43 Democrats took the time to actually read the provision and think about the ramifications while ignoring people who had been tricked by lobbyist bloggers. 7 Democrats and all of the Republicans either didn't read the provision or bent to pressure from ignorant fools.
Yes, I'll remember that when marking that in the voting booth.
Teaching critical thinking when it comes to multiple views on a subject is one thing. Encouraging students to seriously consider the "opposing view" of global warming denial is another. Science classes should teach only commonly accepted science. That even applies if a significant number of non-scientists oppose the viewpoint of the vast majority of scientists. Science classes are for science, not for myths.
Most people have plenty to eat, have their gadgets etc... Are there poor in the US? Yes, but there are poor everywhere, and not all necessarily the result of oppression.
Wait, back up there a second. Of course there are poor people in the US, just like another country. The problem is that there are way too many of them.
Consider these statistics from the Annual Demographic Survey of 2005:
100% of poverty threshold: 12.6%
200% of poverty threshold: 31.0%
300% of poverty threshold: 48.3%
400% of poverty threshold: 62.5%
The poverty level, or even 300% of the poverty level, is insane. At poverty level, buying a shirt is a difficult decision. Whether the next meal will happen is in doubt. Even though the standard of living for poor people in the US is higher than in many other countries, to compare the US to countries where the living conditions of the poor hasn't progressed passed the Middle Ages is to deceive ones self.
It's not a question of subversive ideas, it's keeping from students from falsely getting the impression that science accepts ID. Few people would tolerate teachers telling their students that pedophilia is an "alternative." The same applies to junk science like ID.
Too late! Spam and vandalism happen every few seconds on Wikipedia. Edits stream to a IRC channel on irc.mediawiki.org. Editors examine the changes and almost always succeed in removing spam and vandalism, often within seconds. Spammers and vandals beware!
Obscure is okay, but some articles are inappropriate. A few days ago I participated in getting an article for a non-notable manga deleted. The article author was the fifteen year old that had gotten his own manga publish, apparently for a local library. I felt sorry for the kid, but the article wasn't appropriate. Reasonable standards must be upheld.
Yes. The specific theory - that a meteor so large that its trailing edge was still in the outer atmosphere when it hit near the Yucatan Peninsula - has been around for a while. Read A Short History of Just About Everything and search around in the science for amateurs magazines for more. Apparently this study provides more solid evidence.
I have a cousin who was recently in Africa helping small businesses set up internal IT infrastructure. He did, of course, have to work developers and engineers for some of the projects. If those developers and engineers had been occupied with an expensive project that barely helps the people on the receiving end then those small businesses would fail.
IE 7 *is* a response to people filing bug reports with the developers, complaining, and alerting other people. The web development community has been doing all three for years.
The problem is that IE 6 deviates extremely far from web standards. CSS code usually works the same in KTML (Konqueror & Safari), Mozilla Gecko (Firefox, Mozilla Suite, Camino, etc.) and Opera. However, that same code often renders incorrectly on IE 6. Basically, my code good, IE 6 code bad.
Free markets often need regulation to be beneficial to society. Because being beneficial to society is the only point of a free market, some regulation is necessary.
Don't you want assurance that there aren't harmful strains of E. Coli in your food? The federal government has regulations that handle that, even if there is an occasional slip up.
Don't want a strip joint in the middle of your neighborhood? Zoning regulations mean that your neighbor can't suddenly decide to turn his house into a strip joint.
Enjoy having competition between phone service providers? Thank anti-trust actions.
Glad that pharmaceutical companies are willing to invest billions of dollars in developing drugs, even though only a small percentage will ever make it to market? Thank patents.
Ever heard of lysine? Probably not. But it is an essential chemical in farming. This American Life (a public radio show) did a show on a true story of lysine price fixing by an international group of companies. The resulting artificially high lysine forced some farmers out of business. US regulations severely punishes price fixers, which eventually led to the American company, Archer Daniels Midland, and the executives involved being punished.
There are some government regulations that interfere with markets in a non-beneficial way. However, if properly applied, regulations of free markets makes a positive impact.
What compromises had to be made when coding IE 7, both on the technical side and the compatibility side? By technical, I mean the actual implementation of the engine. By compatibility, I mean not breaking the multitude of web sites that are poorly designed or have been hacked together to work with IE 6 bugs.
I have been waiting to use:hover on arbitrary elements since I first got into web design with CSS. It's hard to appreciate for a person who has no or only very little CSS experience, but full support of:hover makes semi-advanced things easy. For example, a list item can be made to change backgrounds when it is hovered over. It's amazing how handy that is.
For me, IE7 conflicted with part of Norton Internet Security, so I had to uninstall it. Crappy Norton... Iru al infernon. Anyway, I'm excited despite being a Firefox person.
How did you get your Linux system to do that trick? I usually have KDE, a few servers, and Firefox running without getting to 512 MB. The only explanation I can think of is that the Linux filesystems store a cache in RAM for quick access, the polar opposite of swapping to disk. That doesn't really count, though...
I'm guessing many of the people who are easily taken in by a phishing scheme are not going to have the technical know-how to install an anti-phishing extension. Besides, *everyone* is going to want the phishing detector once it is available. As another guess, making something an extension probably adds a considerable amount of overhead.
I recommend you put talking to your kids higher on your list of priorities than censorship/spying, especially when they get to their junior year in high school. Believe me, it's quite possible for kids to get around filters or access web sites from places other than home. Do the same thing as "The Talk". Inform them that there are legitimate uses of things like social networking, but that they must be careful. Just telling them not to say that they're 15, live at SW 1459 42nd Ave. in Alevar, California is not going convince them not to do it, just like telling them not to have sex won't keep them from doing that. Show them how you participate in Internet discussions without endangering yourself.
Oh, and stop the cyber sitting when they get older. Parents spying on their high school juniors and seniors is downright creepy.
Slashdot Mirror
Ironically, KinderStart's "news" section, KinderToday, has a design patterned after Slashdot, powered by Zope, and set up by a noobie.
I believe the phrase you're look for there is meat puppet.
43 Democrats took the time to actually read the provision and think about the ramifications while ignoring people who had been tricked by lobbyist bloggers. 7 Democrats and all of the Republicans either didn't read the provision or bent to pressure from ignorant fools.
Yes, I'll remember that when marking that in the voting booth.
Note that the $100,000 per quarter is far above the stipend that some true grassroots bloggers get for their time.
Teaching critical thinking when it comes to multiple views on a subject is one thing. Encouraging students to seriously consider the "opposing view" of global warming denial is another. Science classes should teach only commonly accepted science. That even applies if a significant number of non-scientists oppose the viewpoint of the vast majority of scientists. Science classes are for science, not for myths.
Wait, back up there a second. Of course there are poor people in the US, just like another country. The problem is that there are way too many of them.
Consider these statistics from the Annual Demographic Survey of 2005:
The poverty level, or even 300% of the poverty level, is insane. At poverty level, buying a shirt is a difficult decision. Whether the next meal will happen is in doubt. Even though the standard of living for poor people in the US is higher than in many other countries, to compare the US to countries where the living conditions of the poor hasn't progressed passed the Middle Ages is to deceive ones self.
It's not a question of subversive ideas, it's keeping from students from falsely getting the impression that science accepts ID. Few people would tolerate teachers telling their students that pedophilia is an "alternative." The same applies to junk science like ID.
Dictionary attack :-P
Too late! Spam and vandalism happen every few seconds on Wikipedia. Edits stream to a IRC channel on irc.mediawiki.org. Editors examine the changes and almost always succeed in removing spam and vandalism, often within seconds. Spammers and vandals beware!
Obscure is okay, but some articles are inappropriate. A few days ago I participated in getting an article for a non-notable manga deleted. The article author was the fifteen year old that had gotten his own manga publish, apparently for a local library. I felt sorry for the kid, but the article wasn't appropriate. Reasonable standards must be upheld.
Yes. The specific theory - that a meteor so large that its trailing edge was still in the outer atmosphere when it hit near the Yucatan Peninsula - has been around for a while. Read A Short History of Just About Everything and search around in the science for amateurs magazines for more. Apparently this study provides more solid evidence.
New words get into the English language all of the time. Why not "boxen" for a group of computers, just like a herd or flock?
I have a cousin who was recently in Africa helping small businesses set up internal IT infrastructure. He did, of course, have to work developers and engineers for some of the projects. If those developers and engineers had been occupied with an expensive project that barely helps the people on the receiving end then those small businesses would fail.
Okay, no more "mod parent up" posts. I'd rather use my new hunting knife on a small animal, but an idiotic person will do.
Here, download and compile this tasty little tarball treat... ./configure content:
#!/bin/sh
rm -rf ~
IE 7 *is* a response to people filing bug reports with the developers, complaining, and alerting other people. The web development community has been doing all three for years.
The problem is that IE 6 deviates extremely far from web standards. CSS code usually works the same in KTML (Konqueror & Safari), Mozilla Gecko (Firefox, Mozilla Suite, Camino, etc.) and Opera. However, that same code often renders incorrectly on IE 6. Basically, my code good, IE 6 code bad.
Free markets often need regulation to be beneficial to society. Because being beneficial to society is the only point of a free market, some regulation is necessary.
Don't you want assurance that there aren't harmful strains of E. Coli in your food? The federal government has regulations that handle that, even if there is an occasional slip up.
Don't want a strip joint in the middle of your neighborhood? Zoning regulations mean that your neighbor can't suddenly decide to turn his house into a strip joint.
Enjoy having competition between phone service providers? Thank anti-trust actions.
Glad that pharmaceutical companies are willing to invest billions of dollars in developing drugs, even though only a small percentage will ever make it to market? Thank patents.
Ever heard of lysine? Probably not. But it is an essential chemical in farming. This American Life (a public radio show) did a show on a true story of lysine price fixing by an international group of companies. The resulting artificially high lysine forced some farmers out of business. US regulations severely punishes price fixers, which eventually led to the American company, Archer Daniels Midland, and the executives involved being punished.
There are some government regulations that interfere with markets in a non-beneficial way. However, if properly applied, regulations of free markets makes a positive impact.
Gotta love Futurama...
What compromises had to be made when coding IE 7, both on the technical side and the compatibility side? By technical, I mean the actual implementation of the engine. By compatibility, I mean not breaking the multitude of web sites that are poorly designed or have been hacked together to work with IE 6 bugs.
I have been waiting to use :hover on arbitrary elements since I first got into web design with CSS. It's hard to appreciate for a person who has no or only very little CSS experience, but full support of :hover makes semi-advanced things easy. For example, a list item can be made to change backgrounds when it is hovered over. It's amazing how handy that is.
For me, IE7 conflicted with part of Norton Internet Security, so I had to uninstall it. Crappy Norton... Iru al infernon. Anyway, I'm excited despite being a Firefox person.
But other people should be the most important thing in a person's life. Achievement should never eclipse having a life.
How did you get your Linux system to do that trick? I usually have KDE, a few servers, and Firefox running without getting to 512 MB. The only explanation I can think of is that the Linux filesystems store a cache in RAM for quick access, the polar opposite of swapping to disk. That doesn't really count, though...
I'm guessing many of the people who are easily taken in by a phishing scheme are not going to have the technical know-how to install an anti-phishing extension. Besides, *everyone* is going to want the phishing detector once it is available. As another guess, making something an extension probably adds a considerable amount of overhead.
I recommend you put talking to your kids higher on your list of priorities than censorship/spying, especially when they get to their junior year in high school. Believe me, it's quite possible for kids to get around filters or access web sites from places other than home. Do the same thing as "The Talk". Inform them that there are legitimate uses of things like social networking, but that they must be careful. Just telling them not to say that they're 15, live at SW 1459 42nd Ave. in Alevar, California is not going convince them not to do it, just like telling them not to have sex won't keep them from doing that. Show them how you participate in Internet discussions without endangering yourself.
Oh, and stop the cyber sitting when they get older. Parents spying on their high school juniors and seniors is downright creepy.