I went to Herzing. It was on par with UW:Madison tuition. After ~$25,000 in debt I had an associate degree and two bachelor degrees, although I maxed out my transfers/test outs.
At the time, their associates CS program was, IMO, one of the BEST systems to produce entry level programmers/consultants I've seen. I've gone to a number of other universities and public schools (while in the military, including military CS training), and I would have had no qualms hiring any of the recent grads from their assoc CS program for entry level positions.
Their Bachelor programs seemed a bit more hit or miss. They had some really amazing profs and teachers, and a couple of really bad seeds. They were usually pretty good about getting bad teachers out in short order (usually 2-symesters and they would be gone). Really though, the Bachelor programs were 100% dependent on how much you were willing to put in. If you did the bare minimums, you could have still passed, but it would have been a waste. If you were really dedicated to the topic though, there was a lot they offered.
That said, towards the end of my time there, they started to go in the wrong direction as far as profitability over education, IMO. They introduced some new degree programs (including a couple of video-game design programs) that were really designed, IMO, to get kids to part with their money, and not with future career in mind.
They also merged books into the tuition cost, so students couldn't re-use books to save money.
And the thing that really chapped my hyde was when Renee Herzing (the President) became a board member on a PAC that opposed a recent Dept of Education rule change on capping schools' tuition rates for low-employment and low-pay fields (ie: no running up $25,000 debt for a IT support desk assoc degree) and she used her position to make the faculty send students completely one sided arguments about how this rule was the worst thing ever and it would destroy their education. When in reality, Herzing wouldn't have been significantly impacted, and even then, it would have capped their tuition rates only on specific programs. Their IT and Nursing programs would have been completely uneffected.
I believe that is direct contributions, not total political expenditures.
Take the Koch brothers recent activity in Wisconsin. They donated $43,500 to Governer Walker's election campaing. But, they also donated $1M to the Republican Goveners association (which spent over $2M in Wisconsin) and funded another $2+ million in political activity in Wisconsin through their Americans for Prosperity PAC.
So if you look at the Koch's contribution to Walker, it doesn't seem all that significant. But if you look at their spending, it's tremendous.
True, that example is at the state level and the list you linked to is at the federal level. But I would really be surprised to find that that chart includes all investments besides direct contributions by all PAC and subsidiaries and their PACs by all of the groups listed.
Most stores CC agreements prevent them from marketing it or even doing it. But if you ask a Ma & Pa store owner at the register "is it any cheaper if I pay with cash?" You'll usually hear about their CC fees.
One local game store around here openly acknoledges it. They can't give you a discount due to their contract with their CC provider, but they do openly point out that you are doing more to support the store by paying with cash or debit.
The only CFLs I've had that didn't outlast the old ones were the micro CFLs (and LEDs) that all failed due to the cheapest rectifier ever made choking on the line noise from the ceiling fan they were mounted on, the standard sized CFLs are all holding up fine in the other ceiling fans. In all other cases, my CFLs have significantly outlast the incandecent bulbs. In fact, other that the ceiling fans, I haven't replaced a single CFL since I moved into my house 7 years ago.
My bulbs are used in bathrooms with high humidity, in recessed light fixtures, surrounded by insulation, and have near-zero warm up times. I turn the switch on, and I can not notice any delay as they reach optimum temperature. I have never seen the CFLs flicker. Nor are the any harder to "shut off" than regular lamps. Some of them do have a 5-10 second residule glow, but it's not noticable unless you are staring right at them.
As for the mass in land fills, yeah, they take up more space than a single incandecent (assuming both are shattered) but most Incandecents last for 6 months to 2 years. I would have thrown out dozens of them over the last 7 years in my house. So 1 CFL vs 12 incandecents? I'm guessing the 1 CFL is less mass for land fills.
As for mercury, it would take a while to dig up the math again, but effectively, to get the same amount of light from incandecents that you get over the life of a CFL, it would take significantly more electricity. Most of which in the US (atleast where I am located) is generated through burning coal. And burning coal releases for power is the cause of over 40% of the mercury released into the environment every year. If you figure the amount of mercury released per watt, and the total input to the bulbs over the life of a CFL, you actually release significantly less mercury by cracking open those used dead CFLs than you do by running incandecent bulbs.
Yes, it would be nice if they had better components (especially on the micros), yes it would be better if people disposed of them as hazmat. They aren't perfect, but they're still a heck of a lot better than the incandecent bulbs.
That said, the feds should have left the ban up to the states and aimed for a tax instead, IMO.
Your wife exploits traumatic events in peoples' pasts in order to get what she wants?
She uses bribes and opperatives to alter the context of messages in the social circles of the people who have things she wants?
She creates a network of half truths, lies, and bias to create scenarios which will motivate a person to do something that they would oppose under normal circumstances?
Your wife partakes in antivities that are federally barred both by law, statute, and budget?
If so, man, I'd think you should do some serious soul searching as to why exactly you are married.
There is a huuuuuuuge freaking difference between public afairs and Psy-ops. Public afairs can sell you on the importance of buying and maintaining a bomb shelter. Psy-ops can have you living in that bomb shelter eating your own feaces because you believe that the world has ended and leaving the bunker would mean certain death.
When I buy a car, it does not come with a list of all the company executives who allocated a budget for its production. There is no list of the engineers who designed it, the marketers who promoted it, the factory workers who built it.
Question though... what happens if for what ever reason the private keys are lost/corrupted?
If all it takes is disrupting the keys to prevent a specific district from having their votes counted, it could be quite damning. Even if they spread the key over every single district in the state, if any one of those key shares is corrupted/damaged/losts, would it not prevent the reading of any of the votes?
Seems like given such a system, there is almost absolutely a back door of some kind. Having an entire state lose its votes due to an individual key share holder maliciously tampering with, or having someone else tamper with their share of the key, would be a unimaginatively costly issue.
Personally, I would have rather seen the money sunk into more movies from the Dead Gentlemen for continuations of "the Gamers: Dorkness Rising" and "Journey Quest".
Lets see, GDR budget was ~$1,000, with a whole lot of volunteers. Season 2 of JQ has a $100,000 target budget. The Watchmen budget was ~$150,000,000.
I think the geek subculture would gain far more entertainment from 50 more G:DR/JQ type productions than the 3 hours of drivel the Watchmen offered us.
Really? I thought it was one of the most faithful adaptations of anything I've ever seen
I can get you a faithful adaptation short video of a dog taking a dump on the side walk. It could be the most faithful adaptation ever constructed. But you know what? It's still just a video of a dog taking a crap.
The transmitted signal is much, much weaker in the area of destructive interfierance.
Think of a pool of still water. If you throw a rock into it, you see waves propagate out from the impact.
If you throw two rocks in (or to be more accurate, 180 degrees out of phase, so one rock in and one rock out) at the exact same time, each rock will create the same waves as the single rock, but in one very tiny area directly between the two rocks the waves will cancel eachother out and the water will remain perfectly still.
In that very small area is where they put the reciever antenna. The transmition signal is very weak, so all of the other signals can still be heard. Once you are outside of the destructive interfierance area, the waves propagate as usual and you have roughly the same range and amplitude as you would with a single antenna.
Petroleum engineers first used the method in 2007 to unlock oil from a 25,000-square-mile formation under North Dakota and Montana known as the Bakken. Production there rose 50 percent in just the past year, to 458,000 barrels a day, according to Bentek Energy, an energy analysis firm.
The Bakken and the Eagle Ford are each expected to ultimately produce 4 billion barrels of oil.
so.5M barrels a day. 4,000M total barrels. 8,000 days, assuming the Bakken range doesn't continue its production growth and Eagle Ford doesn't come online until Bakken starts tapering off. Odds are though, it'll be closer to 4,000 days of production. So we're looking at ~20 years, "best" case scenario out of these two fields production run (@.5M barrels a day) and likely closer to 10 years once both fields are up and running optimally.
Realistically though, we're burning through +20M barrels a day. So these two ranges could fulfill our demand for about 200 days if we could pump them out fast enough. The 4th largest oil field ever found in the US, and it wouldn't last us a year. It shouldn't take much to figure out that in the relatively near term, we're going to need an alternative fuel stock.
Not sure about highschool, but in college I was threatened with a libel lawsuit and expulsion after publicly stating that Mrs Rainy-Moore "couldn't teach a toddler how to crap itself."
The lawsuit was a joke of a threat, but when the dean tells you to apologize or you'll get booted 4 credits from being done and over $20k in debt, you do what he says.
The dollar is weaker compared to other currencies than it has been in the past. It sounds like this is a bad thing, but really, it's not such a clear cut issue.
For instance, I have a bunch of Canadian and European friends who are coming to the US this year to vacation. The weaker US dollar means their Canadian dollars and Euros will go much farther. And Tourism is awesome because it brings money from outside of the economy in.
We are also seeing a slight uptick in exported goods as our prices are effectively lowered by the weak dollar. It creates a lower labor cost (relatively speaking) and allows us to create more jobs for exported goods manufacturing and services.
And it also means that our debts, while still significant, are effectively smaller.
There's a fair bit of not so go that goes a long with a weakening dollar as well, but it's not a wholly good/bad situation. There is some good, some bad, and some ehhh that accompanies any change in value of the US dollar.
I've never had a class where the prof wrote the book, although I was rather irritated when one of my colleges merged books into tuition so I could no longer save money by buying used:( I have no doubt that just as in all aspects of life, there are people gaming the system to make a buck. But I'm not about to stop eating because some farmer got a few bucks in subsidies, and I'm not going to stop promoting education because some prof got a text book kick back.
Yeah, it sucks, that's life, work to make it better or get over it.
Why it takes "college" to do this is quite simple. The whole concept of a college is that it is a social collective of people intent on learning and furthering themselves. While many colleges have realigned to a more pre-vocational or high end research models to compete in a capitalist market, the concept is still there. You are far more likely to learn something at a college than you are pumping gas at a 7-11.
Also, you CAN do a full time job and college at the same time. I worked full and part time gigs through out my education. Yeah, putting in a 40+ hour work week and 20+ lecture/lab hours (+home work) is daunting, but it is do-able.
Colleges will always be justified. The letter grades and pre-vocational process I would agree with you though. They are the procedural dogma. The idea of gathering the best and brightest to think, to share, to experiment, to educate though, I see no challenge to that.
As compared to the "education" you'll pick up over 4 years of pumping gas for the local 7-11?
The education you get at most colleges is entirely based on how much you put into it. You can slack through your classes, plagiarize, do minimal efforts, etc... and get a degree in 4 years with out learning a whole lot. Or you can engross yourself in your studies, push not just to meet the prof's requirements, but to exceed your own limitations.
The biggest educational lesson you can learn in undergrad studies, IMO, is learning how you learn. Some people pick it up on themselves. Some folks (like myself) get that one prof that makes their life a living hell before we finally figure it out.
I have three degrees in the CS/IT/Management fields. And of all of that schooling, Mr. Phillip Anderson's Speech class is, IMO, the most educational class I've ever taken, and for reasons that have nothing to do with speech.
Seeing as how DNSSEC is even less prevelent in non-government web sites, shouldn't we then be rejoicing that almost half of all government sites are passing? That the government sites are performoring so much better than non-government sites seems like a good sign that while DNSSEC hasn't been completely rolled out, the government is opperating ahead of the market and has easily measurable and enforcable goals to complete the process?
Yeah, I want to see 100% adaptation as well, but attacking the government as incompotent and then pointing out that they are beating the private sector adaptation rates sure seems like an endorsement of the feds' approach to DNSSEC implimentation over the free market implimentation approach.
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I went to Herzing. It was on par with UW:Madison tuition. After ~$25,000 in debt I had an associate degree and two bachelor degrees, although I maxed out my transfers/test outs.
At the time, their associates CS program was, IMO, one of the BEST systems to produce entry level programmers/consultants I've seen. I've gone to a number of other universities and public schools (while in the military, including military CS training), and I would have had no qualms hiring any of the recent grads from their assoc CS program for entry level positions.
Their Bachelor programs seemed a bit more hit or miss. They had some really amazing profs and teachers, and a couple of really bad seeds. They were usually pretty good about getting bad teachers out in short order (usually 2-symesters and they would be gone). Really though, the Bachelor programs were 100% dependent on how much you were willing to put in. If you did the bare minimums, you could have still passed, but it would have been a waste. If you were really dedicated to the topic though, there was a lot they offered.
That said, towards the end of my time there, they started to go in the wrong direction as far as profitability over education, IMO. They introduced some new degree programs (including a couple of video-game design programs) that were really designed, IMO, to get kids to part with their money, and not with future career in mind.
They also merged books into the tuition cost, so students couldn't re-use books to save money.
And the thing that really chapped my hyde was when Renee Herzing (the President) became a board member on a PAC that opposed a recent Dept of Education rule change on capping schools' tuition rates for low-employment and low-pay fields (ie: no running up $25,000 debt for a IT support desk assoc degree) and she used her position to make the faculty send students completely one sided arguments about how this rule was the worst thing ever and it would destroy their education. When in reality, Herzing wouldn't have been significantly impacted, and even then, it would have capped their tuition rates only on specific programs. Their IT and Nursing programs would have been completely uneffected.
-Rick
I believe that is direct contributions, not total political expenditures.
Take the Koch brothers recent activity in Wisconsin. They donated $43,500 to Governer Walker's election campaing. But, they also donated $1M to the Republican Goveners association (which spent over $2M in Wisconsin) and funded another $2+ million in political activity in Wisconsin through their Americans for Prosperity PAC.
So if you look at the Koch's contribution to Walker, it doesn't seem all that significant. But if you look at their spending, it's tremendous.
True, that example is at the state level and the list you linked to is at the federal level. But I would really be surprised to find that that chart includes all investments besides direct contributions by all PAC and subsidiaries and their PACs by all of the groups listed.
-Rick
Most stores CC agreements prevent them from marketing it or even doing it. But if you ask a Ma & Pa store owner at the register "is it any cheaper if I pay with cash?" You'll usually hear about their CC fees.
One local game store around here openly acknoledges it. They can't give you a discount due to their contract with their CC provider, but they do openly point out that you are doing more to support the store by paying with cash or debit.
-Rick
That's not killing two birds with one stone. That's taking a bird and beating the stone with it until the stone looks like a second bird.
-Rick
The only CFLs I've had that didn't outlast the old ones were the micro CFLs (and LEDs) that all failed due to the cheapest rectifier ever made choking on the line noise from the ceiling fan they were mounted on, the standard sized CFLs are all holding up fine in the other ceiling fans. In all other cases, my CFLs have significantly outlast the incandecent bulbs. In fact, other that the ceiling fans, I haven't replaced a single CFL since I moved into my house 7 years ago.
My bulbs are used in bathrooms with high humidity, in recessed light fixtures, surrounded by insulation, and have near-zero warm up times. I turn the switch on, and I can not notice any delay as they reach optimum temperature. I have never seen the CFLs flicker. Nor are the any harder to "shut off" than regular lamps. Some of them do have a 5-10 second residule glow, but it's not noticable unless you are staring right at them.
As for the mass in land fills, yeah, they take up more space than a single incandecent (assuming both are shattered) but most Incandecents last for 6 months to 2 years. I would have thrown out dozens of them over the last 7 years in my house. So 1 CFL vs 12 incandecents? I'm guessing the 1 CFL is less mass for land fills.
As for mercury, it would take a while to dig up the math again, but effectively, to get the same amount of light from incandecents that you get over the life of a CFL, it would take significantly more electricity. Most of which in the US (atleast where I am located) is generated through burning coal. And burning coal releases for power is the cause of over 40% of the mercury released into the environment every year. If you figure the amount of mercury released per watt, and the total input to the bulbs over the life of a CFL, you actually release significantly less mercury by cracking open those used dead CFLs than you do by running incandecent bulbs.
Yes, it would be nice if they had better components (especially on the micros), yes it would be better if people disposed of them as hazmat. They aren't perfect, but they're still a heck of a lot better than the incandecent bulbs.
That said, the feds should have left the ban up to the states and aimed for a tax instead, IMO.
-Rick
Same thing with IE9 RC1 on Windows 7
-Rick
Your wife exploits traumatic events in peoples' pasts in order to get what she wants?
She uses bribes and opperatives to alter the context of messages in the social circles of the people who have things she wants?
She creates a network of half truths, lies, and bias to create scenarios which will motivate a person to do something that they would oppose under normal circumstances?
Your wife partakes in antivities that are federally barred both by law, statute, and budget?
If so, man, I'd think you should do some serious soul searching as to why exactly you are married.
There is a huuuuuuuge freaking difference between public afairs and Psy-ops. Public afairs can sell you on the importance of buying and maintaining a bomb shelter. Psy-ops can have you living in that bomb shelter eating your own feaces because you believe that the world has ended and leaving the bunker would mean certain death.
-Rick
When I buy a car, it does not come with a list of all the company executives who allocated a budget for its production. There is no list of the engineers who designed it, the marketers who promoted it, the factory workers who built it.
Didn't Saturn do that for a while?
-Rick
Question though... what happens if for what ever reason the private keys are lost/corrupted?
If all it takes is disrupting the keys to prevent a specific district from having their votes counted, it could be quite damning. Even if they spread the key over every single district in the state, if any one of those key shares is corrupted/damaged/losts, would it not prevent the reading of any of the votes?
Seems like given such a system, there is almost absolutely a back door of some kind. Having an entire state lose its votes due to an individual key share holder maliciously tampering with, or having someone else tamper with their share of the key, would be a unimaginatively costly issue.
-Rick
Personally, I would have rather seen the money sunk into more movies from the Dead Gentlemen for continuations of "the Gamers: Dorkness Rising" and "Journey Quest".
Lets see, GDR budget was ~$1,000, with a whole lot of volunteers.
Season 2 of JQ has a $100,000 target budget.
The Watchmen budget was ~$150,000,000.
I think the geek subculture would gain far more entertainment from 50 more G:DR/JQ type productions than the 3 hours of drivel the Watchmen offered us.
-Rick
Really? I thought it was one of the most faithful adaptations of anything I've ever seen
I can get you a faithful adaptation short video of a dog taking a dump on the side walk. It could be the most faithful adaptation ever constructed. But you know what? It's still just a video of a dog taking a crap.
-Rick
The transmitted signal is much, much weaker in the area of destructive interfierance.
Think of a pool of still water. If you throw a rock into it, you see waves propagate out from the impact.
If you throw two rocks in (or to be more accurate, 180 degrees out of phase, so one rock in and one rock out) at the exact same time, each rock will create the same waves as the single rock, but in one very tiny area directly between the two rocks the waves will cancel eachother out and the water will remain perfectly still.
In that very small area is where they put the reciever antenna. The transmition signal is very weak, so all of the other signals can still be heard. Once you are outside of the destructive interfierance area, the waves propagate as usual and you have roughly the same range and amplitude as you would with a single antenna.
-Rick
Looks like a 404 to me.
-Rick
IE9 crashes hard on that page.
-Rick
I actually had a gas station refuse to sell me fuel because they would not accept '90210' as my zip code.
I drove across the street to the other gas station and I've never gone back to the zip code place.
-Rick
I usually go with the zip code 90210, people look at me funny, and I say, "What, you got something against California?"
Only recently have I been hit up for a phone number, which is easy. Just say "(local area code) 867-530 Niiiieeeeeeiiiiiiiiine. Ya got it?"
-Rick
Petroleum engineers first used the method in 2007 to unlock oil from a 25,000-square-mile formation under North Dakota and Montana known as the Bakken. Production there rose 50 percent in just the past year, to 458,000 barrels a day, according to Bentek Energy, an energy analysis firm.
The Bakken and the Eagle Ford are each expected to ultimately produce 4 billion barrels of oil.
so .5M barrels a day. 4,000M total barrels. 8,000 days, assuming the Bakken range doesn't continue its production growth and Eagle Ford doesn't come online until Bakken starts tapering off. Odds are though, it'll be closer to 4,000 days of production. So we're looking at ~20 years, "best" case scenario out of these two fields production run (@.5M barrels a day) and likely closer to 10 years once both fields are up and running optimally.
Realistically though, we're burning through +20M barrels a day. So these two ranges could fulfill our demand for about 200 days if we could pump them out fast enough. The 4th largest oil field ever found in the US, and it wouldn't last us a year. It shouldn't take much to figure out that in the relatively near term, we're going to need an alternative fuel stock.
-Rick
Well, for starters it may motivate more voting Americans to lean towards candidates and initiatives that involve alternative energy sources?
-Rick
Not sure about highschool, but in college I was threatened with a libel lawsuit and expulsion after publicly stating that Mrs Rainy-Moore "couldn't teach a toddler how to crap itself."
The lawsuit was a joke of a threat, but when the dean tells you to apologize or you'll get booted 4 credits from being done and over $20k in debt, you do what he says.
-Rick
The dollar is weaker compared to other currencies than it has been in the past. It sounds like this is a bad thing, but really, it's not such a clear cut issue.
For instance, I have a bunch of Canadian and European friends who are coming to the US this year to vacation. The weaker US dollar means their Canadian dollars and Euros will go much farther. And Tourism is awesome because it brings money from outside of the economy in.
We are also seeing a slight uptick in exported goods as our prices are effectively lowered by the weak dollar. It creates a lower labor cost (relatively speaking) and allows us to create more jobs for exported goods manufacturing and services.
And it also means that our debts, while still significant, are effectively smaller.
There's a fair bit of not so go that goes a long with a weakening dollar as well, but it's not a wholly good/bad situation. There is some good, some bad, and some ehhh that accompanies any change in value of the US dollar.
-Rick
What value are these individuals creating?
-Rick
I've never had a class where the prof wrote the book, although I was rather irritated when one of my colleges merged books into tuition so I could no longer save money by buying used :( I have no doubt that just as in all aspects of life, there are people gaming the system to make a buck. But I'm not about to stop eating because some farmer got a few bucks in subsidies, and I'm not going to stop promoting education because some prof got a text book kick back.
Yeah, it sucks, that's life, work to make it better or get over it.
Why it takes "college" to do this is quite simple. The whole concept of a college is that it is a social collective of people intent on learning and furthering themselves. While many colleges have realigned to a more pre-vocational or high end research models to compete in a capitalist market, the concept is still there. You are far more likely to learn something at a college than you are pumping gas at a 7-11.
Also, you CAN do a full time job and college at the same time. I worked full and part time gigs through out my education. Yeah, putting in a 40+ hour work week and 20+ lecture/lab hours (+home work) is daunting, but it is do-able.
Colleges will always be justified. The letter grades and pre-vocational process I would agree with you though. They are the procedural dogma. The idea of gathering the best and brightest to think, to share, to experiment, to educate though, I see no challenge to that.
-Rick
As compared to the "education" you'll pick up over 4 years of pumping gas for the local 7-11?
The education you get at most colleges is entirely based on how much you put into it. You can slack through your classes, plagiarize, do minimal efforts, etc... and get a degree in 4 years with out learning a whole lot. Or you can engross yourself in your studies, push not just to meet the prof's requirements, but to exceed your own limitations.
The biggest educational lesson you can learn in undergrad studies, IMO, is learning how you learn. Some people pick it up on themselves. Some folks (like myself) get that one prof that makes their life a living hell before we finally figure it out.
I have three degrees in the CS/IT/Management fields. And of all of that schooling, Mr. Phillip Anderson's Speech class is, IMO, the most educational class I've ever taken, and for reasons that have nothing to do with speech.
-Rick
Seeing as how DNSSEC is even less prevelent in non-government web sites, shouldn't we then be rejoicing that almost half of all government sites are passing? That the government sites are performoring so much better than non-government sites seems like a good sign that while DNSSEC hasn't been completely rolled out, the government is opperating ahead of the market and has easily measurable and enforcable goals to complete the process?
Yeah, I want to see 100% adaptation as well, but attacking the government as incompotent and then pointing out that they are beating the private sector adaptation rates sure seems like an endorsement of the feds' approach to DNSSEC implimentation over the free market implimentation approach.
-Rick
Study performed by company that competes for government contracts to fix issues pointed out by said study finds that government should hire them.
-Rick