You're nitpicking. I would answer that a positive attitude and a sense of ethics is also part of the "education" package. Or were you thinking I meant only "school" education? How about self-assurance? ability to function in a loving relationship? etc? I take your point, but these are all part of a well-rounded education, only part of which happens in school.
Of all the things that cost money, there is only one thing that you can give to your children that will last them a lifetime: Education. Everything else can be lost, stolen, taken by the government, etc.
My parents had a simple rule, they would keep on paying for our education for as long as we continued to go. I plan to do the same for my children. I'd rather go hungry than prevent my kids for going to the schools they want.
I hated it when the 48's came out. You had to type so many shift-alt-ctrl keys to do anything useful. I had a 28s at the time and though its graphics capabilities and calculus were weak in comparison, its data entry was much better because of the hinged design that allowed more keys.
Sad to say however, that I have almost no use for one anymore since turning from EE to software engineering.
Man, I was fast on my 28s!
You should read a little about theory of constraints, in particular conflict resolution diagrams, as it would help you to find solutions for your problem.
The main question is one of: Profit now Vs. Profit later. This conflict (or some would say apparent conflict) is what you as an engineer need to explain to management, this is the tradeoff that is being made, and in order for the conflict to disolve you need to find solutions that satisfy both, or at least make the trade-off knowingly.
I should have explained better, and sometimes the fact that English is not my first language makes my statements slightly more confusing than they have to be.
It's clear to me that with 9/11 the government has failed miserably in one of its (in my opinion) only rightful tasks. Many things could have been done to prevent the 9/11 attacks, many of them having to do with increased freedom. Some may laugh, but if people (or at least the pilots) on those planes had had guns, another story may have been played.
But coming back to my statements, I absolutely don't want to encourage government to be more intrusive, au contraire. I do ask that within it's rightful boundaries it work efficiently. What the hell is the department of homeland security? I thought that was what the defense department was supposed to do. A bureaucracy the size of what we have is bound to miss many clues that may have prevented (or minimized) the attacks, or reduce the future risks
The current level of spending on national security may be too high, but the previous level was too low. Osama did nothing but open our eyes. To remain exactly the same after such devastating attacks is tantmount to suicide.
Too low? I disagree, it was STILL too high, and its only gotten worse. It was (and mostly still is) allocated to all the wrong places. What are we doing all over the world in failed "peace" missions which only create us more enemies?
Let's get back to the ideas of the founding fathers and reduce our intervention abroad while increasing our internal defense, we'll create good will for the U.S., reduce the number of enemies and be better able to focus on the constitutional boundaries of this country.
Please take a quick peek at Washington's farewell address, a beautiful piece of work, and still valid 200 years later
To remain the same may be suicide, but to pretend to do something while forgetting the root causes of terrorism and eliminating the foundation of this country is much worse
I recently read the following:
After 9/11, Bush made two statements:
"Terrorists hate America because America is a land of freedom and opportunity."
"We intend to attack the root causes of terrorism."
Sounds like everything is going according to plan.
No, we didn't win. Terrorists did. Terrorists' higher aims are not to kill people:
Terrorists' aims are to cause terror. We have a terror coding system for deity's sake! The terrorists won
I can't drive over the same road I used to and have to drive 30 minutes more each way because the road goes over a security sensitive dam. The terrorists won
It takes me an extra hour at the airport to get anywhere (plus an extra hour on the connection). And the security guys will look at my underwear if they feel it's a threat to natural security. And my kids will never experience the trip to the cabin while in flight, like I did. The terrorists won.
The amount that we spend on national "defense" (half way around the world) and homeland security is at an all time high. This money is being taken from me in the form of taxes. My descendents will be paying for generations. The terrorists won
Our government has become more intrusive and has taken wider powers since 9/11. Guess who's happy about this?
Meanwhile we still don't have the big guy responsible in our hands
Osama, if still alive, is sitting on a cave, looking at what we are becomming, and laughing his ass off.
I've often wondered if thech support lines could write some sort of tech saavyness test for their voice mail system so that they filter the clueless from the cluefull and direct them to the right level in the hierarchy and save everyone's time. I can just see it:
Voice System: Hello, welcome to company X tech support, before we allow you to talk to a tech support representative, please answer the following question: What is the correct term for 1024 bytes? Press 1 if you think it is "kilobyte", Press 2 if you think it is "kibibyte", press 3 if you have no idea what this question means.
For example, I'm sure that an entirely different vocabulary has grown up around automotive engineering during the last century. Do people who buy and drive cars need to learn that vocabulary in order to use an automobile? No. They know what is important to them, and if an auto maker fails to deliver that, regardless of what words are used to name or describe it, they'll sell few cars.
I love it when people use the computer/car analogy because it is easy to debunk. It is flawed. Many other computer/X analogies fail on the same logic.
Computers are not cars. Cars are meant to do one thing and do it well: drive you around town. Computers are meant to do many things, balance your checkbook, control missile trajectories, play games, etc.
The reason I bring this up is because in your argument you state that there are two camps (users and techonologists) and that they require different vocabularies. For cars that's well and good, but I'm not sure, given that computers are not cars that the same applies to computers. People need to know a little (and sometimes a lot) more about how computers work than they do about cars.
You're right, and that's what I had in the past (when I was developing for Windows, thank deity it's over). But not very many companies I know splurge on one Universal per developer (they were $3000+/year when I had it)
The biggest, of course, is price, and our license came "free" with the MSDE subscription we get anyway to do our work.
Are you sure your MSDE subscription (assuming you have one per developer) covers your using outlook for actual work as opposed to development?
For a long time Ximians connector sounded like the coolest thing since slice bread, even though I wouldn't actually buy it. I still haven't, but recently I have come to believe (and please let me know if I'm wrong) that it just screen captures the exchange web client. So it really doesn't do much and I'm mostly underwhelemed by it.
Maybe it's nicer than having to write my name every hour to read my email (you only know what I'm saying if you use the exchange web client), but it still doesn't give me access to all of the exchange features (full access to public folders, for example). Not worth my $.
I think Ximian's idea is to use the connector as a way to fund their work on Evolution, and not because they have any major secret to protect. Perhaps they aren't showing it because if I'm correct it's bound to be ugly code <grin/>
And most importantly,it still doesn't help if you have an uncoperative IT department that won't add the web cilent to exchange because they consider it a security problem, so you're still SOL.
How do they diagnose ADHD?
I would probably have been diagnosed ADHD or ADD growing up if it had been common, they might have put me on drugs and they would have totally messed me up and made it impossible for me to succeed in life.
I will not take any drug for anything that cannot be proven by strict scientific means (such as a biochemical test of my brain that shows I'm missing something). Psychological tests are no good for this, for anything that can be found by psychological test only a good dose of therapy should suffice.
A big plot issue that always bothered me was that no matter what the humans kept on using human weapons (machine guns) and never once tried to steal or otherwise figure out the technology the aliens were using to get on an equal footing. Maybe the weapons were patented?
IIRC, even the main character's name (Michael Donovan) was taken from an Asimov short story. I don't remember which one, but I remember being pissed of at the time.
I don't get why I got modded to offtopic. The fact that tom bombadill wasn't in the movie was modded as funny, I think it was sad, and with mod points I would have liked to mod it up as sad.
So, what you are saying is: it doesn't make sense to go there, so we should let goverment do it, after all, they are experts at doing things that don't make sense.
OK, there are reasons other than financial for going to space, including basic science and the multitude of technologies that development of aerospace spurs, but even that is better handled by private industry.
is one of the few places where I don't mind seeing my tax money used more often.
And that, my friend, is the problem.
Everyone has *one* program where they don't mind their tax money being used more often, add it all up and we end up with this huge multi-trillion dollar budgets with multi-billion dollar deficits.
Would you be willing to forgo your "favorite program" if it meant greater freedom, more money in your pocket, smaller government?...I would!
As much as I like space exploration, I believe strongly that the private sector could do a much better job at it.
Sorry, Maybe I wasn't clear enough, I meant to say that I'd love for taxpayers to feel taxes more fully, removing the burden of collection from the employers would be great, and I would like for taxes to be due soon BEFORE election day, thereby making sure that career politicians' decisions and campaigns more closely match taxes: cause and effect.
I much rather like for us to know just *how much* we're paying in taxes. I advocate that we move tax day to a day before election day, and that we stop having taxes taken from our paycheck, instead being forced to calculate and send the whole money ourselves at the end of the year.
The more people are aware of the taxes they actually pay the better the chance that people will revolt to the 60%+ we are currently paying.
Oh, yeah, my 60% figure comes from income tax+property tax+sales tax+gas taxes+state taxes+local taxes+usage fees+permits+melo roos(sp?)+accountant fees to keep track of it all+++++
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You're nitpicking. I would answer that a positive attitude and a sense of ethics is also part of the "education" package. Or were you thinking I meant only "school" education? How about self-assurance? ability to function in a loving relationship? etc? I take your point, but these are all part of a well-rounded education, only part of which happens in school.
Sorry but no. It is true that YOU can throw away your education by using drugs, but that's not theft. But again, what do I know, I'm a Libertarian.
Of all the things that cost money, there is only one thing that you can give to your children that will last them a lifetime: Education. Everything else can be lost, stolen, taken by the government, etc.
My parents had a simple rule, they would keep on paying for our education for as long as we continued to go. I plan to do the same for my children. I'd rather go hungry than prevent my kids for going to the schools they want.
I hated it when the 48's came out. You had to type so many shift-alt-ctrl keys to do anything useful. I had a 28s at the time and though its graphics capabilities and calculus were weak in comparison, its data entry was much better because of the hinged design that allowed more keys. Sad to say however, that I have almost no use for one anymore since turning from EE to software engineering. Man, I was fast on my 28s!
You should read a little about theory of constraints, in particular conflict resolution diagrams, as it would help you to find solutions for your problem.
The main question is one of: Profit now Vs. Profit later. This conflict (or some would say apparent conflict) is what you as an engineer need to explain to management, this is the tradeoff that is being made, and in order for the conflict to disolve you need to find solutions that satisfy both, or at least make the trade-off knowingly.
Actually... Libertarian.
I should have explained better, and sometimes the fact that English is not my first language makes my statements slightly more confusing than they have to be.
It's clear to me that with 9/11 the government has failed miserably in one of its (in my opinion) only rightful tasks. Many things could have been done to prevent the 9/11 attacks, many of them having to do with increased freedom. Some may laugh, but if people (or at least the pilots) on those planes had had guns, another story may have been played.
But coming back to my statements, I absolutely don't want to encourage government to be more intrusive, au contraire. I do ask that within it's rightful boundaries it work efficiently. What the hell is the department of homeland security? I thought that was what the defense department was supposed to do. A bureaucracy the size of what we have is bound to miss many clues that may have prevented (or minimized) the attacks, or reduce the future risks
The current level of spending on national security may be too high, but the previous level was too low. Osama did nothing but open our eyes. To remain exactly the same after such devastating attacks is tantmount to suicide.
Too low? I disagree, it was STILL too high, and its only gotten worse. It was (and mostly still is) allocated to all the wrong places. What are we doing all over the world in failed "peace" missions which only create us more enemies?
Let's get back to the ideas of the founding fathers and reduce our intervention abroad while increasing our internal defense, we'll create good will for the U.S., reduce the number of enemies and be better able to focus on the constitutional boundaries of this country.
Please take a quick peek at Washington's farewell address, a beautiful piece of work, and still valid 200 years later
To remain the same may be suicide, but to pretend to do something while forgetting the root causes of terrorism and eliminating the foundation of this country is much worse
I recently read the following:
Insightful, aint it?No, we didn't win. Terrorists did. Terrorists' higher aims are not to kill people:
Terrorists' aims are to cause terror. We have a terror coding system for deity's sake! The terrorists won
I can't drive over the same road I used to and have to drive 30 minutes more each way because the road goes over a security sensitive dam. The terrorists won
It takes me an extra hour at the airport to get anywhere (plus an extra hour on the connection). And the security guys will look at my underwear if they feel it's a threat to natural security. And my kids will never experience the trip to the cabin while in flight, like I did. The terrorists won.
The amount that we spend on national "defense" (half way around the world) and homeland security is at an all time high. This money is being taken from me in the form of taxes. My descendents will be paying for generations. The terrorists won
Our government has become more intrusive and has taken wider powers since 9/11. Guess who's happy about this?
Meanwhile we still don't have the big guy responsible in our hands
Osama, if still alive, is sitting on a cave, looking at what we are becomming, and laughing his ass off.
I've often wondered if thech support lines could write some sort of tech saavyness test for their voice mail system so that they filter the clueless from the cluefull and direct them to the right level in the hierarchy and save everyone's time. I can just see it:
Voice System: Hello, welcome to company X tech support, before we allow you to talk to a tech support representative, please answer the following question:
What is the correct term for 1024 bytes?
Press 1 if you think it is "kilobyte",
Press 2 if you think it is "kibibyte",
press 3 if you have no idea what this question means.
For example, I'm sure that an entirely different vocabulary has grown up around automotive engineering during the last century. Do people who buy and drive cars need to learn that vocabulary in order to use an automobile? No. They know what is important to them, and if an auto maker fails to deliver that, regardless of what words are used to name or describe it, they'll sell few cars.
I love it when people use the computer/car analogy because it is easy to debunk. It is flawed. Many other computer/X analogies fail on the same logic.
Computers are not cars. Cars are meant to do one thing and do it well: drive you around town. Computers are meant to do many things, balance your checkbook, control missile trajectories, play games, etc.
The reason I bring this up is because in your argument you state that there are two camps (users and techonologists) and that they require different vocabularies. For cars that's well and good, but I'm not sure, given that computers are not cars that the same applies to computers. People need to know a little (and sometimes a lot) more about how computers work than they do about cars.
You're right, and that's what I had in the past (when I was developing for Windows, thank deity it's over). But not very many companies I know splurge on one Universal per developer (they were $3000+/year when I had it)
The biggest, of course, is price, and our license came "free" with the MSDE subscription we get anyway to do our work. Are you sure your MSDE subscription (assuming you have one per developer) covers your using outlook for actual work as opposed to development?
For a long time Ximians connector sounded like the coolest thing since slice bread, even though I wouldn't actually buy it. I still haven't, but recently I have come to believe (and please let me know if I'm wrong) that it just screen captures the exchange web client. So it really doesn't do much and I'm mostly underwhelemed by it.
Maybe it's nicer than having to write my name every hour to read my email (you only know what I'm saying if you use the exchange web client), but it still doesn't give me access to all of the exchange features (full access to public folders, for example). Not worth my $.
I think Ximian's idea is to use the connector as a way to fund their work on Evolution, and not because they have any major secret to protect. Perhaps they aren't showing it because if I'm correct it's bound to be ugly code <grin/>
And most importantly,it still doesn't help if you have an uncoperative IT department that won't add the web cilent to exchange because they consider it a security problem, so you're still SOL.
How do they diagnose ADHD? I would probably have been diagnosed ADHD or ADD growing up if it had been common, they might have put me on drugs and they would have totally messed me up and made it impossible for me to succeed in life. I will not take any drug for anything that cannot be proven by strict scientific means (such as a biochemical test of my brain that shows I'm missing something). Psychological tests are no good for this, for anything that can be found by psychological test only a good dose of therapy should suffice.
I live in the north pole, you insensitive clod
A big plot issue that always bothered me was that no matter what the humans kept on using human weapons (machine guns) and never once tried to steal or otherwise figure out the technology the aliens were using to get on an equal footing. Maybe the weapons were patented?
IIRC, even the main character's name (Michael Donovan) was taken from an Asimov short story. I don't remember which one, but I remember being pissed of at the time.
I don't get why I got modded to offtopic. The fact that tom bombadill wasn't in the movie was modded as funny, I think it was sad, and with mod points I would have liked to mod it up as sad.
Sorry, just watched the DVD again, didn't see him. Anything other than the movie just isn't canon. :P
Why, oh why, isn't there a mod for "Sad".
I found the soundtrack for the show in question and played it while I reread the whole thing. It was much funnier that way!
Errr, isn't a pound defined in kilogrammes and foot in metres these days?
No, a pound is defined in KilograMS (not Kilogrammes) and a foot in MetERs (not metres). Are you from the U.K.?
So, what you are saying is: it doesn't make sense to go there, so we should let goverment do it, after all, they are experts at doing things that don't make sense.
OK, there are reasons other than financial for going to space, including basic science and the multitude of technologies that development of aerospace spurs, but even that is better handled by private industry.
is one of the few places where I don't mind seeing my tax money used more often.
And that, my friend, is the problem.
Everyone has *one* program where they don't mind their tax money being used more often, add it all up and we end up with this huge multi-trillion dollar budgets with multi-billion dollar deficits.
Would you be willing to forgo your "favorite program" if it meant greater freedom, more money in your pocket, smaller government?...I would!
As much as I like space exploration, I believe strongly that the private sector could do a much better job at it.
Sorry, Maybe I wasn't clear enough, I meant to say that I'd love for taxpayers to feel taxes more fully, removing the burden of collection from the employers would be great, and I would like for taxes to be due soon BEFORE election day, thereby making sure that career politicians' decisions and campaigns more closely match taxes: cause and effect.
I much rather like for us to know just *how much* we're paying in taxes. I advocate that we move tax day to a day before election day, and that we stop having taxes taken from our paycheck, instead being forced to calculate and send the whole money ourselves at the end of the year.
The more people are aware of the taxes they actually pay the better the chance that people will revolt to the 60%+ we are currently paying.
Oh, yeah, my 60% figure comes from income tax+property tax+sales tax+gas taxes+state taxes+local taxes+usage fees+permits+melo roos(sp?)+accountant fees to keep track of it all+++++
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