The real issue is that an asteroid hunt doesn't employ people back home, so there's no reason for congressmen to support it. If it involved building huge arrays in the Midwest or Arizona desert and staffing them with hundreds of workers, I'm sure they'd be throwing money at it.
But really it just uses current technology and a few dedicated employees (who all look like nerds, and are therefore distrusted by the congressmen and citizenry alike). It's not big and sexy, so it's ignored.
Unlike english, math is easy for a moron to teach since the answer is either exactly right, or it's wrong.
Lemme guess; you've never helped a niece or nephew with math homework. They're not just grading on the answer now. They're grading on the method by which you achieved that answer. And I don't mean "do it in a way that I can understand," I mean "do it the way I taught it in class regardless of whether it's ass-backwards and over complicated or not"
It's really quite irritating to try to help a kid who understands things like adding and subtracting fractions but who doesn't get the method the teacher used.
I can only imagine how nitpicky private school parents are. I mean, public school parents are bad enough and they're not even paying for their kids' education!
The highest educated populations in the western world are the Scandinavian countries. There, motherhood, childcare, and educational professions are looked upon as great callings that have a huge influence on the future prosperity of the country. Therefore, it's easy to justify paying them well.
In the US, it seems that most valuable female is the one who looks like a dirty catholic schoolgirl and the most valuable male is the one who can best jump on top of other males in the mud while wearing tights. Teachers and child care workers are looked down upon as lazy.
So it's not as easy as method. We need to change the culture.
I'd like to be a teacher. Some of the greatest influences on my life have been teachers. I like teaching kids science and computers, and I've got a talent for it.
But I'll never be a teacher under current systems.
I'm not patient with kids who don't get it and insist on me walking them through everything. None of my favorite teachers were either. I'm not respectful of authority either, unless it's earned that respect. None of my favorite teachers were either. And if parents insist that little Taylor or Brittany didn't earn the C they got on the test, I'll tell them where they can shove their complaints. And I'm not about to waste my time teaching kids for a test. Some of the best lessons in life can't be tested. I'd reward kids for creativity, an inquisitive nature, the questioning of current thinking, and for making me look dumb. All the kinds of things my favorite teachers rewarded me for.
I feel that, in this current climate, I wouldn't last a year as that kind of teacher. In fact, two of my favorite teachers got fired after I had them because of complaints and friction with the administration. And they were replaced with robots designed to make more robots. Indeed, most of the teachers I remember fondly only lasted as long as they did because they produced results despite friction with the administration and parents.
I'm advocating the use of other software because it's been shown to be more secure. If you need windows, then you should have it installed. But that doesn't mean you have to use it all the time. By dual-booting or running it in a virtual machine you're limiting your exposure.
And take it from this Mac user, you can get by without any MS software on OS X. My parents are a special case because they've got legacy data and no will to buy replacement software.
My dad had a similar problem. He wanted a Mac, but all of his financial software was in Windows. Now he boots into Windows once a week and does his financial stuff, then reboots back into OS X.
I've watched Youtube videos that were upwards of an 1.5 hours long. Mostly they're lectures that I wouldn't have seen otherwise. Also, I've downloaded several videos from Google Video to view on my iPod. Even blown up on my 32" TV they're perfectly adequate for communicating the message.
And I'm sure a lot of other people are going to find out the same thing. With my Vonage service, any peer-to-peer application results in poor sound quality thanks to the ridiculous upload speeds Comcast provides. And I'm sure it's just as bad using any other VoIP provider. I've had to use a cron job just to make sure BitTorrent doesn't gum up my phone service.
No matter how many people in my city want municipal WiFi, we can't get it. Why? Because Comcast and Verizon have made a deal with the state government where we have to ask their permission to roll out any municipal broadband.
I wrote a little Ruby on Rails app that does nothing more than help me record and calculate my fuel mileage. It took me about 20 minutes start to finish and it's exactly what I needed. Doing the same thing on a spreadsheet would have taken me the same amount of time, but now I can expand it in the future to let me send text messages to it to record mileage when I'm out and about.
Can someone explain what "democrat" means when used as an adjective? I've heard a similar term "democratic" used as an adjective. Maybe the adjective "democrat" means "the person saying this should get their head out of the punch bowl and stop drinking the kool aid."
Look at it this way: When a micro-meteorite hits a solid structure, it's likely to cause a lot more damage. It could dent the materials, ricochet off of them, or shatter cold metals.
With an inflatable structure, the micrometeorite is more likely to pass straight through, creating a small hole that can be easily patched.
Yes, but the consumer would also not have to pay for garbage pickup, as the fee would pay for that.
Also, it will provide an incentive for companies to limit the amount of disposable parts in their products to lower their costs in order to better compete. If Burger King starts wrapping burgers in rapidly biodegrading materials, or using biodegradable plastics in their ketchup packets, they'll pay a lower disposal fee, which allows them to lower their prices, which gives them a competitive advantage.
This goes along with my ideal of internalizing all externalities to allow capitalism to function like it's supposed to.
Why not force manufacturers and service providers to pay for the waste they generate from their items? If McDonald's had to tack on a fee for every napkin or every Big Mac box, you can bet that they'd cut down a lot on waste to keep people from not being able to afford eating there.
I've yet to find a solution for the keychain password storage, but there's a plugin from Google called Google Browser Sync that I use to keep Firefox on my Powerbook and the mobile Firefox on my flash drive synchronized.
Not only that, but the number of plugins available for Firefox make it really worth it. Adblock and Greasemonkey and Web Developer and Firebug give me functionality that's simply not available with Safari or WebKit.
I've never understood this complaint with Chinese food, mostly because I've never experienced it myself. Yeah, it doesn't sit in your stomach like a lead weight, but it's not like you're hungry an hour later, right?
That reminds me of a Foxtrot cartoon where the kid was distributing random bits and that any resemblance to the source code to Windows XP was purely coincidental.
Already happened. In a recent interview, the recently signed band The Dresden Dolls disclosed they were making about $1500 a month touring. Jonathan Coulton, who released his music on his website where you can buy it with no DRM, is making more than that.
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The real issue is that an asteroid hunt doesn't employ people back home, so there's no reason for congressmen to support it. If it involved building huge arrays in the Midwest or Arizona desert and staffing them with hundreds of workers, I'm sure they'd be throwing money at it.
But really it just uses current technology and a few dedicated employees (who all look like nerds, and are therefore distrusted by the congressmen and citizenry alike). It's not big and sexy, so it's ignored.
On the Mac especially, OO.o isn't a viable replacement unless you use NeoOffice/J. And even then it's very un-Mac-like
Lemme guess; you've never helped a niece or nephew with math homework. They're not just grading on the answer now. They're grading on the method by which you achieved that answer. And I don't mean "do it in a way that I can understand," I mean "do it the way I taught it in class regardless of whether it's ass-backwards and over complicated or not"
It's really quite irritating to try to help a kid who understands things like adding and subtracting fractions but who doesn't get the method the teacher used.
I can only imagine how nitpicky private school parents are. I mean, public school parents are bad enough and they're not even paying for their kids' education!
The highest educated populations in the western world are the Scandinavian countries. There, motherhood, childcare, and educational professions are looked upon as great callings that have a huge influence on the future prosperity of the country. Therefore, it's easy to justify paying them well.
In the US, it seems that most valuable female is the one who looks like a dirty catholic schoolgirl and the most valuable male is the one who can best jump on top of other males in the mud while wearing tights. Teachers and child care workers are looked down upon as lazy.
So it's not as easy as method. We need to change the culture.
I'd like to be a teacher. Some of the greatest influences on my life have been teachers. I like teaching kids science and computers, and I've got a talent for it.
But I'll never be a teacher under current systems.
I'm not patient with kids who don't get it and insist on me walking them through everything. None of my favorite teachers were either. I'm not respectful of authority either, unless it's earned that respect. None of my favorite teachers were either. And if parents insist that little Taylor or Brittany didn't earn the C they got on the test, I'll tell them where they can shove their complaints. And I'm not about to waste my time teaching kids for a test. Some of the best lessons in life can't be tested. I'd reward kids for creativity, an inquisitive nature, the questioning of current thinking, and for making me look dumb. All the kinds of things my favorite teachers rewarded me for.
I feel that, in this current climate, I wouldn't last a year as that kind of teacher. In fact, two of my favorite teachers got fired after I had them because of complaints and friction with the administration. And they were replaced with robots designed to make more robots. Indeed, most of the teachers I remember fondly only lasted as long as they did because they produced results despite friction with the administration and parents.
I'm advocating the use of other software because it's been shown to be more secure. If you need windows, then you should have it installed. But that doesn't mean you have to use it all the time. By dual-booting or running it in a virtual machine you're limiting your exposure.
And take it from this Mac user, you can get by without any MS software on OS X. My parents are a special case because they've got legacy data and no will to buy replacement software.
Wine. VMWARE. Hell, dual boot the machine.
My dad had a similar problem. He wanted a Mac, but all of his financial software was in Windows. Now he boots into Windows once a week and does his financial stuff, then reboots back into OS X.
I've watched Youtube videos that were upwards of an 1.5 hours long. Mostly they're lectures that I wouldn't have seen otherwise. Also, I've downloaded several videos from Google Video to view on my iPod. Even blown up on my 32" TV they're perfectly adequate for communicating the message.
And I'm sure a lot of other people are going to find out the same thing. With my Vonage service, any peer-to-peer application results in poor sound quality thanks to the ridiculous upload speeds Comcast provides. And I'm sure it's just as bad using any other VoIP provider. I've had to use a cron job just to make sure BitTorrent doesn't gum up my phone service.
No matter how many people in my city want municipal WiFi, we can't get it. Why? Because Comcast and Verizon have made a deal with the state government where we have to ask their permission to roll out any municipal broadband.
I wrote a little Ruby on Rails app that does nothing more than help me record and calculate my fuel mileage. It took me about 20 minutes start to finish and it's exactly what I needed. Doing the same thing on a spreadsheet would have taken me the same amount of time, but now I can expand it in the future to let me send text messages to it to record mileage when I'm out and about.
Their tagline is "Software should be free"
Which they've trademarked...
Can someone explain what "democrat" means when used as an adjective? I've heard a similar term "democratic" used as an adjective. Maybe the adjective "democrat" means "the person saying this should get their head out of the punch bowl and stop drinking the kool aid."
Look at it this way: When a micro-meteorite hits a solid structure, it's likely to cause a lot more damage. It could dent the materials, ricochet off of them, or shatter cold metals.
With an inflatable structure, the micrometeorite is more likely to pass straight through, creating a small hole that can be easily patched.
Beckham is a poofter.
Besides, it wasn't just the slogans. They were threatened with a lawsuit for GIVING SOMEONE A CAR.
I particularly like the one where they do a road trip from Miami to New Orleans and conclude that nobody should ever travel to America.
And I completely agree, and I'm an American.
Yes, but the consumer would also not have to pay for garbage pickup, as the fee would pay for that.
Also, it will provide an incentive for companies to limit the amount of disposable parts in their products to lower their costs in order to better compete. If Burger King starts wrapping burgers in rapidly biodegrading materials, or using biodegradable plastics in their ketchup packets, they'll pay a lower disposal fee, which allows them to lower their prices, which gives them a competitive advantage.
This goes along with my ideal of internalizing all externalities to allow capitalism to function like it's supposed to.
Why not force manufacturers and service providers to pay for the waste they generate from their items? If McDonald's had to tack on a fee for every napkin or every Big Mac box, you can bet that they'd cut down a lot on waste to keep people from not being able to afford eating there.
I've yet to find a solution for the keychain password storage, but there's a plugin from Google called Google Browser Sync that I use to keep Firefox on my Powerbook and the mobile Firefox on my flash drive synchronized.
Not only that, but the number of plugins available for Firefox make it really worth it. Adblock and Greasemonkey and Web Developer and Firebug give me functionality that's simply not available with Safari or WebKit.
I've never understood this complaint with Chinese food, mostly because I've never experienced it myself. Yeah, it doesn't sit in your stomach like a lead weight, but it's not like you're hungry an hour later, right?
If you don't care enough to buy the shit, don't give them a reason to claim that nobody's buying because they're stealing it.
That reminds me of a Foxtrot cartoon where the kid was distributing random bits and that any resemblance to the source code to Windows XP was purely coincidental.
Already happened. In a recent interview, the recently signed band The Dresden Dolls disclosed they were making about $1500 a month touring. Jonathan Coulton, who released his music on his website where you can buy it with no DRM, is making more than that.