Something more hands-on like Linux Administration, do you think you'd learn better with straight lecture or with some lecture and a lot of lab work, projects, etc?
True...but then again, it isn't like labs doing computer work like described, take interaction with other students in the same course. The admin life..IS kind of a lonely one as far as having to deal face to face with people very often.
LOL...no such thing as Linux when I was in undergrad...
It's an attempt to help you improve your ability to work with others, something that your job expects you to know how to do upon entry into a bottom-level position.
Well, I know it sounds like I'm not a terribly social person, but I do get out and interact with others. I'm friendly at work...I just leave them AT work when I walk out the door. Work has 0% to do at all with my private and true social life.
I learned people skills...by working when I was working starting in HS....through college. I worked in restaurants...busing tables, waiting, bartending. I sold retail, etc. So, I know how to interact with people. I'm outgoing. Heck, in the tech field, I've found that people skills can often outweigh the pure tech skills.
I've gone much further and made more money over the years than people that were and still are far more talented than I am.
Hell, IT wasn't even my degree field of study...
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But learning how to deal with people, use them, manage them..motivate them..get them to work for you and with you...are important. I'd not have learned any of this from classroom exercises.
Yes, you can download apps from sources that aren't the App Store - but they still have to be signed, otherwise, it either will refuse to run or lie to you and say that the app is "damaged" and you should "drag it to the trash."
Really? I've yet to run into this on my macbook pro.
I've run some open source stuff that installed and ran just fine...Calibre, Hugin....etc. i've not gotten any warnings like you mentioned. It once asked if I wanted to install something from the internet, and when I clicked yes...it installed and has run fine without any problems or warnings since then.
As for âoeflipping the classroomâ -- that is, banishing the lecture and focusing precious class time on group projects and other forms of active learning
Man..glad they didn't have this crap when I was in school....I just wanted to get in there, listen, take notes....and GTFO. I just need enough interaction to take the test and make the grade and get out to get a job.
Strange tho...I'm actually quite a sociable person...outside of the class and work, I have lots of friends and go out, have fun, I have no problem talking to strangers and making new friends.
But
at school, and usually at worksites...I'm there to go in, get a job done...and get out. I'm not there to make friends. I don't hardly ever socialize with co-workers. I didn't ever want to really socialize with anyone in my classes, hell, I never really knew anyone's name in the classes (unless it was a good looking girl I'd like to meet and bang)....
I dunno....i guess to me, work is work...get in, get it done, get out...and then go into "real life" mode..where I have my friends and my fun.
But do the horrendous side effects of having gun ubiquity not change your stance on it, even a little bit?
Not sure what you mean here.
There aren't really any horrendous side effects I know of with gun ownership and use by law abiding citizens. If you're talking about criminals using guns...well, they are criminals by definition..and won't observe the laws. The only way you could prevent this, is to ban guns entirely, and remove them all.....this isn't feasible and wont' work.
The only thing gun restrictions do...is give law abiding citizens a hassle.
At least, that's my take on it.
I don't see a problem really...most criminal activity that I hear of, is thugs killing other thugs...and well, I don't really have a problem with them taking each other out. Saves the taxpayer money on prison time for them.
I'm guessing you're not in the US. I can only imagine from your comments that you must get the impression that all the streets over here are one, long continuous shooting gallery, and that you have to duck for cover and run to go from store to car.
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Truth is...the avg person over here, likely will never see nor be near a gun when it goes off, unless it is at a firing range. I've never seen nor heard a gun go off in the city or anywhere I've lived....and I've lived in the south in the US, where I know every one of my friends is armed to the teeth...gun closets of friends if you opened the door, I've literally seen guns falling out on the floor before. I know lots of people that always have at least one gun on them in the car when driving..etc...and yet, again, I don't know anyone that has been shot. No one I know has been exposed to gun violence first hand...etc.
But, again...these are private accounts that YOU have...not in someone else's power.
I mean, someone would have to be able to have the power to skim funds out of my personal bank account.....to be able to skim them out of my HSA or IRA's...?
I don't know anyone from the govt. has gone into my bank accounts and taken money out of them...the HSA is just another bank account I have...it isn't touched by the govt at all...so, how could it disappear?
I'm the only person that can make withdrawals from any of the accounts you listed....they are accessible by anyone else nor govt entity....
I remember back when I was a kid, and the vaccinations were mandatory....they actually lined us up in school about 1st or 2nd grade..and shot us up there....
I remember it was interesting..which ever one leaves the mark on your arm...for me, it would never 'take'. I never got the scab nor the mark on my arm.
The almost didn't want to let me in school, but I had the paperwork in my records saying they'd try to shoot me up at least twice...and I should be good to go.
Well, the defense of the US is actually one of the few enumerated responsibilities of the federal govt as spelled out by the Constitution, you know..that document that the law of the land is based upon?
If you want that health care to be a govt function, there's a way to do it legally....amend the constitution.
Or are you saying you do have a right to access health care that you pay for?
Well, yes....I have to pay for everything else in my life...I don't get a free ride on food, shelter, etc...health is the same thing as those life needs.
But I'm not fond of the HSA - for one thing, I don't trust that the money will actually be there
Curious...why do you say this?
A HSA is just an account you set up with your bank...are you afraid of the banks collapsing? If that happens...there are gonna be many worse problems than losing your health care dollars.
Not sure why you compare HSA to SS....the latter of which is govt managed, but HSA is managed by you..?
A Public Service message from your friends at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
Dunno why you'd say that...there is no national law requiring registration.
It is up to the states if they require this...none of the states I've lived in require me to notify the govt in any form or fashion of any weapons I own (non-automatic).
I assume then that you have also have issue with needing a driving licence?
Not the same thing.
The drivers license is a license to operate a vehicle on the road along with other drivers at the same time. If you only drive your car on non-public roads, you don't need a drivers license.
I don't operate my guns in public....I don't go around firing my weapon around in the city, I use it on gun ranges, or out on private property safely away from others.
If any of the above were the case, then what would be wrong with needing a licence? What, exactly, are you trying to hide? The way I see it, if you were going to use your firearm for any of them, then you would not have a problem with it being registered.
I see the question as the other way around.
What business does the government have needing to know if I have guns or not? If I'm not committing crimes with them...they have no need to know if I'm armed or not.
Remember, in the US, the individual is supposed to have the rights to start with...the govt. is supposed to have limited, narrowly enumerated powers and responsibilities.
If I'm breaking no laws, harming no one...the the govt really doesn't need to know anything about me other than maybe to collect taxes I owe.
Because a 59" plasma screen doesn't fit that well on my desk back in the office....and I tend to have friends over to watch things like college football...parties...you know? Sometimes the wives want to watch that while the guys are over playing my pinball and arcade machine...etc...
And this right here folks is what is wrong with our country, the "fuck you, I got mine" in the flesh.
So, the govt should force me to be my brothers keeper? Where is that in the constitution?
I'd rather take care of myself, my family and friends....not have my money taken by a large faceless govt, and given to who knows who, and waste who knows how much doing it.....
Thing is a lot of those countries can concentrate on their spending on healthcare (especially in the EU) because they don't have to pay much money for defense....why?
Because we in the US cover them for that.
Let's pull most of our bases out of there...save ourselves some money and let these countries start picking up the tab for their own defense....we can use the savings to put towards our own health care....
If your contracting..first...incorporate yourself, I went for the subchapter "S" version, look it up, lots of benefits to this, including saving yourself significant payroll taxes (SS, medicare, etc)...
After this..get a high deductible insurance policy...my deductible was about $1200....this is for major medical, the emergency route, heart attack, hit by a bus..etc.
With a high deductible account..set up a HSA...and load it with money pre-tax...it is not a use it or lose it...at the end, you can roll it over for retirement if you wish..but load this up pre-tax for routine care.
Do this immediately when starting contracting. I am currently W2...and really miss doing my healthcare this way....although I still have funds in the HSA I can access...I just can't add more to it due to Obama admins even more restrictive terms on HSA's with the affordable care act (I still can't understand why they added more restrictions on it rather than opening it up to make it easier to get and use one)...
But this worked well for me...insurance premiums were quite reasonable and easy to get..and I'm older than the usual Slashdotter, and I do have pre-existing conditions (sky high triglycerides)...and no problem getting covered. First insurace covered was a little fly by night, but got them, kept them for about 8mos...and then switched to BCBS....
I had to go that route because I screwed up and let my last W2 insurance drop...it is much easier to get new insurance when you have coverage rather than letting it lapse too long. Get that Cobra if you have to to fill the gap.
Of course there are special circumstances...but I think this is an excellent system....you maintain it..you shop around for your own Dr. and make your decisions with your Dr.
I also found, that often, when I told the caregiver I was paying myself, I got up to about 15% discount right of the top....I had an MRI where they did this.
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Neither of which generally apply to forums on the internet...
All it does is hamper my freedom. The criminal, by definition, is not going to observe the law...he won't register his weapons....
True...but then again, it isn't like labs doing computer work like described, take interaction with other students in the same course. The admin life..IS kind of a lonely one as far as having to deal face to face with people very often.
LOL...no such thing as Linux when I was in undergrad...
Well, I know it sounds like I'm not a terribly social person, but I do get out and interact with others. I'm friendly at work...I just leave them AT work when I walk out the door. Work has 0% to do at all with my private and true social life.
I learned people skills...by working when I was working starting in HS....through college. I worked in restaurants...busing tables, waiting, bartending. I sold retail, etc. So, I know how to interact with people. I'm outgoing. Heck, in the tech field, I've found that people skills can often outweigh the pure tech skills.
I've gone much further and made more money over the years than people that were and still are far more talented than I am.
Hell, IT wasn't even my degree field of study...
But learning how to deal with people, use them, manage them..motivate them..get them to work for you and with you...are important. I'd not have learned any of this from classroom exercises.
Well, of course....they ran those during happy hour...I was busy at the bar doing the "beat the clock" specials, and trying to get laid.
Hell, mixed drinks started out at $0.10...and went up every 15 minutes....
They're just trying to head things off there.
jk
Really? I've yet to run into this on my macbook pro.
I've run some open source stuff that installed and ran just fine...Calibre, Hugin....etc. i've not gotten any warnings like you mentioned. It once asked if I wanted to install something from the internet, and when I clicked yes...it installed and has run fine without any problems or warnings since then.
Man..glad they didn't have this crap when I was in school....I just wanted to get in there, listen, take notes....and GTFO. I just need enough interaction to take the test and make the grade and get out to get a job.
Strange tho...I'm actually quite a sociable person...outside of the class and work, I have lots of friends and go out, have fun, I have no problem talking to strangers and making new friends.
But at school, and usually at worksites...I'm there to go in, get a job done...and get out. I'm not there to make friends. I don't hardly ever socialize with co-workers. I didn't ever want to really socialize with anyone in my classes, hell, I never really knew anyone's name in the classes (unless it was a good looking girl I'd like to meet and bang)....
I dunno....i guess to me, work is work...get in, get it done, get out...and then go into "real life" mode..where I have my friends and my fun.
Not sure what you mean here.
There aren't really any horrendous side effects I know of with gun ownership and use by law abiding citizens. If you're talking about criminals using guns...well, they are criminals by definition..and won't observe the laws. The only way you could prevent this, is to ban guns entirely, and remove them all.....this isn't feasible and wont' work.
The only thing gun restrictions do...is give law abiding citizens a hassle.
At least, that's my take on it.
I don't see a problem really...most criminal activity that I hear of, is thugs killing other thugs...and well, I don't really have a problem with them taking each other out. Saves the taxpayer money on prison time for them.
I'm guessing you're not in the US. I can only imagine from your comments that you must get the impression that all the streets over here are one, long continuous shooting gallery, and that you have to duck for cover and run to go from store to car.
Truth is...the avg person over here, likely will never see nor be near a gun when it goes off, unless it is at a firing range. I've never seen nor heard a gun go off in the city or anywhere I've lived....and I've lived in the south in the US, where I know every one of my friends is armed to the teeth...gun closets of friends if you opened the door, I've literally seen guns falling out on the floor before. I know lots of people that always have at least one gun on them in the car when driving..etc...and yet, again, I don't know anyone that has been shot. No one I know has been exposed to gun violence first hand...etc.
Hope that helps...
I mean, someone would have to be able to have the power to skim funds out of my personal bank account.....to be able to skim them out of my HSA or IRA's...?
I don't know anyone from the govt. has gone into my bank accounts and taken money out of them...the HSA is just another bank account I have...it isn't touched by the govt at all...so, how could it disappear?
I'm the only person that can make withdrawals from any of the accounts you listed....they are accessible by anyone else nor govt entity....
I remember it was interesting..which ever one leaves the mark on your arm...for me, it would never 'take'. I never got the scab nor the mark on my arm.
The almost didn't want to let me in school, but I had the paperwork in my records saying they'd try to shoot me up at least twice...and I should be good to go.
Wouldn't the only people getting sick be the ones that aren't vaccinated? If you're vaccinated, how would this affect you?
If you want that health care to be a govt function, there's a way to do it legally....amend the constitution.
Well, yes....I have to pay for everything else in my life...I don't get a free ride on food, shelter, etc...health is the same thing as those life needs.
Curious...why do you say this?
A HSA is just an account you set up with your bank...are you afraid of the banks collapsing? If that happens...there are gonna be many worse problems than losing your health care dollars.
Not sure why you compare HSA to SS....the latter of which is govt managed, but HSA is managed by you..?
Dunno why you'd say that...there is no national law requiring registration.
It is up to the states if they require this...none of the states I've lived in require me to notify the govt in any form or fashion of any weapons I own (non-automatic).
Not the same thing.
The drivers license is a license to operate a vehicle on the road along with other drivers at the same time. If you only drive your car on non-public roads, you don't need a drivers license.
I don't operate my guns in public....I don't go around firing my weapon around in the city, I use it on gun ranges, or out on private property safely away from others.
I see the question as the other way around.
What business does the government have needing to know if I have guns or not? If I'm not committing crimes with them...they have no need to know if I'm armed or not.
Remember, in the US, the individual is supposed to have the rights to start with...the govt. is supposed to have limited, narrowly enumerated powers and responsibilities.
If I'm breaking no laws, harming no one...the the govt really doesn't need to know anything about me other than maybe to collect taxes I owe.
LOl...well, that was the top of my budget for a computer monitor at the time....saving to get a 2nd one....
Because a 59" plasma screen doesn't fit that well on my desk back in the office....and I tend to have friends over to watch things like college football...parties...you know? Sometimes the wives want to watch that while the guys are over playing my pinball and arcade machine...etc...
So, the govt should force me to be my brothers keeper? Where is that in the constitution?
I'd rather take care of myself, my family and friends....not have my money taken by a large faceless govt, and given to who knows who, and waste who knows how much doing it.....
You do have a right to access to health care....you do not have the right to have me or anyone else PAY for it for you....
Because we in the US cover them for that.
Let's pull most of our bases out of there...save ourselves some money and let these countries start picking up the tab for their own defense....we can use the savings to put towards our own health care....
If your contracting..first...incorporate yourself, I went for the subchapter "S" version, look it up, lots of benefits to this, including saving yourself significant payroll taxes (SS, medicare, etc)...
After this..get a high deductible insurance policy...my deductible was about $1200....this is for major medical, the emergency route, heart attack, hit by a bus..etc.
With a high deductible account..set up a HSA...and load it with money pre-tax...it is not a use it or lose it...at the end, you can roll it over for retirement if you wish..but load this up pre-tax for routine care.
Do this immediately when starting contracting. I am currently W2...and really miss doing my healthcare this way....although I still have funds in the HSA I can access...I just can't add more to it due to Obama admins even more restrictive terms on HSA's with the affordable care act (I still can't understand why they added more restrictions on it rather than opening it up to make it easier to get and use one)...
But this worked well for me...insurance premiums were quite reasonable and easy to get..and I'm older than the usual Slashdotter, and I do have pre-existing conditions (sky high triglycerides)...and no problem getting covered. First insurace covered was a little fly by night, but got them, kept them for about 8mos...and then switched to BCBS....
I had to go that route because I screwed up and let my last W2 insurance drop...it is much easier to get new insurance when you have coverage rather than letting it lapse too long. Get that Cobra if you have to to fill the gap.
Of course there are special circumstances...but I think this is an excellent system....you maintain it..you shop around for your own Dr. and make your decisions with your Dr.
I also found, that often, when I told the caregiver I was paying myself, I got up to about 15% discount right of the top....I had an MRI where they did this.
Where do you live that requires a gun permit to own or buy a gun?
Not in any of the states I've lived in.....no wait period either if you buy used from another private individual...and with cash...no paper trail.