I would suggest not to get the kid a car at all, frankly.
I'm American, but frankly I'm a bit disgusted with the mindset that there has to be a car for everybody in the household who has a license. I learned to drive just before I turned 16, but didn't get a car, and actually drove rarely. Some might insist that the lack of practice will hurt, but I found that it actually tempered my stupid ideas, because I watched other people who knew how to drive (and understood what they were doing it and why, as I knew how to drive), which broke me of many of my bad habits (rather than driving every day myself, which would only reinforce them).
If you need to get places, walking, bikes, or public transport cover it to some extent. Admittedly, we aren't very good at the latter yet...
A favorite tactic of mine to confuse people who try to do this is to start typing the second half of hte password and then hit the home key to move to the beginning. Backspace a couple times as well. Even funner if you have insert on.
Nobody's ever succeeded in look-guessing my password
I have this article bookmarked for easy access when people say stupid things. Fortunately I myself have avoided the American school system (grown up overseas... yay) except for one year, but from that one year (freshman year of high school) I have to agree with it all the way.
If you are clicking on your own ads, then that is illegal--you agree when you sign up for the program never to click on your own ads under any circumstances.
the licensing of Adaware and Spybot prevent me from installing this on our systems without violating their EULA
Care to explain? I see nothing in the Spybot license against using in a enterprise environment (though it would be nice to give him a donation if you do). Ad-aware has plus a pro versions which can be used in enterprise environments, though the cost can add up fast.
One or the other of us seems to be misreading something... of course, it might be me:-/
Before anybody accepts this immediately as true, I'd just like to point out that this guy has posted lots of things about his personal achievements and his accomplishments, so much that you have to be a bit skeptical. Besides being the brother of an NOAA analyst, he claims all of the following... (taken from http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131294&cid=109 59811)
Ken Jennings was my roommate freshman year at Brigham Young University
I worked for NASA for 8 years straight out of MIT undergrad.
I'm an editor for Tom's Hardware Guide
I worked for a particular company that denied another company a lucrative contract just because that company's CTO had bullied my company's CEO when he was in high school
I have TWO friends who work at Bungie
I work on LAMP software and deploy to customer's websites.
I obtained a preview release [of GIMP 2.0]
Forgive me for being skeptical, but I have trouble believing all that. A child of the post pointed to above says that the parent poster is a known troll, and a check of his recent comments shows many rated troll.
As someone who has been to and lived in Ukraine, and gotton to know and talk to many of the ppor Ukrainians you talk about, I think you're being a bit pessimistic. There's no doubt that mafia is a problem, and HIV is a problem, and people are poor--but they are intelligent! These people are not stupid, and with some help, if necessary, they are more than capable of running a country without widespread corruption and the like, which is what is going on right now. They need a chance, and the current government isn't giving it to them. Things can only get better if the opposition wins.
As for the bit about opinion polls--I have a friend who did a doctoral thesis about this kind of issue in Ukraine and a couple other CIS countries, and the polls that she took demonstrated that most Ukrainians did not want to rejoin Russia, but rather that they wanted to be independent. Some people in the American Embassy, who know a lot more about what's going on than most people do (unfortunately, most of it is classified) tell me that there was apperently major election fraud by the current government in favor of Yanukovich--basically, if there hadn't been, there is no way he could have gotten anything near 40% of the popular vote. Since one of his basic points is closer ties to Russia, this would seem to indicate that most Ukrainians do not want this.
I have to agree with several of your points on this issue, i.e. that the USA and Europe are very different places. You also say that most people in Ukraine do not speak english, which is also true.
I lived in Ukraine for the past two years (just moved to Sweden), and I have to say that while America and Western Europe are very different, Ukraine is more like the former than the latter. I've also lived in France and Austria, in all three countries interacting with locals on a daily basis, and known many others from all over Europe, and I felt much more comfortable with the Ukrainians than with the French or Austrians or people from any other European country.
I do think that Ukraine is in better condition than most of the CIS countries, and that if they shape up a bit--I think that Yuschenko, thye opposition candidate, winning this election is important in that aspect--they have the potential to become a regional leader, though probably not a regional power.
This is all true--I lived in Ukraine for two years, and frankly I felt much more at home with the Ukrainian people (I'm American) than I have any other place I'd lived (Austria, France, and a few Latin American countries). Most of them are very poor by first world standards, but they are all very intelligent, well read, etc.
Organized crime is a large problem, and the current government is a bunch of crooks. It is essentially certain that the current government cheated in thye first election to give their candidate, Yanukovich, more votes against the opposition candidate Yuschenko, and they will most likely do likewise in the runoff.
So here's hoping that the Ukrainian people won't stand for it. If Yanukovich does "win" the runoff, I hope they rise up in protest and overthrow the government like the Georgians did.
This is sad but true, and is one of the reasons that it is important that the opposition candidate, Viktor Yuschenko, win in the run off of the presidential election next Sunday. Perhaps he's not entirely clean, but he's certainly better than the Moscow-owned crook who has been the Prime Minister...
yeah sure everyone has his/her own "personal" ring tone differentiator...
The funniest thing about it is when people change their ring tones so often that they're never sure what they are, and everybody reaches for their phones anyway...
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I would suggest not to get the kid a car at all, frankly.
I'm American, but frankly I'm a bit disgusted with the mindset that there has to be a car for everybody in the household who has a license. I learned to drive just before I turned 16, but didn't get a car, and actually drove rarely. Some might insist that the lack of practice will hurt, but I found that it actually tempered my stupid ideas, because I watched other people who knew how to drive (and understood what they were doing it and why, as I knew how to drive), which broke me of many of my bad habits (rather than driving every day myself, which would only reinforce them).
If you need to get places, walking, bikes, or public transport cover it to some extent. Admittedly, we aren't very good at the latter yet...
Of course, when given identical cars to race in, Schumacher loses.
Yeah, he may be world class. But other drivers are, too. There's a lot to be said about the cars.
A favorite tactic of mine to confuse people who try to do this is to start typing the second half of hte password and then hit the home key to move to the beginning. Backspace a couple times as well. Even funner if you have insert on.
Nobody's ever succeeded in look-guessing my password
Actually, in the comp sci building at stanford they have the original server that Google ran on, and the case was built out of lego.
IIRC, though, they used the large bricks intended for younger children.
I have this article bookmarked for easy access when people say stupid things. Fortunately I myself have avoided the American school system (grown up overseas... yay) except for one year, but from that one year (freshman year of high school) I have to agree with it all the way.
John Taylor Gatto, The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher
I guess the other one didn't make the main page... but politics readers have already discussed this.
Is it just me, or is this exactly the same story as the one DIRECTLY BELOW IT?
Scratch that, I want the 256 GB model!
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http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fww w.joemarini.com%2Farticles%2FnotOpeningEverything2 0041121.php
http://66.102.9.104/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fww w.joemarini.com%2Farticles%2FnotOpeningEverything2 0041121.php
If you are clicking on your own ads, then that is illegal--you agree when you sign up for the program never to click on your own ads under any circumstances.
the licensing of Adaware and Spybot prevent me from installing this on our systems without violating their EULA
:-/
Care to explain? I see nothing in the Spybot license against using in a enterprise environment (though it would be nice to give him a donation if you do). Ad-aware has plus a pro versions which can be used in enterprise environments, though the cost can add up fast.
One or the other of us seems to be misreading something... of course, it might be me
Lavasoft's Adaware is free for personal use
Which is why the OP said Ad-Aware SE Personal.
Here's one, at least, and it looks like he's been around long enough to know any and all /. codes in existance...
Before anybody accepts this immediately as true, I'd just like to point out that this guy has posted lots of things about his personal achievements and his accomplishments, so much that you have to be a bit skeptical. Besides being the brother of an NOAA analyst, he claims all of the following... (taken from http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131294&cid=109 59811)
Ken Jennings was my roommate freshman year at Brigham Young University
I worked for NASA for 8 years straight out of MIT undergrad.
I'm an editor for Tom's Hardware Guide
I worked for a particular company that denied another company a lucrative contract just because that company's CTO had bullied my company's CEO when he was in high school
I have TWO friends who work at Bungie
I work on LAMP software and deploy to customer's websites.
I obtained a preview release [of GIMP 2.0]
Forgive me for being skeptical, but I have trouble believing all that. A child of the post pointed to above says that the parent poster is a known troll, and a check of his recent comments shows many rated troll.
So perhaps this shouldn't be 5, Interesting?
http://stupidco.com.nyud.net:8090/aol_throne_intro .html
As someone who has been to and lived in Ukraine, and gotton to know and talk to many of the ppor Ukrainians you talk about, I think you're being a bit pessimistic. There's no doubt that mafia is a problem, and HIV is a problem, and people are poor--but they are intelligent! These people are not stupid, and with some help, if necessary, they are more than capable of running a country without widespread corruption and the like, which is what is going on right now. They need a chance, and the current government isn't giving it to them. Things can only get better if the opposition wins.
As for the bit about opinion polls--I have a friend who did a doctoral thesis about this kind of issue in Ukraine and a couple other CIS countries, and the polls that she took demonstrated that most Ukrainians did not want to rejoin Russia, but rather that they wanted to be independent. Some people in the American Embassy, who know a lot more about what's going on than most people do (unfortunately, most of it is classified) tell me that there was apperently major election fraud by the current government in favor of Yanukovich--basically, if there hadn't been, there is no way he could have gotten anything near 40% of the popular vote. Since one of his basic points is closer ties to Russia, this would seem to indicate that most Ukrainians do not want this.
I have to agree with several of your points on this issue, i.e. that the USA and Europe are very different places. You also say that most people in Ukraine do not speak english, which is also true.
I lived in Ukraine for the past two years (just moved to Sweden), and I have to say that while America and Western Europe are very different, Ukraine is more like the former than the latter. I've also lived in France and Austria, in all three countries interacting with locals on a daily basis, and known many others from all over Europe, and I felt much more comfortable with the Ukrainians than with the French or Austrians or people from any other European country.
I do think that Ukraine is in better condition than most of the CIS countries, and that if they shape up a bit--I think that Yuschenko, thye opposition candidate, winning this election is important in that aspect--they have the potential to become a regional leader, though probably not a regional power.
This is all true--I lived in Ukraine for two years, and frankly I felt much more at home with the Ukrainian people (I'm American) than I have any other place I'd lived (Austria, France, and a few Latin American countries). Most of them are very poor by first world standards, but they are all very intelligent, well read, etc.
Organized crime is a large problem, and the current government is a bunch of crooks. It is essentially certain that the current government cheated in thye first election to give their candidate, Yanukovich, more votes against the opposition candidate Yuschenko, and they will most likely do likewise in the runoff.
So here's hoping that the Ukrainian people won't stand for it. If Yanukovich does "win" the runoff, I hope they rise up in protest and overthrow the government like the Georgians did.
This is sad but true, and is one of the reasons that it is important that the opposition candidate, Viktor Yuschenko, win in the run off of the presidential election next Sunday. Perhaps he's not entirely clean, but he's certainly better than the Moscow-owned crook who has been the Prime Minister...
The sky is blue!
Film at 11!
Seriously... this is "news"?
yeah sure everyone has his/her own "personal" ring tone differentiator...
The funniest thing about it is when people change their ring tones so often that they're never sure what they are, and everybody reaches for their phones anyway...
Well...
When one guy leads by 136k votes and there are ~175k left to count...
I'd call that pretty well decided.
Let's just hope that there aren't as many problems with the American elections as there were with the Ukrainian ones...
I don't know, though... anybody taking bets?