A single question: what would you do with all those animals if you don't want to be "inhumane" and kill them off (by burning, eating or otherwise)? Do you have any idea how fast rabbits, pigs, cats and the like reproduce without any natural predators or diseases (because we either killed off the predators already or find it inhumane to let our pets suffer from such diseases thus preventing them to occur? Ask Australians how fast rabbits reproduce, ask any suburban or rural neighborhood how fast cats reproduce in the wild and ask any farmer how they obtain so much meat every year. Cows already are raising a stink (literally) because of overproduction of beef and the amount of excrement (and thus methane) they produce.
You're not getting the point of terrorism and neither is the whole government and 90% of America.
We're not safer from anything as you say, a group of undergrads (heck, even high schoolers) could plan something in the afternoon. But that's not the point of terrorists. Terrorists want you to FEAR them. And that's really what's happening. America FEARS Muslim-extremists, Europe FEARS Muslim-extremists, the Netherlands really FEARS and is already culturally almost overtaken by Muslims. The goal of Al-Qaeda and the rest of the bunch has been reached. They have really bright people working for them, engineers and scientists, they have the will, money and power to develop their own weapons (look at Iran) but they don't need to. As long as we are quaking in our boots because they (possibly) are there, they have won.
As long as we're going to spend money on terrorists and the TSA being anal about it, they have won, they won't need to remind us.
(6) Find out that the user querying and inserting, doesn't have permission to issue the DELETE statement.
At least, that's so in my database. The user running on the web-side of my database can insert, update and select but can't delete (there is no reason to let them, if they want to deactivate an entry, there is a column 'active' for that).
I have been asked and wondering why Microsoft has such a bad track record in security and user access control especially since recent Windows have been built on NT which comes from OS/2 and VMX. According to me it's fairly simple: group permissions. Look at a default Linux/Unix-style installation, you have about 20 groups to start out with. If you're a desktop user, usually you're a member of audio, video, games, cdrom and user. On a Windows machine you're either a User or an Administrator. The way the Linux kernel and it's modules are built, if you need direct access to hardware, you can either be root (not good) or you can access it through it's/dev entry which has group permissions.
So if you want to play music, you can access the hardware (albeit through a kernel module) by making yourself member of the group audio. In Windows however, if you need direct access, you can either use DirectX or a process (daemon) or become an Administrator so you can get to the kernel. There is no group Audio that has only access to the Audio-part of the kernel. As soon as you need direct access for real-time anything, you can't really add yourself to any group to do so.
This of course goes way back before desktops were running NT versions (like 2000 or XP). Before, Windows was running on top of DOS, developers could just code directly into the hardware (just load dos4gw), there is no access control in DOS. DOS was also not meant to be running any services or be connected to a network that's where the whole thing with virusses got started, anything that was running could simply request a hook into the BIOS, under the hood, protected memory was regulated with emm386 while Windows 95-ME all used the faster, less secure himem.sys. Microsoft merged together the NT and DOS and made it into 2000 and XP. There were no extra permissions added for desktop users, the pure server model was coded around to allow for desktop speed and real-time access to hardware, never giving any thought that actually running all services that hook into hardware as Administrator would give problems.
I agree, that would have put the cost at roughly $1000/handheld. I have a Nokia N800 for $250 (and with bulk prices it should even go down further) which I can develop (open source) software for ($125m for a week's worth of programming and a year or 3 of database hosting and support sounds good to me) that could do exactly the same. I just halved your price AND became a very rich man.
I don't see why the government just doesn't invest locally instead of in China. They can print their own money paying for that since the increase in value of the US by local investments will increase the value of the dollar as a whole. It will inject much more into the economy than any 'economic package' or fed buyout of individual banks and it would benefit all of us.
PowerShell is based on.NET, the command line will go something like this
using System; using System.Diagnostics; using POSIX;
Dim DoNotBSOD As New Bool;
class GetInstallFile {
public static void Main() {
Public ReadOnly Private Property DoNotBSOD As Bool
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Get-An-Install-File microsoft_office_2010.msi")
#Etc. etc.
} }
You thought it was going to be simple weren't you. (I don't have any.NET experience, so I don't know if the above is correct, but it looks like it.
Maybe they can hire the white house admins that converted their e-mail systems from Lotus Notes to Exchange and conveniently forgot to migrate the data retention mechanism.
BTW: if any of this happens (White house debacle) in a real company, did you know that they automatically lose any lawsuit that has a grounded basis in those documents?
a) view it WITH commercial breaks every 5 minutes (or worse, since it's now on the interwebs, it might also contain a lot of Cialis and Viagra ads) b) use it only on the computer you downloaded it to c) be unable to fast forward (or backward) without restarting a commercial
This will off course add to the revenue and on the other hand turn people off the format so they'll go back to get it from TPB.
Flash is as much standard for web as the DOC format is standard for documents. It's not, it's a closed source, memory and resource-hogging, monopolistic format attempted to control the market.
The 'huge online video craze' could be done without Flash and is being done for the iPhone and other dedicated or portable players. Why? Flash is a resource hog. My G4 1,2GHz is using between 20% and 75% of the CPU with some intensive flash. In the mean time we now have open, standard and compatible formats and containers for video and audio (AAC being one of them).
I have gotten mplayer in the olden days to play all those closed formats, but in my opinion those formats can be classified with DOC and Flash and if you look at the market: they are hardly used anymore.
1 zettabyte is too little of an estimate. If as I said, there are about 1000 institutions the size of mine (there are in the US alone) that would take 1-5 exabytes. If there are about 1,000,000 institutions worldwide that are a bit smaller (there are a lot more hospitals, schools, research facilities and government agencies than that I think) they can take up another 1 exabyte all combined and that's just if they average a 1TB SAN per institution.
If there are about a thousand companies equal to the company I worked for (Fortune 1000), that would be another 500 exabytes. Then we haven't talked about the 1 billion desktop/laptop/tablet computers in this world that store on average 10GB that would be a zettabyte all by itself.
If you have no idea about what medical data spits out: a single MRI scan can take anywhere between 100MB and 2GB of unprocessed raw imaging data, average of about 300MB. Some facilities have 24/7 operations of 2 or 3 scanners with a scan every 30 minutes per machine. Then it usually needs processed which usually duplicates the scanning data and expands it's size further (a single researcher can take up to 2TB over the course of 1 year).
I was wondering if they weren't a bit wrong in their calculations. A Zettabyte is 1 Million Petabytes. Knowing that where I work has about 2 petabytes in a few SAN's and there are 1000's of larger institutions and millions that are smaller (that store in the terabytes range) around the world. The place I worked before had about a half a petabyte just in tape backups for credit card and other transactions, catalog and pricing information, images etc. and that was just an average clothing company, hardly rivaling JCPenney or Macy's. I'm also thinking about Wal-Mart with millions of products and thousands of stores. And we're just talking about SAN's here mainly in the US, not including desktops, laptops, camera's, personal information, Google.
On another note, how much does a zettabyte actually yield these days, drive manufacturers might just give you 700 Petabytes for it. Oblig. XKCD: http://xkcd.org/394/
If a politician sees a hooker, that has very little to do with his ability to govern the state
Although, prostitution is still illegal and people in office (that we should be able to trust) shouldn't be doing illegal things. Next to that, the problem with Spitzer is that he embezzled money to pay for his prostitution.
Technical people will then most likely go into the Nokia N800, N810 option instead of the iPhone/iPod Touch. Same features, much more flexible for the technical. OpenMoko gives you a good run for the money as well.
iPhone is nice and all, and I was going to buy but I'm going to buy a Nokia instead just because i can then run my own apps whenever I want. I really like the iPhone, don't get me wrong, I'm an Apple hardware fan (I manage about 50 Apple workplaces and a bunch of servers) but they should've taken the same approach as with their Mac OS X with the iPhone, leave the bases open to whomever dares to touch it and leave your precious Imaginary Property with the API/SDK for higher level programmers to make something nice out of.
Then ship them over from other US areas. Western New York and Pennsylvania (especially rural areas) have lots of geeks that wouldn't mind shipping to Seattle or elsewhere. I applied for jobs in Missouri, Seattle,... usually I got denied because it's too expensive to both relocate me and then pay the price of a good IT worker. So they'll usually use a poorly skilled worker locally which doesn't have that overhead and will work under $50k
I was willing to move and I would even give in on some pay in order to get in a nicer area but in the end I didn't have to because I found something locally. There is no shortage, there is overabundance of skilled IT workers, so much so that I was at one time out of a permanent job for almost 3 months although from a lot of companies I got the reply: Your resume is impressive. You'll have to pay the price though, don't expect me to get from a 70k+ job to a 40k job just because your company is doing bad. And if I take the job because I need the money, don't expect me to stay very long either.
Not just legislation, cost as well. The cost of an fMRI scan for non-medical/research purposes easily costs $125-250 for 15 minutes (about the time to set up and scan 1 subject).
In NYS if you're not an investigator but merely a photographer and you snapped some pictures which happen to show the aftermath of a crime (not the perpetrator as is the case here) and you show up in court saying you were the investigator, that would be criminal since a) you need a license and subsequently your work needs to have certain standards as an investigator, b) you are lying to the judge/jury and c) you might not be impartial.
If you were merely showing up to say, yes you snapped the pictures if the pictures are used as evidence that would be OK but your work can also be dismissed by the defense since you a) are not a professional and b) you didn't adhere to certain standards of collecting evidence and c) you might not be impartial as an investigator is required to be.
Both China and Cuba are communist countries ruled by an oppressive government, they both had or have the firepower and capabilities (direct as in Cuba or with subs, boats or airplanes as China) at some point to reach the US with nuclear weapons.
Cuba was just a bit more outspoken during the Cold War and the US wet it's panties when their constituents could virtually see the nuclear warheads pointing at them using binoculars. The only reason the embargo is there was to punish the Cubans for their Soviet involvement. There is no reason currently there should be any embargo since opening the people up to the westerner world would lead them to think more freely and force their government to give more freedom, just like is happening now in China. By blocking all access from the US to Cuba, Cuba has to be supplied from elsewhere and they're doing a pretty good job at that. At the same time, their government can say: it's the American's fault that you're poor and they keep them poor that way. Forcing freedom by embargo hasn't worked for the last 40 years, it won't work for the next 40.
And yes, China did send Chinese over to the US. About a million young Chinese people are currently in the US studying at Universities, I work with one of those guys (Postdoc, has his PhD), they basically get selected and supported by the government to study certain subjects abroad. As soon as they get their PhD's they will go back so they can support their community in whatever they learned.
What gets me recently is all those people in their hybrids or Geo Metro trying to save gas in their already 50 mpg car. You can't really save much more gas by going 5-15 mph slower because you'll end up causing a traffic jam and the people in their larger cars will waste it for you.
Try to be eco-friendly and go at 65mph so your suv-owning brethren can get the maximum performance out of their machines since most SUV's and large sedans have the best mileage anywhere between 50 and 65mph.
And if you want to save on gas, don't car-pool a Geo Metro with 3 oversized co-workers. Loading an extra 600-900 pounds in your already underperforming car is not very fuel efficient especially not going uphill (as is the case a lot here in NY and PA), use the Buick sedan or the SUV, you'll get the same mileage and a lot more comfortable ride and your car won't die after 5 years.
There are a lot of people here that yell: evolution has to be thought as fact. That is just as much religious as anybody else and I believe it to be very unscientific.
I believe the schooling system should educate how to think scientifically and educate them in scientific principals. I went to school but a lot of the information presented (especially in physics, geology and computer science) was outdated or plain wrong, because of my personal interest in science I noticed a lot of that but a lot of kids didn't know any better. No scientific theory should be thought as a fact unless the theory has been fully proven and it is in general accepted by the scientific community.
Evolution for example is a way of explaining how we came to be here but lots of parts of the original Darwinian evolution get rewritten or updated because the original was not specific enough, were influenced by Darwin's own believes and there are other branches of evolution theory that explain the same thing but in a different way or have a completely separate theory, not always wrong but that is something the future will provide. Giving "the origin of species" as a textbook and tell kids to learn it as a fact would be wrong and unscientific just as much as giving a catechesis and using it as a factual textbook. Teaching the kids how to pull the conclusions themselves and how to spot crocks like certain ID theories would be much better.
Lots of those musicians (some of which I know personally or I bought a cd of them) don't play commercially either. They go to school and/or work and in their free time they make some high quality (good) music. If you buy their CD's direct, usually they'll throw in another CD or some other merchandise for free.
That's the way (in my opinion) music and a lot of other art should be made. In their free time while they also have a job either in or out the artistic/music business. If they are successful enough to live off the revenue generated from concerts and other stuff they make (if they're very successful) all the better for them, but at least THEY made it and you know they are good quality unlike the crap that is pushed now, some poor chap thinks he can sing and with a few hundreds of thousands in corporate backing he/she is promoted to death.
As soon as independent music starts to catch on, the radio stations will have to follow. Who'll listen to a radio station that has only some RIAA-promoted garbage on it while there are other sources that play high(er) quality music? It'll take a time but my last CD purchase from a promoted label was in 1999 and I know quite some people that do the same so next generation might be better off than us.
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A single question: what would you do with all those animals if you don't want to be "inhumane" and kill them off (by burning, eating or otherwise)? Do you have any idea how fast rabbits, pigs, cats and the like reproduce without any natural predators or diseases (because we either killed off the predators already or find it inhumane to let our pets suffer from such diseases thus preventing them to occur? Ask Australians how fast rabbits reproduce, ask any suburban or rural neighborhood how fast cats reproduce in the wild and ask any farmer how they obtain so much meat every year. Cows already are raising a stink (literally) because of overproduction of beef and the amount of excrement (and thus methane) they produce.
Get a halfway decent alarm system. Then you, your family and laptops would be safer.
If you have a Mac I know there is a program that senses movement
You're not getting the point of terrorism and neither is the whole government and 90% of America.
We're not safer from anything as you say, a group of undergrads (heck, even high schoolers) could plan something in the afternoon. But that's not the point of terrorists. Terrorists want you to FEAR them. And that's really what's happening. America FEARS Muslim-extremists, Europe FEARS Muslim-extremists, the Netherlands really FEARS and is already culturally almost overtaken by Muslims. The goal of Al-Qaeda and the rest of the bunch has been reached. They have really bright people working for them, engineers and scientists, they have the will, money and power to develop their own weapons (look at Iran) but they don't need to. As long as we are quaking in our boots because they (possibly) are there, they have won.
As long as we're going to spend money on terrorists and the TSA being anal about it, they have won, they won't need to remind us.
(6) Find out that the user querying and inserting, doesn't have permission to issue the DELETE statement.
At least, that's so in my database. The user running on the web-side of my database can insert, update and select but can't delete (there is no reason to let them, if they want to deactivate an entry, there is a column 'active' for that).
I have been asked and wondering why Microsoft has such a bad track record in security and user access control especially since recent Windows have been built on NT which comes from OS/2 and VMX. According to me it's fairly simple: group permissions. Look at a default Linux/Unix-style installation, you have about 20 groups to start out with. If you're a desktop user, usually you're a member of audio, video, games, cdrom and user. On a Windows machine you're either a User or an Administrator. The way the Linux kernel and it's modules are built, if you need direct access to hardware, you can either be root (not good) or you can access it through it's /dev entry which has group permissions.
So if you want to play music, you can access the hardware (albeit through a kernel module) by making yourself member of the group audio. In Windows however, if you need direct access, you can either use DirectX or a process (daemon) or become an Administrator so you can get to the kernel. There is no group Audio that has only access to the Audio-part of the kernel. As soon as you need direct access for real-time anything, you can't really add yourself to any group to do so.
This of course goes way back before desktops were running NT versions (like 2000 or XP). Before, Windows was running on top of DOS, developers could just code directly into the hardware (just load dos4gw), there is no access control in DOS. DOS was also not meant to be running any services or be connected to a network that's where the whole thing with virusses got started, anything that was running could simply request a hook into the BIOS, under the hood, protected memory was regulated with emm386 while Windows 95-ME all used the faster, less secure himem.sys. Microsoft merged together the NT and DOS and made it into 2000 and XP. There were no extra permissions added for desktop users, the pure server model was coded around to allow for desktop speed and real-time access to hardware, never giving any thought that actually running all services that hook into hardware as Administrator would give problems.
I agree, that would have put the cost at roughly $1000/handheld. I have a Nokia N800 for $250 (and with bulk prices it should even go down further) which I can develop (open source) software for ($125m for a week's worth of programming and a year or 3 of database hosting and support sounds good to me) that could do exactly the same. I just halved your price AND became a very rich man.
I don't see why the government just doesn't invest locally instead of in China. They can print their own money paying for that since the increase in value of the US by local investments will increase the value of the dollar as a whole. It will inject much more into the economy than any 'economic package' or fed buyout of individual banks and it would benefit all of us.
PowerShell is based on .NET, the command line will go something like this
.NET experience, so I don't know if the above is correct, but it looks like it.
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using POSIX;
Dim DoNotBSOD As New Bool;
class GetInstallFile {
public static void Main() {
Public ReadOnly Private Property DoNotBSOD As Bool
System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("Get-An-Install-File microsoft_office_2010.msi")
#Etc. etc.
}
}
You thought it was going to be simple weren't you. (I don't have any
Not a vampire, but the Mothman. Scare people to death and give in to the conspiracy theorists.
Maybe they can hire the white house admins that converted their e-mail systems from Lotus Notes to Exchange and conveniently forgot to migrate the data retention mechanism.
BTW: if any of this happens (White house debacle) in a real company, did you know that they automatically lose any lawsuit that has a grounded basis in those documents?
The network will force you to
a) view it WITH commercial breaks every 5 minutes (or worse, since it's now on the interwebs, it might also contain a lot of Cialis and Viagra ads)
b) use it only on the computer you downloaded it to
c) be unable to fast forward (or backward) without restarting a commercial
This will off course add to the revenue and on the other hand turn people off the format so they'll go back to get it from TPB.
Flash is as much standard for web as the DOC format is standard for documents. It's not, it's a closed source, memory and resource-hogging, monopolistic format attempted to control the market.
The 'huge online video craze' could be done without Flash and is being done for the iPhone and other dedicated or portable players. Why? Flash is a resource hog. My G4 1,2GHz is using between 20% and 75% of the CPU with some intensive flash. In the mean time we now have open, standard and compatible formats and containers for video and audio (AAC being one of them).
I have gotten mplayer in the olden days to play all those closed formats, but in my opinion those formats can be classified with DOC and Flash and if you look at the market: they are hardly used anymore.
1 zettabyte is too little of an estimate. If as I said, there are about 1000 institutions the size of mine (there are in the US alone) that would take 1-5 exabytes. If there are about 1,000,000 institutions worldwide that are a bit smaller (there are a lot more hospitals, schools, research facilities and government agencies than that I think) they can take up another 1 exabyte all combined and that's just if they average a 1TB SAN per institution.
If there are about a thousand companies equal to the company I worked for (Fortune 1000), that would be another 500 exabytes. Then we haven't talked about the 1 billion desktop/laptop/tablet computers in this world that store on average 10GB that would be a zettabyte all by itself.
If you have no idea about what medical data spits out: a single MRI scan can take anywhere between 100MB and 2GB of unprocessed raw imaging data, average of about 300MB. Some facilities have 24/7 operations of 2 or 3 scanners with a scan every 30 minutes per machine. Then it usually needs processed which usually duplicates the scanning data and expands it's size further (a single researcher can take up to 2TB over the course of 1 year).
I was wondering if they weren't a bit wrong in their calculations. A Zettabyte is 1 Million Petabytes. Knowing that where I work has about 2 petabytes in a few SAN's and there are 1000's of larger institutions and millions that are smaller (that store in the terabytes range) around the world. The place I worked before had about a half a petabyte just in tape backups for credit card and other transactions, catalog and pricing information, images etc. and that was just an average clothing company, hardly rivaling JCPenney or Macy's. I'm also thinking about Wal-Mart with millions of products and thousands of stores. And we're just talking about SAN's here mainly in the US, not including desktops, laptops, camera's, personal information, Google.
On another note, how much does a zettabyte actually yield these days, drive manufacturers might just give you 700 Petabytes for it. Oblig. XKCD: http://xkcd.org/394/
If a politician sees a hooker, that has very little to do with his ability to govern the state
Although, prostitution is still illegal and people in office (that we should be able to trust) shouldn't be doing illegal things. Next to that, the problem with Spitzer is that he embezzled money to pay for his prostitution.
Technical people will then most likely go into the Nokia N800, N810 option instead of the iPhone/iPod Touch. Same features, much more flexible for the technical. OpenMoko gives you a good run for the money as well.
iPhone is nice and all, and I was going to buy but I'm going to buy a Nokia instead just because i can then run my own apps whenever I want. I really like the iPhone, don't get me wrong, I'm an Apple hardware fan (I manage about 50 Apple workplaces and a bunch of servers) but they should've taken the same approach as with their Mac OS X with the iPhone, leave the bases open to whomever dares to touch it and leave your precious Imaginary Property with the API/SDK for higher level programmers to make something nice out of.
Like this: http://realestate.theemiratesnetwork.com/developments/dubai/palm_islands/images/palm_jumeirah.jpg ?
Not coal though, oil will buy you that. Coal is on it's way out (or at least that's what we hope for)
Then ship them over from other US areas. Western New York and Pennsylvania (especially rural areas) have lots of geeks that wouldn't mind shipping to Seattle or elsewhere. I applied for jobs in Missouri, Seattle, ... usually I got denied because it's too expensive to both relocate me and then pay the price of a good IT worker. So they'll usually use a poorly skilled worker locally which doesn't have that overhead and will work under $50k
I was willing to move and I would even give in on some pay in order to get in a nicer area but in the end I didn't have to because I found something locally. There is no shortage, there is overabundance of skilled IT workers, so much so that I was at one time out of a permanent job for almost 3 months although from a lot of companies I got the reply: Your resume is impressive. You'll have to pay the price though, don't expect me to get from a 70k+ job to a 40k job just because your company is doing bad. And if I take the job because I need the money, don't expect me to stay very long either.
Not just legislation, cost as well. The cost of an fMRI scan for non-medical/research purposes easily costs $125-250 for 15 minutes (about the time to set up and scan 1 subject).
In NYS if you're not an investigator but merely a photographer and you snapped some pictures which happen to show the aftermath of a crime (not the perpetrator as is the case here) and you show up in court saying you were the investigator, that would be criminal since a) you need a license and subsequently your work needs to have certain standards as an investigator, b) you are lying to the judge/jury and c) you might not be impartial.
If you were merely showing up to say, yes you snapped the pictures if the pictures are used as evidence that would be OK but your work can also be dismissed by the defense since you a) are not a professional and b) you didn't adhere to certain standards of collecting evidence and c) you might not be impartial as an investigator is required to be.
Both China and Cuba are communist countries ruled by an oppressive government, they both had or have the firepower and capabilities (direct as in Cuba or with subs, boats or airplanes as China) at some point to reach the US with nuclear weapons.
Cuba was just a bit more outspoken during the Cold War and the US wet it's panties when their constituents could virtually see the nuclear warheads pointing at them using binoculars. The only reason the embargo is there was to punish the Cubans for their Soviet involvement. There is no reason currently there should be any embargo since opening the people up to the westerner world would lead them to think more freely and force their government to give more freedom, just like is happening now in China. By blocking all access from the US to Cuba, Cuba has to be supplied from elsewhere and they're doing a pretty good job at that. At the same time, their government can say: it's the American's fault that you're poor and they keep them poor that way. Forcing freedom by embargo hasn't worked for the last 40 years, it won't work for the next 40.
And yes, China did send Chinese over to the US. About a million young Chinese people are currently in the US studying at Universities, I work with one of those guys (Postdoc, has his PhD), they basically get selected and supported by the government to study certain subjects abroad. As soon as they get their PhD's they will go back so they can support their community in whatever they learned.
What gets me recently is all those people in their hybrids or Geo Metro trying to save gas in their already 50 mpg car. You can't really save much more gas by going 5-15 mph slower because you'll end up causing a traffic jam and the people in their larger cars will waste it for you.
Try to be eco-friendly and go at 65mph so your suv-owning brethren can get the maximum performance out of their machines since most SUV's and large sedans have the best mileage anywhere between 50 and 65mph.
And if you want to save on gas, don't car-pool a Geo Metro with 3 oversized co-workers. Loading an extra 600-900 pounds in your already underperforming car is not very fuel efficient especially not going uphill (as is the case a lot here in NY and PA), use the Buick sedan or the SUV, you'll get the same mileage and a lot more comfortable ride and your car won't die after 5 years.
There are a lot of people here that yell: evolution has to be thought as fact. That is just as much religious as anybody else and I believe it to be very unscientific.
I believe the schooling system should educate how to think scientifically and educate them in scientific principals. I went to school but a lot of the information presented (especially in physics, geology and computer science) was outdated or plain wrong, because of my personal interest in science I noticed a lot of that but a lot of kids didn't know any better. No scientific theory should be thought as a fact unless the theory has been fully proven and it is in general accepted by the scientific community.
Evolution for example is a way of explaining how we came to be here but lots of parts of the original Darwinian evolution get rewritten or updated because the original was not specific enough, were influenced by Darwin's own believes and there are other branches of evolution theory that explain the same thing but in a different way or have a completely separate theory, not always wrong but that is something the future will provide. Giving "the origin of species" as a textbook and tell kids to learn it as a fact would be wrong and unscientific just as much as giving a catechesis and using it as a factual textbook. Teaching the kids how to pull the conclusions themselves and how to spot crocks like certain ID theories would be much better.
Lots of those musicians (some of which I know personally or I bought a cd of them) don't play commercially either. They go to school and/or work and in their free time they make some high quality (good) music. If you buy their CD's direct, usually they'll throw in another CD or some other merchandise for free.
That's the way (in my opinion) music and a lot of other art should be made. In their free time while they also have a job either in or out the artistic/music business. If they are successful enough to live off the revenue generated from concerts and other stuff they make (if they're very successful) all the better for them, but at least THEY made it and you know they are good quality unlike the crap that is pushed now, some poor chap thinks he can sing and with a few hundreds of thousands in corporate backing he/she is promoted to death.
As soon as independent music starts to catch on, the radio stations will have to follow. Who'll listen to a radio station that has only some RIAA-promoted garbage on it while there are other sources that play high(er) quality music? It'll take a time but my last CD purchase from a promoted label was in 1999 and I know quite some people that do the same so next generation might be better off than us.
"This country is based on the fantasy that the government is the voice of the people"
Best quote, ever, and true as well.