I'm thinking if you take 1000 people off the street and ask them to describe their drug, alcohol, and tobacco use they will be a lot more honest with you about the alcohol and tobacco use than they will be about any drug use, be it prescription or street. The stoner with 1/4 ounce of weed sure as hell isn't going to tell the truth because he doesn't want to risk being dragged down to the police station where a fine will be levied and said weed will be confiscated. They have to be cautious and defensive at all times because sooner or later someone who thinks drugs are evil are going to learn about it and get them in legal trouble.
I think you are somewhat misunderstanding "Free Market". The government assigning an arbitrary amount of pollution credits for each person and having the main mechanism be a government pool to dump those credits to corporations for money is a Controlled Market.
How this makes me a fool or a sociopath, I am not quite sure.
As a Libertarian, I find it difficult to believe that any Libertarians would find that proposal acceptable. This system looks like one that would require an enormous amount of government regulation and tons more government workings to run day to day operations. In fact, this solution kind of sounds like Hell for Libertarians.
There is the complexity factor, and then there is the "I have this ugly mess of tangled cables" factor. I'm guessing that many people would love to dump the 1-6 ugly boxes, the extra power cables, HDMI cables, component cables, and whatever else to have everything contained inside one single device. Heck, at that point people can just mount the Television anywhere on the wall without having to worry about shelving/storage for all the components.
To add to the other replies you received, the federal funding for Planned Parenthood in 2009 was $360 Million dollars. I know there are probably other government subsidized organizations but I assume they are the largest. The "Welfare and Children" section of the federal budget for the same year was $95 Billion. I know there isn't any type of 1 to 1 correlation between the two, but I think it demonstrates quite clearly that Joe/Jane Q citizen definitely are better off subsidizing the fucking than they are subsidizing food and diapers. We could veer off into other societal costs (school lunch programs, overall underachievement of children raised under the poverty line, tendency of impoverished children to commit crimes) as well. I believe birth control education/subsidization are things absolutely vital to the economic well being of our nation.
Really, but complaining about the meager subsidies for birth control your thought process resembles the "Nothing past this quarter matters, fire as many people as possible" mindset of CEO/MBA types. Fix this insignificant number now, to hell with future consequences.
Please don't counter argue by saying that "Then they shouldn't be fucking at all." I think we all know how effective preaching abstinence is.
Heck, take the pile of paper to a Kinko's or local copy center and get it done there. Worry about naming/sorting when you get home. This option should be cheaper (and easier) than renting an enterprise copier.
It seems that there could be technical solutions to the problem. Maybe the students can only connect to an access point that the teacher has complete control of. Monitor the outbound traffic. TELL the students you will be monitoring outbound traffic. Block ports, Block sites. Give it your best effort. If some manage to overcome and find a way to cheat....at least they had to think a solution through and likely learned something through the experience.
Yeah, we were told by our parent company that we needed to change passwords every 6 months. I recall one person in particular...his password was "dOOr_IntO_tHe_NighT" which is about as hack proof of a password as I've seen an average user choose for himself. Five password changes later I asked him what his password is. It is now simply "apple".
Wow, that has not been my experience at all. I've never had a problem walking into a Best Buy and getting the "Online Price" at the store. Once they told me they couldn't do that and I asked if I could use a computer of theirs to order online and do a "Site to Store" or whatever they call it. That was about the hardest I ever had to push.
Actually, the Best Buy that I go to most often usually has a pretty competent sales staff.
Obviously I'd like the price to be lower/free, but $3 to rent a 2 hour movie is a pretty good ROI for your entertainment dollar. I myself have Netflix and Hulu Plus (no cable/satellite/uverse) as my means of television entertainment but sometimes there is a movie or television show that my wife and I really want to watch. Using Amazon prime, Zune on Xbox, or whatever other On Demand Pay Per View type things are out there on those occasions isn't bad. I can probably rent 25 movies a month that way and still come out ahead of where I'd be paying for Cable Television.
As annoying as the "Wear Out Problems" and "Messing with the tracking dials" were, they were nothing compared to the "I'm going to shred your tape behind repair. You will have to spend 15 minutes digging the remains out from my bowels" aspect of VHS players. My last VHS player was a major offender in this category and I often avoided watching my favorite movies because I was in fear of them getting destroyed.
This reminds me of a Novell Administration class a company I was working for sent me to. It was me, another loner, and then a large group of people from the same company in the class. Over the few days of the course I learned that basically all of those in the large company were specializing to the point where one guy was there just to learn how to set up accounts, one guy was there just to learn how to set up printers, etc. I was pretty shocked by that level of specialization and decided to make a concerted effort to avoid any jobs where I would spend my entire day setting up Novell Accounts.
Facebook might be hot for awhile, but the real trend is an evolving method of communication. To say that Facebook has the lock on that it is incredibly untrue. So many different projects in the works to satisfy this new kind of communication methodology, and with far better signal to noise ratios too.
I think this is where you are wrong. The next generation of communication has arrived in the form of iPhone/Android devices. Most people will have some type of mobile phone on them for the foreseeable future. Facebook happened to be lucky enough to be the social networking leader when it happened. "Social Networking" is no longer confined to coming home, offloading your pictures from your camera and camping out by your computer. It is with you all day long. Many people are basically on Facebook in some capacity from the moment they get up until the moment they go to bed. It is embedded itself much farther into the public psyche than MySpace/Friendster/Whatever have. Nearly every vaguely media type web site has "Share on Facebook" buttons. It is rare to run into a person who is at all competent with tech and likes communicating with friends who doesn't at least have a Facebook account.
With such a deep penetration into the market, it pretty much ensures that large swaths of people have to jump at the same time. This is where Google+ kind of ran into a problem. There are some people who are all for checking it out, but many people have vested so much time into their Facebook stuff that leaving would actually be a hassle. They have photos uploaded, sorted, and tagged, they have their favorite games, they have whatever crazy groups they belong to. It is going to take more than the next flavor of the day to get people to move the last x years of the lives. Most of all, they would have to learn something new! There are people who go absolutely berserk when Facebook changes itself at all.
You simply cannot dismiss something that has 800,000,000 active users as some passing fad. They can cut it short if they sabotage themselves by trying to charge or something ridiculous though.
The really simple answer is that most/all believers have faith that the Bible/Holy Book was written by God/Prophet/Loyal Servant of God. Your revelation that said material may have been written by a drunk or drug addict isn't going to make anyone of faith bat an eye.
Yeah, I'm with you here. I've got about 75 computers to manage and constantly get the "When am I getting my new computer?" question. I always tell the user I got it for them already, and that it is in the CEO's office and they just need to go ask him for it.
I am not really an advocate of shooting anyone for any reason, but my keen eye for strategic planning is telling me that waiting for the tanks to roll into the streets probably isn't a good plan. My small hunting rifle would give me no measure of solace if that were to actually happen. Best shoot them before they send the tanks.
I may not be remembering things correctly, but it really seems to me that candidates have really ramped up on the attack ads. I really don't remember the last time I saw a "My name is John Smith and I intend to do x, y, z." I think I would vote for any candidate that ran an ad actually stating his/her views instead of just blasting the opposing person. It makes me feel like even the politicians themselves are saying "I am incompetent but the other guy, he is MORE incompetent.
Even if the books are just trashy romance novels, she is still taking in a lot of words. I would be very surprised if it doesn't improve vocabulary at the very least. Also, books require your imagination to be more active, even bad books.
I'm just curious, what part of the curriculum do you have a problem with? General Requirements or the actual degree track? What could they do differently?
This comment hits the nail right on the head. If you don't know what you want to do by the time you are 15 years old you should be assigned a career to follow.
My degree is in Biochemistry and I had done a lot of independent studying of the field while in high school. I mean, those three really fantastic teachers that went way above and beyond their jobs to provide me with some direction in advanced topics didn't help at all. It was my own passion, decisiveness, and talent that made all of that happen. I get to College and suddenly I'm sitting in class with a bunch of lackeys who have never done redox equations. They didn't even have the Kreb Cycle memorized. THESE are the future scientists of America? Damn n00bs.
The fact is, personal hygiene and social skills are required to develop a rapport with someone and convince them to purchase your product. Keeping your computer clean is not required. After all, you walk in the door with an infected laptop you can drop it off with your IT department and they'll fix it up for you. Show up with no pants and a foul stench.....well....not too many companies have a grooming professional. Hell, I'd rather work at a place chock full of people that are spectacular at what they do but need their computers wiped once a month than at a place with a bunch of worthless employees that keep their computers pristine.
Definitely check the living room size. Make sure it is above the minimum 6 Feet that the Kinect specs say. I have a living room that is long and thin and it has made the Kinect difficult to mess around with...unless I convinced my wife to rearrange the room which is as likely as Firefly coming back.
Godaddy (which is a site that is hardly difficult to find) has hosting with Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Unlimited MySQL Databases, SSL, and DNS and a dedicated IPV4 address for $15/month. (Same with.NET/pHp/SQL Server if you prefer Windows Server) $10/month if you pay for the year in advance. Registering a domain will likely cost you another $10 per year or so. Storage is "unlimited" which may or may not be true, but the next level down gives you 150GB of storage so I think that this should be suitable for a portfolio building web site. Development tools can be had for free. If $135 for a YEAR is too much money to spend to try to build your portfolio and learn something about your field, you need to find another field.
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I'm thinking if you take 1000 people off the street and ask them to describe their drug, alcohol, and tobacco use they will be a lot more honest with you about the alcohol and tobacco use than they will be about any drug use, be it prescription or street. The stoner with 1/4 ounce of weed sure as hell isn't going to tell the truth because he doesn't want to risk being dragged down to the police station where a fine will be levied and said weed will be confiscated. They have to be cautious and defensive at all times because sooner or later someone who thinks drugs are evil are going to learn about it and get them in legal trouble.
I think you are somewhat misunderstanding "Free Market". The government assigning an arbitrary amount of pollution credits for each person and having the main mechanism be a government pool to dump those credits to corporations for money is a Controlled Market.
How this makes me a fool or a sociopath, I am not quite sure.
As a Libertarian, I find it difficult to believe that any Libertarians would find that proposal acceptable. This system looks like one that would require an enormous amount of government regulation and tons more government workings to run day to day operations. In fact, this solution kind of sounds like Hell for Libertarians.
There is the complexity factor, and then there is the "I have this ugly mess of tangled cables" factor. I'm guessing that many people would love to dump the 1-6 ugly boxes, the extra power cables, HDMI cables, component cables, and whatever else to have everything contained inside one single device. Heck, at that point people can just mount the Television anywhere on the wall without having to worry about shelving/storage for all the components.
Come to think of it, I'd love that.
Awesome! I'd get the same effect without having to pay for all the booze and benzodiazepines I consume when going on a plane!
You were the chosen one! It was said you would destroy the Republicans, not simply mock them! Bring balance to the board, not leave it in darkness!
To add to the other replies you received, the federal funding for Planned Parenthood in 2009 was $360 Million dollars. I know there are probably other government subsidized organizations but I assume they are the largest. The "Welfare and Children" section of the federal budget for the same year was $95 Billion. I know there isn't any type of 1 to 1 correlation between the two, but I think it demonstrates quite clearly that Joe/Jane Q citizen definitely are better off subsidizing the fucking than they are subsidizing food and diapers. We could veer off into other societal costs (school lunch programs, overall underachievement of children raised under the poverty line, tendency of impoverished children to commit crimes) as well. I believe birth control education/subsidization are things absolutely vital to the economic well being of our nation.
Really, but complaining about the meager subsidies for birth control your thought process resembles the "Nothing past this quarter matters, fire as many people as possible" mindset of CEO/MBA types. Fix this insignificant number now, to hell with future consequences.
Please don't counter argue by saying that "Then they shouldn't be fucking at all." I think we all know how effective preaching abstinence is.
Heck, take the pile of paper to a Kinko's or local copy center and get it done there. Worry about naming/sorting when you get home. This option should be cheaper (and easier) than renting an enterprise copier.
It seems that there could be technical solutions to the problem. Maybe the students can only connect to an access point that the teacher has complete control of. Monitor the outbound traffic. TELL the students you will be monitoring outbound traffic. Block ports, Block sites. Give it your best effort. If some manage to overcome and find a way to cheat....at least they had to think a solution through and likely learned something through the experience.
Yeah, we were told by our parent company that we needed to change passwords every 6 months. I recall one person in particular...his password was "dOOr_IntO_tHe_NighT" which is about as hack proof of a password as I've seen an average user choose for himself. Five password changes later I asked him what his password is. It is now simply "apple".
Wow, that has not been my experience at all. I've never had a problem walking into a Best Buy and getting the "Online Price" at the store. Once they told me they couldn't do that and I asked if I could use a computer of theirs to order online and do a "Site to Store" or whatever they call it. That was about the hardest I ever had to push.
Actually, the Best Buy that I go to most often usually has a pretty competent sales staff.
Obviously I'd like the price to be lower/free, but $3 to rent a 2 hour movie is a pretty good ROI for your entertainment dollar. I myself have Netflix and Hulu Plus (no cable/satellite/uverse) as my means of television entertainment but sometimes there is a movie or television show that my wife and I really want to watch. Using Amazon prime, Zune on Xbox, or whatever other On Demand Pay Per View type things are out there on those occasions isn't bad. I can probably rent 25 movies a month that way and still come out ahead of where I'd be paying for Cable Television.
As annoying as the "Wear Out Problems" and "Messing with the tracking dials" were, they were nothing compared to the "I'm going to shred your tape behind repair. You will have to spend 15 minutes digging the remains out from my bowels" aspect of VHS players. My last VHS player was a major offender in this category and I often avoided watching my favorite movies because I was in fear of them getting destroyed.
No, I don't think I miss VHS at all.
This reminds me of a Novell Administration class a company I was working for sent me to. It was me, another loner, and then a large group of people from the same company in the class. Over the few days of the course I learned that basically all of those in the large company were specializing to the point where one guy was there just to learn how to set up accounts, one guy was there just to learn how to set up printers, etc. I was pretty shocked by that level of specialization and decided to make a concerted effort to avoid any jobs where I would spend my entire day setting up Novell Accounts.
Facebook might be hot for awhile, but the real trend is an evolving method of communication. To say that Facebook has the lock on that it is incredibly untrue. So many different projects in the works to satisfy this new kind of communication methodology, and with far better signal to noise ratios too.
I think this is where you are wrong. The next generation of communication has arrived in the form of iPhone/Android devices. Most people will have some type of mobile phone on them for the foreseeable future. Facebook happened to be lucky enough to be the social networking leader when it happened. "Social Networking" is no longer confined to coming home, offloading your pictures from your camera and camping out by your computer. It is with you all day long. Many people are basically on Facebook in some capacity from the moment they get up until the moment they go to bed. It is embedded itself much farther into the public psyche than MySpace/Friendster/Whatever have. Nearly every vaguely media type web site has "Share on Facebook" buttons. It is rare to run into a person who is at all competent with tech and likes communicating with friends who doesn't at least have a Facebook account.
With such a deep penetration into the market, it pretty much ensures that large swaths of people have to jump at the same time. This is where Google+ kind of ran into a problem. There are some people who are all for checking it out, but many people have vested so much time into their Facebook stuff that leaving would actually be a hassle. They have photos uploaded, sorted, and tagged, they have their favorite games, they have whatever crazy groups they belong to. It is going to take more than the next flavor of the day to get people to move the last x years of the lives. Most of all, they would have to learn something new! There are people who go absolutely berserk when Facebook changes itself at all.
You simply cannot dismiss something that has 800,000,000 active users as some passing fad. They can cut it short if they sabotage themselves by trying to charge or something ridiculous though.
The really simple answer is that most/all believers have faith that the Bible/Holy Book was written by God/Prophet/Loyal Servant of God. Your revelation that said material may have been written by a drunk or drug addict isn't going to make anyone of faith bat an eye.
Yeah, I'm with you here. I've got about 75 computers to manage and constantly get the "When am I getting my new computer?" question. I always tell the user I got it for them already, and that it is in the CEO's office and they just need to go ask him for it.
I am not really an advocate of shooting anyone for any reason, but my keen eye for strategic planning is telling me that waiting for the tanks to roll into the streets probably isn't a good plan. My small hunting rifle would give me no measure of solace if that were to actually happen. Best shoot them before they send the tanks.
I may not be remembering things correctly, but it really seems to me that candidates have really ramped up on the attack ads. I really don't remember the last time I saw a "My name is John Smith and I intend to do x, y, z." I think I would vote for any candidate that ran an ad actually stating his/her views instead of just blasting the opposing person. It makes me feel like even the politicians themselves are saying "I am incompetent but the other guy, he is MORE incompetent.
Even if the books are just trashy romance novels, she is still taking in a lot of words. I would be very surprised if it doesn't improve vocabulary at the very least. Also, books require your imagination to be more active, even bad books.
I'm just curious, what part of the curriculum do you have a problem with? General Requirements or the actual degree track? What could they do differently?
This comment hits the nail right on the head. If you don't know what you want to do by the time you are 15 years old you should be assigned a career to follow.
My degree is in Biochemistry and I had done a lot of independent studying of the field while in high school. I mean, those three really fantastic teachers that went way above and beyond their jobs to provide me with some direction in advanced topics didn't help at all. It was my own passion, decisiveness, and talent that made all of that happen. I get to College and suddenly I'm sitting in class with a bunch of lackeys who have never done redox equations. They didn't even have the Kreb Cycle memorized. THESE are the future scientists of America? Damn n00bs.
The fact is, personal hygiene and social skills are required to develop a rapport with someone and convince them to purchase your product. Keeping your computer clean is not required. After all, you walk in the door with an infected laptop you can drop it off with your IT department and they'll fix it up for you. Show up with no pants and a foul stench.....well....not too many companies have a grooming professional. Hell, I'd rather work at a place chock full of people that are spectacular at what they do but need their computers wiped once a month than at a place with a bunch of worthless employees that keep their computers pristine.
Definitely check the living room size. Make sure it is above the minimum 6 Feet that the Kinect specs say. I have a living room that is long and thin and it has made the Kinect difficult to mess around with...unless I convinced my wife to rearrange the room which is as likely as Firefly coming back.
Godaddy (which is a site that is hardly difficult to find) has hosting with Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Unlimited MySQL Databases, SSL, and DNS and a dedicated IPV4 address for $15/month. (Same with .NET/pHp/SQL Server if you prefer Windows Server) $10/month if you pay for the year in advance. Registering a domain will likely cost you another $10 per year or so. Storage is "unlimited" which may or may not be true, but the next level down gives you 150GB of storage so I think that this should be suitable for a portfolio building web site. Development tools can be had for free. If $135 for a YEAR is too much money to spend to try to build your portfolio and learn something about your field, you need to find another field.