In Mississippi where I live, private school teachers are not required to meet the same standards as public school teachers. Obviously, it's in the private schools' interest to hire the best quality teachers they can—but they're not required to, and in fact private schools in the state often pay their staff less than public. Not to mention that in the South, private schools have a lot of the time been historically a way to legally continue segregation.
In other words: ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances.
An ITIN, or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number, is a tax processing number only available for certain nonresident and resident aliens, their spouses, and dependents who cannot get a Social Security Number (SSN). It is a 9-digit number, beginning with the number "9", formatted like an SSN (NNN-NN-NNNN).
To obtain an ITIN, you must complete IRS Form W-7, IRS Application for Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (PDF) . The Form W-7 requires documentation substantiating foreign/alien status and true identity for each individual. You may either mail the documentation, along with the Form W-7, to the address shown in the Form W-7 Instructions, present it at IRS walk-in offices, or process your application through an Acceptance Agent authorized by the IRS. Form W-7(SP), Solicitud de Número de Identificación Personal del Contribuyente del Servicio de Impuestos Internos (PDF) is available for use by Spanish speakers.
Unless you see somewhere else, where citizens (who already have an SSN) can get another number solely for tax purposes?
Well, considering that probably the easiest way to transport an unconscious human is on their back—at least we'd get to stretch out our legs! (I'm only 5'8", and I find airplane coach seats cramped.)
To satisfy your curiousity: Orthodox bishops—since they're required to be monks[1]—generally wear (black) monastic cassocks, and oftentimes cylindrical hats. Here's a picture of His Beatitude Jonah, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, who is currently the primate of the Orthodox Church in America. His hat is white because he's a metropolitan; regular bishops' and archbishops' are black.
They have all kinds of stuff they wear liturgically in terms of vestments, but it's all basically variations on robes, as you might expect. During services, bishops wear a mitre which looks rather different from Western hats. (Priests can also be honored by being allowed to wear a mitre, but theirs doesn't have a cross.)
They don't have shepherds' crooks, and instead have crosiers in either shaped like a T or with just a little cross on top.
If you're really curious, there's a full rundown of the vestments, complete with technical terms here.
There are also a few "Western Rite" Orthodox parishes, primarily in the US and Australia; the clergy there look more or less like Roman Catholics or Episcopalians.
[1] The canons don't technically require them to be monks before they're raised to the episcopate. Theoretically, there could be a married man elected bishop; in that case, his wife would become a nun. I'm not sure if that's ever actually happened, though. [2] Except for the Archbishop of Cyprus, who in 478 was granted (amongst other things) the right to use a replica of the imperial scepter as his crosier. I've never been able to discover why.
While your point is well taken—and, for that matter, correct—a restaurant who kicks out an obnoxious customer would still allow them to take their food with them: i.e., to have what they paid for. An ISP is well within its right to cut off service at the end of whatever period x a customer has paid for; just not at x-1.
I've found that Martin reads much better with a beer or two in me. It's not that he's a bad writer—quite the opposite, actually—it's just that the alcohol helps to ward off the mind-numbing depression and cynicism that sinks in when nothing good ever happens to anybody ever.
More nitpickery: I have to disagree. It says that "copyright infringement" is not allowed. It then gives a flawed example of such infringement. But the example, being parenthetical, is not what it actually prohibited.
Children who learn to use the platform in use _today_ will have no useful skill with the platform in use in 10-15 years, whey they will have to obtain a job.
Children who learn about computing, on the other hand, will be able to adapt to the platforms in use in 10, 20, 40 years, as needed in the various jobs they'll have. This is something that is harder to teach, however, even if it can be done with any OS.
Where this argument falls apart is its assumption that operating system change isn't incremental. Yes, there's a difference between an Apple//c's OS (ProDOS, maybe? It's been too long) and OS X 10.6—a large difference, in fact. But that's not what we're talking about here: we're talking about the difference between Windows 98 and Windows 7—or at most, Windows 95 and Windows 7. Yes, some things are different—and some things are the same, such as, for example, the whole desktop paradigm.
But in my opinion, the question of whether the similarities outweigh the differences is mooted by the fact that I find it unlikely in this day and age that someone—at the least, someone in the industrialized world—would learn the use of an operating system proficiently and never, not once use anything else for 10–15 years, which is the only use case that makes sense for the "education poisoning" argument.
The Civil Rights Act requires the Mississippi Legislature (and others states', I think, but I live in Mississippi) to not just notify the federal government when it redraws voting districts but to actually have the feds sign off on it.
Just to clarify—I haven't read the law in question—you mean "That is just completely [morally] wrong" rather than that the statement you quoted was contrary to fact?
In which case the server supports recurring tasks—Evolution does not. Outlook, on the other hand, supports recurring tasks even if it's not even connected to the network.
And here's a use case: at my office (where WinXP and Office 2007 are mandated), in order to save a little money, our IT shop has gone with a plain-jane POP3 server for email, since most of my coworkers don't use Outlook's non-mail functionality anyway. Obviously, without the Exchange server, I can't (well, not very effectively, anyway) coordinate others' tasks and schedules with Outlook, but I manage to schedule my own working life quite nicely. Without recurring tasks, this is simply not possible for me with Evolution: I think a lot about tasks.
Y'know, it's weird: ten years or so ago, I went from Win98 to Linux, and I've never looked back (though these days I prefer OpenBSD); I never thought I'd be in the position of arguing for a Microsoft product.
I have to say I disagree. Evolution works great for mail, and if that's all you need, it's a fine solution. But Outlook is about more than mail; it's also about calendering and task management. Evolution stilldoesn't have support for recurring tasks, and that bug was first opened almost nine years ago.
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I think the OpenBSD regards "rarely" as too often. Hence the level of documentation.
According to the 60 Minutes piece last night, the $800k is before subsidies, which bring the price per unit down to around $400k-$500k.
In Mississippi where I live, private school teachers are not required to meet the same standards as public school teachers. Obviously, it's in the private schools' interest to hire the best quality teachers they can—but they're not required to, and in fact private schools in the state often pay their staff less than public. Not to mention that in the South, private schools have a lot of the time been historically a way to legally continue segregation.
In other words: ya pays yer money and ya takes yer chances.
Bah, I appear to have failed the Internet. Apologies.
(you can request a tax payer ID number from the IRS which looks exactly like a SSN)
This appears to not be true:
Unless you see somewhere else, where citizens (who already have an SSN) can get another number solely for tax purposes?
Sounds sorta like literate programming.
Well, considering that probably the easiest way to transport an unconscious human is on their back—at least we'd get to stretch out our legs! (I'm only 5'8", and I find airplane coach seats cramped.)
The best part of your post is that it's modded "Informative."
To satisfy your curiousity: Orthodox bishops—since they're required to be monks[1]—generally wear (black) monastic cassocks, and oftentimes cylindrical hats. Here's a picture of His Beatitude Jonah, Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada, who is currently the primate of the Orthodox Church in America. His hat is white because he's a metropolitan; regular bishops' and archbishops' are black.
They have all kinds of stuff they wear liturgically in terms of vestments, but it's all basically variations on robes, as you might expect. During services, bishops wear a mitre which looks rather different from Western hats. (Priests can also be honored by being allowed to wear a mitre, but theirs doesn't have a cross.)
They don't have shepherds' crooks, and instead have crosiers in either shaped like a T or with just a little cross on top.
If you're really curious, there's a full rundown of the vestments, complete with technical terms here.
There are also a few "Western Rite" Orthodox parishes, primarily in the US and Australia; the clergy there look more or less like Roman Catholics or Episcopalians.
[1] The canons don't technically require them to be monks before they're raised to the episcopate. Theoretically, there could be a married man elected bishop; in that case, his wife would become a nun. I'm not sure if that's ever actually happened, though.
[2] Except for the Archbishop of Cyprus, who in 478 was granted (amongst other things) the right to use a replica of the imperial scepter as his crosier. I've never been able to discover why.
I, for one, welcome our new correct-thinking overlords.
While your point is well taken—and, for that matter, correct—a restaurant who kicks out an obnoxious customer would still allow them to take their food with them: i.e., to have what they paid for. An ISP is well within its right to cut off service at the end of whatever period x a customer has paid for; just not at x-1.
Amen. *I* want 32" platinum wheels.
No, no. The Capitol is enclosed.
I've found that Martin reads much better with a beer or two in me. It's not that he's a bad writer—quite the opposite, actually—it's just that the alcohol helps to ward off the mind-numbing depression and cynicism that sinks in when nothing good ever happens to anybody ever.
Is this where the stem cells come in?
Sadly, carbon nanotubes cannot be made into flying unicorns.
Perhaps I'm in the minority, but I didn't buy a Dreamcast because I didn't want to play any of the games on it. Maybe that's why it failed?
More nitpickery: I have to disagree. It says that "copyright infringement" is not allowed. It then gives a flawed example of such infringement. But the example, being parenthetical, is not what it actually prohibited.
Children who learn to use the platform in use _today_ will have no useful skill with the platform in use in 10-15 years, whey they will have to obtain a job.
Children who learn about computing, on the other hand, will be able to adapt to the platforms in use in 10, 20, 40 years, as needed in the various jobs they'll have. This is something that is harder to teach, however, even if it can be done with any OS.
Where this argument falls apart is its assumption that operating system change isn't incremental. Yes, there's a difference between an Apple //c's OS (ProDOS, maybe? It's been too long) and OS X 10.6—a large difference, in fact. But that's not what we're talking about here: we're talking about the difference between Windows 98 and Windows 7—or at most, Windows 95 and Windows 7. Yes, some things are different—and some things are the same, such as, for example, the whole desktop paradigm.
But in my opinion, the question of whether the similarities outweigh the differences is mooted by the fact that I find it unlikely in this day and age that someone—at the least, someone in the industrialized world—would learn the use of an operating system proficiently and never, not once use anything else for 10–15 years, which is the only use case that makes sense for the "education poisoning" argument.
The Civil Rights Act requires the Mississippi Legislature (and others states', I think, but I live in Mississippi) to not just notify the federal government when it redraws voting districts but to actually have the feds sign off on it.
I'm not normally a spelling nazi, but it's "antichrist" (optionally capitalized). I'm fairly certain that the BSA isn't a prefiguring of the messiah.
Why "ironically"?
Just to clarify—I haven't read the law in question—you mean "That is just completely [morally] wrong" rather than that the statement you quoted was contrary to fact?
In which case the server supports recurring tasks—Evolution does not. Outlook, on the other hand, supports recurring tasks even if it's not even connected to the network.
And here's a use case: at my office (where WinXP and Office 2007 are mandated), in order to save a little money, our IT shop has gone with a plain-jane POP3 server for email, since most of my coworkers don't use Outlook's non-mail functionality anyway. Obviously, without the Exchange server, I can't (well, not very effectively, anyway) coordinate others' tasks and schedules with Outlook, but I manage to schedule my own working life quite nicely. Without recurring tasks, this is simply not possible for me with Evolution: I think a lot about tasks.
Y'know, it's weird: ten years or so ago, I went from Win98 to Linux, and I've never looked back (though these days I prefer OpenBSD); I never thought I'd be in the position of arguing for a Microsoft product.
I have to say I disagree. Evolution works great for mail, and if that's all you need, it's a fine solution. But Outlook is about more than mail; it's also about calendering and task management. Evolution still doesn't have support for recurring tasks, and that bug was first opened almost nine years ago.