If Americans are sheepish enough to standby and allow Bush or any politician to appoint himself dictator-for-life, destroy the fundamental principles on which this nation was founded, and eradicate democracy, then maybe freedom is too much for them to comprehend and they deserve Big Brother/Sister to think for them.
Do those of us who haven't been just standing around also deserve a Big Brother because the rest of the people were only voting on American Idol?
That sort of abuse probably wouldn't be curbed, but having cameras strapped on means the cop doesn't have much of an excuse if he can't show the court footage of you doing whatever minor infraction he says you did.
You moved here for a specific job, but you failed to pick a place that was near your job in the transit-space, instead choosing a place that WAS close in car-space. It wasn't a priority for you, and now you're complaining that the transit is not good?
Nothing I could afford near work or the direct bus route that goes there.
In case you hadn't figured it out, public transport would only be a means to an end. Since there was a much cheaper option (living here and driving myself), I went with that.
Now, there's a trivial expense!
(Also consider the cost of living in those places with decent public transportation)
Just as you probably thought about the proximity of roads when you chose your current place, you'd think of the proximity of public transit routes and how they'd affect your connectivity.
It is frequent to hire a private teacher to work with the kid, to find many extra exercises for them like swimming, studying foreign languages (even at the age of 3!), etc.
When do you think is a better time to start?
In fact at that age all kid's time must be a free time. Your job is to find a method to put fun into a learning.
This sounds exactly like my memories of kindergarten.
In the USA, many Americans refuse to use public transportation due to class snobbery.
Did you ever see the public transport system in the US. I have. I can understand why people refuse to use it.
Exactly. I don't avoid public transportation here because of snobbery. I avoid it because it is of low quality. With my car, I can roll out of bed at 8 and be at work before 8:30 minutes. If I had to take the bus, I would have to get up around 6:30, walk a mile and a half, get on one bus, ride to the middle of town, change buses (and hope everything's on schedule), ride out to work, and get there around 9. I would also likely have to get off work early in order to be able to take the bus back to where I got on (a mile and a half from home).
On top of all that, once I already have a car, it's cheaper to use it drive myself to work than to pay for the bus fare. (It's about $3 for a day's driving, $4 for a day's busing -- $6 for the bus if I pay for each ride individually)
As for what information goes on there, I'd like to follow security "best practices": the principle of least authority. If you need to check if my face goes with the name I give you, you can take a look at my license (or other photo ID). If you need my credit card number, you can get it from my credit card. If you need my contact info, I'll tell you how to contact me. I'm sure the convenience of a one-stop-shop appeals to some people; I personally prefer this partitioning.
Hey, publishers: It's over. You lost. You're not going to get to stop people from talking about how to play music. Quit whining, join the world in the 21st century, and you might yet find a way to profit.
I don't get what they're so afraid of. Call me old fashioned, but I strongly prefer to work with music printed and bound (not inkjetted and stapled). I will even pay for public-domain scores, especially if they include some nice program notes/commentary. Unfortunately, pretty much all I run across most places I go are tabs of old rock or jazz standards. All they have to realize is that there's not much money to be made telling people what everyone already knows (no, this market segment isn't dead, but you can only use so many fake books).
I started from scratch because the problem I wanted solved wasn't all that common, and I didn't expect there to be much existing open-source code. Turns out that there's a lot that solves a similar problem, or covers a subset of the functions, but that it would probably be easier to start from scratch than to expand/generalize the existing code.
Sound like any large software company we might all be familiar with?
More than just that software company. We also see that sort of thing with pharmaceutical companies (the "cure treatment" business model) and telecom companies (we already paid for fiber -- why won't they put it up without making us pay again?). By a similar standard, the government can't really sell tax-preparation software.
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I don't know whether you'd have more people voting, but you'd certainly have more votes.
It's not because of her stance on "wealth redistribution." It's because of her stance on personal freedom.
Yeah, we can't let this go through. The great thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from!
Even with the message by the buttons that says, "{circle-with-triangle} means that restart will be required"?
What about them? The government doesn't use copyright law to keep people from making their own -- it uses counterfeit law.
That sort of abuse probably wouldn't be curbed, but having cameras strapped on means the cop doesn't have much of an excuse if he can't show the court footage of you doing whatever minor infraction he says you did.
Well, whoever loses, we all win!
I'm far more comfortable with server-side monitoring than with client-side monitoring.
If only we had a way to prevent that.... A backhoe in Green Bay killed our internet last year.
In case you hadn't figured it out, public transport would only be a means to an end. Since there was a much cheaper option (living here and driving myself), I went with that.
So kids aren't used to dealing with "You can only be on the phone for this long" and such restrictions?
(Also consider the cost of living in those places with decent public transportation)
Actually, I moved here for a specific job.
This sounds exactly like my memories of kindergarten.
Sorry, that was an error. That should have read, "be at work before 8:30." The drive in question is about 13 miles each way.
On top of all that, once I already have a car, it's cheaper to use it drive myself to work than to pay for the bus fare. (It's about $3 for a day's driving, $4 for a day's busing -- $6 for the bus if I pay for each ride individually)
As for what information goes on there, I'd like to follow security "best practices": the principle of least authority. If you need to check if my face goes with the name I give you, you can take a look at my license (or other photo ID). If you need my credit card number, you can get it from my credit card. If you need my contact info, I'll tell you how to contact me. I'm sure the convenience of a one-stop-shop appeals to some people; I personally prefer this partitioning.
And we can also pay to get the listings of those who paid to not have their info listed.
Hey, I learned all I know about it from reading slashdot....
I started from scratch because the problem I wanted solved wasn't all that common, and I didn't expect there to be much existing open-source code. Turns out that there's a lot that solves a similar problem, or covers a subset of the functions, but that it would probably be easier to start from scratch than to expand/generalize the existing code.