This is poor logic. Stupid people do not vote based on any intelligable information, and therefore it can not be assumed that they are not voting for the most qualified candidate. Instead, you should make the decision for them. Find out who they are voting for, and if it is in opposition to your informed decision, hit them with your car right before election day. Since people with informed decisions will be voting for a variety of candidates, this line of reasoning has the benefit of simply removing all stupid people from the voting public.
Does anyone even care about the Olympics anymore? After crap like this, and all of the crap they let China get away with breaking their rules, I don't want the Olympics anywhere near the US. They have come to represent poor integrity and greed to a degree worse than the investment banks that are now putting our economy in the crapper. Somehow I don't feel that they still represent good sportsmanship.
This is the inevitable result of No Child Left Behind. Schools no longer have the free authority to fail students who refuse to perform, so they need a way to give them a boost. There is strong opposition in the US to replacing poorly run monopolistic public schools with private charter schools paid with public money, so the education is not going to improve. Meanwhile, government officials think you can just throw technology at the problem (the PA governor ran his re-election campaign with his education platform being that a laptop on every school desk would rocket our education quality to top notch... Speaking of which, I haven't heard of any movement on that promise).
Actually, being "non-profit" means that there is no profit in the business to be paid out to investors, directors, or employees. All "profit" is recycled back into the company. The directors can profit by increasing their salary when business is steadily doing better. Running a successful non-profit can be quite lucrative, but not nearly so much as running a successful for-profit.
I for one encourage kids who do not like high school to get their GED at 15 or 16 and then drop out of high school and go to college or trade school. If you are intelligent and go to college after completing high school, the chances are that you will simply spend the first year of college repeating things you already learned in the last two years of high school. The difference is that in college, you are likely to be taught more substance in the topics.
I personally would appreciate a link to a separate section that provides all of the details. I understand the need to cut things down for a broad audience (talk to me about intricate details of economic policy and I would glaze over like any average person would about tech policy), but that does not mean that there is no place for details. It's cuts like these that give rise to the complaints that Obama doesn't really say anything.
While I don't think that's the whole story, there is definitly something to this. Even most well educated people are going to be dumbstruck by detailing tech policy. Ask any liberal arts major who's 30 years old what net neutrality really means and the chances are going to be pretty good that they either have the wrong idea or no idea at all. The community of people who wont glaze over when reading detailed tech policy is pretty tiny in comparison to the rest of the US population. That's why we often get paid more.
If someone were to do this, I would be happy to help with the hardware end of it. Keep in mind that a lot of the existing systems have security problems beyond just the poor software implementation.
I am curious to know how Calc I, II, III, and Dif. Equ. are weeder classes for engineering majors. I am always surprised when I find out that Freshman Engineering is such a difficult year for so many students. I thought it was the easiest year I ever had since most of what I took (Gen Chem, Calc I and II, Physics, etc) were things I had already taken in high school. I don't recall learning much in Freshman Engineering other than C and how to apply calculus to physics.
You have the rest of your life to become narrow, why make it happen sooner?
Because I'm broke now, not later. Going straight to grad school was not an option for me. The money was all tapped out. I was fortunate when I graduated that I had built close connections with a professor that hired me out of undergrad until I could find an industry job. Only now, over two years later, am I able to consider going back for an MS.
Anyone ever think of attaching one of these to a Police Commissioner's or (if you really have balls) a Congressman's car and setting up a public website to share the data in real time?
I've had my laptop searched and I wasn't even going through Customs. Since then I refuse to take a computer onto a plane. I don't even know what they'll consider problem material anymore. It seems to change every week. They didn't let one guy on a plane because he was praying to Allah. Some oddball girl from MIT was harassed because she had a prototyping board with LEDs strapped to her shirt. What if I have text files of Slashdot comments on my desktop which often contain anti-US government sentiment? I'm more frightened of DHS right now than any terrorist. With that information, I don't need anyone's data.
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It sounds like there's a real problem in non-tech companies with the business group not appreciating what the tech group does. I work at a manufacturing facility (totally different environment) and bonuses are calculated based upon the performance of each group within the company. Of course we always run into clashes between departments as each group is too slow in the eyes of every other group, but we all appreciate everyone's role. The parent is right. There's no excuse to treat your business people badly. But that needs to go both ways.
How much does this differ with the United States in Mexico or the Cherokee? England with South Africa? Spain with Mexico? No one will deny that the Chinese are particularly brutal in their methods, but what they did there is nothing new and nothing that has not been long forgotten with many "civilized" nations. Perhaps Württemberg should demand it's freedom from Germany since they were conquered by Brandenburg?
How hard would it be for one of these counties to write new software on their own?
Really hard considering that the hardware is not open sourced, the final system (which includes software) needs validated an approved, and if they don't have a budget for new systems that actually work half ways decent, then they definately don't have a budget to hire a contractor to write and document software in a short period of time that will comply with HAVA. "10 lines of code" is an extreme understatement of the problem. You couldn't even implement the voice system for the blind with 10 lines of code, and that's only a small piece of the puzzle. Make no mistake, these are complex systems with moderately complex software.
I don't pay anything to listen to public radio or tv broadcasts. Those are funded entirely (at least in the USA) by advertising and/or listener donations. What makes you think that the RIAA will not be controlling the medium? They will need some way to measure the individual artist share, and they are going to want to make sure that those "measurements" favor the big studios as much as they can. They will also likely want some control over the format (DRM is go) to maintain some semblance of control over how you use the music. The only thing that the RIAA is changing their stance on here is that they are finally realizing just how much this scheme could be as profitable or even more profitable for the big labels.
$5/month?! Holy crap! With my music download rate, I would be paying the same for one soft copy of a song as I normally would for a whole physical album. Screw that. I am more than happy to spend my approximate $2/year in iTunes purchases. If I want a whole album and it's not brand new, I'll go to a used album store and promote recycling.
There are places online that you can ship your tech junk to and they will recycle it. For a small fee they will also destroy any data containing devices.
I recently had a conversation at work about security issues. The fact is that any security system can be beaten. You can keep trying to make it more and more difficult to beat, but at some point you just have to decide that it's good enough. At the same time, you don't want your security to be so over the top that it is either prohibitive such that people are encouraged to find a work around, or it's just plain ineffectual. Adding chips to passports isn't a bad idea (if they actually put enough security in them to make it prohibitive to emulate), but it's not a replacement for old fasion visual inspection.
Mod parent up. This is the most insightful response I've read yet. I wonder if there is some kind of review board for violations of ethical practice for librarians. I know with Professional Engineer certifications, they are very strict about demanding ethical conduct from engineers, and have a review process in place for investigating violations of the Professional Engineer ethical code.
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A vote for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil.
Why vote for the lesser of two evils?
This is poor logic. Stupid people do not vote based on any intelligable information, and therefore it can not be assumed that they are not voting for the most qualified candidate. Instead, you should make the decision for them. Find out who they are voting for, and if it is in opposition to your informed decision, hit them with your car right before election day. Since people with informed decisions will be voting for a variety of candidates, this line of reasoning has the benefit of simply removing all stupid people from the voting public.
This is all just part of the poor sportsmanship I am talking about.
Does anyone even care about the Olympics anymore? After crap like this, and all of the crap they let China get away with breaking their rules, I don't want the Olympics anywhere near the US. They have come to represent poor integrity and greed to a degree worse than the investment banks that are now putting our economy in the crapper. Somehow I don't feel that they still represent good sportsmanship.
well according to the article, "Thompson always wanted to own a Bar." Maybe they ment to say "p0wn".
This is the inevitable result of No Child Left Behind. Schools no longer have the free authority to fail students who refuse to perform, so they need a way to give them a boost. There is strong opposition in the US to replacing poorly run monopolistic public schools with private charter schools paid with public money, so the education is not going to improve. Meanwhile, government officials think you can just throw technology at the problem (the PA governor ran his re-election campaign with his education platform being that a laptop on every school desk would rocket our education quality to top notch... Speaking of which, I haven't heard of any movement on that promise).
Actually, being "non-profit" means that there is no profit in the business to be paid out to investors, directors, or employees. All "profit" is recycled back into the company. The directors can profit by increasing their salary when business is steadily doing better. Running a successful non-profit can be quite lucrative, but not nearly so much as running a successful for-profit.
I for one encourage kids who do not like high school to get their GED at 15 or 16 and then drop out of high school and go to college or trade school. If you are intelligent and go to college after completing high school, the chances are that you will simply spend the first year of college repeating things you already learned in the last two years of high school. The difference is that in college, you are likely to be taught more substance in the topics.
I personally would appreciate a link to a separate section that provides all of the details. I understand the need to cut things down for a broad audience (talk to me about intricate details of economic policy and I would glaze over like any average person would about tech policy), but that does not mean that there is no place for details. It's cuts like these that give rise to the complaints that Obama doesn't really say anything.
While I don't think that's the whole story, there is definitly something to this. Even most well educated people are going to be dumbstruck by detailing tech policy. Ask any liberal arts major who's 30 years old what net neutrality really means and the chances are going to be pretty good that they either have the wrong idea or no idea at all. The community of people who wont glaze over when reading detailed tech policy is pretty tiny in comparison to the rest of the US population. That's why we often get paid more.
If someone were to do this, I would be happy to help with the hardware end of it. Keep in mind that a lot of the existing systems have security problems beyond just the poor software implementation.
I am curious to know how Calc I, II, III, and Dif. Equ. are weeder classes for engineering majors. I am always surprised when I find out that Freshman Engineering is such a difficult year for so many students. I thought it was the easiest year I ever had since most of what I took (Gen Chem, Calc I and II, Physics, etc) were things I had already taken in high school. I don't recall learning much in Freshman Engineering other than C and how to apply calculus to physics.
You have the rest of your life to become narrow, why make it happen sooner?
Because I'm broke now, not later. Going straight to grad school was not an option for me. The money was all tapped out. I was fortunate when I graduated that I had built close connections with a professor that hired me out of undergrad until I could find an industry job. Only now, over two years later, am I able to consider going back for an MS.
I'm sure their heads are quite comfortably resting on a pillow of cocaine laced cash.
Anyone ever think of attaching one of these to a Police Commissioner's or (if you really have balls) a Congressman's car and setting up a public website to share the data in real time?
Welcome to the United States. Please make sure to get your complimentary lube before exiting the airport.
I've had my laptop searched and I wasn't even going through Customs. Since then I refuse to take a computer onto a plane. I don't even know what they'll consider problem material anymore. It seems to change every week. They didn't let one guy on a plane because he was praying to Allah. Some oddball girl from MIT was harassed because she had a prototyping board with LEDs strapped to her shirt. What if I have text files of Slashdot comments on my desktop which often contain anti-US government sentiment? I'm more frightened of DHS right now than any terrorist. With that information, I don't need anyone's data.
It sounds like there's a real problem in non-tech companies with the business group not appreciating what the tech group does. I work at a manufacturing facility (totally different environment) and bonuses are calculated based upon the performance of each group within the company. Of course we always run into clashes between departments as each group is too slow in the eyes of every other group, but we all appreciate everyone's role. The parent is right. There's no excuse to treat your business people badly. But that needs to go both ways.
How much does this differ with the United States in Mexico or the Cherokee? England with South Africa? Spain with Mexico? No one will deny that the Chinese are particularly brutal in their methods, but what they did there is nothing new and nothing that has not been long forgotten with many "civilized" nations. Perhaps Württemberg should demand it's freedom from Germany since they were conquered by Brandenburg?
How hard would it be for one of these counties to write new software on their own?
Really hard considering that the hardware is not open sourced, the final system (which includes software) needs validated an approved, and if they don't have a budget for new systems that actually work half ways decent, then they definately don't have a budget to hire a contractor to write and document software in a short period of time that will comply with HAVA. "10 lines of code" is an extreme understatement of the problem. You couldn't even implement the voice system for the blind with 10 lines of code, and that's only a small piece of the puzzle. Make no mistake, these are complex systems with moderately complex software.
I don't pay anything to listen to public radio or tv broadcasts. Those are funded entirely (at least in the USA) by advertising and/or listener donations. What makes you think that the RIAA will not be controlling the medium? They will need some way to measure the individual artist share, and they are going to want to make sure that those "measurements" favor the big studios as much as they can. They will also likely want some control over the format (DRM is go) to maintain some semblance of control over how you use the music. The only thing that the RIAA is changing their stance on here is that they are finally realizing just how much this scheme could be as profitable or even more profitable for the big labels.
$5/month?! Holy crap! With my music download rate, I would be paying the same for one soft copy of a song as I normally would for a whole physical album. Screw that. I am more than happy to spend my approximate $2/year in iTunes purchases. If I want a whole album and it's not brand new, I'll go to a used album store and promote recycling.
There are places online that you can ship your tech junk to and they will recycle it. For a small fee they will also destroy any data containing devices.
I recently had a conversation at work about security issues. The fact is that any security system can be beaten. You can keep trying to make it more and more difficult to beat, but at some point you just have to decide that it's good enough. At the same time, you don't want your security to be so over the top that it is either prohibitive such that people are encouraged to find a work around, or it's just plain ineffectual. Adding chips to passports isn't a bad idea (if they actually put enough security in them to make it prohibitive to emulate), but it's not a replacement for old fasion visual inspection.
Mod parent up. This is the most insightful response I've read yet. I wonder if there is some kind of review board for violations of ethical practice for librarians. I know with Professional Engineer certifications, they are very strict about demanding ethical conduct from engineers, and have a review process in place for investigating violations of the Professional Engineer ethical code.