I thought about this the other day, anyone know if they've ever tried splitting the smarter/average/dumb kids up into their own classes permanently from 5th or so through 12th
At my school, they did this from 7th to 12th (and for math in 6th). The split was per subject, so the strong math students were not necessarily the strong English students, though there was a large amount of overlap. I don't know if there's a critical mass of students required before this becomes practical - I was in a graduating class of approx 550. I was under the impression that it was reasonably common though.
Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending
Which to me amounts to: They'll come to our site with Firefox and not spend money! How dare they! If they want to come to our site and not spend money, we're going to force them to do it with IE!
The project seems to be doing pretty well with over 1,000 active participants, and plans to replicate it in other patent offices starting with the UK next year.
I'm having some trouble deciphering this. Should there be a "there are" between the words 'and' and 'plans'?
I'm not asking to be a PITA, I just want to make sure I understand it correctly.
I had thought the intent was more about fear than moneymaking on the part of the RIAA.
In other words, I had thought that it didn't matter so much to them whether or not they made money off of any given suit, but made people afraid that they might be the next target.
I was driving along a main road once, kind of late at night. One of the stores on a corner had this eerie purplish light on it, and my first thought was that someone coming down the side street had quad damage.
Lacking the flexibility to fuck myself, I'll have to resort to responding instead. Otherwise you might get the wrong impression about what my silence means.
When you strip out the accidental vs deliberate from the equation, we're still stuck with the fact the deaths due to terrorism, while not insignificant, pale beside deaths caused by some other things.
Yet those other things receive nowhere near the attention and funding to prevent that terrorism does. That to me makes the threat overblown. Don't confuse 'overblown' with non-existent. It just gets more attention than it merits.
Our vehicles are out to get us. They are plotting against us and are even willing to sacrifice themselves to kill a few of us. Calling the sentient automobile threat overblown is burying one's head in the sand.
In the US alone, a week will on average contain:
Sentient Vehicle Attacks: 115,000 Dead Bodies: 788 Critically Injured: Lots
And for a whole month: Sentient Vehicle Attacks: 500,000 Dead Bodies: 3400 Critically Injured: Lots * 4.3
These killings have been going on for years and are getting worse. The stated objective of the Sentient Vehicles is the total subjugation of the human race. It's a holy war, but we didn't start it. These are not the actions of a simple transportation machine. These are the actions of evil, murdering fucktards who consider mercy a weakness. They don't have any problems murdering women and children.
For the curious, I got my numbers from FARS and some car accident site. Neither one has 2007 data, and even though the charts show steady progression, I used rough estimate numbers that were probably a little bit low 10 years ago, so if anything the threat from these monstrosities is even worse than the picture I've painted.
The semantics in the US are different, but the practical end product is the same. You end up with a category of offenses that nobody really cares if you have on your record.
Actually, they are criminal offenses. If you ever take a closer look at the question, it's usually phrased something like "Have you ever been convicted of a crime (other than moving violations)?"
They're generally misdemeanors and are so prevalent that nobody treats it as a criminal record.
1. Postgres runs on, among other things, linux, and windows. 2. SOLARIS runs on, among other things, x86. 3. MySQL and Oracle run on, among other things, Solaris on a Sparc.
There is a basis for identical comparisons. I've done it.
OTOH, you got this one right:
The true question on any business person's mind is "how much to implement?"
As the parent of a mildly autistic child, this sounds brilliant.
It's all about PATIENCE. There are some behaviors that took enormous effort to drill into her. It required us providing consistent gentle reminders that some particular behavior was inappropriate. It does no good to get angry, it does no good to scream, these don't particularly register. It's very easy to get frustrated by the excessive repetitiveness.
If I have 50 claims, and 10 of them turn out to have merit, the lack of merit on the other 40 has no bearing on what remains. I might get into some trouble if those claims are pure BS rather than simply far-fetched, but there's no problems with reaching a little so long as you have something to base an argument on.
What happens though is that now RIAA et al need to defend against that claim. If it gets thrown out, so be it, she's no worse off than if she hadn't included it to begin with.
and, of course, IANAL, and would welcome corrections if necessary if one reads this.
I don't get why you had to make the distinction between an employee and a "citizen".
Because it's a much different issue if an employer wants to track their employees while they're supposed to be working than a government tracking its citizens. That the employer in question is the federal government should not matter.
Weird. When I scan resumes for potential interviews, someone with their GPA listed at the top typically goes in the inexperienced pile. It's generally the least useful piece of information available.
Then again, I'm rarely looking for candidates fresh out of school.
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I thought about this the other day, anyone know if they've ever tried splitting the smarter/average/dumb kids up into their own classes permanently from 5th or so through 12th
At my school, they did this from 7th to 12th (and for math in 6th). The split was per subject, so the strong math students were not necessarily the strong English students, though there was a large amount of overlap. I don't know if there's a critical mass of students required before this becomes practical - I was in a graduating class of approx 550. I was under the impression that it was reasonably common though.
Not only that, but this:
Demographics have shown that not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending
Which to me amounts to:
They'll come to our site with Firefox and not spend money! How dare they! If they want to come to our site and not spend money, we're going to force them to do it with IE!
From the summary:
The project seems to be doing pretty well with over 1,000 active participants, and plans to replicate it in other patent offices starting with the UK next year.
I'm having some trouble deciphering this. Should there be a "there are" between the words 'and' and 'plans'?
I'm not asking to be a PITA, I just want to make sure I understand it correctly.
Sure, SCO sued them after they asserted ownership of the UNIX copyrights. Novell could have sat back and watched the show if they wanted.
I had thought the intent was more about fear than moneymaking on the part of the RIAA.
In other words, I had thought that it didn't matter so much to them whether or not they made money off of any given suit, but made people afraid that they might be the next target.
I was driving along a main road once, kind of late at night. One of the stores on a corner had this eerie purplish light on it, and my first thought was that someone coming down the side street had quad damage.
I am certain nobody will complain about whoever the next president is.
If there's one thing I can guarantee, it's that this is plain wrong.
It doesn't matter who gets elected, the complaints never stop.
Or did your sarcasm just go completely over my head?
Don't you go raining on my smartass parade.
Because in Australia it is called maths, not math (if you consider that it's short for "mathematics" you'll see the logic).
So... it's short for mathsematic?
Lacking the flexibility to fuck myself, I'll have to resort to responding instead. Otherwise you might get the wrong impression about what my silence means.
When you strip out the accidental vs deliberate from the equation, we're still stuck with the fact the deaths due to terrorism, while not insignificant, pale beside deaths caused by some other things.
Yet those other things receive nowhere near the attention and funding to prevent that terrorism does. That to me makes the threat overblown. Don't confuse 'overblown' with non-existent. It just gets more attention than it merits.
Our vehicles are out to get us. They are plotting against us and are even willing to sacrifice themselves to kill a few of us. Calling the sentient automobile threat overblown is burying one's head in the sand.
In the US alone, a week will on average contain:
Sentient Vehicle Attacks: 115,000
Dead Bodies: 788
Critically Injured: Lots
And for a whole month:
Sentient Vehicle Attacks: 500,000
Dead Bodies: 3400
Critically Injured: Lots * 4.3
These killings have been going on for years and are getting worse. The stated objective of the Sentient Vehicles is the total subjugation of the human race. It's a holy war, but we didn't start it. These are not the actions of a simple transportation machine. These are the actions of evil, murdering fucktards who consider mercy a weakness. They don't have any problems murdering women and children.
For the curious, I got my numbers from FARS and some car accident site. Neither one has 2007 data, and even though the charts show steady progression, I used rough estimate numbers that were probably a little bit low 10 years ago, so if anything the threat from these monstrosities is even worse than the picture I've painted.
IIRC a satellite in a geosynch orbit is in sunlight for all but something like 10 minutes or so of a day.
Can't find a reference at the moment though.
IANAL, but...
A default judgment is kind of like a forfeit in sports. One side wins because the other side didn't show up.
The semantics in the US are different, but the practical end product is the same. You end up with a category of offenses that nobody really cares if you have on your record.
Actually, they are criminal offenses. If you ever take a closer look at the question, it's usually phrased something like "Have you ever been convicted of a crime (other than moving violations)?"
They're generally misdemeanors and are so prevalent that nobody treats it as a criminal record.
... except for that fraction of a percent that's immune to the drug and can breed anyway, and then we start all over again.
Is this a mis-parented comment, or did Hitler really complain about a 23 page pdf in 1942?
If so, got a reference?
This is wrong on a whole bunch of levels:
1. Postgres runs on, among other things, linux, and windows.
2. SOLARIS runs on, among other things, x86.
3. MySQL and Oracle run on, among other things, Solaris on a Sparc.
There is a basis for identical comparisons. I've done it.
OTOH, you got this one right:
The true question on any business person's mind is "how much to implement?"
As the parent of a mildly autistic child, this sounds brilliant.
It's all about PATIENCE. There are some behaviors that took enormous effort to drill into her. It required us providing consistent gentle reminders that some particular behavior was inappropriate. It does no good to get angry, it does no good to scream, these don't particularly register. It's very easy to get frustrated by the excessive repetitiveness.
The day my computer boots itself is the day I buy a gun.
I know I'm a geography impaired American, but does Spain count as continental Europe?
No, she should go for everything.
If I have 50 claims, and 10 of them turn out to have merit, the lack of merit on the other 40 has no bearing on what remains. I might get into some trouble if those claims are pure BS rather than simply far-fetched, but there's no problems with reaching a little so long as you have something to base an argument on.
What happens though is that now RIAA et al need to defend against that claim. If it gets thrown out, so be it, she's no worse off than if she hadn't included it to begin with.
and, of course, IANAL, and would welcome corrections if necessary if one reads this.
I don't get why you had to make the distinction between an employee and a "citizen".
Because it's a much different issue if an employer wants to track their employees while they're supposed to be working than a government tracking its citizens. That the employer in question is the federal government should not matter.
Which means the solution is as simple as changing Mars' core.
Weird. When I scan resumes for potential interviews, someone with their GPA listed at the top typically goes in the inexperienced pile. It's generally the least useful piece of information available.
Then again, I'm rarely looking for candidates fresh out of school.