Never mind the privacy issues here, why the hell do we allow public schools to waste so much taxpayer money on frivolous BS like this?
I have my personal theory. Considering how nasty the school district has been about this; demanding that she not only wear the badge, but publicly support their program, I am absolutely convinced that someone is lining their pockets with a sweet contract. They want to do this on a wide scale and will stoop to any depth to make it happen because of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
You could have asked the same question about the TSA. Follow the $$$$$$. Always follow the $$$$$$$. Ask who benefits!
I watched the video you linked to. I have been programming in JavaScript for years now. I was puzzled by the odd results that the author obtained, but having seen doesn't make me feel like JavaScript is inadequate for what I use it for. After all, why would anyone ever try to do the non-sensical calculations he asks JavaScript to do. Why would you ever ask JavaScript to do {} + []?
Since there is no ICE, there is no oil to change, no transmission, no fluids to change, only 2 (windshield washer, inverter coolant) to top off. Only maintenance is changing wiper blades and rotating tires.
So, your electric car doesn't have brakes and suspension? What about when the tires wear out and have to be replaced?
I've lived in San Antonio for about two years now. I enjoy a good IT job with the military (big military presence here). The only fly in the ointment is the long, brutally hot summers we've had the last few years. (Much hotter than average)
We're talking about the FUTURE here. Rewind 10 years and tell me you EVER thought you would be sitting around with 3 terabytes and 32GB of RAM inside your "personal" computer at home for less than $1000. Now go ahead and TRY and predict what kind of computing power we're going to be literally holding in the palm of our hands in another 10 years as you complain about 3D capability and resolution (ironically while you hold your 2048 x 1536 iPad in your hand).
Sure, people can just forget silly things like bills, student loan payments, medical insurance, and hell even food. A lot of people simply can't afford to quit or look for a new job (I know, and have worked for, some employers who would initiate termination if the found out one of their employees was seriously considering moving to a competitor).
Post your resume on any job site - use an assumed name.
I turn 29 tomorrow. It seems that the one thing that has been relatively constant is the movement toward programming at higher and higher levels of abstraction.
As for myself, I actually attended one of these fundamentalist type schools during middle- and high-school. It took several years after leaving to un-warp my mind.
I also had that experience. It took me more than several years and the emotional scars remain.
Believe it. I was born in 1983 and played baseball after school. I was kept in the outfield the entire time, yet at the end of the year, I got a participation trophy.
I would suggest that we start by removing party affiliations from the ballot. Get rid of "straight ticket" voting. If you are too lazy to know the names of the people you want to vote for, then that should be your problem.
May I suggest to you that you try different tweaks to your resume? I have put resumes out to Dice and other job web sites using pseudonyms to test the waters.
3. Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, is a greater threat to a country's ability to achieve great things than its lawyers and those who would employ them to their own benefit without regard to the costs to us all
Amen, brother!
Can you imagine if we could take all the money that the big companies have invested in patent litigation and invest that in the space program or some other scientific endeavor?
A double-CD release of the sounds of children banging pots and pans together while screaming incoherently for 143 minutes, with liner-notes written by a retarded monkey.
That sounds better than some of the crap that passes for music nowadays.
I grew up in a religious environment where I caught the mind-virus rather early. I used to wonder how there could be such a thing as a lukewarm Christian given the potential consequences of displeasing a God who does the things Christians say they believe he does
I am reminded of what Richard Dawkins said: that Hell is described as being indescribably terrible and eternal because punishment after death seems so unlikely, it needs to be severe to make up for it's seeming unlikeliness.
Oh really? When I graduated college, I paid to live in a bedroom in someone's house and still managed to cook my own food most of the time. I didn't have $400,000 worth of stuff.
I hate that it's come it to this, but another solution I've used is to just put the DVD in well before I'm going to watch it and leave the TV turned off. Then, when I'm ready to watch, all that cruft has already played.
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I have my personal theory. Considering how nasty the school district has been about this; demanding that she not only wear the badge, but publicly support their program, I am absolutely convinced that someone is lining their pockets with a sweet contract. They want to do this on a wide scale and will stoop to any depth to make it happen because of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
You could have asked the same question about the TSA. Follow the $$$$$$. Always follow the $$$$$$$. Ask who benefits!
I watched the video you linked to. I have been programming in JavaScript for years now. I was puzzled by the odd results that the author obtained, but having seen doesn't make me feel like JavaScript is inadequate for what I use it for. After all, why would anyone ever try to do the non-sensical calculations he asks JavaScript to do. Why would you ever ask JavaScript to do {} + []?
I can't help but point out that in 2008, Eric Smidt endorsed Barack Obama for US President on national TV in one of Obama's campaign messages.
Off-limits? I wandered off-limits when I changed the timing-belt in my wife's car and installed new brake discs and oxygen sensors in mine?
Since there is no ICE, there is no oil to change, no transmission, no fluids to change, only 2 (windshield washer, inverter coolant) to top off. Only maintenance is changing wiper blades and rotating tires.
So, your electric car doesn't have brakes and suspension? What about when the tires wear out and have to be replaced?
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I do know another guy who has a permanent injury in one of his fingers from some idiot horsing around with a knife, so yes, these things do happen.
Against stupidy, the gods themselves labor in vain.
I've lived in San Antonio for about two years now. I enjoy a good IT job with the military (big military presence here). The only fly in the ointment is the long, brutally hot summers we've had the last few years. (Much hotter than average)
We're talking about the FUTURE here. Rewind 10 years and tell me you EVER thought you would be sitting around with 3 terabytes and 32GB of RAM inside your "personal" computer at home for less than $1000. Now go ahead and TRY and predict what kind of computing power we're going to be literally holding in the palm of our hands in another 10 years as you complain about 3D capability and resolution (ironically while you hold your 2048 x 1536 iPad in your hand) .
I did, what with Moore's law and everything.
Post your resume on any job site - use an assumed name.
I turn 29 tomorrow. It seems that the one thing that has been relatively constant is the movement toward programming at higher and higher levels of abstraction.
I also had that experience. It took me more than several years and the emotional scars remain.
Believe it. I was born in 1983 and played baseball after school. I was kept in the outfield the entire time, yet at the end of the year, I got a participation trophy.
I would suggest that we start by removing party affiliations from the ballot. Get rid of "straight ticket" voting. If you are too lazy to know the names of the people you want to vote for, then that should be your problem.
You might try looking in Austin, Texas. Very little cold weather and a vibrant downtown.
You may be surprised at what you find.
Amen, brother!
Can you imagine if we could take all the money that the big companies have invested in patent litigation and invest that in the space program or some other scientific endeavor?
That sounds better than some of the crap that passes for music nowadays.
In 4c, it sounds like you want to impose piss tests on the entire populace. That's not going to fly with a lot of people.
I have always heard of these packages referred to as "blister-packs"
^ - - - - - This!
I grew up in a religious environment where I caught the mind-virus rather early. I used to wonder how there could be such a thing as a lukewarm Christian given the potential consequences of displeasing a God who does the things Christians say they believe he does
I am reminded of what Richard Dawkins said: that Hell is described as being indescribably terrible and eternal because punishment after death seems so unlikely, it needs to be severe to make up for it's seeming unlikeliness.
Some people actually expect those eureka moments, not only on break, but all the time.
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Oh really? When I graduated college, I paid to live in a bedroom in someone's house and still managed to cook my own food most of the time. I didn't have $400,000 worth of stuff.
What a lucky guy Frank is! I hear he got the last one in stock!
I hate that it's come it to this, but another solution I've used is to just put the DVD in well before I'm going to watch it and leave the TV turned off. Then, when I'm ready to watch, all that cruft has already played.