Crack it once and try to turn anyone in for anything without getting busted yourself as a cracker.
Community colleges generally work with students above the age of 18 and therefore have different standards to which they must work. Besides, FERPA only applies to schools that receive federal money from certain Dept. of Education programs. Do most high schools receive such money?
Reminds me of the memorial to FDR in DC. The statue in it was based on a photo of him gesturing with his trademark cigarette holder. Both the cigarette and its holder have been sacrificed to the gods of political correctness. It leaves him gesturing with his fingers in some odd, inexplicable position and looks really stupid. It's also a false image; FDR was a heavy smoker and never concealed it as there was no reason to at the time. But the PC crowd never lets that sort of thing bother them.
The more recent translations of the Bible are copyrighted by the translators, who receive royalties on sales just like any other copyright holder. The King James Version is in the public domain in the US, but in the UK (where they call it the Authorised Version) the Crown holds a perpetual copyright on it and receives license fees from everyone in the country who publishes it.
They're not backporting their older EV games as they stand, but are porting them to EVN as TC plugins. So they should be playable for PC users when they become available, since plugins should work as well on a PC as they do on a Mac.
Very few people liked any of the pre-3.1 versions of Windows. Even 3.11 was pretty painful to anyone accustomed to a Macintosh, (or an OS with a decent command-line interface) and was nothing like stable. I can't say I ever had a satisfactory experience with a Windows machine until Win98.
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No, Saddam has starved millions of Iraqi children and countless others. There's plenty of money going into the country. If he chooses to build palaces and other self-aggrandizing monuments with it instead of feeding his starving people, that's no one's fault but his own.
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It's amazing to me how easily some people rationalize war and the arrogance with which they do it.
It's amazing to me how easily some people construct straw men and the arrogance with which they proceed to demolish it as if they were making a genuine argument.
If you think I made a weak case for the war there's a reason for that. I wasn't making one. I was addressing only the letter from Michael Moore. There are a number of good reasons not to go to war, but he didn't offer any. Neither do you really, but it's far to late at night (or too early in the morning) to address everything you got wrong.
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Simply that France doesn't want its business interests threatened. It's immaterial who else they're doing business with.
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No, thank you!:)
I just noticed I repsonded to point one again, after you did. Oh well.
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Anyone else want to take points 2-6?
Shouldn't be too hard. Let's see...
Characterizing supporters of this war as "wanting to kill Iraqis" is slanderous. Admittedly, there's a handful of Iraqis, all of them with the surname "Hussein", whom we'd like to see dead. But no one wants to see innocent Iraqi civillians dead. Too bad Saddam would rather put some of them through a paper shredder himself. No, few are "passionate" about this war. Many supporters of it feel a certain ambivalence. It's something we have to do, but few are happy that we have to do it. There are a few exceptions. Iraqi expatriates living in the US are very glad indeed that this war is happening. Why don't you find one and ask why they came here? Hint: it usually wasn't for the cheese.
Blaming Bush for the economy is senseless. Anyone who was paying attention could see that the economy was beginning to tank in 1Q 2000, while Clinton was still in office. It's fitting, really, that an economy puffed up by lies and foolish business models occurred during the administration of the biggest liar we've had for a President since LBJ. Bush arguably hasn't done a whole lot about it. There's arguably not a lot he can do about it. No one's savings or retirement funds are going away any time soon just because the stock market is no longer inflated beyond all reason.
By the way, Gore lost the election. Deal with it.
"The whole world" with more than a few minor exceptions like the UK, Spain, Australia, etc. Minor, yeah. The UN resolution that might have authorized war had a majority of the Security Council supporting it. It was withdrawn under the threat of a unilateral veto by France. Only in the mind of an unusually arrogant Frenchman does France constitute the "whole world".
The Pope? My, we have come a long way since JFK was elected over the objections of those who feared, unreasonably, that he'd be a papal puppet. (Ironically, this was another very close election with the candidates separated by.2% of the popular vote. A single switched vote per precinct would have sent the election the other way. Did Kennedy steal the election?) Now the President is supposed to obey the Pope! That's funny. When you're done laughing, read and understand the following: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion...." You should recognize it; it's part of the same Constitutional Amendment that also allows you the right to post a lying, hate-filled tirade like this one without fear of government reprisal. As for "the poor" being shipped to Vietnam, it's a lie.
I remind the writer that we no longer have the draft. Anyone now in the military has volunteered of his or her own free will. The possibility of being sent to war is a risk they knowingly took upon themselves when they joined up. This second attempt at drawing a Vietnam parallel is even more pathetic than the first.
Ah, yes. The French. Oh, please. Could they perhaps be supporting Iraq because of the nuclear reactors they're selling there? Or the French oil company operating there, the biggest in Iraq? Could the French possibly have their own business interests in mind when they oppose this war? Ya think?
And of course, following another paragraph full of hate and ad hominem, he closes with the old saw that this is just an oil grab. News flash: we don't need Iraqi oil, and even if we did we could get it just by lifting the sanctions Saddam earned by invading his weakest neighbor. It's a nonsensical accusation on its face. It's high time to drop it.
It sounds more as if Hakim is writing textbooks on the history of science, not science itself. That's nice and all, but that's not really what I expect a science class to teach. As a supplement to a science class it sounds very valuable, but I don't think I'd want this to be the only text a class was using. Jr. High School students are (or should be) advanced enough to begin to approach scientific topics systematically, and to apply some mathematics along the way. Factoids (or narratives) are (again, or should be) for younger students. If today's Jr. High students are still at that stage, then something is seriously wrong with American science education. But I think we've all guessed that by now. Hakim's historical approach doesn't sound as if it will address the basic problem.
One of the best places, and when they lost the lease on their old location across the street from the old (chip motif) Fry's in Sunnyvale they moved to a warehouse location right around the corner from work. I recently bought a used print server off Ebay that required a 16v AC adapter. Yup, Weird Stuff had it.
Not far away at Lawrence and Central (also near the Sunnyvale Fry's) is HSC Electronic Supply. Some old stuff, some new stuff, and if it's electronic they probably have it. You can occasionally get a very, very good deal there, and the staff is extremely knowledgable. It's one of those places where it's very easy for me to lose track of the time.
There are a couple of other places in the area, but Weird Stuff and HSC are the best.
Generally, in the US a University encompasses several schools (which are often called Colleges), where a College is comprised of a single school. A College that's part of a University will definitely offer at least Bachelor degrees and might offer advanced degrees as well (or instead). A stand-alone College might offer only Bachelor degrees, or advanced degrees, or both, or neither depending on its accreditation. Anything called a Community College or a Junior College will almost certainly not offer Bachelor degrees. There are also numerous trade schools that call themselves Colleges even though they don't offer anything like a traditional academic curriculum. Community/Junior Colleges and trade schools generally offer something called an "Associate degree" which has no clear definition as far as I know. It's sometimes (and more properly) called a certificate rather than a degree.
My alma mater called itself a College when I earned a Bachelor degree there, but it's since recast itself (aided by a number of sizable endowments and subsequent land purchases and building expansions) as a University, relabelling its three academic curricula as Schools. It's still essentially the same place, with the same academic programs and offering the same degrees, but with a different label. I'd call it more of a marketing ploy than anything else. Which is just as well; you do have to attract students somehow, and when you have a very strong academic program it helps to point that up.
A US resident attending a University or (academic) College will usually say he's "going to college" in exactly the same sense a Brit would say "going to Uni." It's nothing more than a regionalism.
Am I the only one who noticed they reverse engineered the hippocampus using almost the exact same method Compaq used to reverse engineer the IBM PC BIOS? From the article:
No one understands how the hippocampus encodes information. So the team simply copied its behaviour. Slices of rat hippocampus were stimulated with electrical signals, millions of times over, until they could be sure which electrical input produces a corresponding output. Putting the information from various slices together gave the team a mathematical model of the entire hippocampus.
I suppose it's nice they were careful to avoid infringing on the brain's IP. (Or should that be The Brain's IP; I imagine he has a number of patents under his evil little belt.)
Nor do I disagree with you. But again, I was replying to what seemed to be the core objection in the original troll, which was more about being told what he could and could not do in his own "backyard" than about the wider effects of the regulation. I like to think that ultimately sense will prevail here. Model rocketry hobbyists don't, I imagine, constitute a very large lobby, but I wonder to what extent the new regs affect, say, black powder shooters. Will they be able to purchase black powder by mail, and it will it be allowed to be shipped to sporting goods stores in the quantities in which it's normally purchased? I imagine that if all the affected groups got together, they'd be able to have a beneficial effect.
Size of your backyard has little to do with being able to launch a rocket of any size...
It does if that's where you're launching them from, as the original poster indicated he was. You need a certain amount of clear space to do this safely, and the amount of space you need increases with the potential altitude of the rocket. It would require a very large backyard indeed to safely launch a rocket powered by an H engine.
Frankly, I have little sympathy for the complaint here. When I got into model rocketry about 30 years ago as a kid growing up in New Jersey, you needed a state-issued permit to purchase even the smaller Estes engines. (And this permit could only be issued to an adult, so my dad had to apply for it and buy all my engines for me.) A background check is something almost anyone who gets a mission-critical tech job has to undergo these days, I don't see the prospect of fingerprinting deterring many people from getting drivers' licenses, and a $25 fee isn't very large considering the other expenses associated with a hobby like model rocketry. This is simply not a level of intrusiveness we find objectionable in many other contexts.
And if you think they don't tax sex already, you've obviously never applied for a marriage license...
I shouldn't feed the troll, but RTFA anyway. Unless your backyard is on the order of a square mile in size, the model rockets you're most probably launching from it aren't covered by the new regulations. Engine sizes A through D are well under the 62.5 gm limit. You need to be using size G engines before you run into a problem, but you need a considerably larger field than the average backyard to launch anything that would require them.
As you point out, the people doing the burning in the verse you quoted were the owners of the books themselves. They were burning them not because it's seen as a valuable thing to do in and of itself, but because they had become convinced by the preceding events (Acts 19:13-17) that the mere possession of these books was a positive danger. In context, they would appear to have more likely been books on demonology rather than astrology. The NT isn't particularly hard on astrologers as such, and certain of them in particular it speaks of with clear approval.
No doubt there were a number of such books in the Royal Library besides the historical, scientific, mathematical, engineering, and philosophical works. However, a Christian willing to torch the entire collection for the sake of the small number of occult works in it would have had to have been more fanatical than, say, St. Basil the Great, or St. John Chrysostom, or any of the multitude of Church Fathers who valued learning highly and spoke of pre-Christian philosophers in cautiously positive terms. We call this "zeal not according to knowledge", referencing Romans 10:2.
I wasn't speaking of book-burning in general, of course. But I really don't think it's fair to judge societies of Antiquity, or even the Middle Ages, by modern standards. Even the Sibyl in the days of the Roman Republic burned her own books for no better reason than that she wasn't being paid for them. It hasn't always been an act of tyranny.
And why, in the case of the Library of Alexandria?
Religious ferver. It was burned to the ground by followers of Christ.
You can believe that if you like, but there's very scant evidence for it no matter what Gibbon might say. There was not, and has ever been, any religious reason for Christians to have burned the Library of Alexandria. If you know of one, please cite a contemporary source. Julius Caesar is just as likely a suspect, as some ancient sources claim he set fire to the part of the city the Library occupied. So is Caliph Omar -- if you think Christians are intolerant, we've got nothing on Islam. (We should know; we've been living with them in the Middle East for about 1200 years now.)
I say "just as likely" above, but that really should be "just as unlikely". All suspects in the burning have good alibis. Fact is, no one knows what happened to the Library. The best online summary I've found of the various legends concerning its fate is here.
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Community colleges generally work with students above the age of 18 and therefore have different standards to which they must work. Besides, FERPA only applies to schools that receive federal money from certain Dept. of Education programs. Do most high schools receive such money?
You also might simply have clicked on the links in the story...
So he claimed. But I saw Cosmos when it first came out. Everyone who watched it, including me, was certain they heard him say it at least once.
"Billlllyuns and billlllyuns of years ago..."
Reminds me of the memorial to FDR in DC. The statue in it was based on a photo of him gesturing with his trademark cigarette holder. Both the cigarette and its holder have been sacrificed to the gods of political correctness. It leaves him gesturing with his fingers in some odd, inexplicable position and looks really stupid. It's also a false image; FDR was a heavy smoker and never concealed it as there was no reason to at the time. But the PC crowd never lets that sort of thing bother them.
"Non-SMD," otherwise known as PTH.
The more recent translations of the Bible are copyrighted by the translators, who receive royalties on sales just like any other copyright holder. The King James Version is in the public domain in the US, but in the UK (where they call it the Authorised Version) the Crown holds a perpetual copyright on it and receives license fees from everyone in the country who publishes it.
They're not backporting their older EV games as they stand, but are porting them to EVN as TC plugins. So they should be playable for PC users when they become available, since plugins should work as well on a PC as they do on a Mac.
Very few people liked any of the pre-3.1 versions of Windows. Even 3.11 was pretty painful to anyone accustomed to a Macintosh, (or an OS with a decent command-line interface) and was nothing like stable. I can't say I ever had a satisfactory experience with a Windows machine until Win98.
No, Saddam has starved millions of Iraqi children and countless others. There's plenty of money going into the country. If he chooses to build palaces and other self-aggrandizing monuments with it instead of feeding his starving people, that's no one's fault but his own.
It's amazing to me how easily some people construct straw men and the arrogance with which they proceed to demolish it as if they were making a genuine argument.
If you think I made a weak case for the war there's a reason for that. I wasn't making one. I was addressing only the letter from Michael Moore. There are a number of good reasons not to go to war, but he didn't offer any. Neither do you really, but it's far to late at night (or too early in the morning) to address everything you got wrong.
Simply that France doesn't want its business interests threatened. It's immaterial who else they're doing business with.
I just noticed I repsonded to point one again, after you did. Oh well.
Shouldn't be too hard. Let's see...
By the way, Gore lost the election. Deal with it.
And of course, following another paragraph full of hate and ad hominem, he closes with the old saw that this is just an oil grab. News flash: we don't need Iraqi oil, and even if we did we could get it just by lifting the sanctions Saddam earned by invading his weakest neighbor. It's a nonsensical accusation on its face. It's high time to drop it.
It sounds more as if Hakim is writing textbooks on the history of science, not science itself. That's nice and all, but that's not really what I expect a science class to teach. As a supplement to a science class it sounds very valuable, but I don't think I'd want this to be the only text a class was using. Jr. High School students are (or should be) advanced enough to begin to approach scientific topics systematically, and to apply some mathematics along the way. Factoids (or narratives) are (again, or should be) for younger students. If today's Jr. High students are still at that stage, then something is seriously wrong with American science education. But I think we've all guessed that by now. Hakim's historical approach doesn't sound as if it will address the basic problem.
Not far away at Lawrence and Central (also near the Sunnyvale Fry's) is HSC Electronic Supply. Some old stuff, some new stuff, and if it's electronic they probably have it. You can occasionally get a very, very good deal there, and the staff is extremely knowledgable. It's one of those places where it's very easy for me to lose track of the time.
There are a couple of other places in the area, but Weird Stuff and HSC are the best.
My alma mater called itself a College when I earned a Bachelor degree there, but it's since recast itself (aided by a number of sizable endowments and subsequent land purchases and building expansions) as a University, relabelling its three academic curricula as Schools. It's still essentially the same place, with the same academic programs and offering the same degrees, but with a different label. I'd call it more of a marketing ploy than anything else. Which is just as well; you do have to attract students somehow, and when you have a very strong academic program it helps to point that up.
A US resident attending a University or (academic) College will usually say he's "going to college" in exactly the same sense a Brit would say "going to Uni." It's nothing more than a regionalism.
No one understands how the hippocampus encodes information. So the team simply copied its behaviour. Slices of rat hippocampus were stimulated with electrical signals, millions of times over, until they could be sure which electrical input produces a corresponding output. Putting the information from various slices together gave the team a mathematical model of the entire hippocampus.
I suppose it's nice they were careful to avoid infringing on the brain's IP. (Or should that be The Brain's IP; I imagine he has a number of patents under his evil little belt.)
Nor do I disagree with you. But again, I was replying to what seemed to be the core objection in the original troll, which was more about being told what he could and could not do in his own "backyard" than about the wider effects of the regulation. I like to think that ultimately sense will prevail here. Model rocketry hobbyists don't, I imagine, constitute a very large lobby, but I wonder to what extent the new regs affect, say, black powder shooters. Will they be able to purchase black powder by mail, and it will it be allowed to be shipped to sporting goods stores in the quantities in which it's normally purchased? I imagine that if all the affected groups got together, they'd be able to have a beneficial effect.
Usually, yes. Before you have kids, anyway. Then you're too tired.
It does if that's where you're launching them from, as the original poster indicated he was. You need a certain amount of clear space to do this safely, and the amount of space you need increases with the potential altitude of the rocket. It would require a very large backyard indeed to safely launch a rocket powered by an H engine.
Frankly, I have little sympathy for the complaint here. When I got into model rocketry about 30 years ago as a kid growing up in New Jersey, you needed a state-issued permit to purchase even the smaller Estes engines. (And this permit could only be issued to an adult, so my dad had to apply for it and buy all my engines for me.) A background check is something almost anyone who gets a mission-critical tech job has to undergo these days, I don't see the prospect of fingerprinting deterring many people from getting drivers' licenses, and a $25 fee isn't very large considering the other expenses associated with a hobby like model rocketry. This is simply not a level of intrusiveness we find objectionable in many other contexts.
And if you think they don't tax sex already, you've obviously never applied for a marriage license...
I shouldn't feed the troll, but RTFA anyway. Unless your backyard is on the order of a square mile in size, the model rockets you're most probably launching from it aren't covered by the new regulations. Engine sizes A through D are well under the 62.5 gm limit. You need to be using size G engines before you run into a problem, but you need a considerably larger field than the average backyard to launch anything that would require them.
Well, what's that you just sat in?
No doubt there were a number of such books in the Royal Library besides the historical, scientific, mathematical, engineering, and philosophical works. However, a Christian willing to torch the entire collection for the sake of the small number of occult works in it would have had to have been more fanatical than, say, St. Basil the Great, or St. John Chrysostom, or any of the multitude of Church Fathers who valued learning highly and spoke of pre-Christian philosophers in cautiously positive terms. We call this "zeal not according to knowledge", referencing Romans 10:2.
I wasn't speaking of book-burning in general, of course. But I really don't think it's fair to judge societies of Antiquity, or even the Middle Ages, by modern standards. Even the Sibyl in the days of the Roman Republic burned her own books for no better reason than that she wasn't being paid for them. It hasn't always been an act of tyranny.
Religious ferver. It was burned to the ground by followers of Christ.
You can believe that if you like, but there's very scant evidence for it no matter what Gibbon might say. There was not, and has ever been, any religious reason for Christians to have burned the Library of Alexandria. If you know of one, please cite a contemporary source. Julius Caesar is just as likely a suspect, as some ancient sources claim he set fire to the part of the city the Library occupied. So is Caliph Omar -- if you think Christians are intolerant, we've got nothing on Islam. (We should know; we've been living with them in the Middle East for about 1200 years now.)
I say "just as likely" above, but that really should be "just as unlikely". All suspects in the burning have good alibis. Fact is, no one knows what happened to the Library. The best online summary I've found of the various legends concerning its fate is here.