Dunno what part of the midwest you're in, but Chicago and suburbs $700 will get you a crappy studio apartment.
Decent one bed apts are about $800-$1100. It sucks.
Even if they do that, people who really want to will go back to putting up BBS.
Then a group of BBS owners will band together to link their boards together.
Then someone will come along with a fairly cheap service to link them all together (read: internet as we now know it)
Then the government will step in, etc... you can see where this is going
John Taylor Gatto wrote an excellent essay on the topic, entitled "The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher" ( http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html )American schools no longer teach material. The actual content of the lesson means nothing, students (especially high school students) aren't given enough time to absorb what is actually being taught.
Then there is standardized testing. The problem with standardized testing is that the tests are written to the lowest skill level. In Illinois, in high school, there was nothing in English, Grammar, or Reading Comprehension that wasn't taught in grade school (and this was a sophomore level test). The maths are trivially easy for anyone in the advanced classes (AP or college-level).
The only thing that standardized tests reflect is the ability to take standardized tests.
The other great thing about used book stores, and especially local, non-chain, mom 'n pop book stores are that the people who run them generally love books (and read them often).
There is a local bookstore by my house, and when I am in a hurry for a book, or don't know what to get, I ask the owner there what she recommends. It works pretty well, and happens to be that she really likes sci-fi/fantasy.
Might be worth a shot.
Here's hoping the coming election brings SOME kind of change. I can only hope it is for the better.
"The difference between 'good' and 'better' is much less sharp than the difference between 'bad' and 'worse'"
But this is proof that the editorship of Wikipedia is solid and independent enough to correct problems in their data, even if put there by a high-profile person.
Well, of course Wikipedia has no ethical problems. Any ethical problems that have been reported are quickly fixed.
But perhaps you ask: what about the problems that just haven't been reported yet? Well, there aren't any, silly! I mean, of course there were problems in the past, but they've all been taken care of now. Everything is perfectly totally 100% okay. It will never be 100% okay, perfect, because it is a self-correcting system with a lot of morons. Something will always be wrong with it, but hopefully individual wrongs always get corrected (more just show up)
I am not familiar with Australian laws.. are investigators allowed to search any part of a drive searching for data that might be incriminating? And if they find unrelated illegal data, is it submittable in court, or possibly as a new case?
For example, John Smith has his computer seized for suspicion of fraud, and they find child porn on the computer. Can he be arrested/tried for possession/distribution of child porn?
And wouldn't this law allow investigators to search/seize anyone this guy has connected to in search of child porn? How big is the scope of this law?
what's to stop some nefarious employer requiring mandatory scans for every employee?
Legislation, I hope. Or common decency from our employers?
Oh, right, I forgot I live in the U.S...
Jimmy Wales is no different than anyone else who (un)knowingly puts up false information on Wikipedia.
But this is proof that the editorship of Wikipedia is solid and independent enough to correct problems in their data, even if put there by a high-profile person.
I see a time when Google and other free-mail providers limit new accounts to a few dozen outgoing messages a day, and raises the limit only when you've... 3) actually requested the limit be raised. Why would this be such a bad thing. Couldn't a system be implemented, something more robust than a CAPTCHA, that the user would have to go through after activating the account? It could be as easy as sending an email to a randomly generated email address given to you by the email provider (it could easily be picked up by their catchall account, with a rule set up after you created your account.)
Or something. Someone smarter than I could take a couple minutes, and I am sure they would have a solution.
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Dunno what part of the midwest you're in, but Chicago and suburbs $700 will get you a crappy studio apartment. Decent one bed apts are about $800-$1100. It sucks.
Even if they do that, people who really want to will go back to putting up BBS. Then a group of BBS owners will band together to link their boards together. Then someone will come along with a fairly cheap service to link them all together (read: internet as we now know it) Then the government will step in, etc... you can see where this is going
John Taylor Gatto wrote an excellent essay on the topic, entitled "The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher" ( http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html )American schools no longer teach material. The actual content of the lesson means nothing, students (especially high school students) aren't given enough time to absorb what is actually being taught. Then there is standardized testing. The problem with standardized testing is that the tests are written to the lowest skill level. In Illinois, in high school, there was nothing in English, Grammar, or Reading Comprehension that wasn't taught in grade school (and this was a sophomore level test). The maths are trivially easy for anyone in the advanced classes (AP or college-level). The only thing that standardized tests reflect is the ability to take standardized tests.
I am curious: does this block Blizzard's WoW patching utility? I know you could directly download them from 3rd party sites...
The other great thing about used book stores, and especially local, non-chain, mom 'n pop book stores are that the people who run them generally love books (and read them often). There is a local bookstore by my house, and when I am in a hurry for a book, or don't know what to get, I ask the owner there what she recommends. It works pretty well, and happens to be that she really likes sci-fi/fantasy. Might be worth a shot.
Not if that atom happened to be Jumbonium.
Just because your mom answers the phone before you do doesn't mean she is your secretary.
Well, of course Wikipedia has no ethical problems. Any ethical problems that have been reported are quickly fixed. But perhaps you ask: what about the problems that just haven't been reported yet? Well, there aren't any, silly! I mean, of course there were problems in the past, but they've all been taken care of now. Everything is perfectly totally 100% okay. It will never be 100% okay, perfect, because it is a self-correcting system with a lot of morons. Something will always be wrong with it, but hopefully individual wrongs always get corrected (more just show up)
I am not familiar with Australian laws.. are investigators allowed to search any part of a drive searching for data that might be incriminating? And if they find unrelated illegal data, is it submittable in court, or possibly as a new case? For example, John Smith has his computer seized for suspicion of fraud, and they find child porn on the computer. Can he be arrested/tried for possession/distribution of child porn? And wouldn't this law allow investigators to search/seize anyone this guy has connected to in search of child porn? How big is the scope of this law?
Legislation, I hope. Or common decency from our employers? Oh, right, I forgot I live in the U.S...
Why does every summary involving robots contain a line in the summary about possible spy usage?
It's like the editors are wearing my tinfoil hat for me...
Jimmy Wales is no different than anyone else who (un)knowingly puts up false information on Wikipedia. But this is proof that the editorship of Wikipedia is solid and independent enough to correct problems in their data, even if put there by a high-profile person.