Monetary reimbursement requires a lower guilt threshold than putting someone into jail for a year. More to the point, monetary payments hurt the entire school district, and other school districts considering doing similar things will be more likely to be scared off doing something similar than by a case where a couple of specific individuals are jailed. Not that you can't have both.
You might also want to look at an xml normalizing tool like Xena - automagically converts all your docs, files, etc into open formats whose content can be searched by open tools.
change '2' to the number of days back you want to know about. change '/home/[yourusername]/Documents' to whatever path you want. I tend not to use/home/[username] because that picks up every minor change to config files.
If you really want to get fancy, create a folder, script the above & pipe output via xargs to something which creates a symlink to every modified file within that folder, called by cron every hour or so. The folder will then always have links to every file in the directory of interest modified in the last x days.
Exactly. The vicious persistence of both personal and institutional racism in small towns where 'everybody knows everybody' is a clear demonstration that just having 'neighbors know each other and discuss town affairs at the barbershop' doesn't necessarily produce civil or even sane discourse.
The best minds in the 1860s wasted their lives coming up with new colours of synthetic dyes to allow fabric manufacturers to sell more fabric. The best minds of the 1920s wasted their lives in the new(ish) field of advertising. The best minds of.. The vast majority of the 'best minds' of any generation have ended up taking the stable and well paid jobs associated with working for commercial interests, usually on stuff that won't exactly change the world or make it a better place or anything of the sort. The only thing more depressing is when there's a large war and the best minds of the generation spend years of their lives trying to come up with more efficient ways to kill other human beings. However, in any generation some bright people through accident or design work on things that decades later, in hindsight, are seen to have changed the world in some positive way.
And sometimes people who do useful things with their lives started off doing something like helping facebook sell ads, and had a sudden realization one day that this was a waste of their life. I hope this guy now goes and has a go at something he thinks will make the world a better place instead of just whining about how facebook is ruining the world.
It's hilarious. I'm an Australia who moved to the US about 10 years ago. In the US, my wife and I pay about 19k in taxes between us, of which ~$4,800 goes to healthcare according to this calculator. But we're not eligible for either of the programs that $4,800 pays for (and the $4,800 doesn't include what I contribute to the veterans healthcare system, which I'm also not eligible for), so we and our employers still have to pay for our healthcare. Thousands of dollars per month.
In Australia, if we were paying $19k in taxes (http://www.wheredomytaxesgo.com.au/), only $2,900 of that would be for healthcare, and WE WOULD GET FREE HEATHCARE! Or alternately, we'd buy private health insurance and get a tax rebate.
Oh, and if you're an American and you go and play with the Australian tax calculator, before freaking out that you'd have a higher federal tax rate there than in the US, a) there are no State taxes in Australia - add your US state and city taxes to your US federal taxes before you compare to to what you'd pay in Australia (and for that matter, you should add what you have to pay for health insurance to your US federal taxes to have a real comparison); and b) there's no 'married filing jointly', so if you're married you need to calculate the tax on your incomes separately and add them, not just put the total income in - the tax will be far lower if you do it separately.
They don't have to buy the 'industry', just the back catalogs owned by the industry. Buy 51% of shares in [label]. Have [label] agree to a contract with google offering cheap/free licensing for the existing back catalog (plus maybe right of first refusal to license anything the label acquires IP rights on for the next x years). Sell x% of stock so google isn't majority shareholder anymore and won'r run afoul of anti-monopoly laws when they buy 51% of shares in [next label]. Rinse, repeat.
And in most places you have to strip the insulation to get anywhere near the price you quote. There's a reason your local scrap yard quotes prices for 'bright' copper vs non - it's partially to discourage people from just burning the insulation off. Having said that, I think you'll find cat-5 isn't exactly the major target of most scrappers for exactly this reason - 14/2 is about the minimum worth grabbing (about 1 lb per 80 ft stripped, or 130 ft to get the US minimum wage). But everyone goes for heavier cable and/or plumbing when they can.
So what. I do research with disease transmission among stigmatized populations and I've been saying for years that my job would be a hell of a lot easier if we just put a barcode tattoo on everyone at birth. I can even justify it by describing the advances in public health we'd be sure to get out of it. Does that make doing so ethical or desirable? Hell no, not even close. The problem with people like these is that they get caught up enough in the specific needs of their little world, and the specific (often highly desirable) benefits that would accrue if something like this went ahead, and completely lose the larger perspective about what the broader and highly negative implications of such schemes might be.
What's the make & model of your scanner? I run ubuntu and despite several attempts, finding a current model cheap (under USD$100) flatbed scanner that definitively works with ubuntu is surprisingly difficult. The SANE compatibility guide is huge, but largely lists scanners which are long out of production - fine if you want to know if that ebay scanner will work; useless if you're looking at current models on offer at the local electronic retailer. Ubuntu's compatible hardware guide isn't much better. Compatibility (and documentation of such) seems to be quite good in higher end machines (over USD$300), but I don't want to spend USD$300 or more on something I need maybe once or twice a month.
Oh, I agree with you that collaborating with someone via svn when you're using any non-binary format is a breeze compared to dealing with the multiple version and track changes hell of word. Unfortunately my seniors/superiors don't actually think latex output looks better than word - they think it looks unfamiliar, therefore worse/suspect. Worse - most journals we publish in (public health / epidemiology field) simply want.doc format, double-spaced text with 1" margins and no special formatting - many don't accept.tex. So no-one cares that the output document looks like hell, because that's what the journal asked for, and besides, the journal itself will do all the typesetting once the paper is accepted. For grants, we're mostly submitting to the US National Institutes of Health, which have limited (and incredibly ugly) style requirements: must be.doc, 0.5" margins, four allowable fonts, one allowable font size. There's actually a latex.cls file out there somewhere which produces this hideous stuff, for those lucky enough to at least be able to do the writing process in latex, but from an output point of view it's irrelevant.
The ability to switch citation styles instantly in Latex is useful, but a) these guys all have large endnote libraries they've assembled over years, and the idea of switching to another bib. manager gives them palpitations, and b) endnote/word do a passable job of reformatting to different journal requirements, at least if all you want is clean enough formatting to submit a double-spaced draft to a journal editor. On top of that, most of these guys have assistants who they get to do final citation cleanup before the article or grant gets submitted anyway, so the hackwork of doing it manually isn't their problem. For that matter, they have junior colleagues and assistants who can be tasked with managing the multiple versions / track changes nastiness as well - I spent a lot of time a few months ago doing exactly this for a book chapter I was co-authoring with a bunch of Very Senior People. I got to be a co-author on a book chapter with Famous Scholars; they didn't have to deal with the downside of word, but they screamed when I suggested using something other than word - they all wanted to be able to mangle each others text and see who had done what to who in pretty colours with track changes, not learn how to read subversion logs..
Finally, and probably most importantly, they're not really computer oriented people. Learning to use word/endnote effectively was something of a struggle for most of them, and asking them to set that body of skill aside for something new requires really substantial incentives. At the moment, the primary advantages of latex aren't really that much of an advantage to someone who has underlings to deal with word's disadvantages, and the primary "disadvantages" (not being able to instantly see in pretty colours who edited what; having to switch the entire toolchain) are seen as huge.
Still, I try from time to time with projects where there seems to be a particular advantage to latex (most book chapters) or where I'm dealing with younger colleagues who are both willing and able to experiment with new toolchains to try and address things they see as problems (such as version hell). And as I said, one day I'll probably be a Senior Scholar and can inflict my preferences on more junior collaborators, and it'll be easier to use latex at that point..
I love latex, write all of my single-authored academic work in it. And therein lies the rub - about 90% of my output is papers, presentations, and grants produced collaboratively with other people. None of whom know latex, none of whom are the slightest bit interested in learning it, and most of whom are more senior than me. Perhaps one day when I'm a senior researcher I can force my junior collaborators to learn and use latex, but until then, OO at least lets me collaborate with the rest of the word/ppt/xls using people in my not-very-computer orientated field. Getting (some) of them to at least consider using OO rather than continuing to pay for site licenses for microsoft is about as good as it's going to get..
Noor was also the smallest ISP which provided redundancy for the Egyptian stock exchange - it's possible the govt deliberately left it on in order to keep the stock exchange functioning while providing the least amount of additional service to anyone else. They may no longer care if the exchange is up (or may even prefer to have trading 'suspended' until things stabilize one way or another).
So.. Some asshole wants another human being to spend their working life sitting in a small filthy booth sucking exhaust fumes and having people grumpily throw change at them so *he* can have the ego boost of having a peon "greet" him before he zooms across the bridge? Wow.
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Monetary reimbursement requires a lower guilt threshold than putting someone into jail for a year. More to the point, monetary payments hurt the entire school district, and other school districts considering doing similar things will be more likely to be scared off doing something similar than by a case where a couple of specific individuals are jailed. Not that you can't have both.
You might also want to look at an xml normalizing tool like Xena - automagically converts all your docs, files, etc into open formats whose content can be searched by open tools.
And then quietly remove your balls and put them back in her purse where they belong.
find /home/[yourusername]/Documents -mtime -2
change '2' to the number of days back you want to know about. /home/[username] because that picks up every minor change to config files.
change '/home/[yourusername]/Documents' to whatever path you want. I tend not to use
If you really want to get fancy, create a folder, script the above & pipe output via xargs to something which creates a symlink to every modified file within that folder, called by cron every hour or so. The folder will then always have links to every file in the directory of interest modified in the last x days.
Exactly. The vicious persistence of both personal and institutional racism in small towns where 'everybody knows everybody' is a clear demonstration that just having 'neighbors know each other and discuss town affairs at the barbershop' doesn't necessarily produce civil or even sane discourse.
The best minds in the 1860s wasted their lives coming up with new colours of synthetic dyes to allow fabric manufacturers to sell more fabric. The best minds of the 1920s wasted their lives in the new(ish) field of advertising. The best minds of.. The vast majority of the 'best minds' of any generation have ended up taking the stable and well paid jobs associated with working for commercial interests, usually on stuff that won't exactly change the world or make it a better place or anything of the sort. The only thing more depressing is when there's a large war and the best minds of the generation spend years of their lives trying to come up with more efficient ways to kill other human beings. However, in any generation some bright people through accident or design work on things that decades later, in hindsight, are seen to have changed the world in some positive way.
And sometimes people who do useful things with their lives started off doing something like helping facebook sell ads, and had a sudden realization one day that this was a waste of their life. I hope this guy now goes and has a go at something he thinks will make the world a better place instead of just whining about how facebook is ruining the world.
You'll note that the last line item on this calculator is "Net interest" on the national debt. For my tax rate, it's 7.4% of my taxes..
It's hilarious. I'm an Australia who moved to the US about 10 years ago. In the US, my wife and I pay about 19k in taxes between us, of which ~$4,800 goes to healthcare according to this calculator. But we're not eligible for either of the programs that $4,800 pays for (and the $4,800 doesn't include what I contribute to the veterans healthcare system, which I'm also not eligible for), so we and our employers still have to pay for our healthcare. Thousands of dollars per month.
In Australia, if we were paying $19k in taxes (http://www.wheredomytaxesgo.com.au/), only $2,900 of that would be for healthcare, and WE WOULD GET FREE HEATHCARE! Or alternately, we'd buy private health insurance and get a tax rebate.
Oh, and if you're an American and you go and play with the Australian tax calculator, before freaking out that you'd have a higher federal tax rate there than in the US, a) there are no State taxes in Australia - add your US state and city taxes to your US federal taxes before you compare to to what you'd pay in Australia (and for that matter, you should add what you have to pay for health insurance to your US federal taxes to have a real comparison); and b) there's no 'married filing jointly', so if you're married you need to calculate the tax on your incomes separately and add them, not just put the total income in - the tax will be far lower if you do it separately.
And here's the war on drugs clock from drugsense:
http://www.drugsense.org/cms/wodclock
They don't have to buy the 'industry', just the back catalogs owned by the industry. Buy 51% of shares in [label]. Have [label] agree to a contract with google offering cheap/free licensing for the existing back catalog (plus maybe right of first refusal to license anything the label acquires IP rights on for the next x years). Sell x% of stock so google isn't majority shareholder anymore and won'r run afoul of anti-monopoly laws when they buy 51% of shares in [next label]. Rinse, repeat.
And in most places you have to strip the insulation to get anywhere near the price you quote. There's a reason your local scrap yard quotes prices for 'bright' copper vs non - it's partially to discourage people from just burning the insulation off. Having said that, I think you'll find cat-5 isn't exactly the major target of most scrappers for exactly this reason - 14/2 is about the minimum worth grabbing (about 1 lb per 80 ft stripped, or 130 ft to get the US minimum wage). But everyone goes for heavier cable and/or plumbing when they can.
So what. I do research with disease transmission among stigmatized populations and I've been saying for years that my job would be a hell of a lot easier if we just put a barcode tattoo on everyone at birth. I can even justify it by describing the advances in public health we'd be sure to get out of it. Does that make doing so ethical or desirable? Hell no, not even close. The problem with people like these is that they get caught up enough in the specific needs of their little world, and the specific (often highly desirable) benefits that would accrue if something like this went ahead, and completely lose the larger perspective about what the broader and highly negative implications of such schemes might be.
It worked so well for the Romans..
Although that's just federal spending. $4 million is 52 minutes of the war on drugs if you add in state and local government spending.
$4 million is 2 hours and 13 minutes of the war on drugs: http://www.drugsense.org/cms/wodclock
.. and that 5.1% probably had the resources to get out of the country when the shooting started.
This. This is a really good idea. By extension, I also like the idea of being able to set .profile by url..
I mapped ctrl-m to toggle window min/max ages ago for exactly this reason - no need to use the mouse at all.
What's the make & model of your scanner? I run ubuntu and despite several attempts, finding a current model cheap (under USD$100) flatbed scanner that definitively works with ubuntu is surprisingly difficult. The SANE compatibility guide is huge, but largely lists scanners which are long out of production - fine if you want to know if that ebay scanner will work; useless if you're looking at current models on offer at the local electronic retailer. Ubuntu's compatible hardware guide isn't much better. Compatibility (and documentation of such) seems to be quite good in higher end machines (over USD$300), but I don't want to spend USD$300 or more on something I need maybe once or twice a month.
Oh, I agree with you that collaborating with someone via svn when you're using any non-binary format is a breeze compared to dealing with the multiple version and track changes hell of word. Unfortunately my seniors/superiors don't actually think latex output looks better than word - they think it looks unfamiliar, therefore worse/suspect. Worse - most journals we publish in (public health / epidemiology field) simply want .doc format, double-spaced text with 1" margins and no special formatting - many don't accept .tex. So no-one cares that the output document looks like hell, because that's what the journal asked for, and besides, the journal itself will do all the typesetting once the paper is accepted. For grants, we're mostly submitting to the US National Institutes of Health, which have limited (and incredibly ugly) style requirements: must be .doc, 0.5" margins, four allowable fonts, one allowable font size. There's actually a latex .cls file out there somewhere which produces this hideous stuff, for those lucky enough to at least be able to do the writing process in latex, but from an output point of view it's irrelevant.
The ability to switch citation styles instantly in Latex is useful, but a) these guys all have large endnote libraries they've assembled over years, and the idea of switching to another bib. manager gives them palpitations, and b) endnote/word do a passable job of reformatting to different journal requirements, at least if all you want is clean enough formatting to submit a double-spaced draft to a journal editor. On top of that, most of these guys have assistants who they get to do final citation cleanup before the article or grant gets submitted anyway, so the hackwork of doing it manually isn't their problem. For that matter, they have junior colleagues and assistants who can be tasked with managing the multiple versions / track changes nastiness as well - I spent a lot of time a few months ago doing exactly this for a book chapter I was co-authoring with a bunch of Very Senior People. I got to be a co-author on a book chapter with Famous Scholars; they didn't have to deal with the downside of word, but they screamed when I suggested using something other than word - they all wanted to be able to mangle each others text and see who had done what to who in pretty colours with track changes, not learn how to read subversion logs..
Finally, and probably most importantly, they're not really computer oriented people. Learning to use word/endnote effectively was something of a struggle for most of them, and asking them to set that body of skill aside for something new requires really substantial incentives. At the moment, the primary advantages of latex aren't really that much of an advantage to someone who has underlings to deal with word's disadvantages, and the primary "disadvantages" (not being able to instantly see in pretty colours who edited what; having to switch the entire toolchain) are seen as huge.
Still, I try from time to time with projects where there seems to be a particular advantage to latex (most book chapters) or where I'm dealing with younger colleagues who are both willing and able to experiment with new toolchains to try and address things they see as problems (such as version hell). And as I said, one day I'll probably be a Senior Scholar and can inflict my preferences on more junior collaborators, and it'll be easier to use latex at that point..
I love latex, write all of my single-authored academic work in it. And therein lies the rub - about 90% of my output is papers, presentations, and grants produced collaboratively with other people. None of whom know latex, none of whom are the slightest bit interested in learning it, and most of whom are more senior than me. Perhaps one day when I'm a senior researcher I can force my junior collaborators to learn and use latex, but until then, OO at least lets me collaborate with the rest of the word/ppt/xls using people in my not-very-computer orientated field. Getting (some) of them to at least consider using OO rather than continuing to pay for site licenses for microsoft is about as good as it's going to get..
Noor was also the smallest ISP which provided redundancy for the Egyptian stock exchange - it's possible the govt deliberately left it on in order to keep the stock exchange functioning while providing the least amount of additional service to anyone else. They may no longer care if the exchange is up (or may even prefer to have trading 'suspended' until things stabilize one way or another).
So.. Some asshole wants another human being to spend their working life sitting in a small filthy booth sucking exhaust fumes and having people grumpily throw change at them so *he* can have the ego boost of having a peon "greet" him before he zooms across the bridge? Wow.
According to renesys, all but one of the ISPs are offline - the one which carries the country's stock exchange: http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml
SMS got switched off for all providers several hours ago: http://www.discourse.net/2011/01/egypt-cuts-internet-access-sms.html