Honestly, not using slaves is a bad business move. All your competitors do it.
Fixed that for you.
With that attitude, the problem only escallates. The practice has to stop somewhere. Just because everybody does a given thing doesn't make it right. I mean, look at how long people owned slaves because it didn't seem economically feasible to do otherwise.
I attended 5 different private schools in the first 15 years of my academic career, and one or two were pretty good (I don't remember preschool very clearly), but by and large, private schools don't kick out the worst kids. The worst kids are usually the ones whose parents are the wealthiest, and kicking them out means turning away its largest donors and subsequently going out of business and shutting its doors to all its students. My personal opinion is that we all would have been better off if it had, but that's not the point.
They keep up the pretense of ruling with an iron fist by enforcing things like dress code, but they turn a blind eye to things like drug abuse, bullying and generally disruptive behavior. All the students and faculty are aware of it, but as long as the potential parents/funders don't see it, it's not a problem. And because a family has to be reasonably well off to send kids there, the kids have that much more money for drugs.
I had no problem with the drug use; I had a problem with the school's arrogance and constant self-congratulation about how it was so exclusive while actually having little respect for any of the principles it purported to stand for. Which leads me to have little empathy for the principal. He chose to be a tool of the meat grinder (as the grandparent post so accurately described formalized education), he shouldn't be surprised when somebody who doesn't want to be ground up strikes out at him.
Hi, I'm a web developer and I build sites without Javascript. On the rare occasion that somebody else is calling the shots and Javascript is included, I make sure it works with Javascript turned off. It has less to do with Javascript and more to do with not making assumptions about what the user is running. A site doesn't work without Javascript is no different than a site that only works in IE.
If your site won't work without scripting disabled, I submit that it is your site, and not my browser, that is broken.
Seriously, it's not hard to work with client-side script disabled. I think Ajax eats people's brains.
Sometimes it brings me morbid satisfaction when a site is rendered totally useless by turning off javascript because it's a nice big red flag that I don't want to do business with them.
You happiness now means nothing compared to your happiness in the future.
I wasted years believing that philosophy. There's always more "future" to sacrifice for. Work on making now happy, and the future will fall into place.
Yeah, if you don't go to work, you don't get paid. If you don't go to high school, you don't get to sit and listen to some blowhard on a power trip try to mold your mind into his. What a pity.
(This is not to say that your paying job won't involve blowhards, but those blowhards pay you for wasting your time.)
Oh my god, are either of you hiring? Because seriously, most of my experience on my resume was done for my own amusement. I've got academic experience too, but somehow I don't think "Some bullshit assignment involving pointers, and maybe some templates or something." looks real impressive on a resume.
In order for it to get the two confused, it seems like there'd have to be almost as many bicyclists/pedestrians going faster than automobile traffic as there would be actual automobile traffic to get the two confused. If you have 200 cars going 3.4 miles per hour, and maybe 10 bicyclists going 10 miles per hour, obviously the vehicles going 10 miles per hour are not traveling in the same lane(s) as those going a third that. It seems like it would be simple enough to just drop the rare incidence of a creature going way outside the general speed range.
Again, I'm assuming there are rational people in charge at the school...
And there's your error. I have found that "high school" and "rational people" generally stay far, far away from eachother.
If my high school experience was at all representative, they'll have it out for a kid/subset of kids and will unleash the wrath of hell upon those people for any minor infraction while turning a blind eye to anything else that may go on.
If it were a private institution, you would be right on the money. But its not, it's an extension of the federal government, and as such, they are bound by the same Consitutional restrictions that bind the rest of the federal government./was nearly expelled from Catholic school for the same thing.
They really only need to get one ISP to sign it. Imagine if AOL or somebody like that should sign it (and they will), then they can run ads that say "The only ISP approved by the RIAA/MPAA!" and the current subscribers who are not technically inclined won't know the difference. They'll get more subscribers who don't know what it means because an important group endorsed/approved it.
Once it starts drawing stupid customers, all the other major ISPs will jump on the bandwagon. Where or not the smaller ISPs will be able to resist remains to be seen.
I'm told all DSL services rent the lines from SBC. So once SBC has signed it, they can make all the ISPs who rent their lines sign it.
But nerds are brilliant, and determined not to be hindered by this sort of thing, so they'll find a workaround. The MPAA/RIAA will try to block that, but the nerds will get around it. That's the way of the internet, and I for one think it's a beautiful thing.
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Honestly, not using slaves is a bad business move. All your competitors do it.
Fixed that for you.
With that attitude, the problem only escallates. The practice has to stop somewhere. Just because everybody does a given thing doesn't make it right. I mean, look at how long people owned slaves because it didn't seem economically feasible to do otherwise.
Really now, does every profession need it's own appreciation day?
Seriously, FTW!
I attended 5 different private schools in the first 15 years of my academic career, and one or two were pretty good (I don't remember preschool very clearly), but by and large, private schools don't kick out the worst kids. The worst kids are usually the ones whose parents are the wealthiest, and kicking them out means turning away its largest donors and subsequently going out of business and shutting its doors to all its students. My personal opinion is that we all would have been better off if it had, but that's not the point.
They keep up the pretense of ruling with an iron fist by enforcing things like dress code, but they turn a blind eye to things like drug abuse, bullying and generally disruptive behavior. All the students and faculty are aware of it, but as long as the potential parents/funders don't see it, it's not a problem. And because a family has to be reasonably well off to send kids there, the kids have that much more money for drugs.
I had no problem with the drug use; I had a problem with the school's arrogance and constant self-congratulation about how it was so exclusive while actually having little respect for any of the principles it purported to stand for. Which leads me to have little empathy for the principal. He chose to be a tool of the meat grinder (as the grandparent post so accurately described formalized education), he shouldn't be surprised when somebody who doesn't want to be ground up strikes out at him.
Hi, I'm a web developer and I build sites without Javascript. On the rare occasion that somebody else is calling the shots and Javascript is included, I make sure it works with Javascript turned off. It has less to do with Javascript and more to do with not making assumptions about what the user is running. A site doesn't work without Javascript is no different than a site that only works in IE.
NoScript just breaks too many sites (and it's only going to get worse as the web gets all AJAXy and buzzword-compliant)
NoScript doesn't break sites, sites are broken by developers who don't create them to work without Javascript.
If your site won't work without scripting disabled, I submit that it is your site, and not my browser, that is broken.
Seriously, it's not hard to work with client-side script disabled. I think Ajax eats people's brains.
Sometimes it brings me morbid satisfaction when a site is rendered totally useless by turning off javascript because it's a nice big red flag that I don't want to do business with them.
That description, while funny, made my skull hurt.
I found both to be a waste of time
You happiness now means nothing compared to your happiness in the future.
I wasted years believing that philosophy. There's always more "future" to sacrifice for. Work on making now happy, and the future will fall into place.
Where oh where are the references to super soldiers? Are there no other X-Files fans?
Yeah, if you don't go to work, you don't get paid. If you don't go to high school, you don't get to sit and listen to some blowhard on a power trip try to mold your mind into his. What a pity. (This is not to say that your paying job won't involve blowhards, but those blowhards pay you for wasting your time.)
Drop out! Finishing high school was the second dumbest thing I ever did. Staying in college was the first.
Oh my god, are either of you hiring? Because seriously, most of my experience on my resume was done for my own amusement. I've got academic experience too, but somehow I don't think "Some bullshit assignment involving pointers, and maybe some templates or something." looks real impressive on a resume.
Oh my god I want to work in your office! Except that the fun part would stop as a result of hiring me.
I would love to work in an office where my office mates and I go to a titty bar regularly.
In order for it to get the two confused, it seems like there'd have to be almost as many bicyclists/pedestrians going faster than automobile traffic as there would be actual automobile traffic to get the two confused. If you have 200 cars going 3.4 miles per hour, and maybe 10 bicyclists going 10 miles per hour, obviously the vehicles going 10 miles per hour are not traveling in the same lane(s) as those going a third that. It seems like it would be simple enough to just drop the rare incidence of a creature going way outside the general speed range.
Seriously, now we can make robo-arms like Luke Skywalker had.
I am so confused.
Again, I'm assuming there are rational people in charge at the school...
And there's your error. I have found that "high school" and "rational people" generally stay far, far away from eachother.
If my high school experience was at all representative, they'll have it out for a kid/subset of kids and will unleash the wrath of hell upon those people for any minor infraction while turning a blind eye to anything else that may go on.
If it were a private institution, you would be right on the money. But its not, it's an extension of the federal government, and as such, they are bound by the same Consitutional restrictions that bind the rest of the federal government. /was nearly expelled from Catholic school for the same thing.
You drive home at 120mph?
God reads Slashdot?
Amen!
(People always look at me like I'm crazy when I say that sort of thing. It's nice to hear it from soembody else.)
They really only need to get one ISP to sign it. Imagine if AOL or somebody like that should sign it (and they will), then they can run ads that say "The only ISP approved by the RIAA/MPAA!" and the current subscribers who are not technically inclined won't know the difference. They'll get more subscribers who don't know what it means because an important group endorsed/approved it.
Once it starts drawing stupid customers, all the other major ISPs will jump on the bandwagon. Where or not the smaller ISPs will be able to resist remains to be seen.
I'm told all DSL services rent the lines from SBC. So once SBC has signed it, they can make all the ISPs who rent their lines sign it.
But nerds are brilliant, and determined not to be hindered by this sort of thing, so they'll find a workaround. The MPAA/RIAA will try to block that, but the nerds will get around it. That's the way of the internet, and I for one think it's a beautiful thing.
No no no. Chico students are drunks. The stoners go upstate to CSU Humboldt.