Traditionally, we have always documented technical procedures by telling stories around a campfire late at night. Some younger IT people have suggested putting up Wiki pages in a well-known location that all employees are urged to keep current, but I for one just can't get used to these new-fangled ideas. (Printed documentation is invariably obsolete. Wiki pages should be updated whenever procedures are changed, as soon as procedures are changed.)
People, its time to pull our heads out of our asses. Absolutely! 'Cause you know, when you spank your kid, and they've got their head up their ass, it tends to give them a concussion!
You do realize that they had the cop come in and arrest her as part of an effort to build a case for expelling her, don't you? They are now publicly defaming the student, and now internet records of her bad behavior will exist for the rest of the student's life. Yes, I think simply telling her, "We don't want you in our school and we don't have to publicly justify our decision" would have less of a negative effect on the student's life.
I have a very close friend who only received the equivalent of a 5th grade education because she grew up in a country with no public school system, and was expelled from the boarding school she was sent to. She made $47,000 last year as a pharmacy technician (which requires constant testing, certification, and continuing education.) Trust me, a public school education is overrated. Your ambition to succeed and the people you know are much more important factors in determining success than anything they taught you in school.
By the age of 8, with both my parents working long hours and sometimes weekends, I was capable of walking myself to school, cooking for myself, cleaning house by myself, building forts outside by myself, and playing by myself all day without supervision. Sure, I occasionally made mistakes and broke things, but I did that when my parents were in the house too. I don't think daycare is really necessary for most kids above the age of 7 or 8. And today my 8-year old daughter called me up at worked to ask me how many seconds a quesadilla should go in the microwave for (apparently the 2 adults that are supposed to be home supervising her cannot be bothered to cook for her.)
students are not legally required to attend. I disagree. Every school district I know of employs truant officers, and my daughters school calls home if she is even an hour late. Oregon make it very easy to homeschool your kids, but you are required by law to provide your child with the equivalent of a public school education -- complete with immunizations, NCLB mandated annual testing, tracking time "in class", and PE classes.
Google driver did enter a private road by mistake. There is now available a very sophisticated bit of technology that is guaranteed to ensure that this never happens again. I believe the scientific name for the device is a "gate".
The problem is what do you do when the student says "No"? If a student refuses to leave the room, then you calmly explain to them that they can either report to the principal's office, or clean our their locker and go home -- permanently. A student that blatantly refuses to follow school staff's direction poses a threat to the safety of the teacher and the other students, and so should be removed from the classroom. (There is of course an exception to this -- students do have the right to refuse a command (e.g. "go jump off the roof") when they reasonably believe that complying with it would be harmful to them. Usually, we trust school staff to NOT issue directions like this, but I've seen some teachers that I don't trust that far.)
Don't need to point the can, just the plastic tube attached to the can that acts as a nozzle. They already have the mechanical apparatus to unfold the solar panel and extend it into place; it can't be that much harder to move the panel around in front of a fixed nozzle. I am underestimating, there is also a valve and control circuit involved. But hopefully they know enough now to include a simple dust off device in the next planetary probe with solar panels. They should also include an IR camera to catch the little martian critter that has been sneaking up in the middle of the night and cleaning the panels... bastard probably expects a tip!
What ever happened to detention?
Remember The Breakfast Club? It convinced students that detention was a valuable part of the whole school experience and could actually be fun. Now kids go out of their way to get sent to detention, hoping they'll get a chance to hook up with Molly Ringwald.
While in many ways school children have no rights, in one way they have far too much right -- it is almost impossible to expel a child from school. Kids that don't want to learn and are disruptive should be removed from the classroom so that the teacher can do their job and teach the kids that are there to learn. As school districts pack more and more kids into each classroom, less and less learning gets done because teachers spend more and more time dealing with disruptions. What is needed is a quick, effective way to remove disruptive students from the classroom so that other kids can learn. (And yes, sending a student to the principal's office would be a lot less disruptive to other student's learning than calling in law enforcement to physically remove a student from the classroom. Imagine trying to get students to focus on math after observing this incident!)
Gee... perhaps if they didn't force kids under penalty of law to attend schools they clearly don't want to be in, then they wouldn't have these kind of problems? The main purpose of schools is not to educate or to make people productive members of society, but rather to train them to function in an institutionalized setting. Public schools like more like jails every day -- soon we won't be able to tell the two apart.
I mean, is sneezing to loud now disorderly? Or running to the bathroom when you really have to go? Yes. My daughter got a disciplinary notice written up on her for "disobeying" and "avoiding work" because on her way back from going to the nurse's office to use her asthma inhaler, she had an attack of diarrhea and so stopped into the bathroom to use the toilet rather than walking to the other end of the school, asking the teacher first, then walking back. She's 8, but apparently yes, she requires the teacher's permission to have a bowel movement. Yes, I have complained about this, and yes, the school district has insisted the teacher did nothing wrong.
Yes, we know this is going to seriously impede the expansion of your collection of up-skirt pics, but it is all in the name of progress, ok? This is but a single step in the long development of a true "Do-what-I-want-not-what-I-say" user interface. Perhaps you can re-program it to switch to camera mode when the camera lens is pointing straight up...
I am sure I won't look like an idiot Hey, you already look like a schizophrenic when you walk down the street talking loudly into the bluetooth headset that nobody can see... how can you possibly look any worse twisting your phone around when you want to take a picture? Perhaps the cell phone manufacturers are just trying to avoid being mandated to produce a loud "shutter" noise every time you snap a digital pic -- a feature I'm sure people that take snaps of animals will absolutely love.
You're fucking boring.
True.
You're a PHP developer
False. I don't even know how to spell PHP. I have worked with Java, Python, and Ruby.
whose favorite browser is Firefox
True.
you're an armchair scientist
False, but like many nerds I have opinions on current science news
you read Facebook regularly
False, I don't even have a Facebook or MySpace account
you live in Oregon
True (if you call that living...)
where're you're embroiled in some legal trouble after you called you're kid's teacher a racist
True, her lawyer sent me a cease and desist letter. My kid has been moved to a different classroom.
you're into P2P filesharing
I support the right to P2P, I don't actively engage in it myself
you're a fan of open source
I have a slashdot account... 'nuff said.
and you laugh at WoW fanboys
I have tried WoW, and although the 3D graphics are quite impressive, I have decided I do not have the time and money to participate. I simply pointed out that while WoW players think they are doing something, in reality the are accomplishing nothing.
while not realizing that you yourself spend more time watching porn and anime in a day than the average WoW player spends grinding.False, Since I live with three adult women and an 8-year old daughter, I really can't spend much time watching porn. I'm not really into Anime, the copy of Akira I have on DVD is the only Anime I've actually watched (I was not impressed).
Did I miss any of those? That was from a 30 second google search and a glance at your Slashdot profile. You're not a whole lot different than anyone else on this site: individually, boring, but with data mining quite interesting. I wonder what percentage of PHP developers use Firefox to browse porn?
Although I'm impressed by your actually taking the time to do this, apparently data mining is not a very accurate method of assessing someone's personality. Oh, and I have been stalked in the past, from which I've learned 2 things: 1) Never date anybody less sane than you are, and 2) Never get into a pissing contest with somebody on the internet, especially when they can get your home address and phone number from your resume posted online.
No, I haven't received any requests at all! But then, I don't have any friends that need to know my whereabouts, and nobody is currently stalking me. If my family needs to know where I am, they simply call me on my cell and ask. (Although I do frequently tell my wife when she asks that "I'm at the strip club" in the hope that someday when she calls me and I actually AM at the strip club, she won't believe and will respond with "Come On! Where are you, really?") If you are getting these requests, then perhaps you shouldn't have pointed out to your girlfriend(s) that they could be monitoring your whereabouts 24/7.
And of course the following joke is now obsolete: A doctor, a lawyer, and a mathematician are all hanging out at the bar. They all went got their undergraduate degrees from the same institution, so they have been good friends for quite while, but their interests were a bit divergent. Somehow or another, they get to talking about relationships. The lawyer proclaims that, while he is not married, he has a beautiful mistress.
"It is far better to have a mistress than a wife," he says. "A mistress is never going to divorce you and take your money, and if you get tired of her, you can dump her and find someone younger and more attractive. I don't understand why anyone would ever want to get married!"
The doctor responds, "I must say that I disagree. I have been happily married for 15 years, and I just can't see any other way to live. I have my wife's nearly unconditional love, and she is there for me whether I am healthy or not. She takes care of me, and I take care of her, and there is no chance that she is just going to leave me one day. I would much rather have the steady, warm relationship of a wife than the flash-in-the-pan mistress."
The mathematician comments, "You are both wrong. It is best to have both a wife and a mistress. Then you can tell your wife that you are with your mistress, tell your mistress that you are with your wife, and you can go into the office and get some work done."
Perhaps I am overestimating the rationality of the ancient Egyptians. After all, I have often wondered, "What the hell was the Easter Islander that cut down that last tree thinking?!?"
"Have You Ever Tried Simply Turning off the TV, Sitting down with Your Children, and Hitting Them?"
Me thinks we will either have either a surge in domestic violence rates or a surge in birth rates as a result of this switchover. When you think about, TV is probably the most effective birth control device known to man... all the countries with high per-capita television ownership also have low birth rates.
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Terry Childs, is that you?
Traditionally, we have always documented technical procedures by telling stories around a campfire late at night. Some younger IT people have suggested putting up Wiki pages in a well-known location that all employees are urged to keep current, but I for one just can't get used to these new-fangled ideas. (Printed documentation is invariably obsolete. Wiki pages should be updated whenever procedures are changed, as soon as procedures are changed.)
People, its time to pull our heads out of our asses. Absolutely! 'Cause you know, when you spank your kid, and they've got their head up their ass, it tends to give them a concussion!
That it explains it -- this girl obviously had one of these phones!
I have a very close friend who only received the equivalent of a 5th grade education because she grew up in a country with no public school system, and was expelled from the boarding school she was sent to. She made $47,000 last year as a pharmacy technician (which requires constant testing, certification, and continuing education.) Trust me, a public school education is overrated. Your ambition to succeed and the people you know are much more important factors in determining success than anything they taught you in school.
By the age of 8, with both my parents working long hours and sometimes weekends, I was capable of walking myself to school, cooking for myself, cleaning house by myself, building forts outside by myself, and playing by myself all day without supervision. Sure, I occasionally made mistakes and broke things, but I did that when my parents were in the house too. I don't think daycare is really necessary for most kids above the age of 7 or 8. And today my 8-year old daughter called me up at worked to ask me how many seconds a quesadilla should go in the microwave for (apparently the 2 adults that are supposed to be home supervising her cannot be bothered to cook for her.)
students are not legally required to attend. I disagree. Every school district I know of employs truant officers, and my daughters school calls home if she is even an hour late. Oregon make it very easy to homeschool your kids, but you are required by law to provide your child with the equivalent of a public school education -- complete with immunizations, NCLB mandated annual testing, tracking time "in class", and PE classes.
Google driver did enter a private road by mistake. There is now available a very sophisticated bit of technology that is guaranteed to ensure that this never happens again. I believe the scientific name for the device is a "gate".
The problem is what do you do when the student says "No"? If a student refuses to leave the room, then you calmly explain to them that they can either report to the principal's office, or clean our their locker and go home -- permanently. A student that blatantly refuses to follow school staff's direction poses a threat to the safety of the teacher and the other students, and so should be removed from the classroom. (There is of course an exception to this -- students do have the right to refuse a command (e.g. "go jump off the roof") when they reasonably believe that complying with it would be harmful to them. Usually, we trust school staff to NOT issue directions like this, but I've seen some teachers that I don't trust that far.)
Don't need to point the can, just the plastic tube attached to the can that acts as a nozzle. They already have the mechanical apparatus to unfold the solar panel and extend it into place; it can't be that much harder to move the panel around in front of a fixed nozzle. I am underestimating, there is also a valve and control circuit involved. But hopefully they know enough now to include a simple dust off device in the next planetary probe with solar panels. They should also include an IR camera to catch the little martian critter that has been sneaking up in the middle of the night and cleaning the panels... bastard probably expects a tip!
What ever happened to detention?
Remember The Breakfast Club? It convinced students that detention was a valuable part of the whole school experience and could actually be fun. Now kids go out of their way to get sent to detention, hoping they'll get a chance to hook up with Molly Ringwald.
While in many ways school children have no rights, in one way they have far too much right -- it is almost impossible to expel a child from school. Kids that don't want to learn and are disruptive should be removed from the classroom so that the teacher can do their job and teach the kids that are there to learn. As school districts pack more and more kids into each classroom, less and less learning gets done because teachers spend more and more time dealing with disruptions. What is needed is a quick, effective way to remove disruptive students from the classroom so that other kids can learn. (And yes, sending a student to the principal's office would be a lot less disruptive to other student's learning than calling in law enforcement to physically remove a student from the classroom. Imagine trying to get students to focus on math after observing this incident!)
Gee... perhaps if they didn't force kids under penalty of law to attend schools they clearly don't want to be in, then they wouldn't have these kind of problems? The main purpose of schools is not to educate or to make people productive members of society, but rather to train them to function in an institutionalized setting. Public schools like more like jails every day -- soon we won't be able to tell the two apart.
I mean, is sneezing to loud now disorderly? Or running to the bathroom when you really have to go? Yes. My daughter got a disciplinary notice written up on her for "disobeying" and "avoiding work" because on her way back from going to the nurse's office to use her asthma inhaler, she had an attack of diarrhea and so stopped into the bathroom to use the toilet rather than walking to the other end of the school, asking the teacher first, then walking back. She's 8, but apparently yes, she requires the teacher's permission to have a bowel movement. Yes, I have complained about this, and yes, the school district has insisted the teacher did nothing wrong.
Well, it certainly wasn't a cost consideration -- we now know that a $3 can of "canned air" would have worked just fine.
Yes, we know this is going to seriously impede the expansion of your collection of up-skirt pics, but it is all in the name of progress, ok? This is but a single step in the long development of a true "Do-what-I-want-not-what-I-say" user interface. Perhaps you can re-program it to switch to camera mode when the camera lens is pointing straight up...
I am sure I won't look like an idiot Hey, you already look like a schizophrenic when you walk down the street talking loudly into the bluetooth headset that nobody can see... how can you possibly look any worse twisting your phone around when you want to take a picture? Perhaps the cell phone manufacturers are just trying to avoid being mandated to produce a loud "shutter" noise every time you snap a digital pic -- a feature I'm sure people that take snaps of animals will absolutely love.
In what position do I need to hold it in order for it to know that I want it to vibrate instead of making noise when somebody calls?
Brownie points to you for recognizing the sig is a quote from Kamakiriad -- which is decent background music to work by.
You're fucking boring. True. You're a PHP developer False. I don't even know how to spell PHP. I have worked with Java, Python, and Ruby. whose favorite browser is Firefox True. you're an armchair scientist False, but like many nerds I have opinions on current science news you read Facebook regularly False, I don't even have a Facebook or MySpace account you live in Oregon True (if you call that living...) where're you're embroiled in some legal trouble after you called you're kid's teacher a racist True, her lawyer sent me a cease and desist letter. My kid has been moved to a different classroom. you're into P2P filesharing I support the right to P2P, I don't actively engage in it myself you're a fan of open source I have a slashdot account... 'nuff said. and you laugh at WoW fanboys I have tried WoW, and although the 3D graphics are quite impressive, I have decided I do not have the time and money to participate. I simply pointed out that while WoW players think they are doing something, in reality the are accomplishing nothing. while not realizing that you yourself spend more time watching porn and anime in a day than the average WoW player spends grinding.False, Since I live with three adult women and an 8-year old daughter, I really can't spend much time watching porn. I'm not really into Anime, the copy of Akira I have on DVD is the only Anime I've actually watched (I was not impressed). Did I miss any of those? That was from a 30 second google search and a glance at your Slashdot profile. You're not a whole lot different than anyone else on this site: individually, boring, but with data mining quite interesting. I wonder what percentage of PHP developers use Firefox to browse porn? Although I'm impressed by your actually taking the time to do this, apparently data mining is not a very accurate method of assessing someone's personality. Oh, and I have been stalked in the past, from which I've learned 2 things: 1) Never date anybody less sane than you are, and 2) Never get into a pissing contest with somebody on the internet, especially when they can get your home address and phone number from your resume posted online.
And of course the following joke is now obsolete: A doctor, a lawyer, and a mathematician are all hanging out at the bar. They all went got their undergraduate degrees from the same institution, so they have been good friends for quite while, but their interests were a bit divergent. Somehow or another, they get to talking about relationships. The lawyer proclaims that, while he is not married, he has a beautiful mistress.
"It is far better to have a mistress than a wife," he says. "A mistress is never going to divorce you and take your money, and if you get tired of her, you can dump her and find someone younger and more attractive. I don't understand why anyone would ever want to get married!"
The doctor responds, "I must say that I disagree. I have been happily married for 15 years, and I just can't see any other way to live. I have my wife's nearly unconditional love, and she is there for me whether I am healthy or not. She takes care of me, and I take care of her, and there is no chance that she is just going to leave me one day. I would much rather have the steady, warm relationship of a wife than the flash-in-the-pan mistress."
The mathematician comments, "You are both wrong. It is best to have both a wife and a mistress. Then you can tell your wife that you are with your mistress, tell your mistress that you are with your wife, and you can go into the office and get some work done."
Perhaps I am overestimating the rationality of the ancient Egyptians. After all, I have often wondered, "What the hell was the Easter Islander that cut down that last tree thinking?!?"
Me thinks we will either have either a surge in domestic violence rates or a surge in birth rates as a result of this switchover. When you think about, TV is probably the most effective birth control device known to man... all the countries with high per-capita television ownership also have low birth rates.
Brought to you by: The Energizer Bunny! He keeps going, and going, and going... all the way to the unemployment line!
What else is out there that might be an impact hazard?
Russian satellites? Asteroids? Anything out there other than a comet that has mass?