Yes I am white but far from middle upper class or even middle class. I have been pulled over and had my car searched for visiting a friend a school. The police thought I was selling stuff out of the trunk of my car, probably drugs. I let him search because I knew I was innocent. He said he would keep an eye out for me and I said that is fine because I don't do anything wrong. I did look like a druggie back then so I guess I was profiled too.
I do understand and I do care but only for people who are truly victims. Trust me, if the police told me to stop resisting, I would. I do not think that most cops are criminals are thugs but there probably are a few that are. They do not have limitless power to "beat or kill the wrong kinds of people" without repercussions. There are repercussions for people on both sides of the law. If you break the law then it does not matter what color you are, you should be arrested, if that is what is called for. You are incorrect, either way you look at it, it is about personal responsibility.....be it the responsibility of the police or the responsibility of the student.
As I have said in a previous reply I was denied entry into government building for lack of an ID. I simply went and got my ID. I did not throw a fit. Again I will state that I don't trust video unless you see all of the incident. Coming in the middle of a situation without hearing or seeing you brought the parties to that point can lead to the wrong conclusions. I worry more about the government taking my rights than I do about the police.
That said I can see this happening more in other parts of the U.S. My step-daughter recently moved to Georgia and she can not believe how both whites and blacks act down there. It is so strange to her growing up in California. She believes as I do in treating everyone the same regardless of the color of their skin.
There could be several reasons for tasing a handcuffed subject. He may be kicking or spitting on the officers. He may be refusing to leave. Would you rather he be pepper sprayed, beaten or shot? There are reasons for tasing a handcuffed suspect. Did he do any of those things, I don't know, the video is so poor you can't tell anything. Just because he is handcuffed does not mean he is harmless or is not presenting a danger to others.
There is no misconception. Why did he not leave and get his ID card and come back? This is what I would have done. I have had to part with property at the airport rather than returning to my car. Once it was a cigarette lighter, once a very small knife on my keychain. I have had to walk back to my car to retrieve my license to enter a government building. I did not make a scene or refuse to leave. It was easier to do what was needed.
I am not saying that they did not over react but if he had simply done what the school rules had stated there would have been no problems. If he does not want to follow the rules of the school then he should expect repercussions. If you park in a handicapped space you may get a ticket. If you steal you may go to jail.
Since he was commenting on America, why should I not comment on Iran. Even more so if he is a citizen of Iran attending school here. I think that the worst thing is labels. If he was born here he is an American.....not an African American, Iranian American or anything else for that matter. I have known people from Iran, Pakistan and other Muslim countries and they were they nicest people. I have met some who where dicks. I know americans who are dicks. If you act like a dick you should be expected to be treated like one. Playing the race card when there are other reasons you were detained does nothing but hurt the people who have a real reason to use it.
May cost me karma points but the truth usually does. If he did the same thing in Iran, getting tasered would be the least of his problems. Just changing for the Muslim religion to Christianity gets you the death penalty. The problem with video is that we don't know what happened before the person started recording. To me it sounds as if the guy was a real Dick. Why did he not leave and get his card and return. If you have a gun and the police tell you to drop it and you don't....well expect bad things to happen. Is it racial profiling....could be. Do you expect a black man to be a Ku Klux Klan member? Is that racial profiling. Could it be that he was just a Dick and that is what got him tasered? That is what my money is on.
If this happened to me I would go on TV and say "I was being a big Dick and it was all my fault". Then again I believe in personal responsibility. If this view costs me karma points then so be it.
It is your right to vote or not to vote. However if you don't vote then when you complain about who got elected your argument means next to nothing. I know a lot of people who complain about who is in office or what laws get passed yet they never vote. I used to tell them that if they don't vote then they can't complain but they complain about that when I say it.;-)
I now just tell them that their complaints mean nothing. Since they don't vote they are not being heard so I don't hear what they say. They still complain but I don't hear it anymore.;-)
If the people who have no idea about global warming would not comment on it. When you hear that it is raining more because of global warming, raining less because of global warming, hotter because of global warming, colder because of global warming and all for the same area you have to wonder. The problem is the even the scientist really don't have an idea of weather cycles over the long term. Man has only been here a short time and we really no little about weather cycles on the very long term.
If man were not here it would still get hotter as the sun ages. The sun will burn more energy as it ages and the earth will get hotter. Over 1 million years the temperature on earth will rise to 160 degrees F. A truly large volcanic eruption and one will happen at some point in mans future, and global warming will be the last thing we will worry about. We can be pushed into an ice age so easily many people would be surprised.
Is man responsible for warming on earth? I would say yes. Is the earth going through a natural warming phase? I would say that is true as well. Those that want us to stop using fossil fuels will also have to make concessions if they want that to happen. More dams will have to be built, solar and geothermal as well. Maybe even nuclear power.
I am sure most of us here would find it hard to go for a couple of days without at least checking our email. At least so we don't have to sift through 300 emails when we get back. I have been on vacation and never really had a care check either my email or surf the net. Of course that was many years ago and checking my email is now as simple as using my cellphone. If I were on my vacation I would at least check my mobile account for important messages. I am 45 and I am lucky that my whole family including mother and father, step mother and step father and my sister and cousins are all savvy computer users. Needless to say my friends are too.
As far as people using the internet as a means of escape that does not surprise other than the low numbers. If the internet was not around then they would turn to something else to escape to like TV or books.
This is truly the case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Hollywood is probably the most incestuous place on earth. How many movies, TV shows and records are copies of what is popular. How many TV shows have used the old tried and true plot lines time after time after time. J-Lo brittney, Christina, Shikira.....same place, same thing. Intellectual and Hollywood are Oxymorons.
Yes and this is the same state that set unrealistic goals for electric cars but refuses to build any electric generation infrastructure to charge those electric cars. Of course this is the same state that lost out on government fund by not having a computer system online for tracking deadbeat dads online in time, in fact the computer system that was delivered could not even track the number of deadbeat dads it was designed for, yet we still paid for it.
I have an iPod and I don't really care if it is hip or not. I have tried others before buying and the iPod is the best no other has really come close. I really don't think it is market overload but device overload. I used to carry my wi-fi palm with my quite a bit but with the razr it stays home now. As more and more music phones hit the market the need to grab and iPod for a quick trip across town is not happening, you will take your cellphone however.
I doubt Apple is losing any marketshare to other MP3 player company they are losing to phone makers. Apple needs to release a phone now that is as cool as the iPod and not feature restricted like other models have been.
Sounds like the same process that ham radio people have been using for at least 10 years now. Maybe they should check with the ham radio people before inventing a horse that has been in use for a while now.
A disk drive. That was styling! With the TRS Model 1 in 1978 I was saving to tape, cassette tape. Same with the Vic-20 and Commodore64. I do remember the Adam and just about every other computer that was made back then. Remember the VALDOCS from Epson? I even had a pre-laptop days transluggable DOS machine. Keyboard, monitor and two floppy drives at just under 50 pounds! Running the mighty 8088!
I remember the lady at our local computer store, where we used to buy Commodore 64 programs, was always trying to get me to buy Windows 1. I had been using a Mac since the first week they released it but she kept saying "Look it has a calculator, you can get a mouse for it, it has a clock". I just laughed because that was nothing new to me....and the Mac looked better as well. I was happy using DOS and I had a Commodore running the brains of an Amateur radio repeater for testing before I moved up to the real deal.
How times have changed. I have a PC running XP, A PC running Linux and KDE and a Mac that runs Windows 2000, KDE and OS X all at the same time. I could run my Commodore programs as well but I have not wanted to go that far back;-)
Strange that a lot of the bells and whistles and even some major features look a lot like and even act a lot like features that OS X already had. Apple has borrowed from Microsoft as well. The difference is that when Apple borrows from Microsoft it more often not improves the interface and provides more efficient code.
If we are keeping a score sheet however Microsoft by far has borrowed much more from Apple, right down to hiring ex-apple OS interface designers for Windows 3.x. Susan Kare is a prime example.
He claims that Apple iTunes works only with the iPod and while that is true it does not take into account one big fact. Nearly all Microsoft WMA music providers work with Windows only. They make no provisions for people with a non-iPod using a Mac to get and play their songs. These are the same companies that are trying to convince us that renting is better than buying.
Overall I think things are pretty balanced the way they are. Apple has done things right with the iPod/iTunes package. I think there are a lot of sour grapes from other MP3 player and music vendors. The guy pretty much hits that right on the head. I am sure Microsoft is pissed that they did not come up with it first and Apple has left them no way to copy it, so the only move Microsoft can make is its lame "Plays for sure" tactic. From what I have heard it should be renamed "Plays for sure, mostly".
It would not really pull teachers away for lower income communities. For testing you can grade on a curve.....much as my teachers did so many years ago. You could also tie in more money per point rise for lower incomes schools. This would actually draw teachers to those communities. We all know that there are some schools were the students just learning what was on the test would be an improvement. Many high school grads with decent grades would have a hard time passing the 1880 8th graduation test. Despite what Hollywood shows we were more literate then than we are now.
Even back in the 70's when I went to high school I had classes were I did absolutely nothing in the class....zero and got an A+. The teacher did not care and neither did we. I had many good ones as well. I was unluck or luck depending on how you view it, to attend 5 high schools in my high school years. In fact I was rarely at a school for more than 1 year in a row. In my 12 years of regular school I attended 15 schools. We moved quite a bit so I had many teachers. Despite this I was IQ tested and passed into the mentally gifted program. I do think we are doing a disservice to our kids by have these everyone wins events and giving kids numbers so they are not embarrassed by low tests scores being posted. These really does not help them to cope with what life is like out of school.
I recently heard that they want to teach English Phonetically to all students. They made this mistake before here in California. My sister was in a test group at our school for one year when they tried this before. It set her back about 2 years in spelling. When we moved to another town she was still in phonetic mode while everyone else was in normal mode.
Mine might not be the best way but the the lowering of test scores over the past decades shows that the current way is not working either.
The computer can modify how it is teaching by the answer the kid is giving. In fact it can be better than a teacher in this respect. I have nothing against teachers other than the fact that many of them really don't care if the child passes or not....they are there for the check or to go into the administration which is already too top heavy. Of course there are some great teachers but those were the exception and not the rule.
Here in California a teacher can get tenure in 2 or 3 years which I consider way too low. I have always said that teachers should be given much more money for what they do but that money should be tied to the kids test scores. Pretty much like the real world, if you excel at your job you get more money. If you don't you are out of here. Here in Cali bad teachers are just passed from school to school because of tenure and because the administration is afraid to fire them. This has trickled down to employees like janitors were murders and sex offenders were hired. If the administration is that bad how can we expect the kids to be any better.
I recently attended a technical school were I did 95 percent of my work online. I could proceed at my own pace and attend school only when I needed to....a good thing since the campus was 60 miles away and I have a back injury. This also saved the time of the teachers who could use that time to help students who really needed the help. It was win-win and I see nothing wrong with that.
I have seen WAY too many people acting like they were 12 or below no matter what their age is. Darwinian law will sort most of them out but as always some will make it through.
Dvorak has been wrong on so many occasions I have lost count. Also it sounds like DigitalDame does not own an iPod.....in face it sounds like she(?) hates them. Hmmmm.....thinks Dvorak is funny and does not like iPods.....naw, I won't go there.
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Yes I am white but far from middle upper class or even middle class. I have been pulled over and had my car searched for visiting a friend a school. The police thought I was selling stuff out of the trunk of my car, probably drugs. I let him search because I knew I was innocent. He said he would keep an eye out for me and I said that is fine because I don't do anything wrong. I did look like a druggie back then so I guess I was profiled too.
I do understand and I do care but only for people who are truly victims. Trust me, if the police told me to stop resisting, I would. I do not think that most cops are criminals are thugs but there probably are a few that are. They do not have limitless power to "beat or kill the wrong kinds of people" without repercussions. There are repercussions for people on both sides of the law. If you break the law then it does not matter what color you are, you should be arrested, if that is what is called for. You are incorrect, either way you look at it, it is about personal responsibility.....be it the responsibility of the police or the responsibility of the student.
As I have said in a previous reply I was denied entry into government building for lack of an ID. I simply went and got my ID. I did not throw a fit. Again I will state that I don't trust video unless you see all of the incident. Coming in the middle of a situation without hearing or seeing you brought the parties to that point can lead to the wrong conclusions. I worry more about the government taking my rights than I do about the police.
That said I can see this happening more in other parts of the U.S. My step-daughter recently moved to Georgia and she can not believe how both whites and blacks act down there. It is so strange to her growing up in California. She believes as I do in treating everyone the same regardless of the color of their skin.
There could be several reasons for tasing a handcuffed subject. He may be kicking or spitting on the officers. He may be refusing to leave. Would you rather he be pepper sprayed, beaten or shot? There are reasons for tasing a handcuffed suspect. Did he do any of those things, I don't know, the video is so poor you can't tell anything. Just because he is handcuffed does not mean he is harmless or is not presenting a danger to others.
There is no misconception. Why did he not leave and get his ID card and come back? This is what I would have done. I have had to part with property at the airport rather than returning to my car. Once it was a cigarette lighter, once a very small knife on my keychain. I have had to walk back to my car to retrieve my license to enter a government building. I did not make a scene or refuse to leave. It was easier to do what was needed.
I am not saying that they did not over react but if he had simply done what the school rules had stated there would have been no problems. If he does not want to follow the rules of the school then he should expect repercussions. If you park in a handicapped space you may get a ticket. If you steal you may go to jail.
Since he was commenting on America, why should I not comment on Iran. Even more so if he is a citizen of Iran attending school here. I think that the worst thing is labels. If he was born here he is an American.....not an African American, Iranian American or anything else for that matter. I have known people from Iran, Pakistan and other Muslim countries and they were they nicest people. I have met some who where dicks. I know americans who are dicks. If you act like a dick you should be expected to be treated like one. Playing the race card when there are other reasons you were detained does nothing but hurt the people who have a real reason to use it.
Just my 2 cents.
May cost me karma points but the truth usually does. If he did the same thing in Iran, getting tasered would be the least of his problems. Just changing for the Muslim religion to Christianity gets you the death penalty. The problem with video is that we don't know what happened before the person started recording. To me it sounds as if the guy was a real Dick. Why did he not leave and get his card and return. If you have a gun and the police tell you to drop it and you don't....well expect bad things to happen. Is it racial profiling....could be. Do you expect a black man to be a Ku Klux Klan member? Is that racial profiling. Could it be that he was just a Dick and that is what got him tasered? That is what my money is on.
If this happened to me I would go on TV and say "I was being a big Dick and it was all my fault". Then again I believe in personal responsibility. If this view costs me karma points then so be it.
It is your right to vote or not to vote. However if you don't vote then when you complain about who got elected your argument means next to nothing. I know a lot of people who complain about who is in office or what laws get passed yet they never vote. I used to tell them that if they don't vote then they can't complain but they complain about that when I say it. ;-)
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I now just tell them that their complaints mean nothing. Since they don't vote they are not being heard so I don't hear what they say. They still complain but I don't hear it anymore.
If the people who have no idea about global warming would not comment on it. When you hear that it is raining more because of global warming, raining less because of global warming, hotter because of global warming, colder because of global warming and all for the same area you have to wonder. The problem is the even the scientist really don't have an idea of weather cycles over the long term. Man has only been here a short time and we really no little about weather cycles on the very long term.
If man were not here it would still get hotter as the sun ages. The sun will burn more energy as it ages and the earth will get hotter. Over 1 million years the temperature on earth will rise to 160 degrees F. A truly large volcanic eruption and one will happen at some point in mans future, and global warming will be the last thing we will worry about. We can be pushed into an ice age so easily many people would be surprised.
Is man responsible for warming on earth? I would say yes. Is the earth going through a natural warming phase? I would say that is true as well. Those that want us to stop using fossil fuels will also have to make concessions if they want that to happen. More dams will have to be built, solar and geothermal as well. Maybe even nuclear power.
I am sure most of us here would find it hard to go for a couple of days without at least checking our email. At least so we don't have to sift through 300 emails when we get back. I have been on vacation and never really had a care check either my email or surf the net. Of course that was many years ago and checking my email is now as simple as using my cellphone. If I were on my vacation I would at least check my mobile account for important messages. I am 45 and I am lucky that my whole family including mother and father, step mother and step father and my sister and cousins are all savvy computer users. Needless to say my friends are too.
As far as people using the internet as a means of escape that does not surprise other than the low numbers. If the internet was not around then they would turn to something else to escape to like TV or books.
This is truly the case of the pot calling the kettle black.
Hollywood is probably the most incestuous place on earth. How many movies, TV shows and records are copies of what is popular. How many TV shows have used the old tried and true plot lines time after time after time. J-Lo brittney, Christina, Shikira.....same place, same thing. Intellectual and Hollywood are Oxymorons.
Yes and this is the same state that set unrealistic goals for electric cars but refuses to build any electric generation infrastructure to charge those electric cars. Of course this is the same state that lost out on government fund by not having a computer system online for tracking deadbeat dads online in time, in fact the computer system that was delivered could not even track the number of deadbeat dads it was designed for, yet we still paid for it.
I live in that state and it is trying sometimes.
I still prefer my hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
I have an iPod and I don't really care if it is hip or not. I have tried others before buying and the iPod is the best no other has really come close. I really don't think it is market overload but device overload. I used to carry my wi-fi palm with my quite a bit but with the razr it stays home now. As more and more music phones hit the market the need to grab and iPod for a quick trip across town is not happening, you will take your cellphone however.
I doubt Apple is losing any marketshare to other MP3 player company they are losing to phone makers. Apple needs to release a phone now that is as cool as the iPod and not feature restricted like other models have been.
Well, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. A horse with no name, stop you'll go blind........er..
Here is the motron system:
http://www.motron.com/TransmitterID.html
Hell, they could just download this program.
http://xmit.penguinman.com/xmit_id.html
This is old tech that Amateur radio users have had for 10 years now.
Sounds like the same process that ham radio people have been using for at least 10 years now. Maybe they should check with the ham radio people before inventing a horse that has been in use for a while now.
You should have read the warning label. It think they still print it in big letters on the box. MAXTOR.
A disk drive. That was styling! With the TRS Model 1 in 1978 I was saving to tape, cassette tape. Same with the Vic-20 and Commodore64. I do remember the Adam and just about every other computer that was made back then. Remember the VALDOCS from Epson? I even had a pre-laptop days transluggable DOS machine. Keyboard, monitor and two floppy drives at just under 50 pounds! Running the mighty 8088!
I remember the lady at our local computer store, where we used to buy Commodore 64 programs, was always trying to get me to buy Windows 1. I had been using a Mac since the first week they released it but she kept saying "Look it has a calculator, you can get a mouse for it, it has a clock". I just laughed because that was nothing new to me....and the Mac looked better as well. I was happy using DOS and I had a Commodore running the brains of an Amateur radio repeater for testing before I moved up to the real deal.
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How times have changed. I have a PC running XP, A PC running Linux and KDE and a Mac that runs Windows 2000, KDE and OS X all at the same time. I could run my Commodore programs as well but I have not wanted to go that far back
Strange that a lot of the bells and whistles and even some major features look a lot like and even act a lot like features that OS X already had. Apple has borrowed from Microsoft as well. The difference is that when Apple borrows from Microsoft it more often not improves the interface and provides more efficient code.
If we are keeping a score sheet however Microsoft by far has borrowed much more from Apple, right down to hiring ex-apple OS interface designers for Windows 3.x. Susan Kare is a prime example.
http://www.kare.com/design_bio.html
http://www.kare.com/portfolio.html
Ralph Rene, famous moon landing skeptic, is probably popping a woody about now.
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Actually the real information has been released!
http://stuffucanuse.com/fake_moon_landings/moon_l
He claims that Apple iTunes works only with the iPod and while that is true it does not take into account one big fact. Nearly all Microsoft WMA music providers work with Windows only. They make no provisions for people with a non-iPod using a Mac to get and play their songs. These are the same companies that are trying to convince us that renting is better than buying.
Overall I think things are pretty balanced the way they are. Apple has done things right with the iPod/iTunes package. I think there are a lot of sour grapes from other MP3 player and music vendors. The guy pretty much hits that right on the head. I am sure Microsoft is pissed that they did not come up with it first and Apple has left them no way to copy it, so the only move Microsoft can make is its lame "Plays for sure" tactic. From what I have heard it should be renamed "Plays for sure, mostly".
It would not really pull teachers away for lower income communities. For testing you can grade on a curve.....much as my teachers did so many years ago. You could also tie in more money per point rise for lower incomes schools. This would actually draw teachers to those communities. We all know that there are some schools were the students just learning what was on the test would be an improvement. Many high school grads with decent grades would have a hard time passing the 1880 8th graduation test. Despite what Hollywood shows we were more literate then than we are now.
Even back in the 70's when I went to high school I had classes were I did absolutely nothing in the class....zero and got an A+. The teacher did not care and neither did we. I had many good ones as well. I was unluck or luck depending on how you view it, to attend 5 high schools in my high school years. In fact I was rarely at a school for more than 1 year in a row. In my 12 years of regular school I attended 15 schools. We moved quite a bit so I had many teachers. Despite this I was IQ tested and passed into the mentally gifted program. I do think we are doing a disservice to our kids by have these everyone wins events and giving kids numbers so they are not embarrassed by low tests scores being posted. These really does not help them to cope with what life is like out of school.
I recently heard that they want to teach English Phonetically to all students. They made this mistake before here in California. My sister was in a test group at our school for one year when they tried this before. It set her back about 2 years in spelling. When we moved to another town she was still in phonetic mode while everyone else was in normal mode.
Mine might not be the best way but the the lowering of test scores over the past decades shows that the current way is not working either.
The computer can modify how it is teaching by the answer the kid is giving. In fact it can be better than a teacher in this respect. I have nothing against teachers other than the fact that many of them really don't care if the child passes or not....they are there for the check or to go into the administration which is already too top heavy. Of course there are some great teachers but those were the exception and not the rule.
Here in California a teacher can get tenure in 2 or 3 years which I consider way too low. I have always said that teachers should be given much more money for what they do but that money should be tied to the kids test scores. Pretty much like the real world, if you excel at your job you get more money. If you don't you are out of here. Here in Cali bad teachers are just passed from school to school because of tenure and because the administration is afraid to fire them. This has trickled down to employees like janitors were murders and sex offenders were hired. If the administration is that bad how can we expect the kids to be any better.
I recently attended a technical school were I did 95 percent of my work online. I could proceed at my own pace and attend school only when I needed to....a good thing since the campus was 60 miles away and I have a back injury. This also saved the time of the teachers who could use that time to help students who really needed the help. It was win-win and I see nothing wrong with that.
If the nations test scores are any indication you can't put kids in the classroom and expect them to learn what they need to succeed either.
Do you think that the teachers are afraid the computer taught kids will do much better than the school taught kids? You bet!
I have seen WAY too many people acting like they were 12 or below no matter what their age is. Darwinian law will sort most of them out but as always some will make it through.
Dvorak has been wrong on so many occasions I have lost count. Also it sounds like DigitalDame does not own an iPod.....in face it sounds like she(?) hates them. Hmmmm.....thinks Dvorak is funny and does not like iPods.....naw, I won't go there.
Certainly no one at the laundry, judging by the size of his pit stains.