Short of being "liberated" by another country, we are screwed again.
I like alternative / speculative history and I've been thinking about demanding someone start a alt history series about northern tier states seceding to Canada to gain better health care, better government, more maple syrup, and more hot women (Canadian women are well known as beauties). The only downside I can think of, other than the rest of the states and the feds being REALLY pissed off at us, would be tensions about private ownership of firearms, deer hunting's practically a religion up here... Maybe its too obvious, not enough drama could exist, maybe its just a matter of time before it inevitably happens.
Mitt Romney's answers remind me of students who think that if they make an answer lengthy enough and yet stay away from saying anything concrete they can't get an answer right on a test. I guess no one ever told him it was always content that mattered and not quantity.
The TLDR of YOUR comment:
"Rmoney says a lot about nothing"
Nothing personal intended; the failure is mine for being unable to resist summarizing a complaint about excessive verbosity.
This was... far less blatantly biased than I was expecting...
Thanks, I put in a lot of effort to sh1t on both sides roughly equally, yet basically correctly represent their answers. If there's anyone on any side whom I failed to offend, I apologize. They're both awful candidates, in their own individual different ways, so its pretty easy to make fun of them both. I've always been a fan of Mencken, nothing I write is even 1/100th as good as him at his worst, but every day I try anyway...
Not really, both are pwned by the 1% corporate interests, so there are no "respective pwners" there is just one side represented.
What is different between them is one wants to destroy the middle class by destroying the government (Rmoney) and the other wants to destroy the middle class by expanding the government ('bama). The decision is selecting a method of assisted suicide for an entire culture, that being the american middle class. Its sort of important in the short run, but I agree in the long run both are roughly equally destructive.
AC we both "summarized" as you might see above. But did we actually read the same "debate"? Especially #14 and #2? Its almost as if we read two different debates... I got a whole different vibe off 'bama's #2 answer and especially Rmoney's #7 answer.
I don't think an attempt at neutrality makes any sense. 'Bama is a pretty good left of center pre-neo-conservative takeover republican and Rmoney is a caricature of Gordon Gekko from the movie. There is no representation of anywhere left of "traditional lefty-republican" and no representation of middle class interests. A portrayal of both as rightwing corporate pawns is not being slanted, its being accurate.
I especially like his response to climate change. He says it looks to him like humans are causing it but it's still up for debate. What a weasel.
Not so much weasel as a religious interpretation. They believe in something I waffle-ishly also believe in, but I'm not praying at their altar.
This is the same religious-style outlook that previous R had toward AGW, its just that his methods are toned way down rather than in the old days R candidates would froth at the mouth how AGW believers need a pogrom and/or drone strike on their place of worship. Now they're just, eh, live and let live, but I'm not getting baptized in their church anytime soon.
Its a religious outlook and response, not a scientific factual one.
The page is coming up slow. I hope it's already slashdotted, or else it's in for a rude awakening.
I got the GOOG cache and here's a summary
1) What policies will best ensure that America remains a world leader in innovation? with the assumption that innovation = science and technology and not financial scams like the last decade or so. El Presidente: wanna double funding, personally will prepare 100K STEM teachers, believes in that stupid idea of STEM shortage (aka wages are too high for postdocs) Rmoney: middle class needs to work harder, need more immigrants, lower taxes on corporations, reduce regulation, stronger enforcement of IP laws, govt research has been a disaster and I'll do exactly the same thing but more
2) Talk about climate change El Presidente: brags about how the economy has crashed thus the environment is cleaner. Rmoney: its probably important, but lets do nothing other than talk about it, followed by five minutes of hot air global warming. Does oppose carbon taxes
3) Priority to investment in research, pretty much #1 rephrased. El Presidente: pretty much #1 rephrased. Spend lots of money in stuff you like. Rmoney: pretty much #1 rephrased. I'll do the same thing as 'bama but smarter.
4) biowarfare FUD, does we luvs it or no? El Presidente: its very important Rmoney:I am a strong opponent of disease and btw did you know my opponent sucks?
5) Edumactiaon. Americans are about average at it. Whadda you think? El Presidente: Still believes education leads to the middle class, instead of lifetime student debt slavery. Dumb*ss. Also says we need more STEM people to push salaries lower and unemployment higher in STEM fields. Rmoney: teachers make too much money and if we just make them poorer by getting rid of the unions then the kids will be smarter.
6) Energy. Obviously Rmoney has more than 'Bama because his responses are always twice the length. Aside from that: El Presidente: I'm personally responsible for clean energy and I blue sky made up a plan that 20 years after I'm outta office the whole USA or whats left of it will be powered solely by sustainable, green, bioengineered unicorn tears. Rmoney: Did you know my opponent sucks? After we get rid of regulation, energy will be cheaper.
7) Food. Most people think american agribusiness sucks. What you say? El Presidente: I modernized the FDA so we spend more money. No results yet but I'm optimistic. Rmoney: Food safety is important and self regulation of industries is the best (editors editorial note, didn't this idiot read Upton Sinclair? how stupid is this guy?)
8) Water, Fresh, without human sh1t floating in it, preferably. Comments gentlemen? El Presidente: Spent a lot of money and created a lot of govt jobs, but I'm not talking about results, which is... weird Rmoney: if we remove regulation and laws we'll have more water
9) The internet, how will you gentlemen try to screw it up? El Presidente: I support everyone on every side of every issue fully with absolutely no specifics Rmoney: I will get rid of all regulation especially net neutrality while maintaining the status quo of monopoly providers
11) Public Policy Science. Pretty much #1 and #3 rephrased for all 3.
12) Space, the final frontier of govt spending or whatever: El Presidente: I take all the credit and I made some BS plan that won't take effect until decades after I'm gone and I'll continue to non-commitally "support" space Rmoney: Nasa needs to be scrapped and rebuilt more pragmatically
13) Natural resources. Pretty much #8 and #10 rephrased for all 3
14) Vaccination / public health, is health good or bad? El Presidente: thanks for the softball so I can brag about what my healthcare plan might accomplish in the future if all goes well. Rmoney: vaccines are nice, I love them, don't you too? we need less regulation of critical life support and advanced medical stuff.
Even basic input, the keyboard and mouse, haven’t really changed in any meaningful way over the years.
The trackball? The joystick (which seems to almost be dead hardware compared to a decade ago)
I'm more of a old-school RPG / military strategy guy but for FPS I've occasionally wondered what a right hand joystick left hand trackball FPS interface would be like. Foot pedals would be interesting for a FPS interface, not some annoying wii-type thing where you have to jog to force exercise, but just constant pressure to move or jump or strafe or whatever.
Many people are like this, it doesn't mean teachers are useless
Right on, I have little use for them personally, but a very similar analogy is I don't want to eliminate or de-fund eyeglasses, for example, just because they're not my thing. The main point was if you are teaching yourself, make sure to say ahead of the class and then class participation is a breeze, the claim that self teaching = no class participation is a false dilemma.
Right, and in the details of some articles and in the pastebin I read of the actual data release, they specify stuff like "home address" which would be pretty handy. However, all the PR journalist stuff is trumpeting the "UDID" above all else. Probably because they have no idea what it is?
Yeah, I'm sad to say I worked with a lot of those people in the provisioning dept at multiple telcos. Sometimes I think the provisioners assigned voice channels to T1 channel 25 just to F with the techs. Or maybe you're saying there's 28 T1 on a T3, which is correct.
An American T1 is 24 channels, for ISDN PRI running on that T1 that would be 23 B channels plus a D. You can bond multiple T1's full of B channels to a single D (what maybe 4 T1 worth of B channels per D? Its been over 15 years since I've done ISDN PRI stuff) so its not as simple as 23 channels per T1 times 28 T1 in a T3 equals a zillion B channels per T3.
This one is very important, look at page two "Examples Illustrating Definition of Disability" one of the examples used to define a disability was specifically to list autism, by name. Its kind of hard to wiggle out of "autism isn't a disability" when its specifically listed by name in regulation as an example of a legally protected disability. http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/regulations/upload/adaaa-summary.pdf
I mean when the EEOC uses your diagnosis as an example of what the law covers, its kind of hard to claim that example doesn't fit under the definition. Now my ingrown toenail was not listed by name, so I would have a fight in court to prove its a disability by definition, unlike your diagnosis.
Obviously your best bet is as per your own comment:
Accordingly, at the advice of my attorney
Yeah that'll probably work a hell of a lot better than the advice of some idiot on/. who none the less knows some people with autism and also knows how to use google really well. However if you haven't talked to your lawyer since 2008 when they passed the law, or 2011 when the EEOC released their new regulations specifically naming autism, maybe its time to talk again, or at least think about it?
Yeah... speaking of that, growing lumber trees and sawmills are not exactly new or high tech. Nor all manner of using wood as an industrial chemical feedstock. How come this is "new"? Perhaps, this is an interesting example of how something old and boring still has some exciting research potential in it.
The most interesting story related to this is probably why "we" haven't heard of this until 2012.
Unfortunately autism is not a legally protected disability in the United States
You need to do more research... or you're playing word games with "what is the meaning of the word is" or trolling for sympathy
so "coming out" to my coworkers, boss, HR, et al is much too big of a risk.
As a sysadmin you have to realize that a law is not like having a root password. Unless you have enough money to enforce the law, volunteer lawyer or friend lawyer or whatever, the law may as well not exist.
No doubt my coworkers must think I'm one of the strangest people they've ever met.
I've met some pretty strange people on the job, so I find this extremely unlikely. Or you're got really boring coworkers, this does happen. I've experienced that as a class the hard core drug addicts are pretty much all weirder than all of the disabled people I've ever met, so unless you're also an alkie or coke fiend or meth head there's a whole entire class of weirdos who will seem weirder than you. I've worked with autistic people and they're unusual (which is OK/cool) but the real weirdos have all been alkies and coke fiends and so on, a whole class of weirdness above the disabled people.
I'm very sensitive to the atmosphere in the workplace for example.
So work at home X percent of the time? Do you mean physical airborne atmosphere or emotional level?
Furthermore, a workweek of maybe 20-25 hours is the max for me.
For most of my "full time" coworkers that would be a heroic non-crunch time achievement. Do you mean 20 hours of "being in the building" with the usual ratio of 50% watercooler conversations about sports and TV / smoke breaks and 20% formal/informal meetings leaving about 6 hours of actual nose the the grindstone work, or 20 hours of actual nose to the grindstone work which would be pretty fabulous if anyone can actually do it?
I tried self-employment, but motivation and discipline are a bit hard to come by, and it's not something that will work for me long-term. In theory it's perfect, in practice not so much.
Partnership or small group is the way to go. Not 100000+ person megacorporation and not going it alone. Are people motivated to play MMORPGs because 1E6 other people they don't care about also play? No. Because the storyline (kill 15 bears and bring NPC the pelts!) is so amazing? No. Because their "friends" raid with them. Thats why.
this might nevertheless one day be seen as a watershed moment in the move from analogue telephone services to VOIP
You.au people skipped the whole TDM era? We had about 3 to 4 decades (depending on how you count it) of T carrier hierarchy with everything from old fashioned robbed bit signalling thru the D4/D5 channel bank ESF era thru "modern" ISDN PRIs in the 90s and 00s. The best thing about standards is there's so many competing ones, so non-USA has E1 service etc, same idea just different enough to increase profits.
Its hard to believe you guys would deliver, say, 100 phone lines to a business in 2012 using a bunch of pairs. I hope you at least E+M or groundstart signal instead of having to deal with loopstart glare.
Also I heard you.au people being in the southern hemisphere need to twist your twisted pair wires in the opposite direction of us northerners and/or your 66-block color code standard is the same as ours but upside down, so white/blue at the bottom, then white/orange 2nd to bottom, etc. I did have a satellite guy going once that you need to switch from LHCP to RHCP if you're running a ckt to the southern hemisphere vs north. I guess telecom hemisphere jokes aren't as funny as I hoped.
20 years ago trying to charge over 90 cents per page when a xerox was something like 4 cents resulted in one guy buying the book and everyone else carrying in stacks of photocopies. Traditionally the guy who bought the book and did the photocopying sold the copies for a six pack of beer, at least thats how we did it 20 years ago. Then he was obligated to host the "back to school party" using that beer. Anyway, as for homework, I would imagine one guy could print out the coded homework for everyone else or you just pass the laptop around at study sessions?
I'm sure this will eventually be "invented" by the current generation of college students and heralded as an amazing new innovation no one has ever thought of before... each generation of teens think their generation invented rebellion, music, sex, and now, photocopying, and of course the old fogies never did anything like what they're doing today... ha ha ha
I suppose the electronic countermeasure is to put quiz and tests online behind the purchased codes, but that sounds like a PITA for the professor...
insulting cops and guards was not right. i am a guard and work with the cops all the time and they tend to be really decent people. someone asking you to leave somewhere your not supposed to be
OK well the "jerks in general" is the folks who define and excessively enforce "somewhere your not supposed to be" to a pointless letter of the law, not an inherent component of the psychological makeup of all humans having a certain (security) job.
No one wants to take a nap in the worlds most crowded and busy parking lot, so there's an inherent advantage to finding a quiet mostly empty lot to sleep in that will offend no one by taking up space. Yes I would advise against pulling this stunt on "black friday" after thanksgiving, etc. You'd be crazy to park right near the entrance doors if there's a quiet far corner of the lot... Your average sleepy RVer wants to be as quiet and inoffensive to others as humanly possible in the hope that everyone else will reciprocate and leave him alone and let him sleep... the jerk part is people "in charge" bullying RVers solely because they are "fun" victims, fun to mess with and make suffer. Bullying people for the sheer joy of making them suffer is the kind of activity which leads to RVers dumping the blackwater tank as a going away present when ordered out of the parking lot, although its not right, I can see how people get angry enough to do it.
Some guards like RVers in the parking lot. The local meth heads will think twice about breaking into cars, if an RVer is sitting at his kitchen table eating breakfast while watching them prowl the lot. Also RVers are generally statistically less likely to be criminals than average, so it brings the level of the lot up, however slightly.
many truckers also sleep at the very same Walmart because
because walmart lives off the deliveries those guys make... you don't want to annoy them just for the pure bullying fun of it. Like it or hate it, it would be a very bad business decision to harass the guys who deliver your product. Similar to how the walmart lives (on a smaller scale) off the purchases those RVers make, so there's no point in offending them just for fun.
Overall the ecosystem works by far the best for everyone involved when the RVers pretend not to be camping thus behave as perfect silent non-disruptive neighbors and the guards pretend not to notice they're present as long as the RVers behave themselves. That way the next morning no one on either side has anything to complain about. From personal experience sadly walmart parking lots provide a better night's quiet rest than most RV parks.
So its not much more than a checksum of the serial num and the various RF ids. So given 5 pieces of information, the UDID is what amounts to a checksum of the other 4 parts proving that row of the database has no errors.
What it is, does not superficially seem to help much with what they do with it, but maybe it helps a little in isolating what it isn't (it isn't, for example, the itunes CC number for the account, or the owners SS number, so there's no point discussing those type of issues)
More or less the same here. I've never really learned anything non-trivial "from a teacher", learned all on my own or out of a book.
Which sucked for me in school because instructors demanded class participation.
Keep ahead of the class... I knew how to integrate by parts long before I sat in the boring lecture, so answering questions wasn't much of a challenge. Learning how to sit quietly while bored is good training for the workforce, we call it "meetings".
The "can't be easily" = budget. We heard the same story in our district, thats why the one air conditioned school got all the summer school sessions. Then after the usual management shakeup they decided to have SS at most schools, and simply installed window AC units. Electrical was not a problem... look at how much power a grid of 100 old fashioned overhead lights draw in each classroom. Turns out to be cheaper to upgrade the lights to low power efficient lights AND install AC units. Its actually become an issue in the winter because the old lights were basically a distributed couple KW electrical heater in each room and now they have much less heat in the winter. Luckily its cheaper to heat with natgas than electricity so they still save money, but the natgas bill going way up was a surprise.
Or you could also upgrade to 7 because it's plain and simply a better, more modern OS?
LOL for me its a video game bootloader not a OS. "better" is defined as boots faster or somehow magically makes the game better, apparently I better start looking into what I'll need for DX11 etc.
Must have extensive fallback support. On that list I've got bioshock, civ 5, ddo, sto, all of them work fine on XP. If the graphics would be visibly better, I'll have to look into what W7 requires.
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Short of being "liberated" by another country, we are screwed again.
I like alternative / speculative history and I've been thinking about demanding someone start a alt history series about northern tier states seceding to Canada to gain better health care, better government, more maple syrup, and more hot women (Canadian women are well known as beauties). The only downside I can think of, other than the rest of the states and the feds being REALLY pissed off at us, would be tensions about private ownership of firearms, deer hunting's practically a religion up here... Maybe its too obvious, not enough drama could exist, maybe its just a matter of time before it inevitably happens.
Mitt Romney's answers remind me of students who think that if they make an answer lengthy enough and yet stay away from saying anything concrete they can't get an answer right on a test. I guess no one ever told him it was always content that mattered and not quantity.
The TLDR of YOUR comment:
"Rmoney says a lot about nothing"
Nothing personal intended; the failure is mine for being unable to resist summarizing a complaint about excessive verbosity.
This was ... far less blatantly biased than I was expecting...
Thanks, I put in a lot of effort to sh1t on both sides roughly equally, yet basically correctly represent their answers. If there's anyone on any side whom I failed to offend, I apologize. They're both awful candidates, in their own individual different ways, so its pretty easy to make fun of them both. I've always been a fan of Mencken, nothing I write is even 1/100th as good as him at his worst, but every day I try anyway...
Not really, both are pwned by the 1% corporate interests, so there are no "respective pwners" there is just one side represented.
What is different between them is one wants to destroy the middle class by destroying the government (Rmoney) and the other wants to destroy the middle class by expanding the government ('bama). The decision is selecting a method of assisted suicide for an entire culture, that being the american middle class. Its sort of important in the short run, but I agree in the long run both are roughly equally destructive.
AC we both "summarized" as you might see above. But did we actually read the same "debate"? Especially #14 and #2? Its almost as if we read two different debates... I got a whole different vibe off 'bama's #2 answer and especially Rmoney's #7 answer.
I don't think an attempt at neutrality makes any sense. 'Bama is a pretty good left of center pre-neo-conservative takeover republican and Rmoney is a caricature of Gordon Gekko from the movie. There is no representation of anywhere left of "traditional lefty-republican" and no representation of middle class interests. A portrayal of both as rightwing corporate pawns is not being slanted, its being accurate.
I especially like his response to climate change. He says it looks to him like humans are causing it but it's still up for debate. What a weasel.
Not so much weasel as a religious interpretation. They believe in something I waffle-ishly also believe in, but I'm not praying at their altar.
This is the same religious-style outlook that previous R had toward AGW, its just that his methods are toned way down rather than in the old days R candidates would froth at the mouth how AGW believers need a pogrom and/or drone strike on their place of worship. Now they're just, eh, live and let live, but I'm not getting baptized in their church anytime soon.
Its a religious outlook and response, not a scientific factual one.
The page is coming up slow. I hope it's already slashdotted, or else it's in for a rude awakening.
I got the GOOG cache and here's a summary
1) What policies will best ensure that America remains a world leader in innovation? with the assumption that innovation = science and technology and not financial scams like the last decade or so.
El Presidente: wanna double funding, personally will prepare 100K STEM teachers, believes in that stupid idea of STEM shortage (aka wages are too high for postdocs)
Rmoney: middle class needs to work harder, need more immigrants, lower taxes on corporations, reduce regulation, stronger enforcement of IP laws, govt research has been a disaster and I'll do exactly the same thing but more
2) Talk about climate change
El Presidente: brags about how the economy has crashed thus the environment is cleaner.
Rmoney: its probably important, but lets do nothing other than talk about it, followed by five minutes of hot air global warming. Does oppose carbon taxes
3) Priority to investment in research, pretty much #1 rephrased.
El Presidente: pretty much #1 rephrased. Spend lots of money in stuff you like.
Rmoney: pretty much #1 rephrased. I'll do the same thing as 'bama but smarter.
4) biowarfare FUD, does we luvs it or no?
El Presidente: its very important
Rmoney:I am a strong opponent of disease and btw did you know my opponent sucks?
5) Edumactiaon. Americans are about average at it. Whadda you think?
El Presidente: Still believes education leads to the middle class, instead of lifetime student debt slavery. Dumb*ss. Also says we need more STEM people to push salaries lower and unemployment higher in STEM fields.
Rmoney: teachers make too much money and if we just make them poorer by getting rid of the unions then the kids will be smarter.
6) Energy. Obviously Rmoney has more than 'Bama because his responses are always twice the length. Aside from that:
El Presidente: I'm personally responsible for clean energy and I blue sky made up a plan that 20 years after I'm outta office the whole USA or whats left of it will be powered solely by sustainable, green, bioengineered unicorn tears.
Rmoney: Did you know my opponent sucks? After we get rid of regulation, energy will be cheaper.
7) Food. Most people think american agribusiness sucks. What you say?
El Presidente: I modernized the FDA so we spend more money. No results yet but I'm optimistic.
Rmoney: Food safety is important and self regulation of industries is the best (editors editorial note, didn't this idiot read Upton Sinclair? how stupid is this guy?)
8) Water, Fresh, without human sh1t floating in it, preferably. Comments gentlemen? ... weird
El Presidente: Spent a lot of money and created a lot of govt jobs, but I'm not talking about results, which is
Rmoney: if we remove regulation and laws we'll have more water
9) The internet, how will you gentlemen try to screw it up?
El Presidente: I support everyone on every side of every issue fully with absolutely no specifics
Rmoney: I will get rid of all regulation especially net neutrality while maintaining the status quo of monopoly providers
10) Remember #8, Water, Fresh? How bout Water, Salty?
El Presidente: Remember #8, Water, Fresh? Yeah ditto
Rmoney: Remember #8, Water, Fresh? Yeah ditto
11) Public Policy Science. Pretty much #1 and #3 rephrased for all 3.
12) Space, the final frontier of govt spending or whatever:
El Presidente: I take all the credit and I made some BS plan that won't take effect until decades after I'm gone and I'll continue to non-commitally "support" space
Rmoney: Nasa needs to be scrapped and rebuilt more pragmatically
13) Natural resources. Pretty much #8 and #10 rephrased for all 3
14) Vaccination / public health, is health good or bad?
El Presidente: thanks for the softball so I can brag about what my healthcare plan might accomplish in the future if all goes well.
Rmoney: vaccines are nice, I love them, don't you too? we need less regulation of critical life support and advanced medical stuff.
Even basic input, the keyboard and mouse, haven’t really changed in any meaningful way over the years.
The trackball? The joystick (which seems to almost be dead hardware compared to a decade ago)
I'm more of a old-school RPG / military strategy guy but for FPS I've occasionally wondered what a right hand joystick left hand trackball FPS interface would be like. Foot pedals would be interesting for a FPS interface, not some annoying wii-type thing where you have to jog to force exercise, but just constant pressure to move or jump or strafe or whatever.
Many people are like this, it doesn't mean teachers are useless
Right on, I have little use for them personally, but a very similar analogy is I don't want to eliminate or de-fund eyeglasses, for example, just because they're not my thing. The main point was if you are teaching yourself, make sure to say ahead of the class and then class participation is a breeze, the claim that self teaching = no class participation is a false dilemma.
Right, and in the details of some articles and in the pastebin I read of the actual data release, they specify stuff like "home address" which would be pretty handy.
However, all the PR journalist stuff is trumpeting the "UDID" above all else. Probably because they have no idea what it is?
The savings are great, just not so sure it would be worth the hassle.
Far in excess of $100/hr savings? Not many ways for a male engineering student to earn $100/hr, especially not standing in front of a photocopier....
ISDN T1 28 x 1.544 Mbit/s lines
Yeah, I'm sad to say I worked with a lot of those people in the provisioning dept at multiple telcos. Sometimes I think the provisioners assigned voice channels to T1 channel 25 just to F with the techs. Or maybe you're saying there's 28 T1 on a T3, which is correct.
An American T1 is 24 channels, for ISDN PRI running on that T1 that would be 23 B channels plus a D. You can bond multiple T1's full of B channels to a single D (what maybe 4 T1 worth of B channels per D? Its been over 15 years since I've done ISDN PRI stuff) so its not as simple as 23 channels per T1 times 28 T1 in a T3 equals a zillion B channels per T3.
Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008 as per http://www.autismpolicyblog.com/2011/03/americans-with-disabilities-act-new.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADA_Amendments_Act_of_2008
http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/newsroom/release/11-7-11a.cfm "Comfort Suites To Pay $132,500 For Disability Discrimination Against Clerk With Autism"
This one is very important, look at page two "Examples Illustrating Definition of Disability" one of the examples used to define a disability was specifically to list autism, by name. Its kind of hard to wiggle out of "autism isn't a disability" when its specifically listed by name in regulation as an example of a legally protected disability.
http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/regulations/upload/adaaa-summary.pdf
I mean when the EEOC uses your diagnosis as an example of what the law covers, its kind of hard to claim that example doesn't fit under the definition. Now my ingrown toenail was not listed by name, so I would have a fight in court to prove its a disability by definition, unlike your diagnosis.
Obviously your best bet is as per your own comment:
Accordingly, at the advice of my attorney
Yeah that'll probably work a hell of a lot better than the advice of some idiot on /. who none the less knows some people with autism and also knows how to use google really well. However if you haven't talked to your lawyer since 2008 when they passed the law, or 2011 when the EEOC released their new regulations specifically naming autism, maybe its time to talk again, or at least think about it?
....another crappy excuse to cut down trees.
Yeah... speaking of that, growing lumber trees and sawmills are not exactly new or high tech. Nor all manner of using wood as an industrial chemical feedstock. How come this is "new"? Perhaps, this is an interesting example of how something old and boring still has some exciting research potential in it.
The most interesting story related to this is probably why "we" haven't heard of this until 2012.
Unfortunately autism is not a legally protected disability in the United States
You need to do more research... or you're playing word games with "what is the meaning of the word is" or trolling for sympathy
so "coming out" to my coworkers, boss, HR, et al is much too big of a risk.
As a sysadmin you have to realize that a law is not like having a root password. Unless you have enough money to enforce the law, volunteer lawyer or friend lawyer or whatever, the law may as well not exist.
No doubt my coworkers must think I'm one of the strangest people they've ever met.
I've met some pretty strange people on the job, so I find this extremely unlikely. Or you're got really boring coworkers, this does happen. I've experienced that as a class the hard core drug addicts are pretty much all weirder than all of the disabled people I've ever met, so unless you're also an alkie or coke fiend or meth head there's a whole entire class of weirdos who will seem weirder than you. I've worked with autistic people and they're unusual (which is OK/cool) but the real weirdos have all been alkies and coke fiends and so on, a whole class of weirdness above the disabled people.
I'm very sensitive to the atmosphere in the workplace for example.
So work at home X percent of the time? Do you mean physical airborne atmosphere or emotional level?
Furthermore, a workweek of maybe 20-25 hours is the max for me.
For most of my "full time" coworkers that would be a heroic non-crunch time achievement. Do you mean 20 hours of "being in the building" with the usual ratio of 50% watercooler conversations about sports and TV / smoke breaks and 20% formal/informal meetings leaving about 6 hours of actual nose the the grindstone work, or 20 hours of actual nose to the grindstone work which would be pretty fabulous if anyone can actually do it?
I tried self-employment, but motivation and discipline are a bit hard to come by, and it's not something that will work for me long-term. In theory it's perfect, in practice not so much.
Partnership or small group is the way to go. Not 100000+ person megacorporation and not going it alone. Are people motivated to play MMORPGs because 1E6 other people they don't care about also play? No. Because the storyline (kill 15 bears and bring NPC the pelts!) is so amazing? No. Because their "friends" raid with them. Thats why.
this might nevertheless one day be seen as a watershed moment in the move from analogue telephone services to VOIP
You .au people skipped the whole TDM era? We had about 3 to 4 decades (depending on how you count it) of T carrier hierarchy with everything from old fashioned robbed bit signalling thru the D4/D5 channel bank ESF era thru "modern" ISDN PRIs in the 90s and 00s. The best thing about standards is there's so many competing ones, so non-USA has E1 service etc, same idea just different enough to increase profits.
Its hard to believe you guys would deliver, say, 100 phone lines to a business in 2012 using a bunch of pairs. I hope you at least E+M or groundstart signal instead of having to deal with loopstart glare.
Also I heard you .au people being in the southern hemisphere need to twist your twisted pair wires in the opposite direction of us northerners and/or your 66-block color code standard is the same as ours but upside down, so white/blue at the bottom, then white/orange 2nd to bottom, etc. I did have a satellite guy going once that you need to switch from LHCP to RHCP if you're running a ckt to the southern hemisphere vs north. I guess telecom hemisphere jokes aren't as funny as I hoped.
Don't any of you people cooperate?
20 years ago trying to charge over 90 cents per page when a xerox was something like 4 cents resulted in one guy buying the book and everyone else carrying in stacks of photocopies. Traditionally the guy who bought the book and did the photocopying sold the copies for a six pack of beer, at least thats how we did it 20 years ago. Then he was obligated to host the "back to school party" using that beer. Anyway, as for homework, I would imagine one guy could print out the coded homework for everyone else or you just pass the laptop around at study sessions?
I'm sure this will eventually be "invented" by the current generation of college students and heralded as an amazing new innovation no one has ever thought of before... each generation of teens think their generation invented rebellion, music, sex, and now, photocopying, and of course the old fogies never did anything like what they're doing today... ha ha ha
I suppose the electronic countermeasure is to put quiz and tests online behind the purchased codes, but that sounds like a PITA for the professor...
insulting cops and guards was not right. i am a guard and work with the cops all the time and they tend to be really decent people. someone asking you to leave somewhere your not supposed to be
OK well the "jerks in general" is the folks who define and excessively enforce "somewhere your not supposed to be" to a pointless letter of the law, not an inherent component of the psychological makeup of all humans having a certain (security) job.
No one wants to take a nap in the worlds most crowded and busy parking lot, so there's an inherent advantage to finding a quiet mostly empty lot to sleep in that will offend no one by taking up space. Yes I would advise against pulling this stunt on "black friday" after thanksgiving, etc. You'd be crazy to park right near the entrance doors if there's a quiet far corner of the lot... Your average sleepy RVer wants to be as quiet and inoffensive to others as humanly possible in the hope that everyone else will reciprocate and leave him alone and let him sleep... the jerk part is people "in charge" bullying RVers solely because they are "fun" victims, fun to mess with and make suffer. Bullying people for the sheer joy of making them suffer is the kind of activity which leads to RVers dumping the blackwater tank as a going away present when ordered out of the parking lot, although its not right, I can see how people get angry enough to do it.
Some guards like RVers in the parking lot. The local meth heads will think twice about breaking into cars, if an RVer is sitting at his kitchen table eating breakfast while watching them prowl the lot. Also RVers are generally statistically less likely to be criminals than average, so it brings the level of the lot up, however slightly.
many truckers also sleep at the very same Walmart because
because walmart lives off the deliveries those guys make... you don't want to annoy them just for the pure bullying fun of it. Like it or hate it, it would be a very bad business decision to harass the guys who deliver your product. Similar to how the walmart lives (on a smaller scale) off the purchases those RVers make, so there's no point in offending them just for fun.
Overall the ecosystem works by far the best for everyone involved when the RVers pretend not to be camping thus behave as perfect silent non-disruptive neighbors and the guards pretend not to notice they're present as long as the RVers behave themselves. That way the next morning no one on either side has anything to complain about. From personal experience sadly walmart parking lots provide a better night's quiet rest than most RV parks.
So what can you do with an Apple UDID?
Yeah that's a good question. As to what a UDID is:
http://theiphonewiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=UDID
UDID = SHA1(serial + IMEI + wifiMac + bluetoothMac)
So its not much more than a checksum of the serial num and the various RF ids. So given 5 pieces of information, the UDID is what amounts to a checksum of the other 4 parts proving that row of the database has no errors.
What it is, does not superficially seem to help much with what they do with it, but maybe it helps a little in isolating what it isn't (it isn't, for example, the itunes CC number for the account, or the owners SS number, so there's no point discussing those type of issues)
Guided self study works the best - for me anyway.
More or less the same here. I've never really learned anything non-trivial "from a teacher", learned all on my own or out of a book.
Which sucked for me in school because instructors demanded class participation.
Keep ahead of the class... I knew how to integrate by parts long before I sat in the boring lecture, so answering questions wasn't much of a challenge. Learning how to sit quietly while bored is good training for the workforce, we call it "meetings".
I wish our economy could figure out a way to hybridize capitalism with collectivism
We have, we privatize the gains and socialize the losses. Too big to fail.
The "can't be easily" = budget.
We heard the same story in our district, thats why the one air conditioned school got all the summer school sessions. Then after the usual management shakeup they decided to have SS at most schools, and simply installed window AC units.
Electrical was not a problem... look at how much power a grid of 100 old fashioned overhead lights draw in each classroom. Turns out to be cheaper to upgrade the lights to low power efficient lights AND install AC units. Its actually become an issue in the winter because the old lights were basically a distributed couple KW electrical heater in each room and now they have much less heat in the winter. Luckily its cheaper to heat with natgas than electricity so they still save money, but the natgas bill going way up was a surprise.
Or you could also upgrade to 7 because it's plain and simply a better, more modern OS?
LOL for me its a video game bootloader not a OS. "better" is defined as boots faster or somehow magically makes the game better, apparently I better start looking into what I'll need for DX11 etc.
Must have extensive fallback support. On that list I've got bioshock, civ 5, ddo, sto, all of them work fine on XP. If the graphics would be visibly better, I'll have to look into what W7 requires.