so the thing to do here would be to walk through the campus with a wifi signal / networking app running and map out these dead zones so as to know where to walk or not walk while talking... at least, that seems the most reasonable slashdotty thing to do;)
lots of students still do... campuses have nearly ubiquitous wifi now and when you couple a wifi phone with that, you have all you need in most situations... or an ipod touch for web connection / texting and a normal prepaid dumbphone.
I would second this with the proviso that a good smart device (ipod touch, whatever the current generation of pocket pc is, etc.) coupled with free wifi in most places (or even an ATT or Tmobile premium wifi plan) will prove cheaper... couple that with a basic phone... or even a non-data plan, no contract smart phone, and you have all you need in most cases (particularly as a student since most places will have wifi where you'll be).
in many states that would be the Libertarian party (often jokingly called the Anarchy party by people near where I used to live because of how much it seemed to parallel espousing anarchy... but then there are Libertarians and Libertarians).
Immigration is a nightmare. I have a family friend who has been waiting for his green card for several years. They finally got to the front of the list but because of a filing error on the part of immigration, they got sent back to the beginning of the process (their file - immigrants from Guatemala - had been corrupted with data from an immigrant from Ethiopia... processing error on the part of the gov't). They are still waiting for soc's and the 18 year old son is about to head to college (where he will have to register as an illegal even though he is legal (missionary visa) in order to take classes).
As an educator, a large part of our problem is not our payscale (in Texas urban areas the average is ~50k roughly equal to SF ~100k in terms of cost of living), but rather that there is insufficient infrastructure / support and class sizes that are too large. Reducing pay and hiring more teachers won't work because we would have to take a more than 50% cut to double the number of teachers (taxes / benefits / management / etc.). And we do need to double the number of teachers. I work at a fairly good school and we have some classes with 40 students in the room. One honors course of which I am aware has 39 students. The closer we can get to a 1:1 ratio, the better (yes, I know, completely unrealistic, but I'd even settle for 20:1). Raising taxes won't help - again, no one is going to agree to more than double their taxes.
Our district has an interesting approach wherein they seek donations along the lines of the local universities (with significant results lately). Strangely enough, one other thing we have noticed that seems to be effective is hiring teachers part time (most still work enough for benefits so it is not cost effective in terms of pure numbers). The schools with the most part-time teachers have the highest attendance / graduation / test scores / etc. Unfortunately, there are limits on the number of part-timers we can have (both financially and for accrediting apparently).
The "living roof" products available in many cities now would fit part of this bill... only the max is usually only a couple of feet of dirt and requires major restructuring.
he was as well - but being a member of that religion seemed to have a more negative impact on one's freedom relative to everybody else immediately after 9/11
Oh but you would be surprised at what museums can copyright - ever tried to take a flash free picture in a museum in Italy? remember Mexico suing Starbucks? What is more, the owner will likely due a high res scan, copyright that and then lock the original up forever.
It is true that if you start with a demonstrably false premise, you could end up anywhere. The problem is that God's existence is not demonstrably false. Having God as a first premise is perfectly reasonable. What might have been helpful is a treatise that used God's existence as a first premise followed by another one that rejected God's existence. This would provide for an intriguing thought exercise and would help many determine their approach (holding to argument one or to argument two). Given the above conversation, it would seem that rather than do argument two, Descartes determined that a discussion of God's non-existence as a first premise was a worthless topic (though many today would seek to work out an argument with that type of first premise).
Wonderful historical reasons - the cedilla c is pronounced the same as the "s" today. Look back at two hundred year old grammars and there might be a difference (there would be, at least, in Spanish for the c, the z, and the s).
You could easily, though, read this in exactly the opposite fashion. Person X is accused of breaking copyright (or whatever) law. His computer is brought into court and it is determined it was because of software company Y's product. All he has to do is point the finger at the boy down the street and say, "it was him" - obviously he's breaking the law by installing things on my computer I don't want. Further, assuming that some programs like shareaza or what have you simply tag the violating code but don't delete it in the next build, a defense could be made that the end user was the "victim" (depending on whether or not person X is ethical on owning up to things).
A proper defense can now make use of this argument simply because this has been brought to public attention (and even before... I had a friend in college who had a number of interviews with the FBI because his computer had been used as a zombie for some terrorist group... it was worse for him than for others because he also happened to be a Muslim right after 9/11)... at least on a limited basis... all of the comments now make me want to go and see if my torrent program has been downloading stuff for me without me knowing it (a la the shareaza comment above).
...and if you go back to the sixties in China, you know that this was an era of massive turmoil. Millions died of starvation (see below) but you also have hundreds of thousands impacted with a lower quality of life (and likely earlier death) by the beginnings of the Cultural Revolution (yes, this is something that started later and may not apply directly but Wikipedia does note precursor elements in the early sixties). All of these events are going to significantly drop the life expectancy. Look at Africa... disease (related to squalor, poor nutrition, etc), war, and starvation are tops on the list of reasons for mortality rates. Medicine alone isn't going to cure a population of early death - stable countries in the 1960s across the board show higher life expectancies.
An emphasis on public health and preventive treatment characterized health policy from the beginning of the 1950s. At that time the party began to mobilize the population to engage in mass "patriotic health campaigns" aimed at improving the low level of environmental sanitation and hygiene and attacking certain diseases. One of the best examples of this approach was the mass assaults on the "four pests"—rats, sparrows, flies, and mosquitoes—and on schistosoma-carrying snails. Particular efforts were devoted in the health campaigns to improving water quality through such measures as deep-well construction and human-waste treatment. Only in the larger cities had human waste been centrally disposed. In the countryside, where "night soil" has always been collected and applied to the fields as fertilizer, it was a major source of disease. Since the 1950s, rudimentary treatments such as storage in pits, composting, and mixture with chemicals have been implemented. As a result of preventive efforts, such epidemic diseases as cholera, bubonic plague, typhoid fever, and scarlet fever have almost been eradicated. The mass mobilization approach proved particularly successful in the fight against syphilis, which was reportedly eliminated by the 1960s. The incidence of other infectious and parasitic diseases was reduced and controlled.
Political turmoil and famine following the failure of the Great Leap Forward led to starvation of 20 million people in China. With recovery beginning in 1961, more moderate policies inaugurated by President Liu Shaoqi ended starvation and improved nutrition. The coming of the Cultural Revolution weakened epidemic control, a rebound in epidemic disease and malnutrition in some areas.
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so the thing to do here would be to walk through the campus with a wifi signal / networking app running and map out these dead zones so as to know where to walk or not walk while talking... at least, that seems the most reasonable slashdotty thing to do ;)
and in Spanish too
Still though, don't you find it strange and a bit offtopic that he posted a video game comment after the highly insightful OP?
lots of students still do... campuses have nearly ubiquitous wifi now and when you couple a wifi phone with that, you have all you need in most situations... or an ipod touch for web connection / texting and a normal prepaid dumbphone.
I would second this with the proviso that a good smart device (ipod touch, whatever the current generation of pocket pc is, etc.) coupled with free wifi in most places (or even an ATT or Tmobile premium wifi plan) will prove cheaper... couple that with a basic phone ... or even a non-data plan, no contract smart phone, and you have all you need in most cases (particularly as a student since most places will have wifi where you'll be).
in many states that would be the Libertarian party (often jokingly called the Anarchy party by people near where I used to live because of how much it seemed to parallel espousing anarchy... but then there are Libertarians and Libertarians).
Immigration is a nightmare. I have a family friend who has been waiting for his green card for several years. They finally got to the front of the list but because of a filing error on the part of immigration, they got sent back to the beginning of the process (their file - immigrants from Guatemala - had been corrupted with data from an immigrant from Ethiopia... processing error on the part of the gov't). They are still waiting for soc's and the 18 year old son is about to head to college (where he will have to register as an illegal even though he is legal (missionary visa) in order to take classes).
As an educator, a large part of our problem is not our payscale (in Texas urban areas the average is ~50k roughly equal to SF ~100k in terms of cost of living), but rather that there is insufficient infrastructure / support and class sizes that are too large. Reducing pay and hiring more teachers won't work because we would have to take a more than 50% cut to double the number of teachers (taxes / benefits / management / etc.). And we do need to double the number of teachers. I work at a fairly good school and we have some classes with 40 students in the room. One honors course of which I am aware has 39 students. The closer we can get to a 1:1 ratio, the better (yes, I know, completely unrealistic, but I'd even settle for 20:1). Raising taxes won't help - again, no one is going to agree to more than double their taxes.
Our district has an interesting approach wherein they seek donations along the lines of the local universities (with significant results lately). Strangely enough, one other thing we have noticed that seems to be effective is hiring teachers part time (most still work enough for benefits so it is not cost effective in terms of pure numbers). The schools with the most part-time teachers have the highest attendance / graduation / test scores / etc. Unfortunately, there are limits on the number of part-timers we can have (both financially and for accrediting apparently).
...and let's not forget P. Hamilton for his modification of this later on in the Commonwealth series with his nanotech tattoo things.
The "living roof" products available in many cities now would fit part of this bill... only the max is usually only a couple of feet of dirt and requires major restructuring.
How much information can a water molecule hold?
solar power would be easy... big solar farm in areas typically in the sun... and power lines running down to your capped water plant.
redundancy is somewhat good in situations involving computer components
he was as well - but being a member of that religion seemed to have a more negative impact on one's freedom relative to everybody else immediately after 9/11
cover your house in 10 feet of dirt and a really large lead dental exam blanket?
sheath your house in ten feet of dirt covered by a really large lead dental exam blanket?
Oh but you would be surprised at what museums can copyright - ever tried to take a flash free picture in a museum in Italy? remember Mexico suing Starbucks? What is more, the owner will likely due a high res scan, copyright that and then lock the original up forever.
It is true that if you start with a demonstrably false premise, you could end up anywhere. The problem is that God's existence is not demonstrably false. Having God as a first premise is perfectly reasonable. What might have been helpful is a treatise that used God's existence as a first premise followed by another one that rejected God's existence. This would provide for an intriguing thought exercise and would help many determine their approach (holding to argument one or to argument two). Given the above conversation, it would seem that rather than do argument two, Descartes determined that a discussion of God's non-existence as a first premise was a worthless topic (though many today would seek to work out an argument with that type of first premise).
Wonderful historical reasons - the cedilla c is pronounced the same as the "s" today. Look back at two hundred year old grammars and there might be a difference (there would be, at least, in Spanish for the c, the z, and the s).
I do enjoy a good ghoti for lunch.
You could easily, though, read this in exactly the opposite fashion. Person X is accused of breaking copyright (or whatever) law. His computer is brought into court and it is determined it was because of software company Y's product. All he has to do is point the finger at the boy down the street and say, "it was him" - obviously he's breaking the law by installing things on my computer I don't want. Further, assuming that some programs like shareaza or what have you simply tag the violating code but don't delete it in the next build, a defense could be made that the end user was the "victim" (depending on whether or not person X is ethical on owning up to things).
A proper defense can now make use of this argument simply because this has been brought to public attention (and even before... I had a friend in college who had a number of interviews with the FBI because his computer had been used as a zombie for some terrorist group... it was worse for him than for others because he also happened to be a Muslim right after 9/11)... at least on a limited basis... all of the comments now make me want to go and see if my torrent program has been downloading stuff for me without me knowing it (a la the shareaza comment above).
...and the link FTW, on public health in China
An emphasis on public health and preventive treatment characterized health policy from the beginning of the 1950s. At that time the party began to mobilize the population to engage in mass "patriotic health campaigns" aimed at improving the low level of environmental sanitation and hygiene and attacking certain diseases. One of the best examples of this approach was the mass assaults on the "four pests"—rats, sparrows, flies, and mosquitoes—and on schistosoma-carrying snails. Particular efforts were devoted in the health campaigns to improving water quality through such measures as deep-well construction and human-waste treatment. Only in the larger cities had human waste been centrally disposed. In the countryside, where "night soil" has always been collected and applied to the fields as fertilizer, it was a major source of disease. Since the 1950s, rudimentary treatments such as storage in pits, composting, and mixture with chemicals have been implemented. As a result of preventive efforts, such epidemic diseases as cholera, bubonic plague, typhoid fever, and scarlet fever have almost been eradicated. The mass mobilization approach proved particularly successful in the fight against syphilis, which was reportedly eliminated by the 1960s. The incidence of other infectious and parasitic diseases was reduced and controlled. Political turmoil and famine following the failure of the Great Leap Forward led to starvation of 20 million people in China. With recovery beginning in 1961, more moderate policies inaugurated by President Liu Shaoqi ended starvation and improved nutrition. The coming of the Cultural Revolution weakened epidemic control, a rebound in epidemic disease and malnutrition in some areas.
This is what I get for just looking at the pictures. Reading, what a novel idea.