yeah, but its really annoying when you just spent all last night downloading the RC. Oh well. I'll just install it and hope that the update button catches any changes betwixt RC and release....
Its saying that there is a lot wrong with the statement you were replying to...the one that said "everything was pretty and perfect in the 19th century, why can't we just go back to slavery and coruption and child labor and non-voting women and all those other great things we had back then. Ahhh, the Good Old Days!(tm)"
Humanity has continually progressed and gotten better. Anyone who says we should go back to the good old days clearly has been participating in some sort of brainwashing or unnecessary external chemical mood enhancer.
Well, then start trying to convince people to 1) Stop voting for people who have been in office longer than 10 years. 2) Stop voting for anyone with ties to big buisness. 3) Stop voting for anyone who inherited their wealth. 4) Stop voting for anyone with a law background. 5) Stop voting for anyone who has family closer than 2 generations who was in politics. 6) Stop voting for republicans. 7) Stop voting for democrats. 8) Start voting for independents who fit the above criteria and whose views and record you support.
The system is changeable, but unfortunately it'll have to get a lot worse before it penetrates the thick skulls of the complacent.
Apparently you live in the minority areas of the US where you actually can just switch teleco.
For instance, wehre i live, my only option is SBC.
Where most of my friends live, its charter.
For some of my other friends, its "Sunflower Cable and Phone".
I don't actually know anyone who has this choice. And its all thanks to the republicans and their "big media is good for everyone" bullshit myth. Which has also given us the current crop of uber conservative MSM, etc etc etc.
I hate to point this out, but Deep Throat was woodward's name for Mark Felt.
And they could do nothing because shit had already hit the fan.
If they'd known before shit hit the fan, then nixon would never have lost the presidency.
And if it had been 2005, Nixon would have just told the press to shut up and color, and they would've, and the people of the United States would get back to asking him to reduce their gas prices.
This is something that drives me nuts. Just listening to what everyone has to say is not (repeat: NOT a balanced viewpoint. A balanced viewpoint is where you have two sides that, for the most part, agree on the facts, preferably neutrally gained, and then discuss reasonable interpretations of their meaning. However, what "balanced" seems to mean to most people to day is that, say, we listen to the facts (Nixon was involved in watergate, bob woodward and mark felt revealed facts about a corrupt presidency, etc etc.), and then we're treated to someone stating the obvious (revealing a corrupt presidency is a Good Thing (tm)) vs some one who is completely out in right field (i.e., my burglaries were patriotic, revealing those burglaries was disloyal to the president and it was felt who should've done jail time), and then we're asked to believe that this is a "balanced view".
Wrong. A balanced view is one where everyone invovled has something worthwhile to say that matches the facts.
Heh. Wish someone had told my parents. Thats exactly what happened to me. Good grades were expected but unrewarded, while bad grades were extremely heavily punished. End result. I did the bare minimum to get by, and it wasn't until after I finished college that I started to regret it. The one time my parents offered a carrot as well as a stick, I did fantastically, and I remember more from that class (7th grade), as well as getting better grades and making it all the way through the book, then from any other class pre-college.
As a side note, thats about the only things my parents didn't do right. They were damn near perfect.
Thats why small liberal arts colleges rock. I had one (1!) class that taught us a language specifically (java). The rest of my classes, they just said, "We'll be working on {software engineering, database design, algorithms, AI, graphics, etc.} using {C, C++, java, Scheme, Smalltalk, OpenGL}. Heres a website that you can reference if you need help with syntax. Ready, here comes the theory. Then we'd have a project to apply the theory, and we were graded on the quality of our code, commenting, order of programming, etc, but we had only two classes where we learned that stuff. It was a wonderful education. ,br>
Of course the irony is that I will never get to use it professionally, since the job market blows and I am not three years out of official practice.
The USA's public school systems need to break away from the agrarian-based 9 month school year, and switch to year-round schooling. Several short breaks in the instruction cycle are far more productive than a mind numbing 3 month break. Requiring school uniforms instead of rampant competition over name-brand clothing would help, also.
Amen, brother. Especially considering all these yokels who think the only reason to put kids through school is to train them for work. Thats a side benefit. The real benefit is society and humanity advance with more knowledge.
I don't even like my job, but I can't agree with that. You must work in one of those corporations with "mandatory unpaid overtime"...
I also disagree with the statement that most of the people who think that homework isn't automatically useful are kids. I'm an adult, an officer in the military to be precise, and I think forcing kids to do repetitive homework is a joke. And I always will.
Look at the countries with the highest quality of life ratings and education (for instance, Norway.
They work a 37.5 hour work week. The "real world" for them also includes a life outside of work. Which is better, healither, and more productive.
Homework should come in the form of projects where kids need to apply the basic lessons they're learning...and if they need to know more about something, then they can turn to repetitive work to try and get a better understanding of the problem.
Thats only true if the homework is sufficiently challenging. I went through the entirety of high school taking the most difficult courses offered by my school, doing all the work at school (my record for homework was about 45 minutes in a single week, about which I was pretty irratated), and I came in third in the class. Not because I was that much smarter than anyone else, but simply because I paid attention in class and engaged the teachers when I didn't understand. Intelligence is more about curiousity and a will to learn than it is about raw processing power of your brain.
If you want stronger self-control and greater self-confidence, then you need a system that rewards the work done with challenges commensurate with skill and knowledge. As long as our schools are worried about making sure that the lowest common denominator passes and don't care whether those in the top X% excel or not, then we're going to have these problems.
In short, the poster who was speaking about the need for individualized education was absolutely correct. If we want our studnets to suceed in life, then their school shouldnt' be about "trudging through" busywork. It should be about challenging each and every one to the greatest extent of their abilities, for 7-8 hours a day, and then letting them get about the very important buisness of being a kid. Play time is important too.
I"d be happier with this if I could get a bleeding visa to work anywhere else. I was looking around in 2001-2002 timeframe, and Ireland was giving out IT visas to just about every country in the world. Want to know who couldn't get a visa? You guessed it. US. You can't even be an expat if you're from this country, unless you're already rich and could just go on an extended vacation anyway!
Ditto. I graduated in 2003 with a Comp Sci degree, spent six months to find a crappy low-level PC Technician job, and am now wasting away as a low level manager (read: officer) in the US military, hoping to avoid getting killed before my 4 years is up. And I have no idea what I'm going to do when I get out. Sigh.
I've never understood why making a lot of money for just seven years is insufficient for people. Especially since the big brand name companies can make it just as cheap as the generics if they so desire. And still sell it for more because of the name-brand recognition you've spent seven years building, so that your profits remain high (although, granted, not as ridiculously so anymore)
This same problem can really be extended out into politics. Libertarians and other fiscal conservatives would argue that market forces will drive the necessity and shit will get done. But large corporations like pharmeceuticals have figured out how to manipulate market forces by doing exactly this....developing a half-ass band-aid for something over and over and over again. Personally, I'd like to see the government develop these treatments, and then release the formulas generically. If you go with the assumption that the point of government is to help shield the weak from the strong, I think that this is a case that fits. Personally. IMHO.
So, your solution to disliking what the government is doing is to shoot the cop that comes to take you away?
Because, yeah, thats really going to lead to a different outcome then the military showing up in the first place.
So, lets follow a short train of events here.
1) You do something against the law. Lets say you download some porn over bit tracker and because the RIAA/MPAA has gotten too powerful while you were worrying about the FBI, the FBI shows up to confiscate your computer.
2) You shoot the FBI agent who shows up to collect your computer, and call all your militia buddies to tell them the revolution is on.
3) The FBI brings in a SWAT team or too, law enforcement with military small arms capability.
4) You and your friends die, those that survive get life in prison.
Whoops, that didn't work. But what if you had more guys with guns!
1) Follow all steps above, but this time the FBI calls in the Guard. You still die, and get made fun of by the rest of the country.
Guns aren't going to change the government in this country. Probably ever. Certainly not in our lifetime. If you're worried about government then you need to get the MSM to stop being republican pimps and you need to vote some fresh blood in. Wes Clark. Howard Dean. That guy from Montana. Ross Perot for christs sake. Cause you sure aren't going to save yourself from the government with a gun, be it military or law enforcement.
Besides, if the US military decided it wanted to take over, American citizens wouldn't fare any better than the Iraqis did. If you somehow think homegrown militia are still capable of standing up to the military, you have some serious reality issues.
I understand that people want to be able to hunt. Gun control needs to be a state or even county question.
But claiming you're going to keep the goverment in line because you have a tricked out SKS? Get a grip, dude.
See, to me, if he was "complete in himself", he wouldn't have this need to go out and create something. Creativity happens because you're filling a need. If you have no needs, than you are aren't creative.
Of course, this is imposing human emotions and facts onto a supposedly inhuman being, but then, so does everyone else who seems to think that god gives a shit whether we believe in him, whether we do what he says, what happens to his stuff, etc etc ad nauseum.
Actually, I think the best theory if you want to believe in supreme beings is that one got bored floating out there in nothingness. That would explain the creativity.
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yeah, but its really annoying when you just spent all last night downloading the RC. Oh well. I'll just install it and hope that the update button catches any changes betwixt RC and release....
Firefox has vulnerabilties, yes, but they tend to be:
1) Patched Faster
2) Less critical
3) Patched completely
4) Openly admitted to
Its saying that there is a lot wrong with the statement you were replying to...the one that said "everything was pretty and perfect in the 19th century, why can't we just go back to slavery and coruption and child labor and non-voting women and all those other great things we had back then. Ahhh, the Good Old Days!(tm)"
Humanity has continually progressed and gotten better. Anyone who says we should go back to the good old days clearly has been participating in some sort of brainwashing or unnecessary external chemical mood enhancer.
Oh, really? You mean corporations wouldn't seize power themselves?
Huh...must be nice to live in anarchists wonderland.
Ummm...how about all the people who weren't flourishing pre 1900?
Well, then start trying to convince people to
1) Stop voting for people who have been in office longer than 10 years.
2) Stop voting for anyone with ties to big buisness.
3) Stop voting for anyone who inherited their wealth.
4) Stop voting for anyone with a law background.
5) Stop voting for anyone who has family closer than 2 generations who was in politics.
6) Stop voting for republicans.
7) Stop voting for democrats.
8) Start voting for independents who fit the above criteria and whose views and record you support.
The system is changeable, but unfortunately it'll have to get a lot worse before it penetrates the thick skulls of the complacent.
Apparently you live in the minority areas of the US where you actually can just switch teleco. For instance, wehre i live, my only option is SBC. Where most of my friends live, its charter. For some of my other friends, its "Sunflower Cable and Phone". I don't actually know anyone who has this choice. And its all thanks to the republicans and their "big media is good for everyone" bullshit myth. Which has also given us the current crop of uber conservative MSM, etc etc etc.
of saying bring it on. I mean, look what happened to America vis a vis Bush when he/we said bring it on. Other than that, all true. :-)
Hey, um, Dittohead XanC? Read the whole damn comment, please.
"The US/RVN victory during Tet might have been capitalized after the Paris peace accords"
On the plus side, anyone who hadn't already figured out you're braindead should have just made that connection.
I hate to point this out, but Deep Throat was woodward's name for Mark Felt. And they could do nothing because shit had already hit the fan. If they'd known before shit hit the fan, then nixon would never have lost the presidency. And if it had been 2005, Nixon would have just told the press to shut up and color, and they would've, and the people of the United States would get back to asking him to reduce their gas prices.
At risk of answering what was possibly intended to be a (bad) joke,
You mean like standards base likethis one?
This is something that drives me nuts. Just listening to what everyone has to say is not (repeat: NOT a balanced viewpoint. A balanced viewpoint is where you have two sides that, for the most part, agree on the facts, preferably neutrally gained, and then discuss reasonable interpretations of their meaning. However, what "balanced" seems to mean to most people to day is that, say, we listen to the facts (Nixon was involved in watergate, bob woodward and mark felt revealed facts about a corrupt presidency, etc etc.), and then we're treated to someone stating the obvious (revealing a corrupt presidency is a Good Thing (tm)) vs some one who is completely out in right field (i.e., my burglaries were patriotic, revealing those burglaries was disloyal to the president and it was felt who should've done jail time), and then we're asked to believe that this is a "balanced view".
Wrong. A balanced view is one where everyone invovled has something worthwhile to say that matches the facts.
Heh. Wish someone had told my parents. Thats exactly what happened to me. Good grades were expected but unrewarded, while bad grades were extremely heavily punished. End result. I did the bare minimum to get by, and it wasn't until after I finished college that I started to regret it. The one time my parents offered a carrot as well as a stick, I did fantastically, and I remember more from that class (7th grade), as well as getting better grades and making it all the way through the book, then from any other class pre-college.
As a side note, thats about the only things my parents didn't do right. They were damn near perfect.
Thats why small liberal arts colleges rock. I had one (1!) class that taught us a language specifically (java). The rest of my classes, they just said, "We'll be working on {software engineering, database design, algorithms, AI, graphics, etc.} using {C, C++, java, Scheme, Smalltalk, OpenGL}. Heres a website that you can reference if you need help with syntax. Ready, here comes the theory. Then we'd have a project to apply the theory, and we were graded on the quality of our code, commenting, order of programming, etc, but we had only two classes where we learned that stuff. It was a wonderful education.
,br> Of course the irony is that I will never get to use it professionally, since the job market blows and I am not three years out of official practice.
The USA's public school systems need to break away from the agrarian-based 9 month school year, and switch to year-round schooling. Several short breaks in the instruction cycle are far more productive than a mind numbing 3 month break. Requiring school uniforms instead of rampant competition over name-brand clothing would help, also.
Amen, brother. Especially considering all these yokels who think the only reason to put kids through school is to train them for work. Thats a side benefit. The real benefit is society and humanity advance with more knowledge.
I don't even like my job, but I can't agree with that. You must work in one of those corporations with "mandatory unpaid overtime"...
I also disagree with the statement that most of the people who think that homework isn't automatically useful are kids. I'm an adult, an officer in the military to be precise, and I think forcing kids to do repetitive homework is a joke. And I always will.
Look at the countries with the highest quality of life ratings and education (for instance, Norway. They work a 37.5 hour work week. The "real world" for them also includes a life outside of work. Which is better, healither, and more productive.
Homework should come in the form of projects where kids need to apply the basic lessons they're learning...and if they need to know more about something, then they can turn to repetitive work to try and get a better understanding of the problem.
Thats only true if the homework is sufficiently challenging. I went through the entirety of high school taking the most difficult courses offered by my school, doing all the work at school (my record for homework was about 45 minutes in a single week, about which I was pretty irratated), and I came in third in the class. Not because I was that much smarter than anyone else, but simply because I paid attention in class and engaged the teachers when I didn't understand. Intelligence is more about curiousity and a will to learn than it is about raw processing power of your brain.
If you want stronger self-control and greater self-confidence, then you need a system that rewards the work done with challenges commensurate with skill and knowledge. As long as our schools are worried about making sure that the lowest common denominator passes and don't care whether those in the top X% excel or not, then we're going to have these problems.
In short, the poster who was speaking about the need for individualized education was absolutely correct. If we want our studnets to suceed in life, then their school shouldnt' be about "trudging through" busywork. It should be about challenging each and every one to the greatest extent of their abilities, for 7-8 hours a day, and then letting them get about the very important buisness of being a kid. Play time is important too.
I"d be happier with this if I could get a bleeding visa to work anywhere else. I was looking around in 2001-2002 timeframe, and Ireland was giving out IT visas to just about every country in the world. Want to know who couldn't get a visa? You guessed it. US. You can't even be an expat if you're from this country, unless you're already rich and could just go on an extended vacation anyway!
Ditto. I graduated in 2003 with a Comp Sci degree, spent six months to find a crappy low-level PC Technician job, and am now wasting away as a low level manager (read: officer) in the US military, hoping to avoid getting killed before my 4 years is up. And I have no idea what I'm going to do when I get out. Sigh.
I've never understood why making a lot of money for just seven years is insufficient for people. Especially since the big brand name companies can make it just as cheap as the generics if they so desire. And still sell it for more because of the name-brand recognition you've spent seven years building, so that your profits remain high (although, granted, not as ridiculously so anymore) This same problem can really be extended out into politics. Libertarians and other fiscal conservatives would argue that market forces will drive the necessity and shit will get done. But large corporations like pharmeceuticals have figured out how to manipulate market forces by doing exactly this....developing a half-ass band-aid for something over and over and over again. Personally, I'd like to see the government develop these treatments, and then release the formulas generically. If you go with the assumption that the point of government is to help shield the weak from the strong, I think that this is a case that fits. Personally. IMHO.
So, your solution to disliking what the government is doing is to shoot the cop that comes to take you away?
Because, yeah, thats really going to lead to a different outcome then the military showing up in the first place.
So, lets follow a short train of events here.
1) You do something against the law. Lets say you download some porn over bit tracker and because the RIAA/MPAA has gotten too powerful while you were worrying about the FBI, the FBI shows up to confiscate your computer.
2) You shoot the FBI agent who shows up to collect your computer, and call all your militia buddies to tell them the revolution is on.
3) The FBI brings in a SWAT team or too, law enforcement with military small arms capability.
4) You and your friends die, those that survive get life in prison.
Whoops, that didn't work. But what if you had more guys with guns!
1) Follow all steps above, but this time the FBI calls in the Guard. You still die, and get made fun of by the rest of the country.
Guns aren't going to change the government in this country. Probably ever. Certainly not in our lifetime. If you're worried about government then you need to get the MSM to stop being republican pimps and you need to vote some fresh blood in. Wes Clark. Howard Dean. That guy from Montana. Ross Perot for christs sake. Cause you sure aren't going to save yourself from the government with a gun, be it military or law enforcement.
Besides, if the US military decided it wanted to take over, American citizens wouldn't fare any better than the Iraqis did. If you somehow think homegrown militia are still capable of standing up to the military, you have some serious reality issues.
I understand that people want to be able to hunt. Gun control needs to be a state or even county question.
But claiming you're going to keep the goverment in line because you have a tricked out SKS? Get a grip, dude.
This post is actually pointed at the GP, I think.
See, to me, if he was "complete in himself", he wouldn't have this need to go out and create something. Creativity happens because you're filling a need. If you have no needs, than you are aren't creative.
Of course, this is imposing human emotions and facts onto a supposedly inhuman being, but then, so does everyone else who seems to think that god gives a shit whether we believe in him, whether we do what he says, what happens to his stuff, etc etc ad nauseum.
Actually, I think the best theory if you want to believe in supreme beings is that one got bored floating out there in nothingness. That would explain the creativity.
What if the country we know as china ceases to exist before he gets there?
I mean, for instance, I can't visit the USSR anymore.
Its a kernal patch developed originally by the NSA.
SELinux