""Internet access is an essential need on par with education access..."
Internet access is on par with educational access? Seriously?
While I will concede it IS important, it is helpful, and makes many things convenient these days...I seriously can't put up there with education. Internet access, while really cool and fun, is still in the category of luxury item. You can get by just fine without it. You won't starve, you won't go into convulsions, you won't die without it.
If you really need it, and can't afford the luxury of having it run into your very own home, you can always go to the public library to use it there (ok, so looking at pr0n there might be a bit more inconvenient than in the privacy of one's own home).
I mean, widespread use and access of the internet (more specifically for most people the web portion of it) is a fairly recent thing. People still can get by just fine without it.
I mean..what's next...claiming internet access is a basic human right?
With ONLY his Executive Order on this gun control recently...exactly what weight or force of law does this have? I mean, it isn't law since it wasn't passed by congress.
Isn't what Obama did mostly more for show and tell, than true, enforceable law?
If it is otherwise than that...then would that not make the Presidency more like a dictator or king, in that his dictates have the force of law, rather than laws enacted by our elected officials?
Aside from something to look up recipes, unit conversions, etc....I can't really see the use or need for 'connected' tech in the kitchen on something that is so inherently manual..?
How are they doing to use tech to improve:
Knives
Pans
Gas Burners
Meat Grinder
Food Processor (I like to pulse by hand and stop when MY eye says it is done to my liking
Piston Sausage Stuffer
Stand Mixer
Vitamix Blender (ok, on this one I got the model with the extra programmed modes, and find I only use those to clean the thing with after using it)
Breville Ikon Juicer (how will it know what food I'm putting in next in order to adjust the speeds?)
Charcoal Grills
Offset hardwood smoker
I mean seriously, if you like to cook and have the right tools for things, it is almost pretty much manual work by definition. Will I somehow resort to the cloud when I want to cut a whole chicken quickly into 8 pieces?
And for the often mentioned refrigerator or pantry that will know when to order food or an item when it gets low...how is it going to know what I'm cooking that week that I'll need that? I mean sure there are SOME staples, but I tend to look weekly at the grocery store ads, see what's on sale (usually also meaning what's in season), and I plan my menus and cooking plans accordingly, based on those ingredients. This keeps me eating more things in season, and hence, US and more local products that are fresher, and I don't get stuck in a rut cooking the same things all the time, and saving a few bucks along the way while eating well and healthy.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE tech and gadgets, but I just can't see how it would improve the kitchen. Quality knives and cookware make the kitchen...
Thank you, you answered pretty much what I was going to say.
Aside from the high unemployment the past 5 years....life in the USA is pretty darned good!!
In most cases, if you aren't buying crack in the projects or in a gang, you're not likely to get shot or see a bullet fly across your life in any shape, form or fashion.
Yes, the typical US neighborhood is as you describe.
I dunno where the folks in EU get the idea that we live in squalor, with only a few rich mansions here and there. Life it pretty good for most, even with the low employment problems we're having the past 5 years.
35 days is a bit much for most companies yet, but I've been able to book 5 full weeks of vacation this year (1 week of carryover from last year), and because I picked weeks where the statutory holidays come, I've managed to parlay that into an extra week of vacation in the form of days-in-lieu for statutory holidays. That's 30 working days of vacation, or 42 calendar days this year, and I still have 2 floater days and 2 personal emergency days, in addition to paid sick leave.
And most of Europe has even more vacation as standard than we do.
Don't get me wrong, I believe vacation time is important and good for a person.
But seriously, with THAT much time off, how do you get anything done.?!?!?
Do you not have deadlines every few months to get something done and out the door working? If so, how do you do it, with potentially everyone off at different times and only a skeleton few there at any given time throughout the year?
I'm honestly curious. I mean, it is tough when one or two people here are gone, and usually that is less than a full week at times, but to have people off here and there for weeks at a time would really make it difficult to meet our deadlines?
What good is that internet, if it is being blocked and censored by the govt.? Didn't I read here recently about Australia and/or UK forcing ISPs to censor from there with blacklists, etc...that are not made public?
Hey, if parent's keep their son out of prison, and their daughter off the pole....then, they've done at least a reasonable job on the basics of raising children.
If that were true, it would make the internet unusable. Fortunately, it's bollocks. Do you really think that there would be any e-commerce if the internet was essentially open? Would you give your credit card details to Amazon or whoever if there was an expectation that they would be available to the whole world?
If you say that, I have to guess you are young enough that you don't remember the world BEFORE the internet?
The internet got along just fine for MANY years, before commerce commenced on it. The 'security' and all is actually somewhat a new thing for the internet in general, the web portion in particular.
The internet was designed from the get go, just as the parent poster said...open. That's one reason it grew so quickly and so rapidly, and it also is the reason it is so hard to KEEP things private on the the internet.
The sword cuts both ways.
But no, the internet was not designed with privacy and security in mind, it was designed as an open forum where anyone with a computer could hook in, and become a peer just like anyone else.
I didn't give him the benefit of the doubt that he would say the same thing about men, because I have never before heard anyone say something like that about men.
Ok..the same applies to men. Stupid knows no boundaries.
Yeah..tell that to all the foreign mothers coming to the US just in time to drop their child out of the womb into the atmosphere so that they can automatically be US citizens, and have the free choice to live or be educated here.
Just saw on news recently about a couple coming over from China, to have their kid here and then went back. That way, they got around the Chinese laws about one child per family, AND..the kid has US citizen ship for coming here..and possibly eventually, helping the parents to get here too some day.
There's fscking websites and 'hotels' catering to just this shit...to get expectant mothers here just to give birth.
Seriously, WTF can't we change laws to require that at least ONE of the parents be a US citizen, before the offspring is automatically a US citizen and stop this stupid shit.
No other country in the world puts up with this shit...why do we????
Pass some laws addressing this in the "Comprehensive Immigration" acts they're working on...and I'll start to look more seriously into looking into supporting it.
Hey, all I know is if we had limited the foreigners coming into college when I was there....I might have had a fighting chance to get a physics lab instructor (grad student) that I could have understood when he spoke.
I was so frustrated, I mean physics to me was hard enough to try to grasp and learn...but having to try to translate what the teacher was saying made it doubly difficult.
I had to drop and retake a couple of times before I got a grad student who was teaching the class that didn't have an accent so thick that you could ice skate on it.
I mean, what he did wasn't right really...but then again, sending someone away for possibly 105 years, because he took advantage of stupid people acting STUPID? Really?
Geez, if that were the case, all of Wall Street would be locked up....at least, I guess...if what they did involved nudity too I guess.
Well, these women had already been posting naked images of themselves on the internet...all this guy was doing was getting them to do it specifically for him.
These women obviously had no problem with their nudity in public, they could have easily told him to fuck off...again, it isn't like they had a problem with public nudity, it was already out there of them.
And once somethings on the internet...it ain't going away.
Although 105 years is excessive and the insane US legal system is clearly broken. I think 5 years is perfectly adequate. And of course paying the rest of his life for restitution to his victims.
For what?!?!
I mean, these women were sending naked pics to people and posting them to the internet. He got them to do it for him specifically...they could have just told him to 'fuck off' and not done the skype thing for him. I mean, they already were posting nude images of themselves, what would they care if they had it posted in a few more places on the internet.
I mean, once you post something on the internet...it is there forever.
But many do support 27" monitors with almost the same resolution. I have a 30" 2560x1600 at home and a 27" 2560x1440 at work (connected to my laptop), and I really don't notice a difference. After using this 27" monitor, I know that I won't be paying the extra premium for another 30" after my current one breaks.
Same with me, I have a late 2011 macbook pro, I loaded it up. When at home, I 'dock' it, hook into NAS, network, into a Del U2711 (27" 2560x1440 IPS), a nice old buckling key keyboard (usb)..wirless mouse.
I do plenty of graphics work on it, editing videos, images. Works just fine and I have VMware running on it for the few Windows things I need to do, and even linux when I want to fsck with that.
I love the dell, but the one drawback is, I find that on my MBP, that I can't run two of them, so, I may sell it, and get two of the Apple 27" IPS monitors, which is essentially the same thing as the dell (same IPS screen) but is glossy, and I can daisy chain the thunderbolt connections to run dual monitors that way.
On the way home I heard a public service announcement. To date 6,000,000 children have died from AIDs worldwide, all innocent victims of the epidemic. That is more children than in all the preschools and kindergartens and grade schools and High-schools in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, Atlanta and Miami combined. Apathy is lethal.
While that is indeed sad, it isn't one of my concerns really. When we can address and solve the pressing issues in our own country (US for me), then, I'll start to worry about other places and countries in the world.
You take care of your own family first, so to speak.
With unemployment so high in the US as it is....they'd better sign off that EVERY US citizen potential employee is hired first....then start letting outsiders in.
Slashdot Mirror
The basic premise starting this article:
Internet access is on par with educational access? Seriously?
While I will concede it IS important, it is helpful, and makes many things convenient these days...I seriously can't put up there with education. Internet access, while really cool and fun, is still in the category of luxury item. You can get by just fine without it. You won't starve, you won't go into convulsions, you won't die without it.
If you really need it, and can't afford the luxury of having it run into your very own home, you can always go to the public library to use it there (ok, so looking at pr0n there might be a bit more inconvenient than in the privacy of one's own home).
I mean, widespread use and access of the internet (more specifically for most people the web portion of it) is a fairly recent thing. People still can get by just fine without it.
I mean..what's next...claiming internet access is a basic human right?
With ONLY his Executive Order on this gun control recently...exactly what weight or force of law does this have? I mean, it isn't law since it wasn't passed by congress.
Isn't what Obama did mostly more for show and tell, than true, enforceable law?
If it is otherwise than that...then would that not make the Presidency more like a dictator or king, in that his dictates have the force of law, rather than laws enacted by our elected officials?
How are they doing to use tech to improve:
Knives
Pans
Gas Burners
Meat Grinder
Food Processor (I like to pulse by hand and stop when MY eye says it is done to my liking
Piston Sausage Stuffer
Stand Mixer
Vitamix Blender (ok, on this one I got the model with the extra programmed modes, and find I only use those to clean the thing with after using it)
Breville Ikon Juicer (how will it know what food I'm putting in next in order to adjust the speeds?)
Charcoal Grills
Offset hardwood smoker
I mean seriously, if you like to cook and have the right tools for things, it is almost pretty much manual work by definition. Will I somehow resort to the cloud when I want to cut a whole chicken quickly into 8 pieces?
And for the often mentioned refrigerator or pantry that will know when to order food or an item when it gets low...how is it going to know what I'm cooking that week that I'll need that? I mean sure there are SOME staples, but I tend to look weekly at the grocery store ads, see what's on sale (usually also meaning what's in season), and I plan my menus and cooking plans accordingly, based on those ingredients. This keeps me eating more things in season, and hence, US and more local products that are fresher, and I don't get stuck in a rut cooking the same things all the time, and saving a few bucks along the way while eating well and healthy.
Don't get me wrong, I LOVE tech and gadgets, but I just can't see how it would improve the kitchen. Quality knives and cookware make the kitchen...
With a company doing the volume of business that Amazon is doing, I have to think that would be significant with that segment of the market alone?
Aside from the high unemployment the past 5 years....life in the USA is pretty darned good!!
In most cases, if you aren't buying crack in the projects or in a gang, you're not likely to get shot or see a bullet fly across your life in any shape, form or fashion.
Yes, the typical US neighborhood is as you describe.
I dunno where the folks in EU get the idea that we live in squalor, with only a few rich mansions here and there. Life it pretty good for most, even with the low employment problems we're having the past 5 years.
Don't get me wrong, I believe vacation time is important and good for a person.
But seriously, with THAT much time off, how do you get anything done.?!?!?
Do you not have deadlines every few months to get something done and out the door working? If so, how do you do it, with potentially everyone off at different times and only a skeleton few there at any given time throughout the year?
I'm honestly curious. I mean, it is tough when one or two people here are gone, and usually that is less than a full week at times, but to have people off here and there for weeks at a time would really make it difficult to meet our deadlines?
What good is that internet, if it is being blocked and censored by the govt.? Didn't I read here recently about Australia and/or UK forcing ISPs to censor from there with blacklists, etc...that are not made public?
Hey, if parent's keep their son out of prison, and their daughter off the pole....then, they've done at least a reasonable job on the basics of raising children.
If you say that, I have to guess you are young enough that you don't remember the world BEFORE the internet?
The internet got along just fine for MANY years, before commerce commenced on it. The 'security' and all is actually somewhat a new thing for the internet in general, the web portion in particular.
The internet was designed from the get go, just as the parent poster said...open. That's one reason it grew so quickly and so rapidly, and it also is the reason it is so hard to KEEP things private on the the internet.
The sword cuts both ways.
But no, the internet was not designed with privacy and security in mind, it was designed as an open forum where anyone with a computer could hook in, and become a peer just like anyone else.
Ok..the same applies to men. Stupid knows no boundaries.
All this guy did, was embarrass some really stupid and gullible people.
It isn't like he killed anyone....these women are still breathing, and likely doing stupid things still.
There are people that take other peoples' lives that get off MUCH lighter than this.....
Yeah..tell that to all the foreign mothers coming to the US just in time to drop their child out of the womb into the atmosphere so that they can automatically be US citizens, and have the free choice to live or be educated here.
Just saw on news recently about a couple coming over from China, to have their kid here and then went back. That way, they got around the Chinese laws about one child per family, AND..the kid has US citizen ship for coming here..and possibly eventually, helping the parents to get here too some day.
There's fscking websites and 'hotels' catering to just this shit...to get expectant mothers here just to give birth.
Seriously, WTF can't we change laws to require that at least ONE of the parents be a US citizen, before the offspring is automatically a US citizen and stop this stupid shit.
No other country in the world puts up with this shit...why do we????
Pass some laws addressing this in the "Comprehensive Immigration" acts they're working on...and I'll start to look more seriously into looking into supporting it.
I was so frustrated, I mean physics to me was hard enough to try to grasp and learn...but having to try to translate what the teacher was saying made it doubly difficult.
I had to drop and retake a couple of times before I got a grad student who was teaching the class that didn't have an accent so thick that you could ice skate on it.
Geez, if that were the case, all of Wall Street would be locked up....at least, I guess...if what they did involved nudity too I guess.
These women obviously had no problem with their nudity in public, they could have easily told him to fuck off...again, it isn't like they had a problem with public nudity, it was already out there of them.
And once somethings on the internet...it ain't going away.
For what?!?!
I mean, these women were sending naked pics to people and posting them to the internet. He got them to do it for him specifically...they could have just told him to 'fuck off' and not done the skype thing for him. I mean, they already were posting nude images of themselves, what would they care if they had it posted in a few more places on the internet.
I mean, once you post something on the internet...it is there forever.
No shit...
I mean, if those chicks were that stupid....well, didn't they deserve a bit of what they got?
He got them to strip for him with still photos, then on skype...
Hmm...where are all of these gullible women?
And hey...you can still legally buy 50mm rifles...those are pretty darned effective.
Same with me, I have a late 2011 macbook pro, I loaded it up. When at home, I 'dock' it, hook into NAS, network, into a Del U2711 (27" 2560x1440 IPS), a nice old buckling key keyboard (usb)..wirless mouse.
I do plenty of graphics work on it, editing videos, images. Works just fine and I have VMware running on it for the few Windows things I need to do, and even linux when I want to fsck with that.
I love the dell, but the one drawback is, I find that on my MBP, that I can't run two of them, so, I may sell it, and get two of the Apple 27" IPS monitors, which is essentially the same thing as the dell (same IPS screen) but is glossy, and I can daisy chain the thunderbolt connections to run dual monitors that way.
While that is indeed sad, it isn't one of my concerns really. When we can address and solve the pressing issues in our own country (US for me), then, I'll start to worry about other places and countries in the world.
You take care of your own family first, so to speak.
That's not apathy...that's just common sense.
Looks like the MS Surface Pro 128GB version, only has 83GB useable by the user..Linky
Looks like the MS Surface Pro 128GB version, only has 83GB useable by the user..Linky
Once they launched Ahmadinejad, why couldn't they have left him up there?? Talk about a popular candidate for space debris....
With unemployment so high in the US as it is....they'd better sign off that EVERY US citizen potential employee is hired first....then start letting outsiders in.
I dub it....the Fartmobile