I was home visiting my parents over the weekend. My mother is a high school teacher, and sat through Fox and Friends and an hour of "The Cost of Freedom" (the business 'news' block) because she heard a blurb they were going to be talking about 4-day school weeks. They sat and watched, getting rilled up about "obama-care" that entire time (while being pissed off that they get charged $500 a month for insurance for the two of them through my mother's plan. my dad is retired from being an airline captain and now substitute teaches).
I spent the entire time trying to point out that absolutely no information had been imparted, just some stereotypically attractive people talking about bullshit during f&f, and then a bunch of old, rich jews talking about how they'd be even richer if it weren't for obama. When they finally got to the topic she was waiting for, it was 3 minutes of yelling between a Lisa Loeb-wanna-be and some crotchety old bitch, then they moved on to the next thing. My mother felt ripped off, but did she go find actual information? No. Did she do any research as to how this might affect her professionally? No.
I also found my dad's Tea Party t-shirt... I'm not sure I want to go home anymore. And this is coming from a former Ron Paul supporter (I joined the Dems after I fled DC in 2007 and voted for Obama). But I'll be 26 in June and its about time I just grow up and get on with it. My parents used to think I was a crazy right-winger... then Obama comes along and suddenly everything is fucking commie plot and the John Birch Society is defending our freedom... god bless Sarah Palin. Screw that shit.
The sad thing is, a naturalized citizen probably has a higher likelihood of actually knowing this than most natural-born citizens under a certain age. For what it's worth, I got the highest score in my school on the US History state assessment, which I finished in about 45 minutes and still found to be harder than the AP exam, and I am a natural-born citizen... I just didn't sleep through civics class. however, I suspect the GP to be a foreigner not being sent through the ringer of the naturalization process, which is pretty rigorous. Many of the people I've met who knew history and civics the best were naturalized citizens, but the carrot is there for them to bother to learn it.
First off, why would people be critical of eliminating float?! This is the worst part of using cheques -- sort of like making a "credit" purchase on a debit card. If I'm paying someone, I want them to take the money out of my account NOW so that my balance updates immediately. Of course, no one really takes cheques anyway except for leasing offices and the like -- people who know where you live without a shadow of a doubt. I only ever write cheques for my leasing office, which is why I'm still on the same box I've had since I was 18... which reminds me, I sort of need to get some more.
If there is one thing that the internet helps, its ensuring that no one ever has to find this out if they don't want to. If someone only watches Fox News, listens to talk radio and reads the WSJ in print, all they're likely to do is add foxnews.com, redstate.com and/or stormfront.org ("white nationalist" forum) to their reading list, group up with more and more people who agree with them, then eventually find Alex Jones and then its over. The same thing can be said of the person who doesn't watch anything but PBS news, listens to NPR and reads nothing but the New York Times... or the people reading Daily Worker or whatever.
The internet, for most people, really just helps to ensure that they never have to step outside of their comfort zone insofar as information is concerned. Once they've "discovered" so many comforting sources, then it'll just legitimize their entire world view, solidify everything in their mind, give them comfort in the virtual crowd and make them even more dangerous. I have first hand experience with this myself, and I had to drop off for a while and go read real books, multiple media sources, etc, to ensure that I gave myself a well-rounded view of things again and got back towards normal.
Don't get me wrong, I love the internet -- it makes my life a lot easier, provides the infrastructure within which I make my living, allows me to keep up with friends from high school and college, and get information from all over the world whenever I want it. But for a very large subset of the population on either side of an issue, all its going to do is help entrench their views and help them think "look at all these people who are saying what i've been saying for years! what's wrong with people who can't see what I see?! It's all right there, on the internet!" But, as a poster said above, Democracy has drawbacks. This is one of them.
i heard gas is like $0.12 a gallon and that the government subsidizes almost everything. Jobs teaching english in the SA seem to average around $35,000 a year, unlike those in Europe or Asia, which are generally less. Plus, friggin' falafel. Actually, now that I think of it, that actually sounds like a much better deal than I get here in the US... maybe its time to become a traveling english teacher.
Humans may be the weak link in information security, but the information is only useful to humans so its not as if we can remove ourselves from the system. Well, we could, and then go back to invisible inks, hand ciphers and cars that actually stop, but these days people probably wouldn't want to do that.
I'm not saying OpenBSD is "the most important" f/oss project, I'm just saying that OpenBSD in terms of the OpenBSD Foundation and all the projects it oversees really deserves a lot more credit than people usually give it. I don't use OpenBSD itself, but I make my living via FreeBSD as I have via Linux in the past. I still value OpenSSH more than pretty much any other free software project besides maybe gcc, and then there are other compilers like clang and pcc that i'm more intrigued by.
TCP/IP, as implemented, is brought to you by BSD. Same with Vi and very many other things. The TCP/IP implementation which won the final DARPA approval was implemented by Bill Joy, mostly by himself (same with the original vi). However, I do agree with you that open standards and specifications are the key.
well, they're probably not set to view the stalls in particular, and the school likely thought they'd catch kids smoking or whatever in the "common" part of the bathroom. not that its an excuse.
He uses uganda for the same resason del.icio uses.us (to spell delicious) -- so that the url spells "drug" when you take the tld separator out. The.vu doesn't mean anything in this context (at least, i don't see it right away). Its not a swipe at Uganda, its just utilitarian.
OpenBSD is also responsible for, among other things, OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, and OpenNTPD -- all three of which are widely adopted and used far, far beyond the sphere of influence of even OpenBSD itself. OpenSSH accounts for some 90% of all SSH deployments world-wide. Whether you know it or not, OpenBSD-related software enables quit a bit of the internet infrastructure.
Much can be done in the name of the crown which couldn't/wouldn't be done in a Republic. Despite the fact I think Cromwell was pretty much worse than Hitler, the Commonwealth would have given Manip the things he said he wants.
well, step one is abolish the crown. Step two is abolish everything done in the name of "her royal highness," "her majesty," or "the crown." I'd say step 3 would be to auction off the crown jewels to pay off the national debt, but aren't they actually made of aluminum or something? That's not as precious a metal as it used to be...
S&W pistols are all double-action-only these days, at least the non-good ones (my 1911 is single-action only). Double-action-only means that
A) There is no hammer -- it has a flush pin
B) There is no safety, usually, because:
C) Each pull of the trigger requires a FULL pull, as opposed to a single or double/single pistol, which may require either the gun to be cocked first (like the 1911), or one long pull (to cock and fire), then short pulls thereafter (the gun auto-cocks each new round based on the automatic mechanism). A gun like this, despite not having a safety, really can't be easily shot by a 3-year-old, and is kind of obnoxious even if you're a 6'4" guy with a background in rugby playing like myself.
it was a.380 automatic handgun, not a shotgun. Stupid plastic guns these days do look toy-ish, so its not entirely unreasonable (mine are all wood/steel -- no one is confusing a 1911.45ACP for a "toy" any time soon, for instance). Not that the media isn't going to get all hysterical over this, but on the other hand, its not that the parents weren't being completely irresponsible with regards to: A) leaving a loaded gun around, and B) letting the kid play so many video games.
However, I do believe the model in question is double-action only, which means requiring a very long trigger pull that ought to be beyond the finger strength limits of a 3-year-old girl, so who knows just how "accidental" this really is.
I'm not sure why operating system adoption needs to be a battle to win. The venture almost certainly made multi-millionheirs out of its founders like Bill Joy and Scot McNealy, and just because over time it crumpled under new competition doesn't mean that they didn't have a good run of it. Hell, who wouldn't want to be in their shoes, even today?
The key is public company, meaning that his responsibilities are to the shareholders, as represented by the board of directors, at whose pleasure he serves. The board is usually themselves major stockholders and very, very rich people with their own networks of external influence. Sometimes people are on the boards of more than one company -- like Jobs with Apple, Disney and Pixar (hey, I wonder why Disney and Pixar team up so often?). So no, as others have said, just because compared to us he's untouchable doesn't mean he really is. And in jobs like that, what everyone else thinks doesn't just matter -- its the ONLY thing that matters.
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no, ringer... 'cause like, they draw circles around them in crowd shots so they know who to profile for terrorism later...
I was home visiting my parents over the weekend. My mother is a high school teacher, and sat through Fox and Friends and an hour of "The Cost of Freedom" (the business 'news' block) because she heard a blurb they were going to be talking about 4-day school weeks. They sat and watched, getting rilled up about "obama-care" that entire time (while being pissed off that they get charged $500 a month for insurance for the two of them through my mother's plan. my dad is retired from being an airline captain and now substitute teaches).
I spent the entire time trying to point out that absolutely no information had been imparted, just some stereotypically attractive people talking about bullshit during f&f, and then a bunch of old, rich jews talking about how they'd be even richer if it weren't for obama. When they finally got to the topic she was waiting for, it was 3 minutes of yelling between a Lisa Loeb-wanna-be and some crotchety old bitch, then they moved on to the next thing. My mother felt ripped off, but did she go find actual information? No. Did she do any research as to how this might affect her professionally? No.
I also found my dad's Tea Party t-shirt... I'm not sure I want to go home anymore. And this is coming from a former Ron Paul supporter (I joined the Dems after I fled DC in 2007 and voted for Obama). But I'll be 26 in June and its about time I just grow up and get on with it. My parents used to think I was a crazy right-winger... then Obama comes along and suddenly everything is fucking commie plot and the John Birch Society is defending our freedom... god bless Sarah Palin. Screw that shit.
The sad thing is, a naturalized citizen probably has a higher likelihood of actually knowing this than most natural-born citizens under a certain age. For what it's worth, I got the highest score in my school on the US History state assessment, which I finished in about 45 minutes and still found to be harder than the AP exam, and I am a natural-born citizen... I just didn't sleep through civics class. however, I suspect the GP to be a foreigner not being sent through the ringer of the naturalization process, which is pretty rigorous. Many of the people I've met who knew history and civics the best were naturalized citizens, but the carrot is there for them to bother to learn it.
why can't we just have a better form of authenticating purchases and skip the whole waiting period?
First off, why would people be critical of eliminating float?! This is the worst part of using cheques -- sort of like making a "credit" purchase on a debit card. If I'm paying someone, I want them to take the money out of my account NOW so that my balance updates immediately. Of course, no one really takes cheques anyway except for leasing offices and the like -- people who know where you live without a shadow of a doubt. I only ever write cheques for my leasing office, which is why I'm still on the same box I've had since I was 18... which reminds me, I sort of need to get some more.
If there is one thing that the internet helps, its ensuring that no one ever has to find this out if they don't want to. If someone only watches Fox News, listens to talk radio and reads the WSJ in print, all they're likely to do is add foxnews.com, redstate.com and/or stormfront.org ("white nationalist" forum) to their reading list, group up with more and more people who agree with them, then eventually find Alex Jones and then its over. The same thing can be said of the person who doesn't watch anything but PBS news, listens to NPR and reads nothing but the New York Times... or the people reading Daily Worker or whatever.
The internet, for most people, really just helps to ensure that they never have to step outside of their comfort zone insofar as information is concerned. Once they've "discovered" so many comforting sources, then it'll just legitimize their entire world view, solidify everything in their mind, give them comfort in the virtual crowd and make them even more dangerous. I have first hand experience with this myself, and I had to drop off for a while and go read real books, multiple media sources, etc, to ensure that I gave myself a well-rounded view of things again and got back towards normal.
Don't get me wrong, I love the internet -- it makes my life a lot easier, provides the infrastructure within which I make my living, allows me to keep up with friends from high school and college, and get information from all over the world whenever I want it. But for a very large subset of the population on either side of an issue, all its going to do is help entrench their views and help them think "look at all these people who are saying what i've been saying for years! what's wrong with people who can't see what I see?! It's all right there, on the internet!" But, as a poster said above, Democracy has drawbacks. This is one of them.
i heard gas is like $0.12 a gallon and that the government subsidizes almost everything. Jobs teaching english in the SA seem to average around $35,000 a year, unlike those in Europe or Asia, which are generally less. Plus, friggin' falafel. Actually, now that I think of it, that actually sounds like a much better deal than I get here in the US... maybe its time to become a traveling english teacher.
given the number of topless asian chicks in the photos on the wiki page, I'd say the danger is off-set by enough awesome to let them slide... for now.
Humans may be the weak link in information security, but the information is only useful to humans so its not as if we can remove ourselves from the system. Well, we could, and then go back to invisible inks, hand ciphers and cars that actually stop, but these days people probably wouldn't want to do that.
I'm not saying OpenBSD is "the most important" f/oss project, I'm just saying that OpenBSD in terms of the OpenBSD Foundation and all the projects it oversees really deserves a lot more credit than people usually give it. I don't use OpenBSD itself, but I make my living via FreeBSD as I have via Linux in the past. I still value OpenSSH more than pretty much any other free software project besides maybe gcc, and then there are other compilers like clang and pcc that i'm more intrigued by.
TCP/IP, as implemented, is brought to you by BSD. Same with Vi and very many other things. The TCP/IP implementation which won the final DARPA approval was implemented by Bill Joy, mostly by himself (same with the original vi). However, I do agree with you that open standards and specifications are the key.
well, they're probably not set to view the stalls in particular, and the school likely thought they'd catch kids smoking or whatever in the "common" part of the bathroom. not that its an excuse.
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He uses uganda for the same resason del.icio uses .us (to spell delicious) -- so that the url spells "drug" when you take the tld separator out. The .vu doesn't mean anything in this context (at least, i don't see it right away). Its not a swipe at Uganda, its just utilitarian.
OpenBSD is also responsible for, among other things, OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, and OpenNTPD -- all three of which are widely adopted and used far, far beyond the sphere of influence of even OpenBSD itself. OpenSSH accounts for some 90% of all SSH deployments world-wide. Whether you know it or not, OpenBSD-related software enables quit a bit of the internet infrastructure.
Abolishing the Lords would have been around step 4 or 5, I think.
Animals used to be bigger, thus bigger farts. duh!
Much can be done in the name of the crown which couldn't/wouldn't be done in a Republic. Despite the fact I think Cromwell was pretty much worse than Hitler, the Commonwealth would have given Manip the things he said he wants.
well, step one is abolish the crown. Step two is abolish everything done in the name of "her royal highness," "her majesty," or "the crown." I'd say step 3 would be to auction off the crown jewels to pay off the national debt, but aren't they actually made of aluminum or something? That's not as precious a metal as it used to be...
S&W pistols are all double-action-only these days, at least the non-good ones (my 1911 is single-action only). Double-action-only means that
A) There is no hammer -- it has a flush pin
B) There is no safety, usually, because:
C) Each pull of the trigger requires a FULL pull, as opposed to a single or double/single pistol, which may require either the gun to be cocked first (like the 1911), or one long pull (to cock and fire), then short pulls thereafter (the gun auto-cocks each new round based on the automatic mechanism). A gun like this, despite not having a safety, really can't be easily shot by a 3-year-old, and is kind of obnoxious even if you're a 6'4" guy with a background in rugby playing like myself.
it was a .380 automatic handgun, not a shotgun. Stupid plastic guns these days do look toy-ish, so its not entirely unreasonable (mine are all wood/steel -- no one is confusing a 1911 .45ACP for a "toy" any time soon, for instance). Not that the media isn't going to get all hysterical over this, but on the other hand, its not that the parents weren't being completely irresponsible with regards to: A) leaving a loaded gun around, and B) letting the kid play so many video games.
However, I do believe the model in question is double-action only, which means requiring a very long trigger pull that ought to be beyond the finger strength limits of a 3-year-old girl, so who knows just how "accidental" this really is.
Who? Gates or Helu?
Yes, you're right... 8:34 AM is not the time to be speaking latin apparently.
I'm not sure why operating system adoption needs to be a battle to win. The venture almost certainly made multi-millionheirs out of its founders like Bill Joy and Scot McNealy, and just because over time it crumpled under new competition doesn't mean that they didn't have a good run of it. Hell, who wouldn't want to be in their shoes, even today?
The key is public company, meaning that his responsibilities are to the shareholders, as represented by the board of directors, at whose pleasure he serves. The board is usually themselves major stockholders and very, very rich people with their own networks of external influence. Sometimes people are on the boards of more than one company -- like Jobs with Apple, Disney and Pixar (hey, I wonder why Disney and Pixar team up so often?). So no, as others have said, just because compared to us he's untouchable doesn't mean he really is. And in jobs like that, what everyone else thinks doesn't just matter -- its the ONLY thing that matters.