Ahh, so only a parent who is an "Adult of God as well as a Child of God" can properly supervise their children?
No. Sorry about the imprecision. What I was trying to convey thereby was that just being a "Child of God" is not sufficient qualification to supervise children.
I would have thought my saying "I don't support the values they want to instill" or my comment on values failing under scrutiny might have made my attitude about Xians clear. I'm a lot closer to Wiccan than Catholic these days, and either way mainly find $DEITY less useful as something to pray to, and more for swearing at (in preference to my coworkers, which might get me in trouble).
Mind you, I'd say the problem of Adult supervision of children is about as bad with "Child of the Goddess" parents as well, but they at least seem better about taking responsibility for the results of their own incompetence, rather than blaming the sex and violence on TV for how the little weasels turn out.
But at least we aren't intolerant!
Now, now, my intolerance applies equally to all humans, not just to non-Christians. =)
Booting to safe mode helps. Spybot & Adaware help. If you use XP Pro, figure out what folders they install to and changing the permissions from "Inherited from parent" to "Everyone: Deny All" to reduce reinstallation-- whack the mole, then fill in the mole hole with concrete. =)
Sorting %SYSTEMROOT% and %SYSTEMROOT%\.. by file creation date, and looking for suspicious groupings helps, if you're bright enough to recognize and ignore legitimate Windows patch components. Having a clean and safe laptop to Google for unrecognized suspicious DLLs and EXEs helps. Manually changing the labels on HKLM\S\M\W\CV\R keys to sort the harmless from the vile helps. (I prepend "abb3wOK--" to each name; those that insist on fixed "FOO" names I create a empty key named "FOO--abb3wOK".)
All that said, if the system has been spyware infested over three months, reinstalling from CDROM or DVDROM is the most time efficient.
...the emphasis is not only on 'anything [...] that would "oh so damage" their children'. They also worry about what little Johnny, who lives next door and whose parents use the TV as a baby sitter, is going to learn and teach to their darling little angels.
I do see some of their concern... but disagree with both premises and conclusions. I don't support the values they want to instill, and I don't think censorship is the way to do it. When raising kids, you need to instill both values and judgement. Part of judgement is making sure little Suzy learns that not everyone around them shares the same values, and that just because little Johnny next door does something, doesn't mean it's right or smart. Explain to little Suzy that no, she may not watch South Park, she can watch Nova (or the 700 Club, or whatever). Lay down the rules early, relax them gradually as they grow up, and make sure they remember: My House, My Roof, My Rules. Adult supervision would solve so many of these problems... assuming the head of the household is an Adult of God as well as a Child of God.
Of course, if your values cannot withstand scrutiny, you will have a problem once little Suzy leaves the isolation of the home and church. An incident with ex-Jehova's witness who had dyed her hair purple (above and below) streaking my second year college dorm room colorfully made sure I'd remember that for a long time....
The question is this: how many of these are viable contenders in the market[s] shared by Solaris and Windows?
SuSe, backed by Novel, is a viable contender. Mandrake and Debian are not utterly out of the running. And the multitude of contenders in the wings will leave anyone trying to wipe Linux off the map in a protracted whack-a-mole (or penguin) game. For that matter, the BSD *nix flavors ought not be ruled out ofthe running, although they're more of a long shot and largely non-commercial.
On the other hand, if a time traveller were to call me and tell me that in five years a Linux distribution would wipe out either Windows or Solaris and asked me to guess which distro did it... I'd guess Red Hat. (I'd also guess Solaris.)
Conclusion: Use freeware products like Spybot and Lavasoft's Ad-Aware SE Personal.
Lavasoft's Adaware is free for personal use. They also have a pay version, which may be used in a corporate or educational environment, or by those who have a burning desire to give Lavasoft money to support their efforts in the war against spyware.
Would Disney have been able to create Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, etc, if the inspirations for those works had not been in the public domain?
Very possibly. After all, 1963's "The Sword in the Stone" and 1985's "The Black Cauldron" were both based on works still under copyright. However, it would have been much less economical for them. Licenses can be purchased... but only by those few who already are rich, which limits the ability of new artists to grow their skills by working in part from the talents of others before standing upright on their own.
...DO make sure that your current school has ABET or similar caliber accreditation for the program. If there's no accreditation, that's something that even the most cosmetic HR checks will notice before the interview, and almost certainly kick the resume off the consider list.
Your learning environment should make you push yourself a little. If you're able to go through your program doing homework only Monday through Thursday, spending the whole weekend smashed on recreational pharmaceuticals, and still maintaining a 4.0, your current program isn't pushing you enough. (This is not a random example.) A transfer might help with that, although other methods might be more economical. Most professors can find a ready (if unpaid) nitche in their research for a bright student looking for a chance to stretch themselves. Doing so provides a chance to challenge yourself, put some useful padding onto the resume, and possibly even get someone who would be delighted to give you a recommendation. If a miracle occurs, you might even get some money in the process, but don't hold your breath.
Well, there's potential for this, in that several jurisdictions might be wanting your well-tanned hide at once for trying this, and there's not enough of your skin to go around, even if you're at the high end of the binodal geek weight distribution.
Would you buy a ticket if it cost twice what they do now?
For most things, no. For this, maybe. The market would be limited; probably a single weekend run, three weekends max. However, tickets for the "Trillogy Tuesday" were higher than average-- listed at $50 (IIR), and scalped on EBay anywhere from $100 up to $800 (some popular theatre in LA).
Also remember, theatres don't get much of the ticket cover; 15% maybe, if their distribution agent is a seriously hot negotiator; 5-10% more often. They'd probably be up for it if long movies had intermissions again; while the logistics of letting people in and out of the theatre are tricky, that gives moviegoers time to buy more snacks. Popcorn is where the real money is-- legal, addictive, cheap and easy to make, and sells at a 1000% markup-- most of which is on the paper tub.
but im sure there would be a problem if they let you work for a while and didnt pay you, cause:
"Your honor, (s)he clearly wrote 'Won't Agree' on the signature line. (s)he never agreed to the contract.
Depends on whether that "Won't Agree" is on the contract itself, or the non-compete/non-disclosure/invention-release side agreement. If it's all one big contract, Mr. Won't probably has a problem. However, at my last couple jobs it's been lots of separate codicils to the main contract.
So the ISO date format seems to have been developed as a workaround to the deficiencies of computer software.
It's not that computers can't sort dates, it's that it's more code (and thus more potential for eerors). The ISO method provides a simple standard that was clear, unambiguous (Is 12/11/04 December 11, or November 12? I've people in my office who go either way.), and not-so-incidentally algorithmically easy to sort.
yes, I consider "m/d/y" to be as moronic as everyone else.
Since the current convention is obviously Broken As Designed, why not fix it with something that is not only not broken, but allows for algorithmic simplicity?
The Old Grey Lady has a columnist saying Slashdot makes sense. We're letting rednecks play with antimatter. We voted the idiot-in-chief back into office. And the Canuck immigration website is reporting an order of magnitude increase in traffic.
Sometimes it is because ads can be read ambiguously, but often the HR person or Reqs writer really is clueless. A former housemate laughingly pointed out the requirement for "Five years or more experience with FooWare" (don't recall the package). The package had gone gold fifty months before the ad went out. So, the only people who could get such a job were the 20 people on the development team, and the 50 people (including my housemate) who were in the very first outside beta.
So using the Latin phrase "Et al." in general use makes someone pompous or a pretentious twit?
No, you've mixed up the cause and the effect, the disease and the symptom. Being a pompus or pretentious twit can make someone use "Et alia" in general use.
Of course, refering to your logical fallacy as cum hoc ergo propter hoc would also probably qualify as another symptom. =)
We need robot republicans. It's not that hard to program, republicans don't believe in moral ambiguity or accountability. So you don't even have to program the fuzzy logic thing.
Y'know, that would explain a lot about this administration....
Of course, this isn't an absolute correlation; Bush also took seven of the twelve states with the lowest rates. I suspect it's mostly due to a regional correlation of both, er, problems. =)
The Latin phrase "et al" means "and other people" and doesn't belong outside of a bibliography.
I think you are mistaken about the exact meaning. If we're picking nits, first off "Et al" should be written "Et al." since it is an abbreviation for "Et Alia", just as "etc" is properly "etc." (short for "et cetera"). Second, while the usual usage is to denote "and other people", strictly speaking it is Latin for "and others" only; so, "alia" might also denote "other places" (or other things). So, while the use of it in the original context (or yes, most anywhere outside of a bibliography) marks the poster as likely a pompus or pretentious twit, strictly speaking the usage is grammatically and semantically correct.
(Mommy was an English and a Latin teacher; God, how high school sucked.)
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No. Sorry about the imprecision. What I was trying to convey thereby was that just being a "Child of God" is not sufficient qualification to supervise children.
I would have thought my saying "I don't support the values they want to instill" or my comment on values failing under scrutiny might have made my attitude about Xians clear. I'm a lot closer to Wiccan than Catholic these days, and either way mainly find $DEITY less useful as something to pray to, and more for swearing at (in preference to my coworkers, which might get me in trouble).
Mind you, I'd say the problem of Adult supervision of children is about as bad with "Child of the Goddess" parents as well, but they at least seem better about taking responsibility for the results of their own incompetence, rather than blaming the sex and violence on TV for how the little weasels turn out.
But at least we aren't intolerant!
Now, now, my intolerance applies equally to all humans, not just to non-Christians. =)And steal our milk money, too.
I thought it was "A fool and his money are some party."
Sorting %SYSTEMROOT% and %SYSTEMROOT%\.. by file creation date, and looking for suspicious groupings helps, if you're bright enough to recognize and ignore legitimate Windows patch components. Having a clean and safe laptop to Google for unrecognized suspicious DLLs and EXEs helps. Manually changing the labels on HKLM\S\M\W\CV\R keys to sort the harmless from the vile helps. (I prepend "abb3wOK--" to each name; those that insist on fixed "FOO" names I create a empty key named "FOO--abb3wOK".)
All that said, if the system has been spyware infested over three months, reinstalling from CDROM or DVDROM is the most time efficient.
I do see some of their concern... but disagree with both premises and conclusions. I don't support the values they want to instill, and I don't think censorship is the way to do it. When raising kids, you need to instill both values and judgement. Part of judgement is making sure little Suzy learns that not everyone around them shares the same values, and that just because little Johnny next door does something, doesn't mean it's right or smart. Explain to little Suzy that no, she may not watch South Park, she can watch Nova (or the 700 Club, or whatever). Lay down the rules early, relax them gradually as they grow up, and make sure they remember: My House, My Roof, My Rules. Adult supervision would solve so many of these problems... assuming the head of the household is an Adult of God as well as a Child of God.
Of course, if your values cannot withstand scrutiny, you will have a problem once little Suzy leaves the isolation of the home and church. An incident with ex-Jehova's witness who had dyed her hair purple (above and below) streaking my second year college dorm room colorfully made sure I'd remember that for a long time....
Something around 280ish currently in English.
The question is this: how many of these are viable contenders in the market[s] shared by Solaris and Windows?
SuSe, backed by Novel, is a viable contender. Mandrake and Debian are not utterly out of the running. And the multitude of contenders in the wings will leave anyone trying to wipe Linux off the map in a protracted whack-a-mole (or penguin) game. For that matter, the BSD *nix flavors ought not be ruled out ofthe running, although they're more of a long shot and largely non-commercial.
On the other hand, if a time traveller were to call me and tell me that in five years a Linux distribution would wipe out either Windows or Solaris and asked me to guess which distro did it... I'd guess Red Hat. (I'd also guess Solaris.)
Ah. So it's not sending an arsonist after a murderer, it's sending a lynch mob?
Lavasoft's Adaware is free for personal use. They also have a pay version, which may be used in a corporate or educational environment, or by those who have a burning desire to give Lavasoft money to support their efforts in the war against spyware.
Very possibly. After all, 1963's "The Sword in the Stone" and 1985's "The Black Cauldron" were both based on works still under copyright. However, it would have been much less economical for them. Licenses can be purchased... but only by those few who already are rich, which limits the ability of new artists to grow their skills by working in part from the talents of others before standing upright on their own.
Mind you, it's still a bad law.
Your learning environment should make you push yourself a little. If you're able to go through your program doing homework only Monday through Thursday, spending the whole weekend smashed on recreational pharmaceuticals, and still maintaining a 4.0, your current program isn't pushing you enough. (This is not a random example.) A transfer might help with that, although other methods might be more economical. Most professors can find a ready (if unpaid) nitche in their research for a bright student looking for a chance to stretch themselves. Doing so provides a chance to challenge yourself, put some useful padding onto the resume, and possibly even get someone who would be delighted to give you a recommendation. If a miracle occurs, you might even get some money in the process, but don't hold your breath.
Well, there's potential for this, in that several jurisdictions might be wanting your well-tanned hide at once for trying this, and there's not enough of your skin to go around, even if you're at the high end of the binodal geek weight distribution.
What, are you suggesting that planting your Fedora box will get you a Hat Tree?
For most things, no. For this, maybe. The market would be limited; probably a single weekend run, three weekends max. However, tickets for the "Trillogy Tuesday" were higher than average-- listed at $50 (IIR), and scalped on EBay anywhere from $100 up to $800 (some popular theatre in LA).
Also remember, theatres don't get much of the ticket cover; 15% maybe, if their distribution agent is a seriously hot negotiator; 5-10% more often. They'd probably be up for it if long movies had intermissions again; while the logistics of letting people in and out of the theatre are tricky, that gives moviegoers time to buy more snacks. Popcorn is where the real money is-- legal, addictive, cheap and easy to make, and sells at a 1000% markup-- most of which is on the paper tub.
Depends on whether that "Won't Agree" is on the contract itself, or the non-compete/non-disclosure/invention-release side agreement. If it's all one big contract, Mr. Won't probably has a problem. However, at my last couple jobs it's been lots of separate codicils to the main contract.
It's not that computers can't sort dates, it's that it's more code (and thus more potential for eerors). The ISO method provides a simple standard that was clear, unambiguous (Is 12/11/04 December 11, or November 12? I've people in my office who go either way.), and not-so-incidentally algorithmically easy to sort.
yes, I consider "m/d/y" to be as moronic as everyone else.
Since the current convention is obviously Broken As Designed, why not fix it with something that is not only not broken, but allows for algorithmic simplicity?
Wake me in September 2008.
No, you've mixed up the cause and the effect, the disease and the symptom. Being a pompus or pretentious twit can make someone use "Et alia" in general use.
Of course, refering to your logical fallacy as cum hoc ergo propter hoc would also probably qualify as another symptom. =)
Y'know, that would explain a lot about this administration....
Of course, this isn't an absolute correlation; Bush also took seven of the twelve states with the lowest rates. I suspect it's mostly due to a regional correlation of both, er, problems. =)
Well, drat. On to plan B, then.
I think you are mistaken about the exact meaning. If we're picking nits, first off "Et al" should be written "Et al." since it is an abbreviation for "Et Alia", just as "etc" is properly "etc." (short for "et cetera"). Second, while the usual usage is to denote "and other people", strictly speaking it is Latin for "and others" only; so, "alia" might also denote "other places" (or other things). So, while the use of it in the original context (or yes, most anywhere outside of a bibliography) marks the poster as likely a pompus or pretentious twit, strictly speaking the usage is grammatically and semantically correct.
(Mommy was an English and a Latin teacher; God, how high school sucked.)