Now you have no idea what you're talking about. We fought the Revolutionary War to get the freedoms that a monarch on the opposite side of an ocean tried to keep from us. Since then, it has been a slow decline towards the state we fought to get away from, albeit one more advanced and capable of much greater degrees of snooping.
Do liberals hate America? I doubt it. Just because one has a different vision for America doesn't mean they hate it. But that doesn't mean I have to agree with their vision either.
From atoms to complete cells to civilizations, they split (or die) once they reach a size that's impossible to keep order in. Whether the America will split, or turn against the government and corps that drive it, time will tell, but it's not gonna be sped up by anyone who has time to read and post on slashdot.
Its not just America that has gotten too big, its the world. The world is edging closer to a disaster every day, and there will come a point where we can't turn back. Perhaps we have already reached that point.
Our government no longer cares about governing. It simply exists to protect the profits of the corporate world as they nickel and dime Americans to death. The economy, which used to be America's strength, has slowly had its foundation pulled from underneath it. Now the Chinese keep the dollar propped up for many reasons, especially since it provides them with a favorable trading relationship.
So if America collapses in on itself and seperates into many nations or goes into prolonged civil war, much of the world will end up coming down with us. China, in particular, will being to suffer economic problems as their principle trading partner will no longer be able to buy from them. It will be hard for them to keep their currency devalued. The collapse of the dollar, which is still one of the principle currencies of the planet, will send shockwaves through the world economy and possibly trigger a global depression.
If it does come, it will come from the most surprising of places. It probably won't start in the education system as they try to keep people from learning how to think. It probably won't come from the general population as they are too busy paying off their debt. Perhaps the Illegals are the only hope for this country....
Goodness this movie sucked. I could have masturbated at least twice in the time I blew watching this (and maybe I did, tehe!) I would much rather the time all those servers spent generating those "special effects" had gone to FOLDING@HOME or something at least remotely useful to humanity.
Not that it makes it right, but I think this gets to the heart of the problem. The media companies put out garbage. If they put some effort into developing quality products at reasonable rates instead of trying to exploit their clients and customers, there would be more people who would be willing to spend their hard-earned money on their products.
Which doesn't answer the question that many readers have asked so far. How does the RIAA KNOW that this is going on? Sure, many of us say it is common knowledge, but if I were a University President, I wouldn't act on this unless they could prove that it was happening on my school's network.
Thats assuming the Universities put up with it. Unlike joe consumer, universities are staffed with some pretty bright people, who while knowing that SOME students might be sharing files, the RIAA will never be able to prove it without breaking into the systems in question. I don't think this will last very long, and I doubt very many Universities will actually bow to this threat.
Yeah, but what damage comes from Chicken Pox? You get a bunch of sores for up to two weeks, some time out of school, and a lifetime immunity (unless you have an immune system disorder).
I can understand immunizing for diseases like polio and the mumps.
I'm surprised AntiTrust wasn't mentioned either. Its one of the better computer-related movies out there, and while it isn't perfect, it does get a lot of things right.
The reason why many people have to take L1 Support jobs is because a lot of places don't advertise for other jobs in their IT department. In order to get into a networking, database, or systems administrator position, you have to apply for an entry level tech support or customer support job in order to be able to move up into one of those spots.
The link between vaccines and autism had to do with a preservative that included mercury in it. This has been replaced with a non-mercury preservative, and I believe most of those batches have since been used or replaced.
While I was in college, I worked tech support for a local ISP. It was small enough that I was L1, L2, and L3 support as well as manning the storefront. They had policies that basically ran contradictory to basic customer service. If the customers couldn't connect, we would run them through the basic setup again and then refer them to their phone company (which, due to deregulation, had something to do with bandwidth sold to other local telecoms...or so I was told). When customers tried to renew their service, they had to pay the entire amount upfront, and if they were late and/or tried to use a credit card, fees were tacked on. We always removed at least one of the fees to keep the customer, but if one of the owners was there and overheard it, we were in for a talk.
For being the owners of a small business, they really didn't care for treating their customers right, and in the end, it almost cost them. They had already started losing customers to SBC and Charter, and I doubt that the company would have survived if they weren't bought out.
The last thing I want is to screw up my GPA just to learn some programming skills
Is your GPA that bad that you're gonna screw it up by getting one C or worse? Or are you one of those who is obsessive about your 4.0 and will shy away from challenges to keep it?
I'm sorry if this sounds a little harsh, but if you want to learn to program, take the class if it is offered. If you really enjoy it and pick it up quickly, you can extend it outside of class and start programming in RPG Maker. If you don't like it, you walk away with your B and know that it isn't your thing.
Kid, you're only in your second year of high school. It will, hopefully, get harder for you from here on out. Or maybe not.
Like other posters have said, if there is something you are interested in, go buy a book and use the Internet to teach yourself. Formal education limits your ability to be creative and develop your skills in the directions that you want to take them.
If you really want to LEARN something and be able to apply it, you have to work outside of the classroom. You'll be working outside of a controlled situation where you won't have a textbook to go back to for the answers, and you will have to learn how to diagnose a problem and be resourceful to solve it.
But Vista shouldn't be on that order of magnitude. That was what Windows XP was supposed to be. It was supposed to finally end the Windows 9x line and replace it with a more robust operating system based on the Windows NT line. For most, that would be a substantial change.
Vista is a product that should be an incremental upgrade in the same way that Service Pack 2 and Tiger were incremental upgrades. Instead, Microsoft is trying to do way too much and they've put themselves into this hole where they are having trouble getting the operating system out the door.
Does Microsoft have a clear roadmap for their products? Do they know what they can, or want to, accomplish? Or have they become the next Hollywood by putting out expensive crap?
I don't think much of the Christian Right really cares. If you look closely, they're the ones pushing to start Armaggaedon. Why do you think Bush and company are trying to start wars in the Middle East? Its to fulfill some ancient and vaguely defined prophecy.
Laws preventing the violent overthrow of the government, or advocating the same, only appeared on the books in the 1930s when Communism became a threat to this country.
Would you consider a college that had a policy of "no cars or bicycles on or around campus - you have to use the campus bus service"?
No, I wouldn't.
How about "no personally-owned computers on campus - only the one we rent to you"?
No, I can't say I would.
However, those are different situations than a University switching to Windows Live Email. When you go to school, it doesn't matter what email service the school uses, you get an email and are expected to use it for class.
It's not only the personal inconvenience that's involved. Wouldn't you question the administration's ability to make sound decisions in other areas, based on their bad decisions in areas that are visible. Would you want to attend a college run by a bunch of yahoos?
The average slashdotter is much different than the average college student. Most college-age students could care less about the Microsoft vs. Everyone Else battle in the computer industry, so it won't matter if their email is hosted by the University on some box deep in the bowels of the IT department (possibly running...gasp...EXCHANGE!!!) or hosted by Gmail, Microsoft, or some 3rd party hosting service.
Of course, that assumes this is a bad decision. Putting your personal inconvience aside, there are good reasons to switch to this hosted service for smaller colleges and universities. The main one is potentially lower IT costs as they won't have to pay to run another server(s) (the box, software, power costs, and administrator salary).
And until you've gone to a University where a single bonehead administrator has run parts of the college into the ground, don't complain. Thats far worse than a school using Microsoft email.
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Now you have no idea what you're talking about. We fought the Revolutionary War to get the freedoms that a monarch on the opposite side of an ocean tried to keep from us. Since then, it has been a slow decline towards the state we fought to get away from, albeit one more advanced and capable of much greater degrees of snooping.
Do liberals hate America? I doubt it. Just because one has a different vision for America doesn't mean they hate it. But that doesn't mean I have to agree with their vision either.
From atoms to complete cells to civilizations, they split (or die) once they reach a size that's impossible to keep order in. Whether the America will split, or turn against the government and corps that drive it, time will tell, but it's not gonna be sped up by anyone who has time to read and post on slashdot.
Its not just America that has gotten too big, its the world. The world is edging closer to a disaster every day, and there will come a point where we can't turn back. Perhaps we have already reached that point.
Our government no longer cares about governing. It simply exists to protect the profits of the corporate world as they nickel and dime Americans to death. The economy, which used to be America's strength, has slowly had its foundation pulled from underneath it. Now the Chinese keep the dollar propped up for many reasons, especially since it provides them with a favorable trading relationship.
So if America collapses in on itself and seperates into many nations or goes into prolonged civil war, much of the world will end up coming down with us. China, in particular, will being to suffer economic problems as their principle trading partner will no longer be able to buy from them. It will be hard for them to keep their currency devalued. The collapse of the dollar, which is still one of the principle currencies of the planet, will send shockwaves through the world economy and possibly trigger a global depression.
If it does come, it will come from the most surprising of places. It probably won't start in the education system as they try to keep people from learning how to think. It probably won't come from the general population as they are too busy paying off their debt. Perhaps the Illegals are the only hope for this country....
And how would the RIAA be able to determine if students are sharing on the internal network from outside the firewall??
Goodness this movie sucked. I could have masturbated at least twice in the time I blew watching this (and maybe I did, tehe!) I would much rather the time all those servers spent generating those "special effects" had gone to FOLDING@HOME or something at least remotely useful to humanity.
Not that it makes it right, but I think this gets to the heart of the problem. The media companies put out garbage. If they put some effort into developing quality products at reasonable rates instead of trying to exploit their clients and customers, there would be more people who would be willing to spend their hard-earned money on their products.
Which doesn't answer the question that many readers have asked so far. How does the RIAA KNOW that this is going on? Sure, many of us say it is common knowledge, but if I were a University President, I wouldn't act on this unless they could prove that it was happening on my school's network.
Thats assuming the Universities put up with it. Unlike joe consumer, universities are staffed with some pretty bright people, who while knowing that SOME students might be sharing files, the RIAA will never be able to prove it without breaking into the systems in question. I don't think this will last very long, and I doubt very many Universities will actually bow to this threat.
They mostly teach the specifics of how to perform a set of tasks. Little but memorization is required.
Sounds like some of the IT classes that I took while going for my bachelor's degree.
People said the same thing about smallpox: once you get it, you don't ever have to worry again, so why immunize?
Smallpox is much more fatal than chicken pox. And yes, I am aware of shingles, but that tends to be a rare condition.
Yeah, but what damage comes from Chicken Pox? You get a bunch of sores for up to two weeks, some time out of school, and a lifetime immunity (unless you have an immune system disorder).
I can understand immunizing for diseases like polio and the mumps.
I'm surprised AntiTrust wasn't mentioned either. Its one of the better computer-related movies out there, and while it isn't perfect, it does get a lot of things right.
Dude, there is no amount of beer that could get you laid.
The reason why many people have to take L1 Support jobs is because a lot of places don't advertise for other jobs in their IT department. In order to get into a networking, database, or systems administrator position, you have to apply for an entry level tech support or customer support job in order to be able to move up into one of those spots.
The link between vaccines and autism had to do with a preservative that included mercury in it. This has been replaced with a non-mercury preservative, and I believe most of those batches have since been used or replaced.
While I was in college, I worked tech support for a local ISP. It was small enough that I was L1, L2, and L3 support as well as manning the storefront. They had policies that basically ran contradictory to basic customer service. If the customers couldn't connect, we would run them through the basic setup again and then refer them to their phone company (which, due to deregulation, had something to do with bandwidth sold to other local telecoms...or so I was told). When customers tried to renew their service, they had to pay the entire amount upfront, and if they were late and/or tried to use a credit card, fees were tacked on. We always removed at least one of the fees to keep the customer, but if one of the owners was there and overheard it, we were in for a talk.
For being the owners of a small business, they really didn't care for treating their customers right, and in the end, it almost cost them. They had already started losing customers to SBC and Charter, and I doubt that the company would have survived if they weren't bought out.
Killing all the politicians and bureaucrats sounds mighty good to me. I can't think of anything faster! ::GRIN::
The preceeding was a joke.
The last thing I want is to screw up my GPA just to learn some programming skills
Is your GPA that bad that you're gonna screw it up by getting one C or worse? Or are you one of those who is obsessive about your 4.0 and will shy away from challenges to keep it?
I'm sorry if this sounds a little harsh, but if you want to learn to program, take the class if it is offered. If you really enjoy it and pick it up quickly, you can extend it outside of class and start programming in RPG Maker. If you don't like it, you walk away with your B and know that it isn't your thing.
Kid, you're only in your second year of high school. It will, hopefully, get harder for you from here on out. Or maybe not.
Like other posters have said, if there is something you are interested in, go buy a book and use the Internet to teach yourself. Formal education limits your ability to be creative and develop your skills in the directions that you want to take them.
If you really want to LEARN something and be able to apply it, you have to work outside of the classroom. You'll be working outside of a controlled situation where you won't have a textbook to go back to for the answers, and you will have to learn how to diagnose a problem and be resourceful to solve it.
and nobody even watches baseball
The 40,000 people that joined me at Wrigley Field today would disagree with you.
Um...nevermind. No one goes to a Cubs game to watch baseball, only drink Old Style at $5.75 a pop.
Why not give people a challenge.
Canon (in order of creation and with marketing name): d30, 1d, 350d (Rebel XT), 30d.
Nikon: d1, d50, d70, d200.
I didn't see Shatner's name on the list either.
But Vista shouldn't be on that order of magnitude. That was what Windows XP was supposed to be. It was supposed to finally end the Windows 9x line and replace it with a more robust operating system based on the Windows NT line. For most, that would be a substantial change.
Vista is a product that should be an incremental upgrade in the same way that Service Pack 2 and Tiger were incremental upgrades. Instead, Microsoft is trying to do way too much and they've put themselves into this hole where they are having trouble getting the operating system out the door.
Does Microsoft have a clear roadmap for their products? Do they know what they can, or want to, accomplish? Or have they become the next Hollywood by putting out expensive crap?
I don't think much of the Christian Right really cares. If you look closely, they're the ones pushing to start Armaggaedon. Why do you think Bush and company are trying to start wars in the Middle East? Its to fulfill some ancient and vaguely defined prophecy.
Laws preventing the violent overthrow of the government, or advocating the same, only appeared on the books in the 1930s when Communism became a threat to this country.
Its not a policy they can easily enforce, unless they hire an Email Nazi/Czar/Enforcer who reads the logs daily to see who is using their email.
My college had a similar policy, but it was never enforced. It was more like a strong recommendation.
Would you consider a college that had a policy of "no cars or bicycles on or around campus - you have to use the campus bus service"?
No, I wouldn't.
How about "no personally-owned computers on campus - only the one we rent to you"?
No, I can't say I would.
However, those are different situations than a University switching to Windows Live Email. When you go to school, it doesn't matter what email service the school uses, you get an email and are expected to use it for class.
It's not only the personal inconvenience that's involved. Wouldn't you question the administration's ability to make sound decisions in other areas, based on their bad decisions in areas that are visible. Would you want to attend a college run by a bunch of yahoos?
The average slashdotter is much different than the average college student. Most college-age students could care less about the Microsoft vs. Everyone Else battle in the computer industry, so it won't matter if their email is hosted by the University on some box deep in the bowels of the IT department (possibly running...gasp...EXCHANGE!!!) or hosted by Gmail, Microsoft, or some 3rd party hosting service.
Of course, that assumes this is a bad decision. Putting your personal inconvience aside, there are good reasons to switch to this hosted service for smaller colleges and universities. The main one is potentially lower IT costs as they won't have to pay to run another server(s) (the box, software, power costs, and administrator salary).
And until you've gone to a University where a single bonehead administrator has run parts of the college into the ground, don't complain. Thats far worse than a school using Microsoft email.