Dean, interesting. Just finished reading some on him. Unfortunately he still supports an Assualt Weapons ban (where an assault weapon is described as a rifle with a pistol grip). Read here for some more http://www.factcheck.org/article115.html As for Zen Miller? I'm not sure he's the best example given the last election. He's also not running again.
But I'm curious now, are there any others? Or can you point me to a site that lists some more?
Better yet, lets get a comparison of where the kids are from. But lets not stop at the Red State-Blue State level. Lets actually look at the counties. I live in VA (Red State) but Northern VA where I live is Mostly Liberal (60+% in the last election). So lets get that kind of a breakdown as well. Add in the Economics of the family and race as well.
For example, shortly after 9/11, President Bush landed at Offut Air Force Base. All the news stations broke in to report that "Air Force One has landed in Omaha." Come on! Not wise.
To add, don't forget that thanksgiving 2003 the press asked where Bush was. The aides responded "Iraq" and the press thought that they were joking. They actually kept that secret.
Althought I do like this part: The White House has updated its account of an airborne conversation in which a British Airways pilot was said to have wondered into his radio if he had just seen Air Force One and was told that it was a Gulfstream 5, a much smaller plane. White House officials first said the British Airways pilot had talked with the Air Force One pilot. Bush aides now say the conversation occurred between the British Airways pilot and an air-traffic-control worker.
Those dirty conservatives, always attacking the Bill Of Rights. After all, it protects parades that promote crossdressing, gay sex and beastiality, but not guns... oh wait...
Tell me that last time you saw/heard of a Democrat at the national level standing up for Gun Ownership-Rights over Gun Control. Please. I can not remember one ever doing so.
The government is all about control. Why is it in my state (Virginia) that I am not allowed to have penis in vagina sex when I am legally bound in some kind of contract with a woman? What kind of freedom is that? Does the Patriot act ring a bell?
First off, I think you mean UNLESS you have a contract with a woman. That law was recently overturned. Also, I do not see how the Patriot act has anything to do with it.
As for other frivoulus lawsuits? My grandmother was called for jury duty because a guy decided to use his lawnmower as a hedgetrimmer. And lost some toes. The idiot was also wearing sandals at the time to boot. And Mayor Rugy Giuliany got called in for jury duty as well. I'll leave you to find out why, but it was thrown out of court.
Just to clarify, this sounds to me as though half of students actually disagree with the free press section of the first ammendment. The way this is worded it sounds like opinion - far more frightening than so many kids just being poorly educated!
I think we need to find out what parts of it that they think go to far.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Which part? Religion, Speech/Press, Assembly or Petitioning? I can skew that quote so many ways that it is quite meaning less.
I myself went to a private "alternative" high school in VA. Not going to post the link here as they have limited bandwidth. Our dresscode was "Under garments may not be showing". I carried around a pocket knife most days, the teachers knew this and sometimes asked to borrow it. We could be in rooms unsupervised, could eat anywhere we wanted to on campus and we had a shuttle where we could go to the local mall to eat without any supervision. We also called our teachers by our first name.
College was up in Connecticut at the University of Hartford A very liberal college where we even had former VP Al Gore there, in 2001/2002. I had one class with a professor that allowed us free reign with what we wrote and how we wrote (he was fairly liberal too). But as for thought and actions? Pretty much the entire school was run by the frats and kept any conservative/religious views to a minimum.
The atmospheres were pretty far apart as they go. I don't think it had anything to do with Liberal vs. Conservative, Republican vs Democrat or Religion vs. Anti-Religion (not aethies, I do know people who dislike organized religion). I think it mainly came to how people thought that things should be taught. Either A) they should have free reign (within reason) to make up their own decisions. or B) We must control everything so that they do not make the wrong decisions. Personally, I'm for (A) and have seen and read much about (B).
To add, there is a movie/musical called 1776 that was recently banned from public schools in my home county for the very minor thing of one of the characters saying that he "burns for his wife". This is a very liberal county by the way, (66+% by the last election returns). A couple of others I know are fairly certain that that was the excuse and the real reason was that it is too patriotic. (go figure) The school system just keeps getting more and more screwed up in this country. If I ever have any I'm gonna send them to a private school.
On a slightly related not, I sugest reading Higher Education by Sheffield Especially since you work in the public schools.
That said, the thing I would really like to have is a decent system for tracking where I'm looking that will work with anyone who sits down at the computer, no matter what their posture. With that in place, I want to replace all of the old window focusing schemes with "focus follows eyes." I'd still want to use the mouse for selecting text boxes and clicking on things, though
This reminded me of something I remember seeing a while back. It was this device for people with muscular dystrophy (md) so that they could type/talk. What it would do is track where their eyes are looking at on a 26 'key' 'keyboard' that was about 2 or 3 feet across (and about 4 feet from their head). There were two sensors that would track the eyes and interpret which letter they were looking at for input into the computer. They could get a letter/character every 2-3 seconds as I recal. Adding something like this to my computer in place of a mouse would be nice. If they could get the response time up quick enough. And by quick, I mean so that it takes me more time to move my mouse than it does to get this thing to do the action. Although, I don't think I would mind being able to play Quake with it either.
Do you honestly believe that if Microsoft gave away Windows and Office that those governments would take the money they saved and use it to open soup kitchens?
Nope, I just don't like it when people give out "statistics" like that without backing it up with cold hard numbers. With the numbers I can verify that what they are saying is correct. Without the numbers, I have only their say-so that the information is correct.
You don't need a right mouse button. Of course, you can use a mouse that has a right mouse button and a mouse wheel, and they all will be supported by Mac OS X, but you don't really need them (at least the right mouse button).
Dude, of course you need a right mouse button. And a scroll wheel. How else are you going to change weapons and use the alt-fire in Unreal and other FPSs?
The "consultants" on the project are rumored to charge in excess of $200/hr.
In the broadcast industry I know a consultant that charges $2,000/hr. Consultants generally charge a lot for two reasons. 1) They are highly trained specialists with 20+ years of experience. 2) They don't always have a contract and are self employed. (Taxes become much hihger in that case). On the other hand, this guy makes more in an hour than my boss does in a week.
Besides from what other posters have said it looks like it's not tied to any specific server.
Lets try a process of elimination. Since it doesn't appear to be tied to a single server, that leaves:
Hack/Virus
Internal Network (Swtiches/Routers)
Internet Connection
Power
In the cases of the Internal Connection (we are not talking your average consumer equipment here) if one or more network devices failed and they didn't have a backup that would cause them to fail.
Internet Connection: Backhoe outage? Someone cut the line to one of their server farms? This is assuming that there is more than one farm.
Power: The UPSs ran out of juice and the power still isnt up. Or someone hit the emergency power off and they are rebooting still.
the DOJ is trying to impose controls on Microsoft before they have even released the software. Doesn't that strike you as strange, in principle?
In principle, maybe. BUt think about IE/Netscape here and remember that along with WordPerfect/MS word. (MS is convicted of illegaly abusing the monopoly already, the DOJ has to make sure it doesn't happen again) Still, I'd have to think about that a lot more. However, in practicality it is the only way that they have a chance of enforcing the anti-trust setlement. Honestly, how much use is it going to be in Europe, with the EU requiring that MS release Windows without Media Player at the same cost as the regular windows. I don't know about most, but I see no reason (from any point of view) not to get the bundled version as opposed to the un-bundled version. That is one reason of practicality.
Another is that once MS relases it as a feature, the damaga has already been done. Once a feature has been included and already released, "the cat is out of the bag". People might use the new feature, they might not, but the DOJ can not require that MS no longer sell an OS with that feature. Think CD burning in this case. XP ships with it, I use NERO since I think it is a superior program (comes with the burners I purchase). However, John Doe is going to use whatever he already has (like with IE).
The last reason is to ensure that MS has proper third party support so that competitors have a chance. This is, to me, what I think they are trying to keep as their primary goal. They want the third parties to be able to compete with MS's other products as the settlement requires. If MS release the OS to begin with, it would screw over the competitors as MS would have to release a new version and or patches so that the third parties could (work/work as well) as the MS version since the MS version would automatically have access to all their APIs where the competitors would not. Hope I got my point across there.
As for software designed by commitee. Can't say much about that. But MS had to have agreed to something allowing this during the trial. Otherwise I don't think the DoJ could do it.
It's easy for the DoJ to review software that isn't out yet. The thing has been in alpha for years. And MS has already shiped demo versions to testers a year or two ago. As for further review, MS has continued to refine the programming (what, you think it takes only a month to program an OS?) and the DoJ is most likely reviewing the most recent build. They are probably also taking a look at what "features" and add ons MS intends to include in the OS.
If you want to stop the human influence on global warming, there's 2 options. Option one, convince 200 million americans to WALK or ride the bike. Option 2, remove a hundred million of them from the population pool. There's always 2 solutions, and if you cant convince them to change thier ways, a simple culling will do the job too.
Lets see, if we need to remove 1/3rd of the population of the USA, that would knock the population density down to 20 people per kilmoeter^2. That would mean that (among others) Iran would have to cut it's pop by half, Mexico and Ireland by over 60%, Ukraine, Spain and Greece by 75%, The entire European union on average would have to go down by over 80%, look for yourself, if the US needs an average of 20 people per km^2, well, we rank 175th in population density. Although, the Cities we have probably produce less polution than if we were spread out in the ones that have adequate mass transportation (like NY where very drive cars). As is by you numbers, we have to eliminate 377 million people in the EU.
What Michael did was real reporting, believe it or not
He said they were fake scientists. Provided no links or supporting info. Uses rhetoric in the summary with still no supporting info. How is this reporting?
and found that they were an industry-friendly group of scientists and "others" with a vested interest in seeding doubt of the Global Warming hypothesis.
Like it or not all scientists get funding from somewhere. As for them having a "vested interest", prove it. And then prove that the ones supporting GW do not. As much as these guys may (I say may because no one has provided info on it to me) get funding from industry, so do most pro-GW groups get funding from environmental groups. If you say that these guys change their conclusions to suit their funders, how can you not say the same about the pro-GW guys?
Any tremendously complex system is hard to understand key aspects of, but the evidence I've seen (such as the plots of CO2 concentrations vs temperature), the systems modeling I've done, and the exhaustive global modeling done by hundreds of scientists around the world supports this key aspect of global warming: we are its cause.
Correlation != Causation. We have records high CO2, so why do we not have record high temperatures that are higher than we have ever seen (as in going back over 10,000 years)? As for use being the cause of the warming, the sun has been warming up and putting out more solar radiation as I recal/. reporting. Also, we are at the end of an ice age. We've been warming up for a long time. You can't say that the warming is entirely due to man.
There is not that much money in GW research; the total is probably somewhere in the few billions. The oil companies spend far more than that every year on finding new ways to pump more oil.
A few billion is still a lot of money. Sure they could fund more, but they are funding it. I just read in the paper that Shell (i think it was) was supplying fuel cell vehicles to New York. As for a few billion being small, I don't here much about anyone else funding it even that much.
kudos to the/. editor for looking deeper than some corporate PR for a story
In some circles what he did what be called slander. As for it being a corporate PR sotry, isn't the second part on the other conference still a Corporate PR story? Most environmentalist groups are corporations. And they do a lot of PR. You can't admonish one wihtout the other. And, as I said above. He didn't post any links supporting anything he said. I will look into it. But I don't like it when people say stuff like that without providing any links at all.
What's interesting is that a WinX environment on linux might be a great gui environment. So far neither Gnome nor KDE is coming out ahead and neither is particularly user friendly to the noob (like me). Windows particularly excels in their interface which they could probably make money on selling in a linux environment.
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Dean, interesting. Just finished reading some on him. Unfortunately he still supports an Assualt Weapons ban (where an assault weapon is described as a rifle with a pistol grip). Read here for some more http://www.factcheck.org/article115.html As for Zen Miller? I'm not sure he's the best example given the last election. He's also not running again.
But I'm curious now, are there any others? Or can you point me to a site that lists some more?
Better yet, lets get a comparison of where the kids are from. But lets not stop at the Red State-Blue State level. Lets actually look at the counties. I live in VA (Red State) but Northern VA where I live is Mostly Liberal (60+% in the last election). So lets get that kind of a breakdown as well. Add in the Economics of the family and race as well.
For example, shortly after 9/11, President Bush landed at Offut Air Force Base. All the news stations broke in to report that "Air Force One has landed in Omaha." Come on! Not wise.
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To add, don't forget that thanksgiving 2003 the press asked where Bush was. The aides responded "Iraq" and the press thought that they were joking. They actually kept that secret.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/11/27/sprj.ir
Althought I do like this part: The White House has updated its account of an airborne conversation in which a British Airways pilot was said to have wondered into his radio if he had just seen Air Force One and was told that it was a Gulfstream 5, a much smaller plane. White House officials first said the British Airways pilot had talked with the Air Force One pilot. Bush aides now say the conversation occurred between the British Airways pilot and an air-traffic-control worker.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/20
Those dirty conservatives, always attacking the Bill Of Rights. After all, it protects parades that promote crossdressing, gay sex and beastiality, but not guns... oh wait...
Tell me that last time you saw/heard of a Democrat at the national level standing up for Gun Ownership-Rights over Gun Control. Please. I can not remember one ever doing so.
The government is all about control. Why is it in my state (Virginia) that I am not allowed to have penis in vagina sex when I am legally bound in some kind of contract with a woman? What kind of freedom is that? Does the Patriot act ring a bell?
First off, I think you mean UNLESS you have a contract with a woman. That law was recently overturned. Also, I do not see how the Patriot act has anything to do with it.
Federalist Papers
Anti-Federalist Papers
Have fun reading. This is what they meant.
Actually, the McDonalds one was partially true. http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A429950
As for other frivoulus lawsuits? My grandmother was called for jury duty because a guy decided to use his lawnmower as a hedgetrimmer. And lost some toes. The idiot was also wearing sandals at the time to boot. And Mayor Rugy Giuliany got called in for jury duty as well. I'll leave you to find out why, but it was thrown out of court.
Just to clarify, this sounds to me as though half of students actually disagree with the free press section of the first ammendment. The way this is worded it sounds like opinion - far more frightening than so many kids just being poorly educated!
I think we need to find out what parts of it that they think go to far.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Which part? Religion, Speech/Press, Assembly or Petitioning? I can skew that quote so many ways that it is quite meaning less.
what with people blatantly ignoring the freedom to own weapons, and the freedom from unreasonable search/seizure) ...
Seriously, what state are you from. And when was the last time you were in (among other places) Texas.
Very interesting.
I myself went to a private "alternative" high school in VA. Not going to post the link here as they have limited bandwidth. Our dresscode was "Under garments may not be showing". I carried around a pocket knife most days, the teachers knew this and sometimes asked to borrow it. We could be in rooms unsupervised, could eat anywhere we wanted to on campus and we had a shuttle where we could go to the local mall to eat without any supervision. We also called our teachers by our first name.
College was up in Connecticut at the University of Hartford A very liberal college where we even had former VP Al Gore there, in 2001/2002. I had one class with a professor that allowed us free reign with what we wrote and how we wrote (he was fairly liberal too). But as for thought and actions? Pretty much the entire school was run by the frats and kept any conservative/religious views to a minimum.
The atmospheres were pretty far apart as they go. I don't think it had anything to do with Liberal vs. Conservative, Republican vs Democrat or Religion vs. Anti-Religion (not aethies, I do know people who dislike organized religion). I think it mainly came to how people thought that things should be taught. Either A) they should have free reign (within reason) to make up their own decisions. or B) We must control everything so that they do not make the wrong decisions. Personally, I'm for (A) and have seen and read much about (B).
To add, there is a movie/musical called 1776 that was recently banned from public schools in my home county for the very minor thing of one of the characters saying that he "burns for his wife". This is a very liberal county by the way, (66+% by the last election returns). A couple of others I know are fairly certain that that was the excuse and the real reason was that it is too patriotic. (go figure) The school system just keeps getting more and more screwed up in this country. If I ever have any I'm gonna send them to a private school.
On a slightly related not, I sugest reading Higher Education by Sheffield Especially since you work in the public schools.
That said, the thing I would really like to have is a decent system for tracking where I'm looking that will work with anyone who sits down at the computer, no matter what their posture. With that in place, I want to replace all of the old window focusing schemes with "focus follows eyes." I'd still want to use the mouse for selecting text boxes and clicking on things, though
This reminded me of something I remember seeing a while back. It was this device for people with muscular dystrophy (md) so that they could type/talk. What it would do is track where their eyes are looking at on a 26 'key' 'keyboard' that was about 2 or 3 feet across (and about 4 feet from their head). There were two sensors that would track the eyes and interpret which letter they were looking at for input into the computer. They could get a letter/character every 2-3 seconds as I recal. Adding something like this to my computer in place of a mouse would be nice. If they could get the response time up quick enough. And by quick, I mean so that it takes me more time to move my mouse than it does to get this thing to do the action. Although, I don't think I would mind being able to play Quake with it either.
Excuse me while I go consult the "I Ching" to find out whether Microsoft intends to embed Internet Explorer in "Office 2007".
Since this is Microsoft and Bill Gates we are talking about, shouldn't you consult "Ka Ching" instead?
Do you honestly believe that if Microsoft gave away Windows and Office that those governments would take the money they saved and use it to open soup kitchens?
Nope, I just don't like it when people give out "statistics" like that without backing it up with cold hard numbers. With the numbers I can verify that what they are saying is correct. Without the numbers, I have only their say-so that the information is correct.
"Already, Brazil spends more in licensing fees on proprietary software than it spends on hunger".
Can anyone provide the numbers to back this up? Also, I would like to see about what the ratio is between the two.
You don't need a right mouse button. Of course, you can use a mouse that has a right mouse button and a mouse wheel, and they all will be supported by Mac OS X, but you don't really need them (at least the right mouse button).
Dude, of course you need a right mouse button. And a scroll wheel. How else are you going to change weapons and use the alt-fire in Unreal and other FPSs?
The "consultants" on the project are rumored to charge in excess of $200/hr.
In the broadcast industry I know a consultant that charges $2,000/hr. Consultants generally charge a lot for two reasons. 1) They are highly trained specialists with 20+ years of experience. 2) They don't always have a contract and are self employed. (Taxes become much hihger in that case). On the other hand, this guy makes more in an hour than my boss does in a week.
Besides from what other posters have said it looks like it's not tied to any specific server.
Lets try a process of elimination. Since it doesn't appear to be tied to a single server, that leaves:
Hack/Virus
Internal Network (Swtiches/Routers)
Internet Connection
Power
In the cases of the Internal Connection (we are not talking your average consumer equipment here) if one or more network devices failed and they didn't have a backup that would cause them to fail.
Internet Connection: Backhoe outage? Someone cut the line to one of their server farms? This is assuming that there is more than one farm.
Power: The UPSs ran out of juice and the power still isnt up. Or someone hit the emergency power off and they are rebooting still.
the DOJ is trying to impose controls on Microsoft before they have even released the software. Doesn't that strike you as strange, in principle?
In principle, maybe. BUt think about IE/Netscape here and remember that along with WordPerfect/MS word. (MS is convicted of illegaly abusing the monopoly already, the DOJ has to make sure it doesn't happen again) Still, I'd have to think about that a lot more. However, in practicality it is the only way that they have a chance of enforcing the anti-trust setlement. Honestly, how much use is it going to be in Europe, with the EU requiring that MS release Windows without Media Player at the same cost as the regular windows. I don't know about most, but I see no reason (from any point of view) not to get the bundled version as opposed to the un-bundled version. That is one reason of practicality.
Another is that once MS relases it as a feature, the damaga has already been done. Once a feature has been included and already released, "the cat is out of the bag". People might use the new feature, they might not, but the DOJ can not require that MS no longer sell an OS with that feature. Think CD burning in this case. XP ships with it, I use NERO since I think it is a superior program (comes with the burners I purchase). However, John Doe is going to use whatever he already has (like with IE).
The last reason is to ensure that MS has proper third party support so that competitors have a chance. This is, to me, what I think they are trying to keep as their primary goal. They want the third parties to be able to compete with MS's other products as the settlement requires. If MS release the OS to begin with, it would screw over the competitors as MS would have to release a new version and or patches so that the third parties could (work/work as well) as the MS version since the MS version would automatically have access to all their APIs where the competitors would not. Hope I got my point across there.
As for software designed by commitee. Can't say much about that. But MS had to have agreed to something allowing this during the trial. Otherwise I don't think the DoJ could do it.
It's easy for the DoJ to review software that isn't out yet. The thing has been in alpha for years. And MS has already shiped demo versions to testers a year or two ago. As for further review, MS has continued to refine the programming (what, you think it takes only a month to program an OS?) and the DoJ is most likely reviewing the most recent build. They are probably also taking a look at what "features" and add ons MS intends to include in the OS.
If you want to stop the human influence on global warming, there's 2 options. Option one, convince 200 million americans to WALK or ride the bike. Option 2, remove a hundred million of them from the population pool. There's always 2 solutions, and if you cant convince them to change thier ways, a simple culling will do the job too.
_ population_density
Lets see, if we need to remove 1/3rd of the population of the USA, that would knock the population density down to 20 people per kilmoeter^2. That would mean that (among others) Iran would have to cut it's pop by half, Mexico and Ireland by over 60%, Ukraine, Spain and Greece by 75%, The entire European union on average would have to go down by over 80%, look for yourself, if the US needs an average of 20 people per km^2, well, we rank 175th in population density. Although, the Cities we have probably produce less polution than if we were spread out in the ones that have adequate mass transportation (like NY where very drive cars). As is by you numbers, we have to eliminate 377 million people in the EU.
Source of pop density: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by
What Michael did was real reporting, believe it or not
/. reporting. Also, we are at the end of an ice age. We've been warming up for a long time. You can't say that the warming is entirely due to man.
/. editor for looking deeper than some corporate PR for a story
He said they were fake scientists. Provided no links or supporting info. Uses rhetoric in the summary with still no supporting info. How is this reporting?
and found that they were an industry-friendly group of scientists and "others" with a vested interest in seeding doubt of the Global Warming hypothesis.
Like it or not all scientists get funding from somewhere. As for them having a "vested interest", prove it. And then prove that the ones supporting GW do not. As much as these guys may (I say may because no one has provided info on it to me) get funding from industry, so do most pro-GW groups get funding from environmental groups. If you say that these guys change their conclusions to suit their funders, how can you not say the same about the pro-GW guys?
Any tremendously complex system is hard to understand key aspects of, but the evidence I've seen (such as the plots of CO2 concentrations vs temperature), the systems modeling I've done, and the exhaustive global modeling done by hundreds of scientists around the world supports this key aspect of global warming: we are its cause.
Correlation != Causation. We have records high CO2, so why do we not have record high temperatures that are higher than we have ever seen (as in going back over 10,000 years)? As for use being the cause of the warming, the sun has been warming up and putting out more solar radiation as I recal
There is not that much money in GW research; the total is probably somewhere in the few billions. The oil companies spend far more than that every year on finding new ways to pump more oil.
A few billion is still a lot of money. Sure they could fund more, but they are funding it. I just read in the paper that Shell (i think it was) was supplying fuel cell vehicles to New York. As for a few billion being small, I don't here much about anyone else funding it even that much.
kudos to the
In some circles what he did what be called slander. As for it being a corporate PR sotry, isn't the second part on the other conference still a Corporate PR story? Most environmentalist groups are corporations. And they do a lot of PR. You can't admonish one wihtout the other. And, as I said above. He didn't post any links supporting anything he said. I will look into it. But I don't like it when people say stuff like that without providing any links at all.
You lost me when you said "Go to a gym"
What's interesting is that a WinX environment on linux might be a great gui environment. So far neither Gnome nor KDE is coming out ahead and neither is particularly user friendly to the noob (like me). Windows particularly excels in their interface which they could probably make money on selling in a linux environment.