Oh gee, all those tenure tracks and collective bargaining agreements must explain why the teachers in my state (Oregon) are getting only laid off 1000s at a time instead of 10,000 at a time. And why the ones who remain get their pensions cut (after accepting pay freezes in return for promises of some pension security). And whose starting salaries STILL qualify them for welfare & food stamps (among the lowest paying professional jobs requiring a Master's degree to qualify for). And I've heard similar stories about how teachers are treated from all over the U.S., not just Oregon.
They get chewed out by clueless morons in the media, slimeball politicians and ideologues with an agenda to destroy public education, and idiot parents on a regular basis for not being competent - when a lot of teachers are being forced to try to deal with class sizes greater than 30 students per teacher and/or reams of paperwork ("Fill out 30 10-page forms telling us why you aren't doing your job right.").
Typical moron parents: "I can slap my couple of kids into submission no problem at all, why can't the stupid teacher keep 40 kids under control? Oh yeah, and if they touch my kid, or even talk meanly to my precious brat, I sue." People that stupid shouldn't be allowed to breed.
Other typical morons: "I don't have kids - why should I have to pay for your kids' education?" I'd be amused if I knew that those morons were all going to get brutally murdered by a slum kid with no hope for the future, but they'll hide in their little gated communities, hire armed guards & whine about how expensive jails are & look down their noses at the poor bastards left behind trying to keep their heads down to stay alive.
Yeah, teachers are getting LOTS of societal support, and their collective bargaining seems to be doing wonders for them - NOT.
The whole philanthropic idea of providing equal opportunity for even the lowest economic classes seems to have been completely lost as a societal value, if not being actively ridiculed in some parts of society.
Before you ask - I'm not a teacher or an employee in the educational system, but a few of my relatives and friends are, and I've been comparing what I've heard from them against what I hear in the media. There is a total disconnect between what teachers are experiencing and the way they are portrayed in the media, and it sure isn't the message that the teachers would be giving for themselves if they had any kind of media influence whatsoever.
Ah, another person who has no clue about how hard good teachers work, how important they are, and how crappily they're treated.
As long as a lot of people think the way you do, it pretty much ensures the U.S. will become a backwater has-been country while China takes over the world economically, culturally and politically (unless the U.S. manages to destroy the world in fit of pique before going down).
I think even union members would be willing to sacrifice a bit more to save their jobs if they didn't see the company executives and shareholders making out like bandits (even as the company's overall finances go down the tubes).
Funny how "shared sacrifice" speeches from the "leaders" usually translate to "you sacrifice so I can loot more money before destroying your livelihood". When you see that enough times, it doesn't usually translate to feeling cooperative.
This is one of those situations where being anonymous is the only way that everyone gets to be happy.
And those damn unsecure machines do tend to become other peoples' problems, when they become staging points for continuing attacks. So it is in the best interests of everyone (except for the crackers of course) that everyone helps each other secure their machines as well as possible.
My wife flips out when I travel because I do not use locks or combos at all.
I don't use locks or combos because airport security either 1) forces open my luggage when they want to do a check, or 2) destroys my luggage if they scanned something interesting (like my Game Boy) and don't feel like forcing the luggage open.
Either way, putting anything of value in the check-in luggage & locking it is just asking for trouble.
Some administration tools hide their presence so that corporate office drones won't notice the system administrator monitoring them (for "security" reasons dontcha know). Are they root kits?
My grandfather used to say that people just weren't desperate enough anymore - scrabbling around for survival, like no other situation, has a way of focusing priorities & eliminating impractical habits.
In a way, it might be better that the neuroscientists are ignorant about a lot of the psychological case studies. If they can independently come to a lot of the same conclusions as the psychological studies, then that will help reinforce the validity of both. If there's a conflict, then it will be a useful direction for future study.
Would you feel the same if one night you had this dream in which you solved some fundamental problems that would allow ICs to be ten times faster (or something like that), and 3 or 4 years down the road some asshole at Intel say "eureka" and comes up with the same thing?
Well, assuming that the "asshole at Intel" did their own work instead of ripping off mine, then it would be a "darn, didn't make it happen fast enough" feeling.
Wouldn't it have been nice for you if you had written it all down and filed a patent on it?
Sure, in the same way that it's "nice" to get laws passed which give you an advantage over your competitors without having to directly compete with them.
OSS currently is absolutely hell to integrate, and the only thing that makes it easy to modify is that the source is free.
Integrating _any_ system can be hell, whether proprietary or OSS. Guess which approach leaves you SOL (without spending wads of cash) if you run into a roadblock.
The east coast of China was the most polluted site on the map.
That's just a location with a high pollution density. For a valid comparison, you've got to compare the TOTAL pollution being generated by both countries - and as far as I know, the U.S. "wins" that comparison at the moment just by reason of higher total consumption of energy commodities of all kinds, even given the population disparity between China & the U.S.
Unfortunately, China is ramping up their energy usage quite rapidly in an attempt to reach the same standard of living as the U.S. One can hope only that they take the opportunity of the relative immaturity of their infrastructure to try and make some more sustainable decisions than the U.S. has done.
It's kind of amusing how right-wing fanatics keep throwing up the Boogieman of liberal spending to distract people from pointing out that the so-called "conservatives" have been looting the Government Treasury at a level that most liberals couldn't have imagined in their wildest wet dreams. And all that pork is being pocketed by the members of society who need it the least.
It would be more amusing if it wasn't being accomplished at a level which, in the long run, is guaranteed to make America pass into history as yet-another-empire-who-spent-themselves-into-obliv ion.
I actually find this kind of useful - when I start seeing holes in my fabrics, then I figure it's a reasonable time to replace the item containing that fabric.
It's probably the only behavior which causes my wardrobe to change at all:P
I wonder if this thing will destroy prions? I know a couple doctors who are terrified of prions, since autoclaves don't destroy them & a lot of disinfectants don't work either (and some of the ones that do are so vicious that they require a lot of hazardous material handling).
And if it isn't patented, there will be many MORE people who might be willing to invest money in it because they MIGHT be able to make a buck on it without worrying about getting sued by a patent holder.
It's called entrepreneurship, and apparently that concept has become too stressful for many businesspeople. Guaranteed profit is not capitalism.
Anyway, what they're proposing is that each bill actually be read out loud in front of legislators, and that said legislators sign a statement that they understood what was read. I think any amendments to the bill would require another full reading, and amendments would need to actually be relevant to the original bill.
Heh - they should combine those thoughts. Only allow laws passed where the legislator can repeat the law orally, by memory (without artificial aid). If someone amends the law, they have to repeat the entire law again, including the amendments.
Oh, it's perfectly technically feasible to launch a human body over a 100 story building. It's keeping them healthy & alive during the launch & during the stop which is the hard bit.
Not sure why you think anybody's noodle would be baked - even at a higher price, there will still be people will buy the product - just fewer of them. That's why the supply-demand curve is a CURVE and not a stair-step function.
I'm pretty sure there are some people whose personality will not allow them to get along with _anybody_, and who are destined to die bitter and alone (unless they have some kind of life-changing experience which causes a major personality change).
I wonder if these guys' "brain maps" will tell their customers that?
I am a Christian and an engineer, and one in no way impinges upon the other.
A typical fundamentalist would disagree. And if you didn't believe all aspects of THEIR truth, then they would say that you can't honestly call yourself a Christian.
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Oh gee, all those tenure tracks and collective bargaining agreements must explain why the teachers in my state (Oregon) are getting only laid off 1000s at a time instead of 10,000 at a time. And why the ones who remain get their pensions cut (after accepting pay freezes in return for promises of some pension security). And whose starting salaries STILL qualify them for welfare & food stamps (among the lowest paying professional jobs requiring a Master's degree to qualify for). And I've heard similar stories about how teachers are treated from all over the U.S., not just Oregon.
They get chewed out by clueless morons in the media, slimeball politicians and ideologues with an agenda to destroy public education, and idiot parents on a regular basis for not being competent - when a lot of teachers are being forced to try to deal with class sizes greater than 30 students per teacher and/or reams of paperwork ("Fill out 30 10-page forms telling us why you aren't doing your job right.").
Typical moron parents: "I can slap my couple of kids into submission no problem at all, why can't the stupid teacher keep 40 kids under control? Oh yeah, and if they touch my kid, or even talk meanly to my precious brat, I sue." People that stupid shouldn't be allowed to breed.
Other typical morons: "I don't have kids - why should I have to pay for your kids' education?" I'd be amused if I knew that those morons were all going to get brutally murdered by a slum kid with no hope for the future, but they'll hide in their little gated communities, hire armed guards & whine about how expensive jails are & look down their noses at the poor bastards left behind trying to keep their heads down to stay alive.
Yeah, teachers are getting LOTS of societal support, and their collective bargaining seems to be doing wonders for them - NOT.
The whole philanthropic idea of providing equal opportunity for even the lowest economic classes seems to have been completely lost as a societal value, if not being actively ridiculed in some parts of society.
Before you ask - I'm not a teacher or an employee in the educational system, but a few of my relatives and friends are, and I've been comparing what I've heard from them against what I hear in the media. There is a total disconnect between what teachers are experiencing and the way they are portrayed in the media, and it sure isn't the message that the teachers would be giving for themselves if they had any kind of media influence whatsoever.
Ah, another person who has no clue about how hard good teachers work, how important they are, and how crappily they're treated.
As long as a lot of people think the way you do, it pretty much ensures the U.S. will become a backwater has-been country while China takes over the world economically, culturally and politically (unless the U.S. manages to destroy the world in fit of pique before going down).
Wait for it. What do you think is happening now?
I think even union members would be willing to sacrifice a bit more to save their jobs if they didn't see the company executives and shareholders making out like bandits (even as the company's overall finances go down the tubes).
Funny how "shared sacrifice" speeches from the "leaders" usually translate to "you sacrifice so I can loot more money before destroying your livelihood". When you see that enough times, it doesn't usually translate to feeling cooperative.
This is one of those situations where being anonymous is the only way that everyone gets to be happy.
And those damn unsecure machines do tend to become other peoples' problems, when they become staging points for continuing attacks. So it is in the best interests of everyone (except for the crackers of course) that everyone helps each other secure their machines as well as possible.
I don't use locks or combos because airport security either 1) forces open my luggage when they want to do a check, or 2) destroys my luggage if they scanned something interesting (like my Game Boy) and don't feel like forcing the luggage open.
Either way, putting anything of value in the check-in luggage & locking it is just asking for trouble.
Some administration tools hide their presence so that corporate office drones won't notice the system administrator monitoring them (for "security" reasons dontcha know). Are they root kits?
My grandfather used to say that people just weren't desperate enough anymore - scrabbling around for survival, like no other situation, has a way of focusing priorities & eliminating impractical habits.
In a way, it might be better that the neuroscientists are ignorant about a lot of the psychological case studies. If they can independently come to a lot of the same conclusions as the psychological studies, then that will help reinforce the validity of both. If there's a conflict, then it will be a useful direction for future study.
Well, assuming that the "asshole at Intel" did their own work instead of ripping off mine, then it would be a "darn, didn't make it happen fast enough" feeling.
Sure, in the same way that it's "nice" to get laws passed which give you an advantage over your competitors without having to directly compete with them.
Nah, they'd just pass a law which says that holders of elective offices are exempt from income taxes.
Integrating _any_ system can be hell, whether proprietary or OSS. Guess which approach leaves you SOL (without spending wads of cash) if you run into a roadblock.
So you have to stay buzzed until you're out of danger?
That's just a location with a high pollution density. For a valid comparison, you've got to compare the TOTAL pollution being generated by both countries - and as far as I know, the U.S. "wins" that comparison at the moment just by reason of higher total consumption of energy commodities of all kinds, even given the population disparity between China & the U.S.
Unfortunately, China is ramping up their energy usage quite rapidly in an attempt to reach the same standard of living as the U.S. One can hope only that they take the opportunity of the relative immaturity of their infrastructure to try and make some more sustainable decisions than the U.S. has done.
It's kind of amusing how right-wing fanatics keep throwing up the Boogieman of liberal spending to distract people from pointing out that the so-called "conservatives" have been looting the Government Treasury at a level that most liberals couldn't have imagined in their wildest wet dreams. And all that pork is being pocketed by the members of society who need it the least.
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It would be more amusing if it wasn't being accomplished at a level which, in the long run, is guaranteed to make America pass into history as yet-another-empire-who-spent-themselves-into-obli
That's better than what exists, but the essence of MY proposal is that they would have to read the entire law FROM MEMORY.
I actually find this kind of useful - when I start seeing holes in my fabrics, then I figure it's a reasonable time to replace the item containing that fabric.
:P
It's probably the only behavior which causes my wardrobe to change at all
I wonder if this thing will destroy prions? I know a couple doctors who are terrified of prions, since autoclaves don't destroy them & a lot of disinfectants don't work either (and some of the ones that do are so vicious that they require a lot of hazardous material handling).
And if it isn't patented, there will be many MORE people who might be willing to invest money in it because they MIGHT be able to make a buck on it without worrying about getting sued by a patent holder.
It's called entrepreneurship, and apparently that concept has become too stressful for many businesspeople. Guaranteed profit is not capitalism.
Heh - they should combine those thoughts. Only allow laws passed where the legislator can repeat the law orally, by memory (without artificial aid). If someone amends the law, they have to repeat the entire law again, including the amendments.
How simple would the laws become then?
And I'm pretty sure this "natural discovery" has or will be patented so that nobody else will be able to use it without paying through the nose.
Three cheers for having exclusive control over something that nature provided for free!
Oh, it's perfectly technically feasible to launch a human body over a 100 story building. It's keeping them healthy & alive during the launch & during the stop which is the hard bit.
Not sure why you think anybody's noodle would be baked - even at a higher price, there will still be people will buy the product - just fewer of them. That's why the supply-demand curve is a CURVE and not a stair-step function.
I'm pretty sure there are some people whose personality will not allow them to get along with _anybody_, and who are destined to die bitter and alone (unless they have some kind of life-changing experience which causes a major personality change).
I wonder if these guys' "brain maps" will tell their customers that?
A typical fundamentalist would disagree. And if you didn't believe all aspects of THEIR truth, then they would say that you can't honestly call yourself a Christian.