I stand corrected. I was siding with him about wanting support on Cedega, but you're right that the account being banned screws you as far as playing again on a Windows box.
Well, keep in mind that (at least when I was there) around lunch time traffic cops would suddenly start pulling people over left and right for real, yet never enforced, infractions in order to earn some "lunch money". i.e. pay the cop to let you go. I doubt many people really pay any sort of fine. But I like the idea of mandatory voting.
Country was, and still is, corrupt as hell. But people know this which is why new candidates that look promising will gain tons of support from everyone (as in common people) who hates the current corrupt guy in power. Repeat ad nauseum.
Maybe because latin is seriously hard to learn and would stimulate thinking in a certain manner? From what I understand latin is difficult yet very structured and I imagine that would imply logiclal thinking.
The same reason my CS profs gave for why we have to take all of these post-calculus math courses. Math is very structured and requires critical thinking and a very spefici syntax to work and therefore is a good match to pair with computing.
3. Force people to vote. Make voting days a Federal holiday and force employers to pay employees for that day. Count it as the cost of doing business in the USA.
In Peru (my wife's native country) every legal adult is REQUIRED to vote. You have a "libreta electoral" card you carry with you and each election you get a foil stamp in it. If you get a traffic fine or such, the police can check your voting card and if you are missing the latest election's stamp you can get fined for missing that also.
When I lived there, during election periods the energy of people supporting various candidates was psycho. You could probably ask any Peruvian about the candidates for their area and get into a much detailed discussion about them. I wish American's gave a tenth as much attention to voting here as they do in Peru.
I worked for the State Dept (Marine Corps Security Guard Program) at US Embassies and most of what the parent said is right on. Just make sure you are the kind of person who will like living in the local economy. I met too many State personnel who would never leave their little island of America and missed out on tons of unique experiences and always bitched about what they were missing from the US. I almost went the same route at my first post until I met a really cool Finnish woman (this was in Pakistan) who showed me that there was a ton of stuff to do if you would just get off your ass and go look for it.
And about the housing, here is how one State person described it to us before we went overseas:
"Take a country that has an extremely rich upper class, no middle class, and a large lower class. So you have really nice neigborhoods with large houses where everyone has a house staff, and then you have the slums. Where do you think the State Dept is going buy housing for the US staff?"
We had 12 Marines in one house in Peru and did not at all feel crowded. If you have kids, you will most likely get at least one bedroom per child, and in most places you will be posted you can easily afford a house staff (cleaning, laundry, cooking) to free up a lot of your time. Now some places are unique, such as Beijing or Hong Kong (I forget which) where the embassy basically rents out floors of apartment buildings (NICE apartments, but still apartments) and houses all of the staff there.
Um, exactly how easy is it to move a cargor container that weighs several tons, probably has a dozen or so power and network lines coming into it, located on a corporate compound? And to go even further, how would you sneak off with something like that?
OK, this is slashdot, I forgot. This is the forum where I can make an off-hand comment about how a parent should know what their kids are up to and it gets turned into a nitpick session over every fucking comment I make.
Ok, for the record, I only know what I PLAN to do as my kids get older. I know that I am tech savvy enough that I can do a decent job of tracking computer related activity in my house. So in 5-10 years when my kids are on the internet I will be doing something just so that I can get a warm fuzzy that my kids aren't being too stupid. I am NOT going to be the Nazi let's impant transmitters in my kids type of parent, but if I suddenly see a trend of my son's computer hitting goatse.cx type web pages, or my daughter connecting to forums where teenage girls are bragging about their college boyfriends, I plan to take some sort of action whether it is more paying attention to that activity or confronting them if I feel as their parent that I need to.
I know everything that I did from my teens to my mid-twenties, and like most people I am amazed at both my stupidity and luck at getting away with some of that stuff. I have every expectation that my kids will do most of the same things I did. In the same way that parents should take responsibilty in being aware of their kids exposure to drinking, smoking and drugs, I will take responsibility and be aware of their digital activites.
If you think that makes me a bad horrible terrible parent, then that is your perogative. I think it makes me a responsible parent.
I don't plan on eavesdropping constantly on my kids, however I reserve the right as their parent to do so if I feel the need.
Society constantly wants to blame the parents for events like Columbine yet people don't want to give the parents the authority to prevent these acts. Spank your kids, neighbors call the police, ground them, take away their phone and tv and internet, and you are depriving them and are a bad parent. Monitor what goes on with their friends, you are a control freak and have no respect for their privacy.
It always comes down to "you should be respecting your kid's privacy!!" until they go out and do something wrong and then suddenly it is "as their parents you should have known about this!".
Not that Heinlein was an expert on the ideal society, but I love the chapter in "Starship Troopers" where the instuctor discusses parenting "back in the 20th century" to the teenagers in the book's present. I thoroughly agree with his ideas.
My goal as a parent is that when my children reach the age of 18, I have taught them everything I possibly can so that when they enter the real world they have had the full background in their lives to make the right (or wrong) decisions and take responsibility for the consequences of those actions. My children may end up hating my guts, but they will never be able to say that I didn't prepare them for life.
Difference is my parents KNEW who my friends were, and based on that I was actaully not allowed to hang around certain people. I was grounded numerous times when I got caught hanging with other kids on the "don't hang out with" list. And in hindsight, I am rather glad my parents watched over me although of course I didn't like it at the time.
On the internet, you do NOT know who the hell you kids are talking to. Therefore, if need be, I will sample what my kids are doing on the internet to see what kind of stuff they are doing. To do otherwise would be irresponsible in my opinion.
Um, preaching to the choir probably, but shouldn't parents be monitoring their kids' online activities anyway?
Back in my day our parents knew what kind of neghborhoods we played outside in, why wouldn't parents of today be any different WRT to online neighborhoods?
When mine are old enough to start unsupervised web use (currently oldest is 5) I will definitely be logging everything they do, not to snoop and evesdrop but just so I can spot check and see what they are doing every once in awhile.
Personally, if I owned a business and the BSA told me they inside information that I was non-compliant with software licensing in some manner, I would say thanks for the tip and hang up the phone. And try to perform an immediate internal audit just in case...
If they kept calling or sending letters, they would get re-directed to my lawyer (every company has access to a lawyer right?).
IANAL, but I imagine if they brought a civil case against you on behalf of and they lost, they would be responsible for the court costs?
It is also truly a PRIVILEGE to drive in Germany, and their drivers are probably less likely to fuck up since it is so expensive and hard to get a license. Everyone in the US thinks it is their right to be able to drive. I don't know how many news stories I have seen where there was a massive accident, death involved, and oh the driver was on a suspended license.
Also, vehicle inspections are not a joke there like they are here in the US (at least in Virginia), so you have less people driving dangerous vehicles on the road. Not to mention that radio stations will cut in to broadcast accidents and construction on the autobahn so that you are aware of dangerous conditions ahead.
I have never felt safer driving than when I was in Germany on business earlier this year.
My wife has had 5 tickets in 3 years, which has over doubled our insurance rates. One or two more and our insurance company will no longer insure us with her on the policy. She can't get it through her head that very soon, if she doesn't get her head out of her ass, she will no longer be able to drive (and I would get rid of the 2nd car to reduce bills). She seems to think she will always have a license and a car to drive. She is symbolic of most US drivers...they want the right to drive but not take any responsibilty to be a good driver.
1) Interstates are numbered odd numbers North/South and even numbers East/West. Main routes have 2 digits, and connectors and bypasses have 3 digits, where the last two digits are the ID of the MSR that it connects to. This makes it very easy to tell (in most cases) which Interstate you need to be on, even if you don't know local geography that well. If you are West of Detroit, and you want to go to Toledo (south of Detroit) and you are on I-96 approaching the the I-275 interchange, you can tell that:
a) you are travelling E/W
b) 275 runs N/S
c) 275 links up with 75, also N/S
d) So taking 275 to 75 is moving you in the right direction.
And exactly how many people actually know this about the highway system? I seriously doubt the fucking morons who drive 80 MPH in a Ford Focus while weaving in and out of traffic do.
Peru is the same way, at least it was in the 90's when I lived there. There was unlimited incoming calls on a cell, and the one calling paid for the call, whether from another cell or a regular landline.
Same with home phones, there was no such thing as a toll-free call. If you made a call from a land phone, the caller paid for it. If you called another landline, there was a really cheap rate, but calling a cell phone was 3-4x that rate. Made pay phones a bitch, as you had to know what kind of phone your recipient was using.
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You have to admit, it is also a good one-line summation of the "religion" of Scientology...
Damn, I wish I had some mod points.
Nice point.
I stand corrected. I was siding with him about wanting support on Cedega, but you're right that the account being banned screws you as far as playing again on a Windows box.
Downmod -1: Unoriginal comeback.
But that was funny, sort of...
Why did this get modded "Troll"? He has a point. If I had mod points I would upmod this...
Um, on my corporate PC, Firefox got updated all by itself to 2.0. (and not from an IT push.)
I didn't think that the auto-check for updates would force a complete version change on me.
Luckily nothing broke as far as extensions that I use.
Sure, be my guest. No one else comments there anyway :-)
Damn good series of books. Problem is I kept picturing Brad Pitt whenever the story centered on Achilles.
Well, keep in mind that (at least when I was there) around lunch time traffic cops would suddenly start pulling people over left and right for real, yet never enforced, infractions in order to earn some "lunch money". i.e. pay the cop to let you go. I doubt many people really pay any sort of fine. But I like the idea of mandatory voting.
Country was, and still is, corrupt as hell. But people know this which is why new candidates that look promising will gain tons of support from everyone (as in common people) who hates the current corrupt guy in power. Repeat ad nauseum.
Maybe because latin is seriously hard to learn and would stimulate thinking in a certain manner? From what I understand latin is difficult yet very structured and I imagine that would imply logiclal thinking.
The same reason my CS profs gave for why we have to take all of these post-calculus math courses. Math is very structured and requires critical thinking and a very spefici syntax to work and therefore is a good match to pair with computing.
In Peru (my wife's native country) every legal adult is REQUIRED to vote. You have a "libreta electoral" card you carry with you and each election you get a foil stamp in it. If you get a traffic fine or such, the police can check your voting card and if you are missing the latest election's stamp you can get fined for missing that also.
When I lived there, during election periods the energy of people supporting various candidates was psycho. You could probably ask any Peruvian about the candidates for their area and get into a much detailed discussion about them. I wish American's gave a tenth as much attention to voting here as they do in Peru.
I worked for the State Dept (Marine Corps Security Guard Program) at US Embassies and most of what the parent said is right on. Just make sure you are the kind of person who will like living in the local economy. I met too many State personnel who would never leave their little island of America and missed out on tons of unique experiences and always bitched about what they were missing from the US. I almost went the same route at my first post until I met a really cool Finnish woman (this was in Pakistan) who showed me that there was a ton of stuff to do if you would just get off your ass and go look for it.
And about the housing, here is how one State person described it to us before we went overseas:
"Take a country that has an extremely rich upper class, no middle class, and a large lower class. So you have really nice neigborhoods with large houses where everyone has a house staff, and then you have the slums. Where do you think the State Dept is going buy housing for the US staff?"
We had 12 Marines in one house in Peru and did not at all feel crowded. If you have kids, you will most likely get at least one bedroom per child, and in most places you will be posted you can easily afford a house staff (cleaning, laundry, cooking) to free up a lot of your time. Now some places are unique, such as Beijing or Hong Kong (I forget which) where the embassy basically rents out floors of apartment buildings (NICE apartments, but still apartments) and houses all of the staff there.
Is that 50 road miles or 50 miles as the crow flies?
I knew Bubble Boy was onto something....
Fucking great, he pulled the "think of the children" line...expect politicians to get involved and new laws passed to "protect the children".
Um, exactly how easy is it to move a cargor container that weighs several tons, probably has a dozen or so power and network lines coming into it, located on a corporate compound? And to go even further, how would you sneak off with something like that?
In other news...
Experts say that by selling cars, car dealers are giving criminals a means to escape from the scene of a crime.
OK, this is slashdot, I forgot. This is the forum where I can make an off-hand comment about how a parent should know what their kids are up to and it gets turned into a nitpick session over every fucking comment I make.
Ok, for the record, I only know what I PLAN to do as my kids get older. I know that I am tech savvy enough that I can do a decent job of tracking computer related activity in my house. So in 5-10 years when my kids are on the internet I will be doing something just so that I can get a warm fuzzy that my kids aren't being too stupid. I am NOT going to be the Nazi let's impant transmitters in my kids type of parent, but if I suddenly see a trend of my son's computer hitting goatse.cx type web pages, or my daughter connecting to forums where teenage girls are bragging about their college boyfriends, I plan to take some sort of action whether it is more paying attention to that activity or confronting them if I feel as their parent that I need to.
I know everything that I did from my teens to my mid-twenties, and like most people I am amazed at both my stupidity and luck at getting away with some of that stuff. I have every expectation that my kids will do most of the same things I did. In the same way that parents should take responsibilty in being aware of their kids exposure to drinking, smoking and drugs, I will take responsibility and be aware of their digital activites.
If you think that makes me a bad horrible terrible parent, then that is your perogative. I think it makes me a responsible parent.
I don't plan on eavesdropping constantly on my kids, however I reserve the right as their parent to do so if I feel the need.
Society constantly wants to blame the parents for events like Columbine yet people don't want to give the parents the authority to prevent these acts. Spank your kids, neighbors call the police, ground them, take away their phone and tv and internet, and you are depriving them and are a bad parent. Monitor what goes on with their friends, you are a control freak and have no respect for their privacy.
It always comes down to "you should be respecting your kid's privacy!!" until they go out and do something wrong and then suddenly it is "as their parents you should have known about this!".
Not that Heinlein was an expert on the ideal society, but I love the chapter in "Starship Troopers" where the instuctor discusses parenting "back in the 20th century" to the teenagers in the book's present. I thoroughly agree with his ideas.
My goal as a parent is that when my children reach the age of 18, I have taught them everything I possibly can so that when they enter the real world they have had the full background in their lives to make the right (or wrong) decisions and take responsibility for the consequences of those actions. My children may end up hating my guts, but they will never be able to say that I didn't prepare them for life.
Difference is my parents KNEW who my friends were, and based on that I was actaully not allowed to hang around certain people. I was grounded numerous times when I got caught hanging with other kids on the "don't hang out with" list. And in hindsight, I am rather glad my parents watched over me although of course I didn't like it at the time.
On the internet, you do NOT know who the hell you kids are talking to. Therefore, if need be, I will sample what my kids are doing on the internet to see what kind of stuff they are doing. To do otherwise would be irresponsible in my opinion.
Um, preaching to the choir probably, but shouldn't parents be monitoring their kids' online activities anyway?
Back in my day our parents knew what kind of neghborhoods we played outside in, why wouldn't parents of today be any different WRT to online neighborhoods?
When mine are old enough to start unsupervised web use (currently oldest is 5) I will definitely be logging everything they do, not to snoop and evesdrop but just so I can spot check and see what they are doing every once in awhile.
Personally, if I owned a business and the BSA told me they inside information that I was non-compliant with software licensing in some manner, I would say thanks for the tip and hang up the phone. And try to perform an immediate internal audit just in case...
If they kept calling or sending letters, they would get re-directed to my lawyer (every company has access to a lawyer right?).
IANAL, but I imagine if they brought a civil case against you on behalf of and they lost, they would be responsible for the court costs?
Make them work for it...
It is also truly a PRIVILEGE to drive in Germany, and their drivers are probably less likely to fuck up since it is so expensive and hard to get a license. Everyone in the US thinks it is their right to be able to drive. I don't know how many news stories I have seen where there was a massive accident, death involved, and oh the driver was on a suspended license.
Also, vehicle inspections are not a joke there like they are here in the US (at least in Virginia), so you have less people driving dangerous vehicles on the road. Not to mention that radio stations will cut in to broadcast accidents and construction on the autobahn so that you are aware of dangerous conditions ahead.
I have never felt safer driving than when I was in Germany on business earlier this year.
My wife has had 5 tickets in 3 years, which has over doubled our insurance rates. One or two more and our insurance company will no longer insure us with her on the policy. She can't get it through her head that very soon, if she doesn't get her head out of her ass, she will no longer be able to drive (and I would get rid of the 2nd car to reduce bills). She seems to think she will always have a license and a car to drive. She is symbolic of most US drivers...they want the right to drive but not take any responsibilty to be a good driver.
And exactly how many people actually know this about the highway system? I seriously doubt the fucking morons who drive 80 MPH in a Ford Focus while weaving in and out of traffic do.
Peru is the same way, at least it was in the 90's when I lived there. There was unlimited incoming calls on a cell, and the one calling paid for the call, whether from another cell or a regular landline.
Same with home phones, there was no such thing as a toll-free call. If you made a call from a land phone, the caller paid for it. If you called another landline, there was a really cheap rate, but calling a cell phone was 3-4x that rate. Made pay phones a bitch, as you had to know what kind of phone your recipient was using.