In my state, you could rank the schools in order of spending per pupil, and you can rank the schools in order of quality, and those rankings aren't even close to the same.
However, one of the wealthiest communities is at the top of at least one proficiency list, but almost the bottom of the spending list.
The question of how to make bring the bottom performers higher up is not answered by bring spending into parity - we'd be taking money away from the under-performing schools in that scenario.
The real question, though, is whether an honest discussion about the challenges that are faced by the under-performing schools is even possible in the current political climate.
So, what you're saying is that there is a game mechanic (the XP system) whose effects are to make the game less fun by turning it into work, but which you can pay real money to lessen, and you don't see that as a problem?
If players imagine that the fun parts won't manifest for 40 hours of play-time (and they must be made to feel that way to think paying real money to reduce that portion of the game is worth it), they might just decide not to bother finding out if the game really does change into something fun after all that work.
Because the point of all of this isn't educating children as effectively as possible using the resources available efficiently.
The point is to do something splashy with grant money to gain headlines and make parents in the community think you're really doing something. Some school departments employ people whose entire purpose is applying for grants to get "technology in the classroom" whether it's used or not.
I suspect that a significant portion of iPads purchased for the classroom end up collecting dust, with the teachers neither getting useful software, nor training on how to effectively use them to advance the curriculum. They're purchased because they're high-profile, well-known and expensive and therefore mysterious and exciting.
Same problem with the basic infrastructure - there's no ribbon cutting ceremony for filling in potholes....
Eh, the android phone is just as likely to cost $2k in cellular bills. The difference in price over 24 months between an iPhone and an Android phone isn't really that much by percentage when you take the cost of service into account.
And yes, I know you can get a bargain android phone and pair it with a bargain cell w/ data plan.
You can do that with iPhone, too (virgin offers $30/month for their lowest tier plan if you give them access to your bank account....). It does cost more, but the percent more over 24 months...
it's not iPhones that are costing people tons of money for cell service, it's smartphones.
Lax enforcement of an unjust law allows the law to continue on the books. There is some argument for trying for "perfect" enforcement - it will then affect enough people that the clamor to strike the law from the books will become too great to ignore.
Google seems to think tobacco is pretty easy to grow if you're in the right climate, so I suspect that the same thing that keeps people buying regular cigarettes despite high taxation would come into play with marijuana as well - no one really wants to be bothered with the time and expense of going through the whole process to get a finished product when it's readily available in every corner store, gas station, and convenience mart.
But that would imply that they're protecting the data with nothing more than access control.
When you sudo into another account, that doesn't magically unlock the account's encrypted files, you have to actually know the passphrase to get that. You only get access to data that is unencrypted or that YOU have the passwords for.
You design the system so that if they copy stuff, even assuming the accounts of authorized users, they don't get anything useful, because it's all encrypted anyway with a key that he could only get by rubber hosing the people who know it.
Not going to help his retirement, though. The whole point of accumulating a big retirement fund is to use it to buy the labor of the people that are still working...
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The first clause is an explanation for the second, and the amendment clearly places a limit on the power of the federal government (later amendments and rulings mean that this also affects the states). And that limit is that congress does not have the power to infringe the right of the people to own and carry weapons.
It does not say what kind of weapons. It does not grant congress a "reasonableness" pass, to allow them to regulate particularly dangerous or unpopular weapons. A modern reading could imply that the explanatory clause could be used to imply that congress may be able to pass some kind of perfunctory regulation, as long as that regulation does not infringe on the people's ability to keep and bear those arms. Perhaps through a mandatory firearm safety course or basic military training course for all citizens.
However, even that much doesn't really fly in the face of the ninth and tenth amendments. Especially the tenth.
What many of the "reasonable gun control" people (and certainly not all by a long shot) seem to fail to recognize is that while reasonable gun control may be desirable, especially in light of the far more destructive and portable weapons available today compared to the founders' day, the price doing it without having a constitutional amendment specifically enabling congress to act is the watering down of the constitution as a compact with the people.
What else can we conveniently interpret away or ignore that allows congress more power, and more importantly strips power away from the ostensibly consenting governed?
If you want gun control to quell your fears, it's certainly not an unreasonable goal, but the safest way to seek it is not to demand immediate action in immediate aftermath of each tragedy, but to demand the thoughtful debate of the constitutional amendment process. Then we can decide as a nation what level of risk we're really willing to live with, balanced against what powers we really want to allow the government to have.
You can only make a weapon out of it if it's designed to be a weapon in the first place. The beam is only going to be as narrow as your widest antenna dimensions allow. The cost of bring up an antenna/array capable of constraining the beam to be significantly narrower than the primary use case would be quite prohibitive.
The weapon in the movie was fired from the bomb compartment of a B1 Bomber, so would have been much closer to the target than a satellite weapon. It was a pretty tight beam (although apparently sufficiently diffused by aluminum foil to make its military usefulness a bit suspicious...), and could easily burn through everything except jiffy-pop pans, making all highly fortified bunkers not shielded with a layer of jiffy-pop vulnerable.
I'm not sure what the characters in the movie were upset about. The purpose of the weapon could only have been to take out highly specific, high-value targets. Such a weapon could really only be used against those responsible for getting nations into a war - the top leaders of those nations - In theory it should protect the lives of the peasants who normally are the ones doing all the dying...
Caesar cipher is pretty trivial to decrypt manually, though. There are newspapers which publish short sentences in Caesar cipher every week as a fun, easy puzzle for people to do while waiting for a bus or whatever.
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In my state, you could rank the schools in order of spending per pupil, and you can rank the schools in order of quality, and those rankings aren't even close to the same.
However, one of the wealthiest communities is at the top of at least one proficiency list, but almost the bottom of the spending list.
The question of how to make bring the bottom performers higher up is not answered by bring spending into parity - we'd be taking money away from the under-performing schools in that scenario.
The real question, though, is whether an honest discussion about the challenges that are faced by the under-performing schools is even possible in the current political climate.
So, what you're saying is that there is a game mechanic (the XP system) whose effects are to make the game less fun by turning it into work, but which you can pay real money to lessen, and you don't see that as a problem?
If players imagine that the fun parts won't manifest for 40 hours of play-time (and they must be made to feel that way to think paying real money to reduce that portion of the game is worth it), they might just decide not to bother finding out if the game really does change into something fun after all that work.
If you're going to leave the process running, perl can compile the regexes ahead of time, too...
Because the point of all of this isn't educating children as effectively as possible using the resources available efficiently.
The point is to do something splashy with grant money to gain headlines and make parents in the community think you're really doing something. Some school departments employ people whose entire purpose is applying for grants to get "technology in the classroom" whether it's used or not.
I suspect that a significant portion of iPads purchased for the classroom end up collecting dust, with the teachers neither getting useful software, nor training on how to effectively use them to advance the curriculum. They're purchased because they're high-profile, well-known and expensive and therefore mysterious and exciting.
Same problem with the basic infrastructure - there's no ribbon cutting ceremony for filling in potholes....
HP49 was almost what you wanted... Keys were a little soft, though.
Wikipedia says that the payload for the Davy Crockett tactical nuclear "rifle" had a yield measured at 10-20 tons, or roughly the same as the all-chemical, moab.
Your place sounds even equally as bad...
Eh, the android phone is just as likely to cost $2k in cellular bills. The difference in price over 24 months between an iPhone and an Android phone isn't really that much by percentage when you take the cost of service into account.
And yes, I know you can get a bargain android phone and pair it with a bargain cell w/ data plan.
You can do that with iPhone, too (virgin offers $30/month for their lowest tier plan if you give them access to your bank account....). It does cost more, but the percent more over 24 months...
it's not iPhones that are costing people tons of money for cell service, it's smartphones.
Maybe because people with the 3G will be buying new phones soon anyway, they don't need any special prodding.
Although, it remains to be seen whether they buy new iPhones....
Lax enforcement of an unjust law allows the law to continue on the books. There is some argument for trying for "perfect" enforcement - it will then affect enough people that the clamor to strike the law from the books will become too great to ignore.
However, that's not the argument he's making....
Google seems to think tobacco is pretty easy to grow if you're in the right climate, so I suspect that the same thing that keeps people buying regular cigarettes despite high taxation would come into play with marijuana as well - no one really wants to be bothered with the time and expense of going through the whole process to get a finished product when it's readily available in every corner store, gas station, and convenience mart.
How much did you pay for your sub $200 laptop.....
There is already one piece of data where "bummer dude,..." is considered best practice - account passwords.
But that would imply that they're protecting the data with nothing more than access control.
When you sudo into another account, that doesn't magically unlock the account's encrypted files, you have to actually know the passphrase to get that. You only get access to data that is unencrypted or that YOU have the passwords for.
You design the system so that if they copy stuff, even assuming the accounts of authorized users, they don't get anything useful, because it's all encrypted anyway with a key that he could only get by rubber hosing the people who know it.
Not going to help his retirement, though. The whole point of accumulating a big retirement fund is to use it to buy the labor of the people that are still working...
If you're messing with fstab, why not just mount it to its own tmpfs?
If SimCity has taught me anything, it's that it's cost-effective and, indeed, safest to bulldoze and rebuild power-plants every 49 years, exactly.
This is way off topic, but I'll bite anyway.
The text of the second amendment is thus:
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
The first clause is an explanation for the second, and the amendment clearly places a limit on the power of the federal government (later amendments and rulings mean that this also affects the states). And that limit is that congress does not have the power to infringe the right of the people to own and carry weapons.
It does not say what kind of weapons. It does not grant congress a "reasonableness" pass, to allow them to regulate particularly dangerous or unpopular weapons. A modern reading could imply that the explanatory clause could be used to imply that congress may be able to pass some kind of perfunctory regulation, as long as that regulation does not infringe on the people's ability to keep and bear those arms. Perhaps through a mandatory firearm safety course or basic military training course for all citizens.
However, even that much doesn't really fly in the face of the ninth and tenth amendments. Especially the tenth.
What many of the "reasonable gun control" people (and certainly not all by a long shot) seem to fail to recognize is that while reasonable gun control may be desirable, especially in light of the far more destructive and portable weapons available today compared to the founders' day, the price doing it without having a constitutional amendment specifically enabling congress to act is the watering down of the constitution as a compact with the people.
What else can we conveniently interpret away or ignore that allows congress more power, and more importantly strips power away from the ostensibly consenting governed?
If you want gun control to quell your fears, it's certainly not an unreasonable goal, but the safest way to seek it is not to demand immediate action in immediate aftermath of each tragedy, but to demand the thoughtful debate of the constitutional amendment process. Then we can decide as a nation what level of risk we're really willing to live with, balanced against what powers we really want to allow the government to have.
I will imagine that pure silicon might turn out to be easier to manufacture than duct tape, though, considering the materials available...
You can only make a weapon out of it if it's designed to be a weapon in the first place. The beam is only going to be as narrow as your widest antenna dimensions allow. The cost of bring up an antenna/array capable of constraining the beam to be significantly narrower than the primary use case would be quite prohibitive.
The weapon in the movie was fired from the bomb compartment of a B1 Bomber, so would have been much closer to the target than a satellite weapon. It was a pretty tight beam (although apparently sufficiently diffused by aluminum foil to make its military usefulness a bit suspicious...), and could easily burn through everything except jiffy-pop pans, making all highly fortified bunkers not shielded with a layer of jiffy-pop vulnerable.
I'm not sure what the characters in the movie were upset about. The purpose of the weapon could only have been to take out highly specific, high-value targets. Such a weapon could really only be used against those responsible for getting nations into a war - the top leaders of those nations - In theory it should protect the lives of the peasants who normally are the ones doing all the dying...
Caesar cipher is pretty trivial to decrypt manually, though. There are newspapers which publish short sentences in Caesar cipher every week as a fun, easy puzzle for people to do while waiting for a bus or whatever.
Powershell isn't built-in....