys 3 kids in the courtroom.
Sera
Um...You are the one making the 90% claim, back it up with scientific proof or shut up, it is not his job to prove you wrong.
I like your sig - but I think that it should be "WW1+WW2+...+WWW" more geeky math stuff that way. :)
Sera
Lastly I will point to my sig as to why I am constantly bemused by slashdot and its theologians. For example a post above here asks about the 2 of each animal thing. Showing that their education about the Noahic flood stopped at Sunday school and then was soothed by the popular press. If they had ever picked up a bible and read the very next passage they might have a slightly different view.
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Sera
Blue - the parent is right, if you actually have "emergency" email you need to redefine what "emergency" means.
Meh, I will give it a shot.
15% of people dont have health insurance. My bet is that and equal number have crappy insurance People without health insurance (or good health insurance) don't see a doctor as frequently and will suffer under illness rather than shell out money to have it treated. Me for example - I have tendinitis in my heel today, I have unbelievably good health insurance, but, I will suffer through today and tomorrow. When medical care is free those people will go to the doctor more often clogging office visits up - a 30% increase in business will do that(from the above numbers). The average ER is exactly this sort of thing, People wait until their health issue becomes a crisis than they go to see the doc, waiting times in your average ER are horrendous if you are doing anything other than dying of a bleed out or heart attack. Now, when you add in the fact that once it is free, you also end up with everyone who has a sniffle thinks they need to see a doc and whammo - waiting lists to get the most trivial of procedures done.
Don't get me wrong, I advocate some form of universal care, but the reality is that the infrastructure can't take it. I work at a college that turns out nurses and we cant turn them out fast enough for the community - and we are at capacity, the list to get into the program is astounding. So the ability to maintain capacity is at capacity as well, let alone having the ability increase it (and we would if we could find nursing instructors). Medical schools are in the same boat as we are. Add in the looming elder years of the boomers and we will strain just to keep them taken care of, let alone increase the capacity of the medical field to handle a 30% rise in the number of patients.
There - I tried to explain it. I am not saying it is right, just how I see it.Sera
As is every OB in the country/world.
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If PJ is going to do another LOTR movies - let it be this one
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Let us not forget The good Capt either, I love everthing he writes.
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It ended in an election exactly six years ago - enjoy reaping the bitter harvest that you have sown.