Not on the surface, I mean it's not like I'm proposing a conservation of education principle, but in practice it is happening. The universities are not motivated to make sure that every student is up to par, they are just passing them through the system. In general the quality of education has been decreasing for a long time, but the last 20 years it has fallen off of a cliff. From what I have seen the students themselves are devaluing their own educational quality, complaining about too much work etc. The sense of entitlement is staggering. Letting the students dictate the terms of their education is the downfall of the university, and it is how they are being run these days . . . the university is a business and graduating students is it's product. Look at the engineering curriculum from the 1940s compared to the 1980s compared to today. It is depressing.
I think we are experiencing what ignorance costs. Based on what I've seen there are more people in universities, for both graduate and undergraduate degrees, and due to the profit motivation of the schools these students are being passed on and matriculating while not actually getting an education. I feel like both of my degrees are undermined by the current system. It used to be that a few rich fools were passed on this way, but the majority of students graduating with degrees were deserving of them. These days I don't think that's true (and I'm talking about state schools, not the Ivy leagues which I don't think represent good value for anyone in any case).
He's not saying only the rich should get an education. But if you look at how it works today, it still just benefits the rich. The cost of getting an education is so high that only the rich can afford it. The student load program assures a bunch of indentured servants that will further line the pockets of the wealthy. What Ron Paul is proposing is that the federal government has no business running a student loan program (which I agree with), though I'm sure that he would have no problem letting the states and even the universities themselves run them. I doubt that he cares much about the cost of education, but it could be that doing away with this program would end up lowering the cost of education.
We can't, but the current system is promoting us being less educated. Essentially degrees are being devalued so that more people can get them. So we end up paying lots of money for worthless degrees, even at the Master's level. Taking the big pool of money (over $1T) away will allow the system to correct itself, and the quality of education to go back up.
He is not saying (for instance) no more public education (the mods must be smoking meth today). The federal department of education does absolutely nothing helpful for public schools (to include funding), they are state run institutions. Getting rid of the department of education is a very good idea. Ron Paul is a federalist (which interestingly means he is for state rights vs federal rule). The rest of your list is similarly dismissed, but keep on fear mongering while the dems and repups facilitate the financial ruin of the country.
You are mixing freedom and rights. You are perfectly free to murder someone, but you will probably end up facing some consequences because you don't have the right to murder someone.
In fact I did. Garage band was not performing well for me, I had recorded a band on an ADAT, and was mixing down into garage band to press their demo CD. But the A-D conversion sounded really weird. So I looked on line and found a free software product to do the same thing. The A-D software for that one was apparently much better, and the overall mix was really nice in the end. I had no trouble installing and using the software on my mini or on my MBP. I also have no problem using Flash on either one, though I usually try not to use flash over the web. As a matter of fact I do some flash development on both platforms. Oh, you were talking about the appliances? I have a jailbroken iPhone, but prefer my iPhone 3Gs running iOS 4. While I cant just install any old app on it, it already does everything I want it to do . . . so for me it's fine.
There are certain requirements for something to be called an argument, and further requirements for a sequence of statements to be considered logic. An expressed opinion about something that has not yet happened meets neither. My opinion is that MoBo makers will provide the key with each motherboard, just like software packages provide a key with each box. While this is also not an argument or logical, it is at least more plausible on the surface. Secure boot is a really beneficial security measure and all OS alternatives should support it.
Pizza is a strange thing, it's like when you really love something you eat it a lot, but then your friend finds a roach under a piece of pepperoni. Kind of like finding a bug in your favorite software, you probably won't eat it again, but maybe you get paid. So that's pretty cool.
There is a balance between mass, and the velocity with which one can swing it. Take golf clubs as an example, the older clubs traditionally used from the tees were made of wood (commonly persimmon) and were fairly heavy. The swing speed with these clubs as compared to the next generation of "metal woods" was much slower, resulting in less energy imparted to the ball. If I was wielding the yellow pages as a weapon, and you had a box of paper (with the standard 20 reams or so) I would have a decided advantage unless you were proportionally stronger such that you could wield the box as easily as I could wield the book. The same analogy exists with baseball bats (wood vs aluminum), but I cannot find a car analogy that works.
I'm interested in how exactly Star Wars has any science fiction element in it. The only philosophical element to it is the good vs. evil (a later poster identifies it as arthorian which is pretty good) in the Joseph Campbell reluctant hero style, which does not preclude science fiction but also does not imply it. Simply having some futuristic technology also does not make it SF, but perhaps could qualify it for the broader fantasy label. Star Wars is only science fiction if you think that space ships and lasers == science fiction. Regardless of how Roddenberry sold Star Trek to the studios and public, it is at it's core a SF premise (which is regardless of the fact that it happens in the future, in space, and with lasers . . . er, phasers) in that it examines the human condition at it's core. Look at the exploration of racism for instance in the half black/ half white episode, or the tretise on war when Kirk decides to exactly match the level of help from the Klingons to ensure that the two sides would have to deal with each other in some other way. Gene Roddenberry is a SF author as much as LeGuin and Heinlein are, but he understood that holywood did not understand SF, and that the TV audience at large would not have bought that either. Lucas, not so much . . .
I don't think space western or even action adventure is denigrating unless you believe that Lucas believes he was doing hard sf or something. But I see your point... I enjoy star wars though.
There's nothing about a vacuum that precludes shadows . . . or are you trolling? If the earth did not have an atmosphere would the moon not eclipse the sun?
Star Trek had some episodes that could easily be called SF (the half black half white one comes to mind for example), as well as some that were simply fantasy stories. But, SF could easily be viewed as a subset of fantasy . . . authors like Ursula K. LeGuin write both and they intermingle so much it is debatable exactly how to separate them. Usually it is some kind of technology metric that is the key, but in my opinion the technology is simply a device, and good SF can find other devices that will stage the examination just as effectively. Calling Star Wars anything close to the SF/Fantasy genre is misguided. It is simply a mediocre rehash of Joseph Campbells reluctant hero story line that has been done to death. It is more like Dances with Wolves than any good SF/Fantasy story. The fact that it is set in space in the future is what makes the drooling mouth breathers consider it to be science fiction of some kind. I would have compared it to Harry Potter except for those same people will likely call that fantasy . . . how long before we get some interview with JK Rowling about how her writing is comparable to Tolkein (arguably one of the best reluctant hero stories)?
I would say that Star Trek is classic science fiction, while star wars is a space western . . . the action flick rather than an examination of the human condition.
Perhaps for the same reason that windows users think that because they have an anti virus program installed that they are immune to all malware. I should say some windows users. People are people and computer security is sufficiently complex that the majority don't really care to put in the brainpower required to understand it. So they end up repeating marketing bs. I happily use all of Mac, windows and Linux. And I feel that each of them sucks in their own special ways.
I am now getting the subrosasoft site to respond, but with their "page not found" page . . . it looks like there are no blogs on the site anymore. Either you have to register to see the blogs, or this was just a ruse to get page hits to try to sell their software (utilities for rescuing data on bad drives it appears).
How does this tripe get modded up? I have started a company out of my garage . . . for a while we only had a PO box, and we had prime contracts with DoD. There were no regulations keeping us down, and I went through a DCAA audit and passed with flying colors using quickbooks. If you're unable to figure out how to get it done, it might be your problem. I read about successful small business startups regularly: T-shirt companies, bike shops, software shops, solar system installers, furniture makers, accounting services, law firms, etc, and have several friends who have started several out of the previous list and none of them have been hampered in any way by regulations.
Bryston makes an amp today that rivals the best amps of any age, precisely because they use bomb proof transformers and caps. If you can afford $4K for a 3B it is well worth it.
I thought I just read a story here the other day about the DOJ going after sites that link to copyrighted materials . . . I can't see how this site could be legal, but the ones that link to it would be seen as infringing. Of course the DOJ is not the courts and perhaps this ruling is paving the way for the others to have recourse.
Is the kessel run some kind of race where the time is set (24 hours), and the winning metric is distance traveled? Or was that just a mistake in the script?
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Not on the surface, I mean it's not like I'm proposing a conservation of education principle, but in practice it is happening. The universities are not motivated to make sure that every student is up to par, they are just passing them through the system. In general the quality of education has been decreasing for a long time, but the last 20 years it has fallen off of a cliff. From what I have seen the students themselves are devaluing their own educational quality, complaining about too much work etc. The sense of entitlement is staggering. Letting the students dictate the terms of their education is the downfall of the university, and it is how they are being run these days . . . the university is a business and graduating students is it's product. Look at the engineering curriculum from the 1940s compared to the 1980s compared to today. It is depressing.
I think we are experiencing what ignorance costs. Based on what I've seen there are more people in universities, for both graduate and undergraduate degrees, and due to the profit motivation of the schools these students are being passed on and matriculating while not actually getting an education. I feel like both of my degrees are undermined by the current system. It used to be that a few rich fools were passed on this way, but the majority of students graduating with degrees were deserving of them. These days I don't think that's true (and I'm talking about state schools, not the Ivy leagues which I don't think represent good value for anyone in any case).
He's not saying only the rich should get an education. But if you look at how it works today, it still just benefits the rich. The cost of getting an education is so high that only the rich can afford it. The student load program assures a bunch of indentured servants that will further line the pockets of the wealthy. What Ron Paul is proposing is that the federal government has no business running a student loan program (which I agree with), though I'm sure that he would have no problem letting the states and even the universities themselves run them. I doubt that he cares much about the cost of education, but it could be that doing away with this program would end up lowering the cost of education.
We can't, but the current system is promoting us being less educated. Essentially degrees are being devalued so that more people can get them. So we end up paying lots of money for worthless degrees, even at the Master's level. Taking the big pool of money (over $1T) away will allow the system to correct itself, and the quality of education to go back up.
You've effectively described NASAs new LEO lifting system. It's genius.
He is not saying (for instance) no more public education (the mods must be smoking meth today). The federal department of education does absolutely nothing helpful for public schools (to include funding), they are state run institutions. Getting rid of the department of education is a very good idea. Ron Paul is a federalist (which interestingly means he is for state rights vs federal rule). The rest of your list is similarly dismissed, but keep on fear mongering while the dems and repups facilitate the financial ruin of the country.
Wow. I just got rickrolled
You are mixing freedom and rights. You are perfectly free to murder someone, but you will probably end up facing some consequences because you don't have the right to murder someone.
In fact I did. Garage band was not performing well for me, I had recorded a band on an ADAT, and was mixing down into garage band to press their demo CD. But the A-D conversion sounded really weird. So I looked on line and found a free software product to do the same thing. The A-D software for that one was apparently much better, and the overall mix was really nice in the end. I had no trouble installing and using the software on my mini or on my MBP. I also have no problem using Flash on either one, though I usually try not to use flash over the web. As a matter of fact I do some flash development on both platforms. Oh, you were talking about the appliances? I have a jailbroken iPhone, but prefer my iPhone 3Gs running iOS 4. While I cant just install any old app on it, it already does everything I want it to do . . . so for me it's fine.
There are certain requirements for something to be called an argument, and further requirements for a sequence of statements to be considered logic. An expressed opinion about something that has not yet happened meets neither. My opinion is that MoBo makers will provide the key with each motherboard, just like software packages provide a key with each box. While this is also not an argument or logical, it is at least more plausible on the surface. Secure boot is a really beneficial security measure and all OS alternatives should support it.
Pizza is a strange thing, it's like when you really love something you eat it a lot, but then your friend finds a roach under a piece of pepperoni. Kind of like finding a bug in your favorite software, you probably won't eat it again, but maybe you get paid. So that's pretty cool.
There is a balance between mass, and the velocity with which one can swing it. Take golf clubs as an example, the older clubs traditionally used from the tees were made of wood (commonly persimmon) and were fairly heavy. The swing speed with these clubs as compared to the next generation of "metal woods" was much slower, resulting in less energy imparted to the ball. If I was wielding the yellow pages as a weapon, and you had a box of paper (with the standard 20 reams or so) I would have a decided advantage unless you were proportionally stronger such that you could wield the box as easily as I could wield the book. The same analogy exists with baseball bats (wood vs aluminum), but I cannot find a car analogy that works.
I'm interested in how exactly Star Wars has any science fiction element in it. The only philosophical element to it is the good vs. evil (a later poster identifies it as arthorian which is pretty good) in the Joseph Campbell reluctant hero style, which does not preclude science fiction but also does not imply it. Simply having some futuristic technology also does not make it SF, but perhaps could qualify it for the broader fantasy label. Star Wars is only science fiction if you think that space ships and lasers == science fiction. Regardless of how Roddenberry sold Star Trek to the studios and public, it is at it's core a SF premise (which is regardless of the fact that it happens in the future, in space, and with lasers . . . er, phasers) in that it examines the human condition at it's core. Look at the exploration of racism for instance in the half black/ half white episode, or the tretise on war when Kirk decides to exactly match the level of help from the Klingons to ensure that the two sides would have to deal with each other in some other way. Gene Roddenberry is a SF author as much as LeGuin and Heinlein are, but he understood that holywood did not understand SF, and that the TV audience at large would not have bought that either. Lucas, not so much . . .
I don't think space western or even action adventure is denigrating unless you believe that Lucas believes he was doing hard sf or something. But I see your point ... I enjoy star wars though.
There's nothing about a vacuum that precludes shadows . . . or are you trolling? If the earth did not have an atmosphere would the moon not eclipse the sun?
Star Trek had some episodes that could easily be called SF (the half black half white one comes to mind for example), as well as some that were simply fantasy stories. But, SF could easily be viewed as a subset of fantasy . . . authors like Ursula K. LeGuin write both and they intermingle so much it is debatable exactly how to separate them. Usually it is some kind of technology metric that is the key, but in my opinion the technology is simply a device, and good SF can find other devices that will stage the examination just as effectively. Calling Star Wars anything close to the SF/Fantasy genre is misguided. It is simply a mediocre rehash of Joseph Campbells reluctant hero story line that has been done to death. It is more like Dances with Wolves than any good SF/Fantasy story. The fact that it is set in space in the future is what makes the drooling mouth breathers consider it to be science fiction of some kind. I would have compared it to Harry Potter except for those same people will likely call that fantasy . . . how long before we get some interview with JK Rowling about how her writing is comparable to Tolkein (arguably one of the best reluctant hero stories)?
I would say that Star Trek is classic science fiction, while star wars is a space western . . . the action flick rather than an examination of the human condition.
I'm still laughing ....
Perhaps for the same reason that windows users think that because they have an anti virus program installed that they are immune to all malware. I should say some windows users. People are people and computer security is sufficiently complex that the majority don't really care to put in the brainpower required to understand it. So they end up repeating marketing bs. I happily use all of Mac, windows and Linux. And I feel that each of them sucks in their own special ways.
I am now getting the subrosasoft site to respond, but with their "page not found" page . . . it looks like there are no blogs on the site anymore. Either you have to register to see the blogs, or this was just a ruse to get page hits to try to sell their software (utilities for rescuing data on bad drives it appears).
Aha, conclusive evidence that it did come from Europe then.
How does this tripe get modded up? I have started a company out of my garage . . . for a while we only had a PO box, and we had prime contracts with DoD. There were no regulations keeping us down, and I went through a DCAA audit and passed with flying colors using quickbooks. If you're unable to figure out how to get it done, it might be your problem. I read about successful small business startups regularly: T-shirt companies, bike shops, software shops, solar system installers, furniture makers, accounting services, law firms, etc, and have several friends who have started several out of the previous list and none of them have been hampered in any way by regulations.
Bryston makes an amp today that rivals the best amps of any age, precisely because they use bomb proof transformers and caps. If you can afford $4K for a 3B it is well worth it.
I thought I just read a story here the other day about the DOJ going after sites that link to copyrighted materials . . . I can't see how this site could be legal, but the ones that link to it would be seen as infringing. Of course the DOJ is not the courts and perhaps this ruling is paving the way for the others to have recourse.
Is the kessel run some kind of race where the time is set (24 hours), and the winning metric is distance traveled? Or was that just a mistake in the script?