Most of the younger people in this landlineless subpopulation do not bother to vote. As a result, the fact that they are not counted in polls is inconsequential.
I see an awful lot of people who say "voting is of no use." The amount of it in these forums is disconcerting. It is little wonder that Obama, the president facing a nation in the worst condition on taking office of most any modern president, is about to have the rug yanked out from under him. This after two years in office trying to do battle with problems that have been created by the legislative excesses of the past decade or so.
You need to vote for candidates you believe will be responsible; failing to do this, you abet the irresponsible. Our zero-attention span attitude towards politics has brought us to the buffoonish specacle we now see of plutocrats with piles of money buying media time and space for lie-filled ads. These cynical individuals are doing this to keep their tax burden low. That means that you, Mr. and Ms. Professional Class, will be borrowing money from the Chinese to fill the gap. Meh, let your kids pay it off.
Americans don't want to be bothered educating themselves about the state of their nation. So they believe a lot of this made-up crap. Election season features enough straw men to choke the Wizard of Oz, and enough red herrings to keep Cannery Row going for millenia.
In America we all expect someone else to do the right thing (not litter, give money to worthy causes, vote responsibly, support our schools and social institutions. pay lawfully due taxes, etc) but we're all too entitled to pick up any of the burden ourselves.
As a result, Americans will get the national decline they deserve. By the way, that means your standard of living is going to fall.
These people who have surreptitiously built pools are in the wrong on two counts. Firstly, if the pools are not properly inspected when built, a corner cutting contractor [Nah.... these don't exist... ] could omit key items that could be critical for structural or electrical safety.
Secondly, they are enjoying a valuable piece of property whilst not paying property tax on it. Since I pay property taxation on the full value of my house, I resent this sort of cheating. It forces up the millage for the rest of us.
Since the town can now find these scofflaws at minimal cost, I expect as a taxpayer that it do so.
You can buy a congressman for cheap and get anything passed. Betcha you could make it illegal not to eat your own faeces in all 50 states on a daily basis for a couple of hundred thou. We have a parliament of whores for a legislature.
I'm sure the parents of these predators have been repeatedly informed of their kids' outrageous behavior. The likely reaction: they abetted it. Now laugh as they cut huge checks to lawyers to defend felony raps. Sometimes, the karma wagon makes a delivery at a correct address.
Our institution buys a lot of laptops each year and recommends the purchase specs of hundreds. We are an OS-neutral environment. I guess NVIDIA has no regard for us.
This maundering plea says if you have been ripping someone off for a long time, your ripping off is "acceptable," and therefore it should be sanctioned. What sophistry! Perhaps we can let every drug dealer with ten years of experience off the hook for all illicit activity, past and future? How about mass murders in cold cases? Can they keep on murdering since they already got away with it?
Clearly, these companies are trying to circumvent their (minimal) responsibility as employers. They should pay what they owe and shut the hell up about it.
The authorities should embed this dodo in lucite and give him to the Museum of Those With No Lives. Exhibit him in the sociopath section. His sense of entitlement is wretched.
This is a stupid expensive duplication of effort. It's probably not necessary to amass all of these stupid little forms, since the government has the information anyway.
But what is government without stupid duplicated effort?
The current system of journals is antiquated. It's buggywhippery. The editors and referees for journal papers are not paid. The authors are not paid, But the subscription prices are stratospheric.
This leads to two possible conclusions. Conclusion 1: Someone is making a great heap of money at taxpayer expense. The taxpayer funds the research, then pays page charges to journals to publish it, and then has to pay gobs of money to gain access to it. Conclusion 2: The system of diffusing information via printed journals is massively inefficient and stupidly expensive. Either way, it's time for change. These expensive journals are the trolls under the bridge in what should be an international free exchange of ideas.
Peer reviewed journals should be electronic. The old-fashioned system of typesetting journals on paper makes about as much sense as delivering goods to market by dray-horse. Electronic publication would eliminate the long lag between acceptance and publication. In fact, what should emerge is a flow of new papers that appear as they are accepted. The whole business of having a journal come out 4 times a year is a product of the paper-and-print age. Buffering research papers into issues and delaying their availability is no longer necessary.
No sacrifice of editorial integrity is required here. No change in the current system of peer review is needed. It just requires the orangutans to get over their skepticism of changes in their cages, and to accept the notion that business needs to be done a new way in a new age. It seems to me that the purpose of scholarly journals should be something greater than just the credentialing of academics; they should spread new ideas and findings in a timely fashion.
Here is yet another depressing instance of an area in which America is forfeiting its competitive edge by dwelling stubbornly in the past.
Python's include mechanism and its path mechanism must be broken. I installed Pygame via apt-get.Then I open a session and see this
>>> include pygame
No module pygame found
Oops. I built pygame for source; then it worked. The printer applet is broken. Its stderr stream is directed to/dev/null. Add it to you panel and right-click. It launches system-config-printer.py Error from this program: module gobject not found. Scare up gobject.py in your file system, put it where needed, and then other modules are declared missing. You are now entering the gates of dependency hell. I think that this could be causing a host of problems in Ubuntu 9.10.
The includes for core modules of Python work. It is extensions that don't. This is the place to start looking.
The greenies do themselves a disservice when they harp on stuff like this. It makes them look like foolish chicken-littles. Another sky is falling story. fml. right.
Yet again another round of yammer comes around about the public school system. Immediately the response is, "more time in school is better." No. Let us all remember that most phenomena do not respond linearly to inputs.
What is wrong with the schools has little to do with instructional time. Look at the organizational model used by schools. It greatly resembles that of a late 19th century sock factory. Most modern world-class organizations have fled from this model. And rightfully so.
School management is stupidly hierarchical. We fill "central offices" with lots of busy expensive functionaries who second-guess the faculties who actually teach in our schools. We create endless useless credentials vended by the ed schools that pigeonhole people in the silliest of fashions. "Experts" minted by these programs create loads of paper that goes into filing cabinets and which is never read. Curriculum "experts" create rigid formulae for classes they never visit nor teach. These expensive managerial layers need to be blown away. These are just an impediment to progress.
Responsibility for what goes on in the classroom needs to be put where policy in implemented: to the faculty and their department chairs. We need to get rid of state textbook committees brimming with bluestocking bawlderizers and allow the people who teach the classes to pick the tools they use to do the job. Teachers need professional autonomy so they can bear professional responsibility for the choices they make.
Teaching needs to be professionalized and needs to shed its blue-collar heritage. The profession is an honored and learned profession in most countries; here we treat teachers as interchangeble light bulbs in a marquee. We need to make the profession attractive to smart, creative people. Current policy makes America's teachers foie gras farm workers who force feed premasticated curricula created by far-off "experts" who haven't a clue.
Had we made computing a profession like teaching, America would a computing jerkwater, instead of the cyber-powerhouse it is today.
A big effort is needed to chaange the teaching profession for the better. I am afraid that most Americans don't give a damn about what happens in their schools, beyond the babysitting services they receive. Therefore, I harbor little of Mr. Obama's unwarranted optimism that throwing more resources at the same old dysfunctional systme will do an iota of good.
Raise the gas tax. Why do we need an intrusive parallel monitoring system. I'm waiting for the first time a divorce attorney subpoenas the records. This is a violation of privacy and evidence of America's slouch towards fascism.
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This is delicious. I can't wait to see some of these shirkers get a goring from the tax authorities.
The process can be perverted?!?
1,$ s/you/ewe/g
Sieg Heil!!!
Most of the younger people in this landlineless subpopulation do not bother to vote. As a result, the fact that they are not counted in polls is inconsequential.
I see an awful lot of people who say "voting is of no use." The amount of it in these forums is disconcerting. It is little wonder that Obama, the president facing a nation in the worst condition on taking office of most any modern president, is about to have the rug yanked out from under him. This after two years in office trying to do battle with problems that have been created by the legislative excesses of the past decade or so.
You need to vote for candidates you believe will be responsible; failing to do this, you abet the irresponsible. Our zero-attention span attitude towards politics has brought us to the buffoonish specacle we now see of plutocrats with piles of money buying media time and space for lie-filled ads. These cynical individuals are doing this to keep their tax burden low. That means that you, Mr. and Ms. Professional Class, will be borrowing money from the Chinese to fill the gap. Meh, let your kids pay it off.
Americans don't want to be bothered educating themselves about the state of their nation. So they believe a lot of this made-up crap. Election season features enough straw men to choke the Wizard of Oz, and enough red herrings to keep Cannery Row going for millenia.
In America we all expect someone else to do the right thing (not litter, give money to worthy causes, vote responsibly, support our schools and social institutions. pay lawfully due taxes, etc) but we're all too entitled to pick up any of the burden ourselves.
As a result, Americans will get the national decline they deserve. By the way, that means your standard of living is going to fall.
Too goddamned bad.
These people who have surreptitiously built pools are in the wrong on two counts. Firstly, if the pools are not properly inspected when built, a corner cutting contractor [Nah.... these don't exist... ] could omit key items that could be critical for structural or electrical safety. Secondly, they are enjoying a valuable piece of property whilst not paying property tax on it. Since I pay property taxation on the full value of my house, I resent this sort of cheating. It forces up the millage for the rest of us. Since the town can now find these scofflaws at minimal cost, I expect as a taxpayer that it do so.
I don't know why Dell thinks I am a second-class citizen because I use open-source programs. Boo and hiss.
You can buy a congressman for cheap and get anything passed. Betcha you could make it illegal not to eat your own faeces in all 50 states on a daily basis for a couple of hundred thou. We have a parliament of whores for a legislature.
'M' is for meritless.
I'm sure the parents of these predators have been repeatedly informed of their kids' outrageous behavior. The likely reaction: they abetted it. Now laugh as they cut huge checks to lawyers to defend felony raps. Sometimes, the karma wagon makes a delivery at a correct address.
Our institution buys a lot of laptops each year and recommends the purchase specs of hundreds. We are an OS-neutral environment. I guess NVIDIA has no regard for us.
Some??
This maundering plea says if you have been ripping someone off for a long time, your ripping off is "acceptable," and therefore it should be sanctioned. What sophistry! Perhaps we can let every drug dealer with ten years of experience off the hook for all illicit activity, past and future? How about mass murders in cold cases? Can they keep on murdering since they already got away with it? Clearly, these companies are trying to circumvent their (minimal) responsibility as employers. They should pay what they owe and shut the hell up about it.
The authorities should embed this dodo in lucite and give him to the Museum of Those With No Lives. Exhibit him in the sociopath section. His sense of entitlement is wretched.
What do you expect out of Larry Ellison????
This is a stupid expensive duplication of effort. It's probably not necessary to amass all of these stupid little forms, since the government has the information anyway. But what is government without stupid duplicated effort?
The current system of journals is antiquated. It's buggywhippery. The editors and referees for journal papers are not paid. The authors are not paid, But the subscription prices are stratospheric.
This leads to two possible conclusions. Conclusion 1: Someone is making a great heap of money at taxpayer expense. The taxpayer funds the research, then pays page charges to journals to publish it, and then has to pay gobs of money to gain access to it. Conclusion 2: The system of diffusing information via printed journals is massively inefficient and stupidly expensive. Either way, it's time for change. These expensive journals are the trolls under the bridge in what should be an international free exchange of ideas.
Peer reviewed journals should be electronic. The old-fashioned system of typesetting journals on paper makes about as much sense as delivering goods to market by dray-horse. Electronic publication would eliminate the long lag between acceptance and publication. In fact, what should emerge is a flow of new papers that appear as they are accepted. The whole business of having a journal come out 4 times a year is a product of the paper-and-print age. Buffering research papers into issues and delaying their availability is no longer necessary.
No sacrifice of editorial integrity is required here. No change in the current system of peer review is needed. It just requires the orangutans to get over their skepticism of changes in their cages, and to accept the notion that business needs to be done a new way in a new age. It seems to me that the purpose of scholarly journals should be something greater than just the credentialing of academics; they should spread new ideas and findings in a timely fashion.
Here is yet another depressing instance of an area in which America is forfeiting its competitive edge by dwelling stubbornly in the past.
You did.
What are we thinking, connecting these secure locations to the Internet? This seems the height of folly to me!
Python's include mechanism and its path mechanism must be broken. I installed Pygame via apt-get.Then I open a session and see this
>>> include pygame
No module pygame found
Oops. I built pygame for source; then it worked. The printer applet is broken. Its stderr stream is directed to /dev/null. Add it to you panel and right-click. It launches system-config-printer.py Error from this program: module gobject not found. Scare up gobject.py in your file system, put it where needed, and then other modules are declared missing. You are now entering the gates of dependency hell. I think that this could be causing a host of problems in Ubuntu 9.10.
The includes for core modules of Python work. It is extensions that don't. This is the place to start looking.
The greenies do themselves a disservice when they harp on stuff like this. It makes them look like foolish chicken-littles. Another sky is falling story. fml. right.
Oink.
Yeah, yet another golden age that never existed. Fie!
Yet again another round of yammer comes around about the public school system. Immediately the response is, "more time in school is better." No. Let us all remember that most phenomena do not respond linearly to inputs.
What is wrong with the schools has little to do with instructional time. Look at the organizational model used by schools. It greatly resembles that of a late 19th century sock factory. Most modern world-class organizations have fled from this model. And rightfully so.
School management is stupidly hierarchical. We fill "central offices" with lots of busy expensive functionaries who second-guess the faculties who actually teach in our schools. We create endless useless credentials vended by the ed schools that pigeonhole people in the silliest of fashions. "Experts" minted by these programs create loads of paper that goes into filing cabinets and which is never read. Curriculum "experts" create rigid formulae for classes they never visit nor teach. These expensive managerial layers need to be blown away. These are just an impediment to progress.
Responsibility for what goes on in the classroom needs to be put where policy in implemented: to the faculty and their department chairs. We need to get rid of state textbook committees brimming with bluestocking bawlderizers and allow the people who teach the classes to pick the tools they use to do the job. Teachers need professional autonomy so they can bear professional responsibility for the choices they make.
Teaching needs to be professionalized and needs to shed its blue-collar heritage. The profession is an honored and learned profession in most countries; here we treat teachers as interchangeble light bulbs in a marquee. We need to make the profession attractive to smart, creative people. Current policy makes America's teachers foie gras farm workers who force feed premasticated curricula created by far-off "experts" who haven't a clue.
Had we made computing a profession like teaching, America would a computing jerkwater, instead of the cyber-powerhouse it is today.
A big effort is needed to chaange the teaching profession for the better. I am afraid that most Americans don't give a damn about what happens in their schools, beyond the babysitting services they receive. Therefore, I harbor little of Mr. Obama's unwarranted optimism that throwing more resources at the same old dysfunctional systme will do an iota of good.
Raise the gas tax. Why do we need an intrusive parallel monitoring system. I'm waiting for the first time a divorce attorney subpoenas the records. This is a violation of privacy and evidence of America's slouch towards fascism.