The form will have to be filled and signed in person with a pencil, of course. Maybe Vaclav Havel should write a play about it.
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On related note, I would be really worried if a technician working on my server suddenly started mumbling something about patch Tuesday. That would either mean that someone installed Windows on my server without my knowledge, or that the technician cannot recognize Linux. Hard to say what would be worse.
Wow! It seems that these dudes somehow did not realize the days of communism are over. (Explanation: in communist countries, musicians generally had to report to some sort of party committee, and unregistered bands were illegal. Hm, chances are the guys in SAZAS are the very same ones that were on these committees.)
You may not be dishonest, but your reasoning is, nevertheless, faulty. The original claim you are arguing against was "democracy requires property rights". That is, "democracy -> property rights". Almost all of your examples can be used as counterexamples that will disprove the converse, "property rights -> democracy". However, validity of the converse has nothing to do with the validity of the original claim. Therefore most of your examples are simply irrelevant.
You may be a free thinker, but your thinking is invalid.
You still have to get the honey out of them combs, preferably in a non-destructive fashion. Centrifuge is out, until you get some mighty tolerant bees.
You simply convince the bees that it is an amusement park ride. They will look forward to it, even making more honey, so they can get to the centrifuge more often.
Both of those deals are supposedly as advantageous for RIAA as they are for Google (otherwise I highly doubt that RIAA would enter into those agreements with Google at the first place), so I don't think they are going to back out of those deals because of this one video.
I like energy research, plus (non-toll) roads and bridges. Agreed there.
Actually, I don't see any reason why roads and bridges should not be private and collect toll. The reason highways are maintained by federal government is that for example people in NY or DC seriously care about and depend on a freeway that goes through a backmountain county in PA or WV. The people who actually live in the county couldn't care less, they are all used to driving pickup trucks on mountain roads, so if you leave the maintenance to them, they will just let the roads to ruin. What would really make sense would be make the people who actually use the road to pay for it. Which means private toll road.
However:
Currently-federal parks can go private.
That would require them start making profit. How many national parks actually make profit? I believe the whole idea of national parks is to preserve some of the truly spectacular nature that we have in this country for our kids and grandkids. That is actually one of the few thing that I will gladly pay taxes for.
Local public schools can do the job without federal "assistance". The feds just take money and give it to schools. Um, if a state needs more money for its schools, they can raise it themselves, that's where most of the money comes from. There was a department of education for only a fraction of the history of public schools.
On this one I am in complete agreement. The bureaucracy in our school system is mind boggling, and stripping of several layers can only help.
No more low income housing? GREAT! Section 8ers get into the program as a result of horrible lifestyle choices and ruin any neighborhood that will let them in.
I do have a problem with this, mostly because I actually know something about the situation in this layer of society. It is true that there are number of cases in which people are where they are because of poor choices, but in overwhelming majority of cases these are people who are poor because of lack of qualification, or because of the background from which they came. It is very rarely because of choices, and in the case it is due to bad choices, many times people made these choices simply because they did not know any better. For example, I just encountered a high school student who wants to be an engineer and study at a top engineering school, and in order to pursue this dream, he takes bunch of welding, engine repair and similar classes at a local community college. He really does not know any better, has no idea what to do, how to go about getting himself to a top college, etc, and there is nobody in his environment who can help him with it. And this guy is actually one of he better cases, he at least figured out that he has to take classes at a local college because his school will not give him the education he needs. He is just taking all the wrong classes. Most kids from these neighborhoods have absolutely no clue what to do to be successful. They can work extremely hard once they figure it out, but unfortunately, most of them never do.
People who can't afford those places should move to where they *can* afford, rather than jumping the queue in front of people willing to pay for those spots. There is *always* affordable housing if you're willing to look; federal assistance just crowds out the prime spots.
Yes, because concentrating poor clueless people in large ghettos has proved so successful all over the word, right? If there is one thing we really do not want, it is bunch of large ghettos with bunch of people desperate enough to start serious rioting and burning your beautiful pristine neighborhoods in your prime spots down.
There are plenty of areas for cutting federal spending down, but national parks and housing assistance are not among them.
Ubuntu offers a fixed set of choices, none of them satisfactory for me. It is not that hard in Ubuntu, or Mint, to do things your own way, but it is definitely easier to do that in pure Debian. Trying to use for example fvwm2 and slim in OpenSUSE is total exercise in frustration, I tried that for about a year, and ended up running screaming back to Debian. You are correct saying that it is possible to use any wm and dm in most current desktop distros, but the GP is definitely correct stating that it is much easier in for example Debian than in the most of the other "mainstream" distros.
I disagree. I've seen some ridiculous communist/fascist loving stuff at University. I've seen people who "admire" Kim Jong-Il, and who "admire" Hitler, and who "admired" Mao.
I have been around various universities pretty much all my life, and I don't think I have ever seen a person who genuinely admired any of the dictators that you mention (except some communist fanatics at the communist government controlled university that I studied when I was young, and these people generally did not belong at a university, and were booted from their positions by the rest of the academic community soon after the revolution). I have seen people who studied Kim Jong-Il, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and others. I have also seen people who claimed to admire them, in order to shock or create controversy, both in university environments and outside.
These "leaders" killed millions of people in the name of truly evil ideologies, and they are typically tolerated at academic institutions.
If by tolerated you mean discussed and studied, you are right. You see, the thing about academia, the whole purpose of it is to figure out things and understand them, understand where they come from, what caused them, how can we recognize them when they come along next time, etc.
For example, UW Madison had its local paper run an ad by a Holocaust denier, because, "âoeno opinions or assertions can be so offensive that we cannot bring ourselves to hear them.â'
As much as I oppose holocaust deniers, I completely agree with the UWMs reasoning. And I am not the only only one, there is for example this famous quote by Salman Rushdie: âoeWhat is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to existâ. I think he speaks from experience. From an academic point of view, it is impossible to study an opinion or assertion, debate it and argue against it, without hearing it.
Also, UW Madison has *at least* one professor (Erik Olin Wright) who studies the "scientific" ideas of Stalin. A mass murderer by *any* standard. Probably the most prolific mass murderer in history.
Indeed, and that's exactly why we need to study his ideas. We need to understand what did the most prolific mass murderer in history think, how did he justify his actions and so on. If for no other reason, than at least in order to prevent others like him to gain power and attempt to repeat his actions. If you look around the world, there are plenty of people who would very much like to emulate Stalin, and no, most of them (if any) are in academia.
Scary to me that a Firefly poster would be considered the "worrying" document.
I completely agree with you on this. That is completely ridiculous. However, I think that it is not necessarily caused by either liberal or conservative point of view, as many people here argue. I think at the beginning it was simply a stupid business decision. I imagine that the administration on the university probably instructed the cops to be on a look out for certain keywords. I imagine that they are mostly worried that a student will read the poster, misunderstand it, mention it to parents, somebody will call in a reporter, it will be on the news, and bunch of complete idiots will say that someone (it does not matter who) at the university is threatening students, other bunch of complete idiots will believe it, the enrollment will drop, and since most income in state universities these days come from tuition, it will be an economic disaster for the school. I don't agree with that reasoning, I thing it is stupid, but unfortunately, you can see it at various state schools around the country all the time. The rest is just the cop being dumb. No need to spin it into some sort of "liberal bias" or "conservative bias" thing.
That the same thing with building a house. When contractor buys steel beams, he or she trusts the supplier that they are made according to the specification, and can really hold the weight that they are supposed to. And the foundation (sand, rock, 15 feet layer of rotting sawdust, mud etc) is there, there is nothing you can do about it, you just have to work with it.
I know what you mean, my first part time job as a code monkey when I was in college was working for a company that won a bid on a huge contract to provide some database solution for an entire country. The conditions of the contract were, among others: it had to be done in INFORMIX, and it had to run on some specific vendor's Unix workstations (I don't remember which vendor it was). The funny part was that on that particular system, INFORMIX crashed almost every time any extension written in C tried to allocate memory. I have been given this awesome INFORMIX manual about writing extensions in C, using that I produced some awesome code, guaranteed to be correct:), only to have it crash the entire database every time we tried ti run it. My boss had bunch of experiences programmers look at it, they laughed at me, fixed all the stupid mistakes I made, we tried it again, with the same result. Nobody could make it work. Several months later, INFORMIX people provided their own official version of the module. It was about 4 or 5 times longer than our code, beautifully formatted and commented, used the same algorithm as ours did, failed to handle several special cases that we tried to take care off, and... crashed in exactly the same way as our module. That was an interesting lesson to learn. I left the company soon after that, and when I checked about 20 years later, they were still working on that contract, they were maintaining the system they wrote, except it was done in Oracle instead.
I do not see any difference, from security standpoint, between a browser based application and a "native" application. Both of them have to be downloaded from somewhere, and executed on the local computer. The only difference is that browser based applications are easier to download and run, so it is more likely that a moron will run a malicious program if it is browser based.
When I peacefully protest or commit an act of peaceful civil disobedience, I fully expect to be charged for violating the law, and have legal charges brought against me. I expect to have to spend some time in jail, or pay a fine, if I break a law. What I do not expect, though, is having my face smashed into a parked car, being beaten by police officers for non-violently refusing to disperse, etc. I expect that my infractions against the legal system will be responded to withing the limits of the legal system.
Violent attacks against peaceful protesters is exactly the kind of police behavior that we usually heavily criticize when they are committed by police in various totalitarian regimes.
From the reactions of other posters, it seems that the submitter not only failed to specify which "9 a.m." he is talking about, he also didn't properly specify which "today" he is talking about.
I agree that is the students cannot understand the teacher, it is a serious problem. However, I don't think that is what TFA talks about. They are talking about people who already work as elementary or middle school teachers. They had to pass fair amount of teacher education classes and exams, and people that are completely unintelligible would be already filtered out. They are talking about people that have a noticeable accent, that could make them somewhat harder to understand, but not unintelligible. Good teachers are hard to find, and if any of my kids had a good teacher with an accent, and I learned that the school administration is giving the teacher a hard time because of the accent, I would personally raise a stink to high heaven, and give the administration hard time myself.
I agree with you that people who are bad teachers should not teach. However, my experience with American schools seems to tell me that accent is rarely the problem. My kids had some excellent teachers, some with a slight accent, but they also had some horrible teachers. The reason the teachers were so horrible had nothing to do with their accent or language, but with the fact that they either were mindbogglingly stupid, or they new absolutely nothing about the subject they were supposed to teach. My impression of the American education system is that these problems are both much more frequent and much more serious than problems with accents. In that light, policing teachers who have a "noticeable accent" and forcing them to take pronunciation classes seems to me at best a complete waste of resources and time.
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They did the same here, a while ago. Guess why I no longer buy my internet access from Comcast.
The form will have to be filled and signed in person with a pencil, of course. Maybe Vaclav Havel should write a play about it.
On related note, I would be really worried if a technician working on my server suddenly started mumbling something about patch Tuesday. That would either mean that someone installed Windows on my server without my knowledge, or that the technician cannot recognize Linux. Hard to say what would be worse.
Actually, if you know who sells D&D books right now, you are playing recent versions of D&D, which means you are NOT a geek.
Wow! It seems that these dudes somehow did not realize the days of communism are over. (Explanation: in communist countries, musicians generally had to report to some sort of party committee, and unregistered bands were illegal. Hm, chances are the guys in SAZAS are the very same ones that were on these committees.)
You may not be dishonest, but your reasoning is, nevertheless, faulty. The original claim you are arguing against was "democracy requires property rights". That is, "democracy -> property rights". Almost all of your examples can be used as counterexamples that will disprove the converse, "property rights -> democracy". However, validity of the converse has nothing to do with the validity of the original claim. Therefore most of your examples are simply irrelevant.
You may be a free thinker, but your thinking is invalid.
I AM a kind, responsible prof who tailors the tests to the course material.
You still have to get the honey out of them combs, preferably in a non-destructive fashion. Centrifuge is out, until you get some mighty tolerant bees.
You simply convince the bees that it is an amusement park ride. They will look forward to it, even making more honey, so they can get to the centrifuge more often.
What is this "curve" that everyone is talking about?
Both of those deals are supposedly as advantageous for RIAA as they are for Google (otherwise I highly doubt that RIAA would enter into those agreements with Google at the first place), so I don't think they are going to back out of those deals because of this one video.
I like energy research, plus (non-toll) roads and bridges. Agreed there.
Actually, I don't see any reason why roads and bridges should not be private and collect toll. The reason highways are maintained by federal government is that for example people in NY or DC seriously care about and depend on a freeway that goes through a backmountain county in PA or WV. The people who actually live in the county couldn't care less, they are all used to driving pickup trucks on mountain roads, so if you leave the maintenance to them, they will just let the roads to ruin. What would really make sense would be make the people who actually use the road to pay for it. Which means private toll road.
However:
Currently-federal parks can go private.
That would require them start making profit. How many national parks actually make profit? I believe the whole idea of national parks is to preserve some of the truly spectacular nature that we have in this country for our kids and grandkids. That is actually one of the few thing that I will gladly pay taxes for.
Local public schools can do the job without federal "assistance". The feds just take money and give it to schools. Um, if a state needs more money for its schools, they can raise it themselves, that's where most of the money comes from. There was a department of education for only a fraction of the history of public schools.
On this one I am in complete agreement. The bureaucracy in our school system is mind boggling, and stripping of several layers can only help.
No more low income housing? GREAT! Section 8ers get into the program as a result of horrible lifestyle choices and ruin any neighborhood that will let them in.
I do have a problem with this, mostly because I actually know something about the situation in this layer of society. It is true that there are number of cases in which people are where they are because of poor choices, but in overwhelming majority of cases these are people who are poor because of lack of qualification, or because of the background from which they came. It is very rarely because of choices, and in the case it is due to bad choices, many times people made these choices simply because they did not know any better. For example, I just encountered a high school student who wants to be an engineer and study at a top engineering school, and in order to pursue this dream, he takes bunch of welding, engine repair and similar classes at a local community college. He really does not know any better, has no idea what to do, how to go about getting himself to a top college, etc, and there is nobody in his environment who can help him with it. And this guy is actually one of he better cases, he at least figured out that he has to take classes at a local college because his school will not give him the education he needs. He is just taking all the wrong classes. Most kids from these neighborhoods have absolutely no clue what to do to be successful. They can work extremely hard once they figure it out, but unfortunately, most of them never do.
People who can't afford those places should move to where they *can* afford, rather than jumping the queue in front of people willing to pay for those spots. There is *always* affordable housing if you're willing to look; federal assistance just crowds out the prime spots.
Yes, because concentrating poor clueless people in large ghettos has proved so successful all over the word, right? If there is one thing we really do not want, it is bunch of large ghettos with bunch of people desperate enough to start serious rioting and burning your beautiful pristine neighborhoods in your prime spots down.
There are plenty of areas for cutting federal spending down, but national parks and housing assistance are not among them.
Ubuntu offers a fixed set of choices, none of them satisfactory for me. It is not that hard in Ubuntu, or Mint, to do things your own way, but it is definitely easier to do that in pure Debian. Trying to use for example fvwm2 and slim in OpenSUSE is total exercise in frustration, I tried that for about a year, and ended up running screaming back to Debian. You are correct saying that it is possible to use any wm and dm in most current desktop distros, but the GP is definitely correct stating that it is much easier in for example Debian than in the most of the other "mainstream" distros.
sitting in the basement eating carp guts?
They are probably made from ironwood. Or from the stuff boomerangs are made of.
I disagree. I've seen some ridiculous communist/fascist loving stuff at University. I've seen people who "admire" Kim Jong-Il, and who "admire" Hitler, and who "admired" Mao.
I have been around various universities pretty much all my life, and I don't think I have ever seen a person who genuinely admired any of the dictators that you mention (except some communist fanatics at the communist government controlled university that I studied when I was young, and these people generally did not belong at a university, and were booted from their positions by the rest of the academic community soon after the revolution). I have seen people who studied Kim Jong-Il, Hitler, Stalin, Mao and others. I have also seen people who claimed to admire them, in order to shock or create controversy, both in university environments and outside.
These "leaders" killed millions of people in the name of truly evil ideologies, and they are typically tolerated at academic institutions.
If by tolerated you mean discussed and studied, you are right. You see, the thing about academia, the whole purpose of it is to figure out things and understand them, understand where they come from, what caused them, how can we recognize them when they come along next time, etc.
For example, UW Madison had its local paper run an ad by a Holocaust denier, because, "âoeno opinions or assertions can be so offensive that we cannot bring ourselves to hear them.â'
As much as I oppose holocaust deniers, I completely agree with the UWMs reasoning. And I am not the only only one, there is for example this famous quote by Salman Rushdie: âoeWhat is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to existâ. I think he speaks from experience. From an academic point of view, it is impossible to study an opinion or assertion, debate it and argue against it, without hearing it.
Also, UW Madison has *at least* one professor (Erik Olin Wright) who studies the "scientific" ideas of Stalin. A mass murderer by *any* standard. Probably the most prolific mass murderer in history.
Indeed, and that's exactly why we need to study his ideas. We need to understand what did the most prolific mass murderer in history think, how did he justify his actions and so on. If for no other reason, than at least in order to prevent others like him to gain power and attempt to repeat his actions. If you look around the world, there are plenty of people who would very much like to emulate Stalin, and no, most of them (if any) are in academia.
Scary to me that a Firefly poster would be considered the "worrying" document.
I completely agree with you on this. That is completely ridiculous. However, I think that it is not necessarily caused by either liberal or conservative point of view, as many people here argue. I think at the beginning it was simply a stupid business decision. I imagine that the administration on the university probably instructed the cops to be on a look out for certain keywords. I imagine that they are mostly worried that a student will read the poster, misunderstand it, mention it to parents, somebody will call in a reporter, it will be on the news, and bunch of complete idiots will say that someone (it does not matter who) at the university is threatening students, other bunch of complete idiots will believe it, the enrollment will drop, and since most income in state universities these days come from tuition, it will be an economic disaster for the school. I don't agree with that reasoning, I thing it is stupid, but unfortunately, you can see it at various state schools around the country all the time. The rest is just the cop being dumb. No need to spin it into some sort of "liberal bias" or "conservative bias" thing.
Are you offering to buy me a smartphone or a tablet? Gee, thanks, that's really nice of you.
That the same thing with building a house. When contractor buys steel beams, he or she trusts the supplier that they are made according to the specification, and can really hold the weight that they are supposed to. And the foundation (sand, rock, 15 feet layer of rotting sawdust, mud etc) is there, there is nothing you can do about it, you just have to work with it.
I know what you mean, my first part time job as a code monkey when I was in college was working for a company that won a bid on a huge contract to provide some database solution for an entire country. The conditions of the contract were, among others: it had to be done in INFORMIX, and it had to run on some specific vendor's Unix workstations (I don't remember which vendor it was). The funny part was that on that particular system, INFORMIX crashed almost every time any extension written in C tried to allocate memory. I have been given this awesome INFORMIX manual about writing extensions in C, using that I produced some awesome code, guaranteed to be correct :), only to have it crash the entire database every time we tried ti run it. My boss had bunch of experiences programmers look at it, they laughed at me, fixed all the stupid mistakes I made, we tried it again, with the same result. Nobody could make it work. Several months later, INFORMIX people provided their own official version of the module. It was about 4 or 5 times longer than our code, beautifully formatted and commented, used the same algorithm as ours did, failed to handle several special cases that we tried to take care off, and ... crashed in exactly the same way as our module. That was an interesting lesson to learn. I left the company soon after that, and when I checked about 20 years later, they were still working on that contract, they were maintaining the system they wrote, except it was done in Oracle instead.
Notice like engineers are not actually the people who physically build bridges and buildings most of the time?
> What are you going to do, have all software put through mathematical proof? I'm not even sure it's in any way feasible...
That should not be too hard. In most software, the logical structure is actually really simple.
Maybe part of the reason is that the skilled professionals are actually liable for any damage that is due to their error or neglect?
I do not see any difference, from security standpoint, between a browser based application and a "native" application. Both of them have to be downloaded from somewhere, and executed on the local computer. The only difference is that browser based applications are easier to download and run, so it is more likely that a moron will run a malicious program if it is browser based.
And that's exactly why you do not use excessive force against somebody who is doing nothing but screaming very loudly!
When I peacefully protest or commit an act of peaceful civil disobedience, I fully expect to be charged for violating the law, and have legal charges brought against me. I expect to have to spend some time in jail, or pay a fine, if I break a law. What I do not expect, though, is having my face smashed into a parked car, being beaten by police officers for non-violently refusing to disperse, etc. I expect that my infractions against the legal system will be responded to withing the limits of the legal system.
Violent attacks against peaceful protesters is exactly the kind of police behavior that we usually heavily criticize when they are committed by police in various totalitarian regimes.
From the reactions of other posters, it seems that the submitter not only failed to specify which "9 a.m." he is talking about, he also didn't properly specify which "today" he is talking about.
I agree that is the students cannot understand the teacher, it is a serious problem. However, I don't think that is what TFA talks about. They are talking about people who already work as elementary or middle school teachers. They had to pass fair amount of teacher education classes and exams, and people that are completely unintelligible would be already filtered out. They are talking about people that have a noticeable accent, that could make them somewhat harder to understand, but not unintelligible. Good teachers are hard to find, and if any of my kids had a good teacher with an accent, and I learned that the school administration is giving the teacher a hard time because of the accent, I would personally raise a stink to high heaven, and give the administration hard time myself.
I agree with you that people who are bad teachers should not teach. However, my experience with American schools seems to tell me that accent is rarely the problem. My kids had some excellent teachers, some with a slight accent, but they also had some horrible teachers. The reason the teachers were so horrible had nothing to do with their accent or language, but with the fact that they either were mindbogglingly stupid, or they new absolutely nothing about the subject they were supposed to teach. My impression of the American education system is that these problems are both much more frequent and much more serious than problems with accents. In that light, policing teachers who have a "noticeable accent" and forcing them to take pronunciation classes seems to me at best a complete waste of resources and time.