California used to teach not only gun safety, but the actual applications of firearms... In high school. And during that time, firearms accidents and crime were so low as to be practically nonexistent.
Before Silicon Valley became Silicon Valley in the late 1970's, the area was rural enough that every store had a little fish and game section to buy bait and bullets. Department and hardware stores carried a selection of guns and rifles. Vocational courses disappeared by the time I got into high school in the mid-1980's. Now you have to go out of your way to find guns and bullets. Alas, that's civilization for you.
You're correct. I've been looking into owning a rifle for target practice. The gun range I'm interested in offers safety courses, but there's no explicit requirement between getting a permit and taking a safety course. Which seems stupid to me. I fired guns as a teenager, know which end is which, and always pointed the barrel to the ground, but I'm not familiar with actually owning a gun responsibly. My redneck relatives in Idaho are not a great example, as they smuggled guns and cigarettes back in the day.
You're missing my point. I wrote: "Not all college students are mature enough to own a gun responsibly."
Is every kid mature enough to finish basic training? Not my older brother. The Navy drafted him to go into the Viet Nam and kicked him out of basic training
That's the not issue. I was pointing out that NOT ALL college students are MATURE ENOUGH to handle a gun. If you're going to own guns, you should know how to own them responsibility. In California, you have a take a course in gun safety.
As I responded to someone else, the military wants them young. Maturity has nothing to do with it. Some 18-year-old soldiers in Africa have ten years of combat experience because they were drafted as children.
Frankly, college students are adults, they should be able to have guns on campus.
Not all college students are mature enough to own a gun responsibly. As a young college student, I could've solved a vast array of social problems with a gun, either for myself or the whole campus. It wasn't until after I left school, worked a decade and came back to school to learn computer programming that I had the maturity to deal with school, especially since I was working 80 hours a week, taking classes at night and teaching Sunday school.
I was under the impression that Apple never gave refunds. I posted my review and then contacted Apple for a refund. I wasn't the only Worms fan who posted an angry review. When I checked recently, many of those reviews that demanded a refund were gone.
I typically wait five years to get a game for less than five bucks on Steam. By the time I get the game, my Windows PC should have exceeded the minimum hardware specs and sometimes the recommended hardware specs to play the game without fuss. I can buy a dozen games for the price of a single brand new title.
As a hardcore Worms fan, I was delighted that Worms 4 for the iPhone recently came out. I paid my five bucks, played the first ten levels and deleted the game from my iPad. Worms 4 is a Nintendo-bastardization with simple graphics more appropriate for four-year-olds, Facebook interface that is shoved into your face, and none of the usual mayhem that made previous Worms games so much fun. Surprisingly, Apple gave my five bucks back with a minimal amount of fuss. Since I no longer owned the game, my negative review that demanded a refund from Apple disappeared from the iTunes store.
That's funny. Every Fortune 500 company I worked for had network closets and data centers filled with Cisco networking gear. I might see a network admin with a Juniper t-shirt every once in a blue moon.
I could have long ago have paid for college without a loan had it not been for the insane taxes and educational system that lives off government and government-backed funding.
No one is forcing you to go to an expensive school and take out college loans that you can't afford. I had a roommate who completed four-years at the university by working 40 hours per week and taking a full load each semester. I worked 30 hours a week at the college bookstore while taking a full load each semester. It's easy rage against the "entitlement society" but that's not the problem. Too many Americans have unrealistic expectations about what they can get out of life. Having more is not always better, having less can be much better.
Elite colleges love international students because they can charge them more $$$ than they do American students. Never mind it doesn't cost more to teach the same courses.
Or to spell it out for you, it's not the work itself, but rather who you're working for, that makes it a 'less than honest' job
Some of the hardest working people I know are government workers. Many are ex-military. They get very little respect from the public because public service is held is low regards.
And for the record, I find it rather amusing that you think 2,000 systems is a normal deployment for a fortune 500 company, or that 80,000 systems is a lot.
With my Fortune 500 jobs, 2,000 systems at a site was the norm. With my government job, it's 80,000 systems in ten states and three time zones. Not exactly an apple to apple comparison.
That's old news. Fortune 500 companies hire contractors for every function except management and engineering. It doesn't surprise me that those same contracting companies are now moving jobs to India to lower their costs and keep the profits.
The I.T. job I'm doing for the government is no different than the I.T. jobs I've done for Fortune 500 companies. I make the same exact same amount money as I did in the private sector, except that I'm working with 80,000 systems and not 2,000 systems. So I'm not sure why you think a government job is less honest than a private sector job.
the average Joe/Jane that their nice safe middle class office job isn't so safe
When has an I.T. job have ever been safe? As an I.T. support contractor for the last ten years, I had frequent bouts of unemployment between assignments. The worse was when I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011. Even my current government I.T. job is under threat from a government shutdown from the nut jobs in Congress.
I had to do that for Wall Street Journal app when the express bus didn't have WiFi service for a week. Sprint sent me a nasty gram that I was going exceed my 1GB cap. I had to turn off cellular data for whole weekend until my billing cycle rolled over. That was painful weekend.
This was the first feature I turned off when I got my rose gold iPhone 6s this past weekend. I typically use about 600MB per month and rarely bumped up against the 1GB on Sprint.
Seems like ACs outnumbers Registered Users on Slashdot these days. I get so many pointless comments from ACs that I don't bother replying them anymore.
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Ironically, the drinking age in many areas were raised to 21. Young enough to die, not old enough to get drunk.
California used to teach not only gun safety, but the actual applications of firearms... In high school. And during that time, firearms accidents and crime were so low as to be practically nonexistent.
Before Silicon Valley became Silicon Valley in the late 1970's, the area was rural enough that every store had a little fish and game section to buy bait and bullets. Department and hardware stores carried a selection of guns and rifles. Vocational courses disappeared by the time I got into high school in the mid-1980's. Now you have to go out of your way to find guns and bullets. Alas, that's civilization for you.
You're correct. I've been looking into owning a rifle for target practice. The gun range I'm interested in offers safety courses, but there's no explicit requirement between getting a permit and taking a safety course. Which seems stupid to me. I fired guns as a teenager, know which end is which, and always pointed the barrel to the ground, but I'm not familiar with actually owning a gun responsibly. My redneck relatives in Idaho are not a great example, as they smuggled guns and cigarettes back in the day.
You're missing my point. I wrote: "Not all college students are mature enough to own a gun responsibly."
Is every kid mature enough to finish basic training? Not my older brother. The Navy drafted him to go into the Viet Nam and kicked him out of basic training
That's the not issue. I was pointing out that NOT ALL college students are MATURE ENOUGH to handle a gun. If you're going to own guns, you should know how to own them responsibility. In California, you have a take a course in gun safety.
As I responded to someone else, the military wants them young. Maturity has nothing to do with it. Some 18-year-old soldiers in Africa have ten years of combat experience because they were drafted as children.
Not really. The military wants them young because kids are easily moldable to turn into soldiers — or cannon fodder — on the battlefield.
Frankly, college students are adults, they should be able to have guns on campus.
Not all college students are mature enough to own a gun responsibly. As a young college student, I could've solved a vast array of social problems with a gun, either for myself or the whole campus. It wasn't until after I left school, worked a decade and came back to school to learn computer programming that I had the maturity to deal with school, especially since I was working 80 hours a week, taking classes at night and teaching Sunday school.
I was under the impression that Apple never gave refunds. I posted my review and then contacted Apple for a refund. I wasn't the only Worms fan who posted an angry review. When I checked recently, many of those reviews that demanded a refund were gone.
A dead tree thesaurus is an anachronism, but not a snake.
I typically wait five years to get a game for less than five bucks on Steam. By the time I get the game, my Windows PC should have exceeded the minimum hardware specs and sometimes the recommended hardware specs to play the game without fuss. I can buy a dozen games for the price of a single brand new title.
As a hardcore Worms fan, I was delighted that Worms 4 for the iPhone recently came out. I paid my five bucks, played the first ten levels and deleted the game from my iPad. Worms 4 is a Nintendo-bastardization with simple graphics more appropriate for four-year-olds, Facebook interface that is shoved into your face, and none of the usual mayhem that made previous Worms games so much fun. Surprisingly, Apple gave my five bucks back with a minimal amount of fuss. Since I no longer owned the game, my negative review that demanded a refund from Apple disappeared from the iTunes store.
Watch your wallets. Beware of Chicken-hawk Republicans calling for action.
FTFY
Make networking gear that people want to buy.
That's funny. Every Fortune 500 company I worked for had network closets and data centers filled with Cisco networking gear. I might see a network admin with a Juniper t-shirt every once in a blue moon.
I could have long ago have paid for college without a loan had it not been for the insane taxes and educational system that lives off government and government-backed funding.
No one is forcing you to go to an expensive school and take out college loans that you can't afford. I had a roommate who completed four-years at the university by working 40 hours per week and taking a full load each semester. I worked 30 hours a week at the college bookstore while taking a full load each semester. It's easy rage against the "entitlement society" but that's not the problem. Too many Americans have unrealistic expectations about what they can get out of life. Having more is not always better, having less can be much better.
Elite colleges love international students because they can charge them more $$$ than they do American students. Never mind it doesn't cost more to teach the same courses.
Or to spell it out for you, it's not the work itself, but rather who you're working for, that makes it a 'less than honest' job
Some of the hardest working people I know are government workers. Many are ex-military. They get very little respect from the public because public service is held is low regards.
And for the record, I find it rather amusing that you think 2,000 systems is a normal deployment for a fortune 500 company, or that 80,000 systems is a lot.
With my Fortune 500 jobs, 2,000 systems at a site was the norm. With my government job, it's 80,000 systems in ten states and three time zones. Not exactly an apple to apple comparison.
"Some bits are more equal than other bits." - George Orwell
That's old news. Fortune 500 companies hire contractors for every function except management and engineering. It doesn't surprise me that those same contracting companies are now moving jobs to India to lower their costs and keep the profits.
The I.T. job I'm doing for the government is no different than the I.T. jobs I've done for Fortune 500 companies. I make the same exact same amount money as I did in the private sector, except that I'm working with 80,000 systems and not 2,000 systems. So I'm not sure why you think a government job is less honest than a private sector job.
the average Joe/Jane that their nice safe middle class office job isn't so safe
When has an I.T. job have ever been safe? As an I.T. support contractor for the last ten years, I had frequent bouts of unemployment between assignments. The worse was when I was out of work for two years (2009-10), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month), and filed for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011. Even my current government I.T. job is under threat from a government shutdown from the nut jobs in Congress.
I had to do that for Wall Street Journal app when the express bus didn't have WiFi service for a week. Sprint sent me a nasty gram that I was going exceed my 1GB cap. I had to turn off cellular data for whole weekend until my billing cycle rolled over. That was painful weekend.
This was the first feature I turned off when I got my rose gold iPhone 6s this past weekend. I typically use about 600MB per month and rarely bumped up against the 1GB on Sprint.
The TRASH-80 was before my time. I got the Commodore VIC-20 and 64 in the early 1980's when I became a teenager.
Seems like ACs outnumbers Registered Users on Slashdot these days. I get so many pointless comments from ACs that I don't bother replying them anymore.