"Spoken as someone who never taught or has been inside a classroom."
Actually, spoken as someone whose parents were teachers in the 70's and 80's and so got to see the decline in schooling standards from both sides of the teacher's desk. Who went to both private and state schools and saw the massive difference in ethos between the two. Who then went on to spend 6 years at university where I've seen the culture go from "We are the top 10% and are learning to become the movers and shakers of the next generation" to "We don't have to get a job for another 3 years"
But I know where the fault actually lies. The poor sod on the front line gets the flack but you're hamstrung by backoffice managers who view their right-on social engineering projects as more important than the education of the students they almost never actually have to interact with. Some of my friends have gone into teaching and I know I could never do it. I don't have the organisation, I dont have the saintly patience required. My respect to you and please don't think I'm blaming you for the failings of a system that seems to have lost its core purpose.
School is not about education and expanding your mind. School is about drumming in a minimum standard of literacy and numeracy so you're employable then spending the next 8 years teaching you to sit down, shut up and do what you're told.
I work for a financial services company and any portable device is encrypted as a matter of course. That's just a basic security measure, and I'm amazed NASA have waited so long.
Well any good defense attourney should be able to pretty much shred any cop that tries to bring charges without accompanying video evidence unless there was a clear good reson for its lack.
I'm all in favour of cops carrying video cameras - preferably streamed in realtime back to a server. After all if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear...
My wife was put on a month's course of antidepressants after suffering a breakdown due to workplace bullying. In that month she put on about 2 stone in weight. Since then I've learned that this is a common side effect of the specific antidepressant in females - it makes women ravenously hungry while dialing the metabolism right down. Wierdly enough it doesn't have this effect on men.
I may be ever so slightly biased here but I don't consider massive weight gain to be an acceptable side effect for an antidepressant, especially considering the importance that our culture places on a woman staying thin - far from helping it added the burden of exascerbating her body-image issues to the point that my wife was point-blank refusing to leave the house.
Rotring TD pens are the best - I use them for sketching. There's a steep learning curve to get the best results from one but once you do there's really nothing to compare with them.
I've found the best way to deal with people insisting on taking your disgreement as an insult is to cut loose with a few choice obscenities. Then in the stunned silence afterwards smile sweetly and say "No, THAT was me being insulting. Now we've defined some boundaries can we get back to the discussion?"
I've had to deal with the "race to offence" types so many times I just have no patience for them. They look for anything that they can claim offence at so that they can lock down the field of discussion as a lazy way of controlling the verbal field of battle. It's childish ( I've had to deal with people who say that I "don't get to talk about that" because I'm not female/coloured/disabled etc...) and itself highly offensive. So I counterattack.
Of course you can't service it yourself. Or re-spray it. Or fly anywhere except toll-charged iRoutes. Or take your friends in it (you'll need another licence for that). Plus it'll be obsolete, unsupported and just not iCool in 2 years time. But till then, enjoy your iCar and laugh at all the peasants in their last gen ground cars without built-in Driving Rights Management...
So TPB's ban was the thin end of the wedge? What a surprise.
And I absolutely love "The letter, which was not intended to go public" - so they want ISP's to filter traffic for them without all the hassle of legal process or negative public opinion.
To use your analogy this is like trying to have said mugger extradited to America to stand in front of Hangin' Judge Parker because the victim was an American tourist rather than have the little scrote be sentenced in a UK court.
Troll? Flamebait? If only. To everyone who downmodded this comment I ask you this:
Do you know how many children every year have their famillies torn apart, parents or sibilngs killed, are taught to hate either other people or themselves, have part of ther genitals cut off without any possibility of consent and so on all in the name of someone's Giant Flying Spagetti Monster?
If the truth is flaming, then flame on.
Not posting AC as I'm prepared to burn Karma here. I hope you are.
"there's a difference between an anonymous secured computer trying to figure out what ads you might be interested in based upon information it "sees", and a peeping tom trying to catch you naked in the shower."
And when you end up having to explain to your s/o or crotchfruit why they're getting bombarded with pr0n ads sparked by your late-night browsing habits I hope you remember that you said that.
Not 100% sure that people's willingness to pay for music and their godawful tastes in the same are related. To use an analogy from the literary world, there are literally thousands of nasty, badly written slashfics on the internet that anyone can read for free, yet Fifty Shades of Shite is the best selling book of all time
No, really - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18618648.
It makes you weep, really it does.
"people have to listen to our music"
Do you _really_ want that to be your business model? Successful not because of your ability but because someone has mandated it? I guess your artistic integrity is worth less than the bottom line. You'll fit in fine with the *IAA then.
We're having to deliver and support a limited number of iPads at work now - invariably the recipient is some waste-of-dna middle manager who then spends the next few days gleefully showing everyone the funky things the iPad can do to drive the point home that s/he was important enough to swing getting one. After that it just sits there on their desk, while s/he gets on with some real work on the laptop PC they invariably have. A toy, not a tool.
I loved Frontier. Admittedly my combat technique involved a Panther stuffed to the gills with shield generators and letting the enemies get behind me then just slamming on the brakes and watching them smash into my shields like bugs on a windscreen but hey, it was funny...
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"Spoken as someone who never taught or has been inside a classroom."
Actually, spoken as someone whose parents were teachers in the 70's and 80's and so got to see the decline in schooling standards from both sides of the teacher's desk. Who went to both private and state schools and saw the massive difference in ethos between the two. Who then went on to spend 6 years at university where I've seen the culture go from "We are the top 10% and are learning to become the movers and shakers of the next generation" to "We don't have to get a job for another 3 years"
But I know where the fault actually lies. The poor sod on the front line gets the flack but you're hamstrung by backoffice managers who view their right-on social engineering projects as more important than the education of the students they almost never actually have to interact with. Some of my friends have gone into teaching and I know I could never do it. I don't have the organisation, I dont have the saintly patience required. My respect to you and please don't think I'm blaming you for the failings of a system that seems to have lost its core purpose.
School is not about education and expanding your mind. School is about drumming in a minimum standard of literacy and numeracy so you're employable then spending the next 8 years teaching you to sit down, shut up and do what you're told.
"We don' need no steenkin' badges..."
"Also, cheers to Microsoft for bringing multitasking to the PC. Now I can watch my game stutter uncontrollably, while my music buffers." - TFTFY
I work for a financial services company and any portable device is encrypted as a matter of course. That's just a basic security measure, and I'm amazed NASA have waited so long.
Well any good defense attourney should be able to pretty much shred any cop that tries to bring charges without accompanying video evidence unless there was a clear good reson for its lack.
I'm all in favour of cops carrying video cameras - preferably streamed in realtime back to a server. After all if they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear...
My wife was put on a month's course of antidepressants after suffering a breakdown due to workplace bullying. In that month she put on about 2 stone in weight. Since then I've learned that this is a common side effect of the specific antidepressant in females - it makes women ravenously hungry while dialing the metabolism right down. Wierdly enough it doesn't have this effect on men.
I may be ever so slightly biased here but I don't consider massive weight gain to be an acceptable side effect for an antidepressant, especially considering the importance that our culture places on a woman staying thin - far from helping it added the burden of exascerbating her body-image issues to the point that my wife was point-blank refusing to leave the house.
You win, man. I've watched every episode of Star Trek ever (even the very dodgy cartoon series) but you just win...
Rotring TD pens are the best - I use them for sketching. There's a steep learning curve to get the best results from one but once you do there's really nothing to compare with them.
Yeah, Dark Angel. One of the main plotlines of season 2.
And claiming that everything but your particular Chosen Path is evil isn't insulting to everyone else?
I've found the best way to deal with people insisting on taking your disgreement as an insult is to cut loose with a few choice obscenities. Then in the stunned silence afterwards smile sweetly and say "No, THAT was me being insulting. Now we've defined some boundaries can we get back to the discussion?"
I've had to deal with the "race to offence" types so many times I just have no patience for them. They look for anything that they can claim offence at so that they can lock down the field of discussion as a lazy way of controlling the verbal field of battle. It's childish ( I've had to deal with people who say that I "don't get to talk about that" because I'm not female/coloured/disabled etc...) and itself highly offensive. So I counterattack.
Of course you can't service it yourself. Or re-spray it. Or fly anywhere except toll-charged iRoutes. Or take your friends in it (you'll need another licence for that). Plus it'll be obsolete, unsupported and just not iCool in 2 years time. But till then, enjoy your iCar and laugh at all the peasants in their last gen ground cars without built-in Driving Rights Management...
So TPB's ban was the thin end of the wedge? What a surprise.
And I absolutely love "The letter, which was not intended to go public" - so they want ISP's to filter traffic for them without all the hassle of legal process or negative public opinion.
To use your analogy this is like trying to have said mugger extradited to America to stand in front of Hangin' Judge Parker because the victim was an American tourist rather than have the little scrote be sentenced in a UK court.
Troll? Flamebait? If only. To everyone who downmodded this comment I ask you this:
Do you know how many children every year have their famillies torn apart, parents or sibilngs killed, are taught to hate either other people or themselves, have part of ther genitals cut off without any possibility of consent and so on all in the name of someone's Giant Flying Spagetti Monster?
If the truth is flaming, then flame on.
Not posting AC as I'm prepared to burn Karma here. I hope you are.
True. Organised religion has harmed way more children than CP ever could.
"there's a difference between an anonymous secured computer trying to figure out what ads you might be interested in based upon information it "sees", and a peeping tom trying to catch you naked in the shower."
And when you end up having to explain to your s/o or crotchfruit why they're getting bombarded with pr0n ads sparked by your late-night browsing habits I hope you remember that you said that.
But you should be able to dictate what cookies it puts on your hardware.
Not 100% sure that people's willingness to pay for music and their godawful tastes in the same are related. To use an analogy from the literary world, there are literally thousands of nasty, badly written slashfics on the internet that anyone can read for free, yet Fifty Shades of Shite is the best selling book of all time
No, really - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18618648.
It makes you weep, really it does.
"people have to listen to our music"
Do you _really_ want that to be your business model? Successful not because of your ability but because someone has mandated it? I guess your artistic integrity is worth less than the bottom line. You'll fit in fine with the *IAA then.
Or... they're dangling a particularly juicy worm for the fanbois to rage over - how dare they compare Apple to hackers...?
We're having to deliver and support a limited number of iPads at work now - invariably the recipient is some waste-of-dna middle manager who then spends the next few days gleefully showing everyone the funky things the iPad can do to drive the point home that s/he was important enough to swing getting one. After that it just sits there on their desk, while s/he gets on with some real work on the laptop PC they invariably have. A toy, not a tool.
So the real winners of this snafu of a legal system are the lawyers who created it in the first place? Whodathoughtthatwouldhappen?
I loved Frontier. Admittedly my combat technique involved a Panther stuffed to the gills with shield generators and letting the enemies get behind me then just slamming on the brakes and watching them smash into my shields like bugs on a windscreen but hey, it was funny...