Given that homeschooling can include replacing science with biblical tracts, the teaching of science with the teaching of how the Koran calls for female clitorectomies (which it dows _not_, but go to Afghanistan right now to see what is being taught in villages without schools), mathematics with how to grow poppies and practice the heroin trade (again, especially in Afghanistan right now), "bring your daughter to work" day with "how to put on weight and be a beautiful Tonga woman", I submit that home schooling by itself guarantees nothing.
Homeschooling can be wonderful, when the parent or the tutor is a gifted teacher and has the time. But you seem to have an idealized vision of home schooling that isn't grounded in the abuses that have occurred in some instances.
How many intelligent "commune" children fell prey to cults, failed to discipline themselves enough upon reaching adulthood to retain a job, or found themselves unable to deal with the little paperwork issues or social behaviors demanded of people without mommy and daddy to do that for them? Homeschooling can be of as poor quality as public schooling, with less monitoring or testing to make sure abuse or neglect does not occur. And a parent doing this themselves has less opportunity to consult other experienced teachers, especially in small, modern families where few relatives stay in touch.
There are ways to deal with the results of the social isolation: I appreciate the Amish tradition of sending their children on a years's sabbatical to see what life in the rest of the world is like, before they accept the Amish life. But it's not automatically better for all, or even most kids, to learn this "unschooling" way.
Einstein evaluated patents, which is one of the most glaringly dull jobs there is most of the time, with occasional moments of delight. He was also married and had children. If you think he didn't have to do some dishes, change some diapers, and try to fix a toilet now and then, you have a very distorted idea of married life with children. And as a Jew living in Berlin, before the war, you'd better believe he learned some harsh lessons in when to shut up and do what he was told.
Other activities help. Eating lunch with your team is very helpful. Expressing a polite interest in their weekends, or in their families, and remembering their birthdays is amazingly helpful.
The occasional Quake tournament on company computers, especially if you can play 'psdoom' on a throwaway environment, can be quite amusing.
I'm sorry, but please return to Physics 101. _Force_ on a point mass is just that, force, it adds energy, momentum, and excitement to high-energy physics. _Pressure_ on a point mass would be nearly irrelevant due to the small cross section, but force on a small mass is what makes bullets more dangerous than bricks. But unfortunately, there is no such thing in the real world as a "point mass". There are quanta, but those can be described as having an effective radius due to Schroedinger's indertiminacy effects. These effectively "fuzz" small enough objects, as the energy to measure their teeny edges affects them more and more.
That bit about "the gradient is so low for gravity" can, in fact, cause noticeable effects. It creates tides.
First, because the man will have probably have to wear chilled underwear all day. Testicles do not dangle in zero gee, so they reach an unusually high temperature and fertility drops considerably.
Second, at least according to the astronaut who spoke in college years ago, most if not all of the women in space were either past menopause, or had had hysterectomies. That wasn't just to avoid fertility issues: according to her, menstruation upon return to earth nearly killed the first Soviet female astronaut. She kept bleeding and required extensive medical support to survive. It's been years since: perhaps NASA has learned some lessons to ease the problems, but hormonal swings of any sort among very busy, very overworked astronauts is asking to waste a lot of time and a lot of taxpayer money.
I predict a run on software for hands-free texting in Texas. Even though I consider it as bad as using a cell phone, and I'm shocked at the number of people on the cell phone while driving these days: I spent a recent harrowing hour on a journey to a partner site, riding with a VIP in his very nice venture-capital funded BMW, wanting to leap out the window and run screaming for a much safer cab as he spent the hour chatting on his Bluetooth phone instead of paying attention to the road.
It led me to understand how he'd gotten to be a VP: blinding focus on what he wanted, whenever he wanted it, and complete obliviousness to the lives or progress of anyone else. And I always arranged to work with people below his level from his department, because they'd learned to work around his obliviousness. He tried to take credit for all the work, too: I made sure my peers and supervisor knew exactly whom to work with to actually get anything done properly in the future.
No, no, it runs on _cold_ fusion. That's only 2 years away, right? Peter Hagelstein has been writing that kind of letter, article, and review of scientific papers for over a decade now. But they keep accidentally publishing his work in the "science fact" section, rather than the "short fiction" categories.
Replace and save the hard drive for legal analysis, with a good chain of ownership in case of lawsuits.
I'd also be concerned about electromechanical key loggers. Governors handle some very sensitive data, and should not have their keystrokes logged. But scrubbing the drives with a good Linux live CD makes them safe enough for casual use.
That would have blocked one important announcement I received recently. "Everyone in 'my town' needs to boil their water due to high bacteria count. Check this website or call this number for more information."
That one, I wanted to get and was happy to have on my answering machine. But it didn't hang up when it discovered I had an answering machine, it left a message.
Because they're mostly scammers who will lie and cheat on their taxes, and many of them have their call centers where the US doesn't collect taxes and are likely to just move there. They're also likely to be state taxes, which are tricky to enforce for interstate traffic such as telephone and Internet sales.
More effective might be changes in phone rates. A clear contract with the telephone company that forbids such behavior, along with a stiff and federally and internationally permitted hefty financial tariff by the _phone companhy_ for violations, would add a significant cost to many such businesses. And penalize the phone companies for permitting it, penalize them _hard_.
It would put tracking the behavior in the hands of the people who gain the most now by abuse (the phone company selling phone time) and replace it with incentive to stop such behavior. Right now, the phone company has no reason to stop this behavior. They're happy to sell the time, even at the ludicrously low business rates for such companies it's just money to them.
And it will mess with your credit rating. Having half-a-dozen cards stolen over the course of a few years is a very good indication to banks that you're a good credit risk to a bank, even if it's merely a risk of your wasting their time and money this way.
Because in any reasonably sized encironment, the likelihood of large insertions of inappropriate material grows to a certainty. And while I have no issue with it being an administrator-driven command to obliterate such material, for example under the 'svnadmin' command, it should not require the hours of dump and rebuild time necessary for even a modest sized, 10 Gig software repository, to delete a single accidentally stored core file or ISO image that may accidentally comprise more than 10% of its bulk.
It is one of the most requested features for Subversion. Subversion is the _only_ contemporary source control that has no graceful means to actually delete data. There has been no progress towards it in 8 years. That tells me they made a very, very bad original assumption about how things work, similar to the one they made about storing user passwords in cleartext, silently.
I'm not so certain about what will happen when. The planet is a gas giant: it won't exactly shatter. When it starts losing enough mass, or the mass nearest the sun is heated by the sun to the point where it causes noticeable gaseous pressures, I expect serious excitement.
As I said, I want to bring popcorn to this event: it should be exciting.
When it reaches the corona, I want to bring popcorn. The denser solar atmosphere should massively increase the orbital deceleration, and I think it's going to be _spectacular_. Considering the amount of radiation that thing is going to put out in such a cataclysmic event, we should be able to microwave the corn from lightyears away. It'll be as amazing as a more distant supernova, and we should be able to watch it happen in far more detail with time to focus the bigger cameras and telescopes.
> The term race or racial group usually refers to the categorization of humans into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of heritable characteristics.[1]
Then look at the third line:
> Conceptions of race, as well as specific ways of grouping races, vary by culture and over time, and are often controversial for scientific as well as social and political reasons.
And the article goes on. It's interesting reading in light of your points raised. I suspect that you're caught at the point of denying the very existence of the concept, because it has so often been wildly misused. That's socially laudable, but linguistically confusing when you or I can point to plenty of examples of "race" in the people around us worldwide. "Ethnicity" is a better word, but it's simply too long. Personally, I prefer to acknowledge that the concept exists so that I can acknowledge and try to manage its effects.
No, the 'Cajun' are too genetically mixed, from too many nations and cultures. French-Canadian? Not sure, don't know many.
Ethnicity may be a better word, but ignoring the word "race" for such groups is ignoring common usage. Like insisting that centripetal force does not exist, it will get you ignored a lot in the real world.
And Citrix's failure to follow through with Xen's primarily GPL development path is a big problem with their purchase of Xen. I also suspect it is a big factor in why RedHat is openly espousing KVM over Xen, although they still nominally support Xen.
Sir or madam, I *KNOW* that someone malicious will try to steal by laptop and backups and on-line access. They're the warrentless and provocation-free goons at the NSA and the FBI, the script kiddy who borrows her dad's computer and pokes around the work network inside the VPN with it, the idiotic systems administrator who says "we trust the people we work with and therefore don't need to install patches inside our network", the middle manager who can't believe that security of the tapes themselves is as important as security of the network, etc., etc., etc.
No, I don't trust the admins. We, as admins or technically adept people, _should not have_ access to the selected passwords of other users. We don't need them, and knowing them simply makes us more responsible for their potential foibles or more tempted to go poking into insider trading email or personal files. I absolutely _do not want_ to know their passwords: that way I can't be subpoenaed for them, either.
It's been _8 years_ in the bug tracking. Given the refusal to handle this, and the sad excuse for a security model that is enforced by the lack of critical features for Subversion (such as a sensible dedicated shell for shared SSH clients or a usable client manager for SSH keys), there is _no reason_ to waste my time trying to follow their rather complex and personalized C++ coding models to achieve this one of a set of major drawbacks to the system.
I'll recommend git, which I've used directly as a straightforward upgrade from subversion, and support subversion as a legacy onlyo. (And yes, I've published patches for subversion in the past, some of which were accepted.)
It's not unique. It's more common to Jews. They're enough of a distinct 'race', by many common usages, that their noses, hair, and builds offset them from many other groups. And with their tendency to marry Jews, historically, and their tendency not to encourage others to join their community, they have some fascinating inbreeding genetic traits.
Agreed. Besides skin color, Leukemia, vitamin D production in sunlight, Tay-Sachs disease, likelihood of diabetes, income levels, average height, and likelihood of single parent childhood? No, I can't imagine another twenty or thirty reasons reason to classify by race.
No. I've used it, I've worked with it, I've cleaned up after it, and I'd rather date John McCain. The svndumpfilter command is an absolute trap for the unwary. Its filtering is painfully slow, its options are not well explained, and the absolute hairiness needed to block out the "release directory 1.0 that was published on Jan. 1 with binaries and password files and CD images in it, but which got deleted and replaced on Jan. 2" is unspeakably nasty.
Frankly, I find that 'svnsync' gives far more flexibility than svndumpfilter. Now that they've fixed the EOL handling for it, it's a far more useful tool. But it's still painful, and it's a function that is required on a regular basis at large sites, to flush code from former employees, to delete projects which some fool decided would all live under a single master repository, etc.
svndumpfilter also requires taking the repository off-line to do the rebuild of the new repo, safely, or risks a start/stop/catch-up operation that also risks the entire repository. For a largish repository, that is hours of rebuilding and hours of downtime. That's completely unacceptable in a production environment.
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Given that homeschooling can include replacing science with biblical tracts, the teaching of science with the teaching of how the Koran calls for female clitorectomies (which it dows _not_, but go to Afghanistan right now to see what is being taught in villages without schools), mathematics with how to grow poppies and practice the heroin trade (again, especially in Afghanistan right now), "bring your daughter to work" day with "how to put on weight and be a beautiful Tonga woman", I submit that home schooling by itself guarantees nothing.
Homeschooling can be wonderful, when the parent or the tutor is a gifted teacher and has the time. But you seem to have an idealized vision of home schooling that isn't grounded in the abuses that have occurred in some instances.
How many intelligent "commune" children fell prey to cults, failed to discipline themselves enough upon reaching adulthood to retain a job, or found themselves unable to deal with the little paperwork issues or social behaviors demanded of people without mommy and daddy to do that for them? Homeschooling can be of as poor quality as public schooling, with less monitoring or testing to make sure abuse or neglect does not occur. And a parent doing this themselves has less opportunity to consult other experienced teachers, especially in small, modern families where few relatives stay in touch.
There are ways to deal with the results of the social isolation: I appreciate the Amish tradition of sending their children on a years's sabbatical to see what life in the rest of the world is like, before they accept the Amish life. But it's not automatically better for all, or even most kids, to learn this "unschooling" way.
Einstein evaluated patents, which is one of the most glaringly dull jobs there is most of the time, with occasional moments of delight. He was also married and had children. If you think he didn't have to do some dishes, change some diapers, and try to fix a toilet now and then, you have a very distorted idea of married life with children. And as a Jew living in Berlin, before the war, you'd better believe he learned some harsh lessons in when to shut up and do what he was told.
Other activities help. Eating lunch with your team is very helpful. Expressing a polite interest in their weekends, or in their families, and remembering their birthdays is amazingly helpful.
The occasional Quake tournament on company computers, especially if you can play 'psdoom' on a throwaway environment, can be quite amusing.
I'm sorry, but please return to Physics 101. _Force_ on a point mass is just that, force, it adds energy, momentum, and excitement to high-energy physics. _Pressure_ on a point mass would be nearly irrelevant due to the small cross section, but force on a small mass is what makes bullets more dangerous than bricks. But unfortunately, there is no such thing in the real world as a "point mass". There are quanta, but those can be described as having an effective radius due to Schroedinger's indertiminacy effects. These effectively "fuzz" small enough objects, as the energy to measure their teeny edges affects them more and more.
That bit about "the gradient is so low for gravity" can, in fact, cause noticeable effects. It creates tides.
First, because the man will have probably have to wear chilled underwear all day. Testicles do not dangle in zero gee, so they reach an unusually high temperature and fertility drops considerably.
Second, at least according to the astronaut who spoke in college years ago, most if not all of the women in space were either past menopause, or had had hysterectomies. That wasn't just to avoid fertility issues: according to her, menstruation upon return to earth nearly killed the first Soviet female astronaut. She kept bleeding and required extensive medical support to survive. It's been years since: perhaps NASA has learned some lessons to ease the problems, but hormonal swings of any sort among very busy, very overworked astronauts is asking to waste a lot of time and a lot of taxpayer money.
I predict a run on software for hands-free texting in Texas. Even though I consider it as bad as using a cell phone, and I'm shocked at the number of people on the cell phone while driving these days: I spent a recent harrowing hour on a journey to a partner site, riding with a VIP in his very nice venture-capital funded BMW, wanting to leap out the window and run screaming for a much safer cab as he spent the hour chatting on his Bluetooth phone instead of paying attention to the road.
It led me to understand how he'd gotten to be a VP: blinding focus on what he wanted, whenever he wanted it, and complete obliviousness to the lives or progress of anyone else. And I always arranged to work with people below his level from his department, because they'd learned to work around his obliviousness. He tried to take credit for all the work, too: I made sure my peers and supervisor knew exactly whom to work with to actually get anything done properly in the future.
No, no, it runs on _cold_ fusion. That's only 2 years away, right? Peter Hagelstein has been writing that kind of letter, article, and review of scientific papers for over a decade now. But they keep accidentally publishing his work in the "science fact" section, rather than the "short fiction" categories.
He was too busy picking between Steven Colbert and Rush Limbaugh for the most accurate view of world politics.
Replace and save the hard drive for legal analysis, with a good chain of ownership in case of lawsuits.
I'd also be concerned about electromechanical key loggers. Governors handle some very sensitive data, and should not have their keystrokes logged. But scrubbing the drives with a good Linux live CD makes them safe enough for casual use.
That would have blocked one important announcement I received recently. "Everyone in 'my town' needs to boil their water due to high bacteria count. Check this website or call this number for more information."
That one, I wanted to get and was happy to have on my answering machine. But it didn't hang up when it discovered I had an answering machine, it left a message.
Because they're mostly scammers who will lie and cheat on their taxes, and many of them have their call centers where the US doesn't collect taxes and are likely to just move there. They're also likely to be state taxes, which are tricky to enforce for interstate traffic such as telephone and Internet sales.
More effective might be changes in phone rates. A clear contract with the telephone company that forbids such behavior, along with a stiff and federally and internationally permitted hefty financial tariff by the _phone companhy_ for violations, would add a significant cost to many such businesses. And penalize the phone companies for permitting it, penalize them _hard_.
It would put tracking the behavior in the hands of the people who gain the most now by abuse (the phone company selling phone time) and replace it with incentive to stop such behavior. Right now, the phone company has no reason to stop this behavior. They're happy to sell the time, even at the ludicrously low business rates for such companies it's just money to them.
And it will mess with your credit rating. Having half-a-dozen cards stolen over the course of a few years is a very good indication to banks that you're a good credit risk to a bank, even if it's merely a risk of your wasting their time and money this way.
Because in any reasonably sized encironment, the likelihood of large insertions of inappropriate material grows to a certainty. And while I have no issue with it being an administrator-driven command to obliterate such material, for example under the 'svnadmin' command, it should not require the hours of dump and rebuild time necessary for even a modest sized, 10 Gig software repository, to delete a single accidentally stored core file or ISO image that may accidentally comprise more than 10% of its bulk.
It is one of the most requested features for Subversion. Subversion is the _only_ contemporary source control that has no graceful means to actually delete data. There has been no progress towards it in 8 years. That tells me they made a very, very bad original assumption about how things work, similar to the one they made about storing user passwords in cleartext, silently.
I'm not so certain about what will happen when. The planet is a gas giant: it won't exactly shatter. When it starts losing enough mass, or the mass nearest the sun is heated by the sun to the point where it causes noticeable gaseous pressures, I expect serious excitement.
As I said, I want to bring popcorn to this event: it should be exciting.
When it reaches the corona, I want to bring popcorn. The denser solar atmosphere should massively increase the orbital deceleration, and I think it's going to be _spectacular_. Considering the amount of radiation that thing is going to put out in such a cataclysmic event, we should be able to microwave the corn from lightyears away. It'll be as amazing as a more distant supernova, and we should be able to watch it happen in far more detail with time to focus the bigger cameras and telescopes.
There are not merely "times" when "race" is a commonly used description. It's even frequent. Look at the first line of the article on races for human beings at Wikipedia, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(classification_of_human_beings).
> The term race or racial group usually refers to the categorization of humans into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of heritable characteristics.[1]
Then look at the third line:
> Conceptions of race, as well as specific ways of grouping races, vary by culture and over time, and are often controversial for scientific as well as social and political reasons.
And the article goes on. It's interesting reading in light of your points raised. I suspect that you're caught at the point of denying the very existence of the concept, because it has so often been wildly misused. That's socially laudable, but linguistically confusing when you or I can point to plenty of examples of "race" in the people around us worldwide. "Ethnicity" is a better word, but it's simply too long. Personally, I prefer to acknowledge that the concept exists so that I can acknowledge and try to manage its effects.
No, the 'Cajun' are too genetically mixed, from too many nations and cultures. French-Canadian? Not sure, don't know many.
Ethnicity may be a better word, but ignoring the word "race" for such groups is ignoring common usage. Like insisting that centripetal force does not exist, it will get you ignored a lot in the real world.
And Citrix's failure to follow through with Xen's primarily GPL development path is a big problem with their purchase of Xen. I also suspect it is a big factor in why RedHat is openly espousing KVM over Xen, although they still nominally support Xen.
Sir or madam, I *KNOW* that someone malicious will try to steal by laptop and backups and on-line access. They're the warrentless and provocation-free goons at the NSA and the FBI, the script kiddy who borrows her dad's computer and pokes around the work network inside the VPN with it, the idiotic systems administrator who says "we trust the people we work with and therefore don't need to install patches inside our network", the middle manager who can't believe that security of the tapes themselves is as important as security of the network, etc., etc., etc.
No, I don't trust the admins. We, as admins or technically adept people, _should not have_ access to the selected passwords of other users. We don't need them, and knowing them simply makes us more responsible for their potential foibles or more tempted to go poking into insider trading email or personal files. I absolutely _do not want_ to know their passwords: that way I can't be subpoenaed for them, either.
It's been _8 years_ in the bug tracking. Given the refusal to handle this, and the sad excuse for a security model that is enforced by the lack of critical features for Subversion (such as a sensible dedicated shell for shared SSH clients or a usable client manager for SSH keys), there is _no reason_ to waste my time trying to follow their rather complex and personalized C++ coding models to achieve this one of a set of major drawbacks to the system.
I'll recommend git, which I've used directly as a straightforward upgrade from subversion, and support subversion as a legacy onlyo. (And yes, I've published patches for subversion in the past, some of which were accepted.)
It's not unique. It's more common to Jews. They're enough of a distinct 'race', by many common usages, that their noses, hair, and builds offset them from many other groups. And with their tendency to marry Jews, historically, and their tendency not to encourage others to join their community, they have some fascinating inbreeding genetic traits.
Agreed. Besides skin color, Leukemia, vitamin D production in sunlight, Tay-Sachs disease, likelihood of diabetes, income levels, average height, and likelihood of single parent childhood? No, I can't imagine another twenty or thirty reasons reason to classify by race.
But I bet if I looked I could find some, anyway.
They're the ones in the Caymans, collecting the "investment funding". Where have you been the last 10 years?
No. I've used it, I've worked with it, I've cleaned up after it, and I'd rather date John McCain. The svndumpfilter command is an absolute trap for the unwary. Its filtering is painfully slow, its options are not well explained, and the absolute hairiness needed to block out the "release directory 1.0 that was published on Jan. 1 with binaries and password files and CD images in it, but which got deleted and replaced on Jan. 2" is unspeakably nasty.
Frankly, I find that 'svnsync' gives far more flexibility than svndumpfilter. Now that they've fixed the EOL handling for it, it's a far more useful tool. But it's still painful, and it's a function that is required on a regular basis at large sites, to flush code from former employees, to delete projects which some fool decided would all live under a single master repository, etc.
svndumpfilter also requires taking the repository off-line to do the rebuild of the new repo, safely, or risks a start/stop/catch-up operation that also risks the entire repository. For a largish repository, that is hours of rebuilding and hours of downtime. That's completely unacceptable in a production environment.