IANAL but I believe crimes against children fall under Federal Jurisdiction in the US. I believe its the UK where a child-molester can get 6 months of community service or something like that isn't it ? I believe there was some recent unpleasantness about this in the news.
Children don't have a right to privacy _from_ thier parents. Until they turn 18. they are wards _of_ their parents. As my dad once said after he smacked me in the side of my head for smarting off: "You don't like it ? Here's the phone. Call the police." You want privacy ? Turn 18 and move the f*** out. As long as you live under my roof, its MY RULES.
My old man also had the best GPS system around: Get in the second car and follow me. It took me a few times of getting busted, even trying to out-fox the old man, to realize he had this innate sense of direction and could find me no matter where I went. Oh, that and the town was only 44,000 so there weren't many places to hide.
He also had a great plan to prevent speeding. It was a pre-emptive plan and went something like this: First ticket means YOU get a job and start paying insurance, second ticket means you lose privileges to drive any of my cars. At 33, I would think he'd lift that restriction.
Here's a good question: What are the parents going to do about the DNA samples taken from the children that COMMITED NO CRIME ? Are they going to sue for the samples or are they going to let the kids' DNA stay on file with the Government ?
I'd hope they would fight to keep that DNA from being recorded in the Big Government Database since apparently its ok to take somebody's DNA (even children) without a warrant in England.
Ahh... I was wondering when someone would nail foxnews on this.
As is the case with most news sites, Foxnews uses The Associated Press for 99% of their website stories.
Only the op-ed pieces really lean one way or the other.
Its funny I did a search and couldn't find the article on MSNBC. Buried ?
What seems pretty shallow and superficial to me are quotes like this from her post on slate:
My color scheme was conscious and deliberate from the start. I didn't see why everybody in science fiction had to be a honky named Bob or Joe or Bill
... That's funny, when reading "Out of the Silent Planet", "Martian Chronicles", "Dune", "Stranger in a Strange Land", etc.. I don't ever recall thinking "Damn, I'm glad these guys are... Lets ask Bradbury if he deliberately made his characters white/black/red/green...
and...
I figured some white kids (the books were published for "young adults") might not identify straight off with a brown kid, so I kind of eased the information about skin color in by degrees--hoping that the reader would get "into Ged's skin" and only then discover it wasn't a white one.
White, or any other color-kids won't relate to or "get into the skin" of a character if the character development isn't very good. The author's responsibility to the reader is not to pre-determine if they are able to 'deal' with a character's skin color, but to make them interested in the character regardless and the story as a whole.
or...
I think it is possible that some readers never even notice what color the people in the story are. Don't notice, don't care. Whites of course have the privilege of not caring, of being "colorblind." Nobody else does.
...uh, how exactly do whites have the privilege of being colorblind ? Its not a privilege, its your duty to your fellow man to be colorblind. So far, the only 'honky' (as she so nobley puts it) that doesn't have the privilege of being colorblind is the Her.
As an anthropologist's daughter, I am intensely conscious of the risk of cultural or ethnic imperialism--a white writer speaking for nonwhite people, co-opting their voice, an act of extreme arrogance.
Isn't is also extreme arrogance to call ethnic imperialism the act of a white author speaking for a non-white people.? The word "ethnic" is a generic term, yet she uses it specifically to target white writers in her statement. Ethnicity is defined as a group of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.
She should spend some time pulling the plank out of her own eye before removing the splinter of others.
Agreed. I figured all Disney was doing was distributing anyway. Pixar sticks to what it knows its good at: CG Animation, leaving the distribution and marketing to the big guys.
I think a split would be good for Pixar. Shack up with another high-roller. Right now I think Pixar might be limited in scope of story due to the Disney branding. Kids-only can only go so far and Pixar has sooooo much potential for more mature endeavours by cutting ties with Disney.
I'll give you quick directions: Drive to Port Clinton Ohio, take the Jet Express to Put-in Bay and then Island-hop all the way to Canada. Use cash so they can't track you.
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My first programming was in Perl. It was akward but fun. I switched to PHP about a year after I started Perl. I picked up the basics of PHP in about a week. Perl took me a bit longer (like a month for the fundamentals - but I was a real newbie too). Inside two weeks of geeking on PHP I'd written a service ticket program for my private consulting business, did some freelance web coding for another firm and wrote a small checkbook (quicken clone) to get used to it with MySQL.
After about 3 months of playing with it, I wrote a web-based tracking system that my company uses to manage service calls and billing.
I think you'd probably pick up PHP pretty quickly. Others may say the same about Perl. This is just my humble opinion.
I worked for Stream in Memphis supporting a major Comupter vendor. Ack! The first day of class one of the soon-to-be techs asked "Where is the start button". I actually made it a year and a half at that place. My buddy worked there with me. I remember him asking a customer if he had "De-ionized his Frabulator yet?".
The place was a meat factory and one of the most wretched places to work. When the phone wasn't monitoring you, this arrogant bastige at the front desk was checking the breakroom every 5 minutes asking what you were doing or your 'Team Leader' was listening in on your calls and critiquing you.
We also had the "Average Call Time" but it was 15 minutes. Stream's answer to keeping the call time down was "Get themto start formatting thier drive and have them call back when they were ready for the next step..." WTF!
Anyway, it's closed now. Has been for about 2 years I suppose. It was definately a learning experience. I learned I would never do helpdesk again. You helpdesk guys and gals are a tough bunch. Kudos to you. I think I'll sit at my desk and put my phone on Night Mode while I fill out my TPS report.
Good point. I don't have any dummy books (never liked them) but got hooked on Running Linux by O'Reilly and Assoc. when I first got attracted to Linux and now I keep a current copy of it nearby for reference.
I wonder if there is an underlying NDA here that is not being mentioned in the blog? I imagine taking pictures of the units and letting us all know what building and where is probably a violation of the NDA (if there is one).
I wonder also how MS found out about the blog?
Try finding a private Recruiter. One that consults on his/her own and is not associated with a larger corporation.
These tend to be concerned with filling your positions with qualified candidates and building a good relationship because its their bread and butter not their company's.
I have a friend thats a recruiter for the Hospitals but he is privately contracted. He said it works out much better because he's not under pressure to squeeze the client for every penny.
A private recruiter can even offer a more indepth and personal evaluation of potential employees where a larger firm has goofy standardized testing. One look at public schools should tell you standardized tests are BS.
This is only really good for hiring specific positions, not for high volume staffing in most cases.
PHP! No ASP! No PHP... No ASP... No! PHP On NCC1701A but NCC1701D Definately ran.NET! And Warf can't code without trying to use the keyboard as a weapon.;)
I stopped by my local library last week to get a leg up on ANSI C and the most recently printed book was from 1979. I was shocked when moths didn't fly out of the pages that looked like someone had bleached the Dead Sea Scrolls and reprinted ANSI C on it.
I can't believe we just spent 1.2Mil on this new library and couldn't spend $39.95 on a new copy of ANSI C.
/ *The thing is incredibly unstable and uses untested beta versions of software */
True to an extent. There are different configurations that allow for masking (hiding) unstable packages and Gentoo IS stable.
Gentoo is geared more towards the "I have no social life or weekend plans" user with a spare system or two to monkey around on. I am a Gentoo user with 15 Linux servers (Slackware) at my company and I wouldn't DARE install Gentoo on them.
Since you are already paying a support staff, stick with basic Redhat. Paying a support staff *and* paying for Redhat Support would seem to me a waste of budget resources.
To the folks on the Gentoo-soapbox: 'emerge common-sense'
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IANAL but I believe crimes against children fall under Federal Jurisdiction in the US. I believe its the UK where a child-molester can get 6 months of community service or something like that isn't it ? I believe there was some recent unpleasantness about this in the news.
The data will be there, but there will be no point in complaining about it since our congressmen and senators only react to money.
Children don't have a right to privacy _from_ thier parents. Until they turn 18. they are wards _of_ their parents. As my dad once said after he smacked me in the side of my head for smarting off: "You don't like it ? Here's the phone. Call the police." You want privacy ? Turn 18 and move the f*** out. As long as you live under my roof, its MY RULES. My old man also had the best GPS system around: Get in the second car and follow me. It took me a few times of getting busted, even trying to out-fox the old man, to realize he had this innate sense of direction and could find me no matter where I went. Oh, that and the town was only 44,000 so there weren't many places to hide. He also had a great plan to prevent speeding. It was a pre-emptive plan and went something like this: First ticket means YOU get a job and start paying insurance, second ticket means you lose privileges to drive any of my cars. At 33, I would think he'd lift that restriction.
Here's a good question: What are the parents going to do about the DNA samples taken from the children that COMMITED NO CRIME ? Are they going to sue for the samples or are they going to let the kids' DNA stay on file with the Government ?
I'd hope they would fight to keep that DNA from being recorded in the Big Government Database since apparently its ok to take somebody's DNA (even children) without a warrant in England.
IIRC the suit has several layers to handle small-particle impact and also a layer to reduce x-ray exposure.
Ahh... I was wondering when someone would nail foxnews on this. As is the case with most news sites, Foxnews uses The Associated Press for 99% of their website stories. Only the op-ed pieces really lean one way or the other. Its funny I did a search and couldn't find the article on MSNBC. Buried ?
What seems pretty shallow and superficial to me are quotes like this from her post on slate:
... Lets ask Bradbury if he deliberately made his characters white/black/red/green...
My color scheme was conscious and deliberate from the start. I didn't see why everybody in science fiction had to be a honky named Bob or Joe or Bill
... That's funny, when reading "Out of the Silent Planet", "Martian Chronicles", "Dune", "Stranger in a Strange Land", etc.. I don't ever recall thinking "Damn, I'm glad these guys are
and...
I figured some white kids (the books were published for "young adults") might not identify straight off with a brown kid, so I kind of eased the information about skin color in by degrees--hoping that the reader would get "into Ged's skin" and only then discover it wasn't a white one.
White, or any other color-kids won't relate to or "get into the skin" of a character if the character development isn't very good. The author's responsibility to the reader is not to pre-determine if they are able to 'deal' with a character's skin color, but to make them interested in the character regardless and the story as a whole. or...
I think it is possible that some readers never even notice what color the people in the story are. Don't notice, don't care. Whites of course have the privilege of not caring, of being "colorblind." Nobody else does.
...uh, how exactly do whites have the privilege of being colorblind ? Its not a privilege, its your duty to your fellow man to be colorblind. So far, the only 'honky' (as she so nobley puts it) that doesn't have the privilege of being colorblind is the Her.
As an anthropologist's daughter, I am intensely conscious of the risk of cultural or ethnic imperialism--a white writer speaking for nonwhite people, co-opting their voice, an act of extreme arrogance.
Isn't is also extreme arrogance to call ethnic imperialism the act of a white author speaking for a non-white people.? The word "ethnic" is a generic term, yet she uses it specifically to target white writers in her statement. Ethnicity is defined as a group of people sharing a common and distinctive racial, national, religious, linguistic, or cultural heritage.
She should spend some time pulling the plank out of her own eye before removing the splinter of others.
Agreed. I figured all Disney was doing was distributing anyway. Pixar sticks to what it knows its good at: CG Animation, leaving the distribution and marketing to the big guys.
I think a split would be good for Pixar. Shack up with another high-roller. Right now I think Pixar might be limited in scope of story due to the Disney branding. Kids-only can only go so far and Pixar has sooooo much potential for more mature endeavours by cutting ties with Disney.
I'll give you quick directions: Drive to Port Clinton Ohio, take the Jet Express to Put-in Bay and then Island-hop all the way to Canada. Use cash so they can't track you.
My first programming was in Perl. It was akward but fun. I switched to PHP about a year after I started Perl. I picked up the basics of PHP in about a week. Perl took me a bit longer (like a month for the fundamentals - but I was a real newbie too). Inside two weeks of geeking on PHP I'd written a service ticket program for my private consulting business, did some freelance web coding for another firm and wrote a small checkbook (quicken clone) to get used to it with MySQL.
After about 3 months of playing with it, I wrote a web-based tracking system that my company uses to manage service calls and billing.
I think you'd probably pick up PHP pretty quickly. Others may say the same about Perl. This is just my humble opinion.
I worked for Stream in Memphis supporting a major Comupter vendor. Ack! The first day of class one of the soon-to-be techs asked "Where is the start button". I actually made it a year and a half at that place. My buddy worked there with me. I remember him asking a customer if he had "De-ionized his Frabulator yet?".
The place was a meat factory and one of the most wretched places to work. When the phone wasn't monitoring you, this arrogant bastige at the front desk was checking the breakroom every 5 minutes asking what you were doing or your 'Team Leader' was listening in on your calls and critiquing you.
We also had the "Average Call Time" but it was 15 minutes. Stream's answer to keeping the call time down was "Get themto start formatting thier drive and have them call back when they were ready for the next step..." WTF!
Anyway, it's closed now. Has been for about 2 years I suppose. It was definately a learning experience. I learned I would never do helpdesk again. You helpdesk guys and gals are a tough bunch. Kudos to you. I think I'll sit at my desk and put my phone on Night Mode while I fill out my TPS report.
Good point. I don't have any dummy books (never liked them) but got hooked on Running Linux by O'Reilly and Assoc. when I first got attracted to Linux and now I keep a current copy of it nearby for reference.
I wonder if there is an underlying NDA here that is not being mentioned in the blog? I imagine taking pictures of the units and letting us all know what building and where is probably a violation of the NDA (if there is one). I wonder also how MS found out about the blog?
Im so hurt and ashamed. I only wish you had moderator status so you could have expressed how you really feel about my comments. ;)
All I can think of is Towley from Southpark yelling "Don't forget to bring a towel!" while he smokes out.
Try finding a private Recruiter. One that consults on his/her own and is not associated with a larger corporation. These tend to be concerned with filling your positions with qualified candidates and building a good relationship because its their bread and butter not their company's. I have a friend thats a recruiter for the Hospitals but he is privately contracted. He said it works out much better because he's not under pressure to squeeze the client for every penny. A private recruiter can even offer a more indepth and personal evaluation of potential employees where a larger firm has goofy standardized testing. One look at public schools should tell you standardized tests are BS. This is only really good for hiring specific positions, not for high volume staffing in most cases.
PHP! No ASP! No PHP... No ASP... No! PHP On NCC1701A but NCC1701D Definately ran .NET! And Warf can't code without trying to use the keyboard as a weapon. ;)
Two-headed coin anyone?
I stopped by my local library last week to get a leg up on ANSI C and the most recently printed book was from 1979. I was shocked when moths didn't fly out of the pages that looked like someone had bleached the Dead Sea Scrolls and reprinted ANSI C on it.
I can't believe we just spent 1.2Mil on this new library and couldn't spend $39.95 on a new copy of ANSI C.
/ *The thing is incredibly unstable and uses untested beta versions of software */ True to an extent. There are different configurations that allow for masking (hiding) unstable packages and Gentoo IS stable. Gentoo is geared more towards the "I have no social life or weekend plans" user with a spare system or two to monkey around on. I am a Gentoo user with 15 Linux servers (Slackware) at my company and I wouldn't DARE install Gentoo on them. Since you are already paying a support staff, stick with basic Redhat. Paying a support staff *and* paying for Redhat Support would seem to me a waste of budget resources. To the folks on the Gentoo-soapbox: 'emerge common-sense'