Houston should have gotten one of the Shuttles. They where the third most deserving location after the Smithsonian and KSC.
Although I agree that Houston "got the shaft" so to speak, I believe the reason they weren't selected is there's not enough tourism there. From Kens5.com, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said:
"This was a very difficult decision, but one that was made with the American public in mind. In the end, these choices provide the greatest number of people with the best opportunity to share in the history and accomplishments of NASA's remarkable Space Shuttle Program. These facilities we've chosen have a noteworthy legacy of preserving space artifacts and providing outstanding access to U.S. and international visitors."
A-freakin-men to your whole post, you took all the words right out of my mouth. I'm often shocked at how lax the doctors and staff are even with simple stuff like Windows updates. Just today I found 3 computers at a client's office that were running WinXP SP2!
the systems that record patient information are highly governed and regulated. HIPAA provides strict guidelines on access control, how data can be managed remotely
Yes, HIPAA does provide "strict guidelines," but how often do they audit? Guidelines are useless when not followed. I have several clients who are doctors/dentists and I know more about HIPAA than they do. To them, it's just a piece of paper w/ rules written on it.
For someone looking to 'steal' records, it would be much easier to break a window, and jimmy a file cabinet and run off with records than 'hack' into a online patient registry and steal information.
Much easier than parking in the lot, cracking a weak WEP key and having a field day on the network? I think not.
It would lead to a massive influx of money seeking to do the same.
I'm a resident of WV, and what you've said will probably never happen. There are a ton of reasons businesses don't locate in my state. The State Chamber of Commerce has come out with suggestion after suggestion as to what needs to be done to attract more business, and it's ignored every time. The state legislature is run by attorneys and lobbyists for the coal and timber industries.
There's a reason Forbes magazine ranks WV at the bottom or near the bottom in all categories that are good (like ability to attract new business), and there's a reason WV is ranked at or near the top in all categories that are bad (percentage of obese, smokers, etc.).
This news will be good news only for those who wish to exploit it for their own greed.
I totally forgot about Pinbot, that was a pretty good one. I liked 8-Ball Deluxe too, but was annoyed that the guy on the score background looked like the blacksmith on the farm I worked on. "Shoot for......8-ball.....Go for.....Deluxe!" Them was the days!
You are no more obligated to do anything than the guy you're pulling a fork from, you will see your good work benefit the community, and you just might save the project over the long haul.
I agree. Although, in my own experiences w/ zoneminder, I've found that it's not so much the software itself but also shitty firmware on the cameras. I've seen cgi's that return a snapshot only 60-75% of the time (other times returning a blank screen or crashing). Since zoneminder works w/ these cgi's I'm wondering if the problem isn't just the software but a combination of that and the camera's firmware.
"Education" in the US is generally retarded. It doesn't help first that we have a "teach to the level of the slowest retard" (thanks, "no child left behind" laws) mentality
I was with you, until you said this:
it REALLY doesn't help that our teachers are paid such shitty wages
The problem w/ gov't education is they try to do a "one size fits all" approach when education is really a local chore. The Federal gov't has no business sticking their nose in it. I'm not sure where you live, but where I do a teacher's starting salary is more than the average of my county. They have full benefits, including eye and dental, and it's all free. Most retire in their 50's on a pension that's around $100k/year. In my county the school system spends about $15k/student/year, and it goes up every year too. The students that go from K-12 do worse than the private school graduates in all areas of testing, and the percentage that move onto college is less than half. Add to that the fact that the school system is the largest employer in my county, and they have off work every election day, so you know who's going to be voted onto the school board? Former school employees that will vote unanimously on higher taxes, more bonds and levies so their budget is larger, as well as dole out projects to their buddies via "improvement" projects.
You know who really has a shitty teaching job? The ones that teach at Catholic schools. They make about 1/4th what the public schools do, have little or no benefits, are responsible for their own savings, and have very old and outdated teaching tools. Yet the Catholic school graduates do much better than their public school peers, and tuition is $4k/student/year.
and required to endure such useless ongoing certification and "continuing education" crap
This is a bad thing? A teacher who's been in the system 20 years needs this kind of thing to keep current with everything.
you get to work incredibly shitty hours,
Who doesn't?
good luck scheduling a vacation
Three months every summer, plus winter break and all other major holidays isn't enough?
NO support when you have to deal with troublemaker brats whose parents haven't taught them manners
Ah, here's where you hit the nail on the head. Good schools are more about good parents than they are about teachers and money. The reason the Catholic school grads do better than their public school peers is because their parents are more involved. They help them with their homework, encourage them to do extra-curricular activities, and like to see "A's" and "B's" instead of "C's" and lower. Any student can succeed if their parents are involved, offering encouragement and constructive criticism as needed. It doesn't matter as much who's teaching them or how much they're getting paid.
you put a slow leak in the brake fluid line instead of just cutting it
The target will still notice something is wrong right away. With a slow leak, it's like opening the bleeder valve. The pedal will go to the floor (slowly, perhaps) and they may work for a time until the fluid is completely gone. If you're like me, you'll tend to pump the brake when it seems like there's no pedal, which will hasten the fluid loss even more. We're talking lots of hydraulic pressure here, so even a pin hole will make the pedal feel "different."
if I climbed under your car in the parking lot, I could cut the brake lines
This is true, however your target would notice their brakes didn't work before pulling out of the parking space, when they pressed them to put the car into gear. Even if the car had a standard transmission, your target wouldn't get far in the parking lot before realizing something was wrong.
Getting the brakes to fail at any time after the car is in motion would be impressive.
The space shuttle development ran from the late 60's to the first launch in 1981. Even Apollo was a seven year program, one year longer than the term of a senator.
Except that the average length of service in the Senate is almost 13 years. Byrd has been in there since 1959!
I work in Detroit, an elected official here was recently convicted for perjury, which resulted in $8.4 million in cost to the city taxpayer (which means I paid some of it). I didn't even get to vote against the guy because I live outside the city... Yet I have to help pay the bill.
I'm confused, if you don't live in the city, and there's an $8.4m cost to the city taxpayer (your words), how exactly are you paying for it? Aren't the city taxpayers paying, and not you?
In any case, claiming you can't vote the guy out because you don't live in the city isn't a valid argument. No one is stopping you from moving somewhere where you can cast your vote.
Motorola forgot that the reason people bought their products was because they were the best in the world.
No doubt. When I was into amateur radios in the '70s and '80s, their products were always known for quality, durability and reliability. Anyone who owned a Motorola hand-held knew that, if you were being mugged, you could probably beat your attacker down with your radio and then still be able to use it to call for help.
Hell, my 1st-gen razor has fallen off my hip while i was riding my motorcycle and it's still kicking ass.
although i'm not familiar w/ the 3rd party tool mentioned in the link you provided, i assume it has something to do w/ putting the data into a format that the COPY command can read, correct?
if that's the case, it sounds like it's the tool and not postgresql having the problem. i can't remember ever having a problem using COPY to load bulk data, even when moving data from an old distribution (7.x) to a new one (8.x). i've always found pg_dump -a to work well.
well, i take that back somewhat. sometimes when moving from a 7.x to 8.x version, dumping high-ascii chars won't import if the 8.x db is utf-8. nine times out of 10 it's because someone copied-and-pasted from a word document and all the autoformatted double quotes, apostrophies and such won't import, causing the restore to shit the bed. in those cases it's hard to find the bad data if you're using COPY (which pg_dump -a uses) to restore. instead i'll use pg_dump -D, because the actual line that fails will be spit out in the error message. of course, that also defeats the bulk-loading speed.
just wait until you're out in the business world, you'll be amazed at how many different pieces of data need to be managed. it goes way beyond name, address, phone and email. on the surface it does sound like poor design and something that's probably impossible to normalize, but i have seen it (and more) in my day.
The point I was making was that in the US someone working for minimum wage makes what a person with a technical degree makes in India. In the US it takes two people making that wage to make enough to survive. For that same level of income you can live nicely in Mumbai.
i think you're comparing apples and oranges here. you'd need to compare how hard it is to live on minimum wage in mumbai, if they have such a thing. differences in cost of living in other countries has to do with a lot of factors and i'm not quite certain trying to make a linear comparison without including the effect of these factors is possible.
The point is that there are tens of thousands of people who have gotten degrees in the US who can not get jobs no matter what their degrees are.
you're right, getting a college education is no guarantee you'll find a good job (by good i mean wrt pay, not necessarily working conditions), but you'll have a much better leg-up than the high-school graduate who's looking for a job too.
Just to live you need about $30,000/year. Which is about twice what a full time worker makes at minimum wage.
if that's the case, then a minimum wage worker would have to do what i did for a while - work 2 jobs, get a roommate, and go to college. no one is stopping you from bettering yourself. it may take 10 years instead of 4 (as it did for me), but i graduated without any loans to repay and found companies were willing to pay me about 4-5 times more than i was used to making.
...where I live in central Texas our entire society is designed around the assumption that you own a car and can pay $600++/month for housing...Seriously, do you have any suggestions?
is someone preventing you from moving closer to where you work? or finding a cheaper place to live? just because you're renting doesn't mean you're in debt.
But I have to chuckle when I see a small business with a website and their own domain name, but still using @comcast or @aol on their business card for email.
i can go one better - an attorney client has on his business cards name@laywers.com. except that the correct domain is lawyer.com. so every time he gives out a card he takes a pen and scratches out the 's'. yeah, that looks professional.
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Although I agree that Houston "got the shaft" so to speak, I believe the reason they weren't selected is there's not enough tourism there. From Kens5.com, NASA administrator Charles Bolden said:
A-freakin-men to your whole post, you took all the words right out of my mouth. I'm often shocked at how lax the doctors and staff are even with simple stuff like Windows updates. Just today I found 3 computers at a client's office that were running WinXP SP2!
Yes, HIPAA does provide "strict guidelines," but how often do they audit? Guidelines are useless when not followed. I have several clients who are doctors/dentists and I know more about HIPAA than they do. To them, it's just a piece of paper w/ rules written on it.
Much easier than parking in the lot, cracking a weak WEP key and having a field day on the network? I think not.
I'm a resident of WV, and what you've said will probably never happen. There are a ton of reasons businesses don't locate in my state. The State Chamber of Commerce has come out with suggestion after suggestion as to what needs to be done to attract more business, and it's ignored every time. The state legislature is run by attorneys and lobbyists for the coal and timber industries.
There's a reason Forbes magazine ranks WV at the bottom or near the bottom in all categories that are good (like ability to attract new business), and there's a reason WV is ranked at or near the top in all categories that are bad (percentage of obese, smokers, etc.).
This news will be good news only for those who wish to exploit it for their own greed.
I totally forgot about Pinbot, that was a pretty good one. I liked 8-Ball Deluxe too, but was annoyed that the guy on the score background looked like the blacksmith on the farm I worked on. "Shoot for......8-ball.....Go for.....Deluxe!" Them was the days!
One of my favorites of all time was Gorgar. Other of my favorites over the years include:
Comet
Superman
And of course, the multiball classic High Speed.
I agree. Although, in my own experiences w/ zoneminder, I've found that it's not so much the software itself but also shitty firmware on the cameras. I've seen cgi's that return a snapshot only 60-75% of the time (other times returning a blank screen or crashing). Since zoneminder works w/ these cgi's I'm wondering if the problem isn't just the software but a combination of that and the camera's firmware.
I was with you, until you said this:
The problem w/ gov't education is they try to do a "one size fits all" approach when education is really a local chore. The Federal gov't has no business sticking their nose in it. I'm not sure where you live, but where I do a teacher's starting salary is more than the average of my county. They have full benefits, including eye and dental, and it's all free. Most retire in their 50's on a pension that's around $100k/year. In my county the school system spends about $15k/student/year, and it goes up every year too. The students that go from K-12 do worse than the private school graduates in all areas of testing, and the percentage that move onto college is less than half. Add to that the fact that the school system is the largest employer in my county, and they have off work every election day, so you know who's going to be voted onto the school board? Former school employees that will vote unanimously on higher taxes, more bonds and levies so their budget is larger, as well as dole out projects to their buddies via "improvement" projects.
You know who really has a shitty teaching job? The ones that teach at Catholic schools. They make about 1/4th what the public schools do, have little or no benefits, are responsible for their own savings, and have very old and outdated teaching tools. Yet the Catholic school graduates do much better than their public school peers, and tuition is $4k/student/year.
This is a bad thing? A teacher who's been in the system 20 years needs this kind of thing to keep current with everything.
Who doesn't?
Three months every summer, plus winter break and all other major holidays isn't enough?
Ah, here's where you hit the nail on the head. Good schools are more about good parents than they are about teachers and money. The reason the Catholic school grads do better than their public school peers is because their parents are more involved. They help them with their homework, encourage them to do extra-curricular activities, and like to see "A's" and "B's" instead of "C's" and lower. Any student can succeed if their parents are involved, offering encouragement and constructive criticism as needed. It doesn't matter as much who's teaching them or how much they're getting paid.
Fixed that for ya.
Not only that, but when I read TFA (yeah, I know), a lot of the links went nowhere.
The target will still notice something is wrong right away. With a slow leak, it's like opening the bleeder valve. The pedal will go to the floor (slowly, perhaps) and they may work for a time until the fluid is completely gone. If you're like me, you'll tend to pump the brake when it seems like there's no pedal, which will hasten the fluid loss even more. We're talking lots of hydraulic pressure here, so even a pin hole will make the pedal feel "different."
This is true, however your target would notice their brakes didn't work before pulling out of the parking space, when they pressed them to put the car into gear. Even if the car had a standard transmission, your target wouldn't get far in the parking lot before realizing something was wrong.
Getting the brakes to fail at any time after the car is in motion would be impressive.
:%s/ChangeAllInstancesOfThis/ToThat/g
And I didn't need to use the mouse or a Function key. Plus I get the power of a regex to boot. It's by far my most favorite feature of Vim.
If you do that you run the risk of getting reported to ICANN.
Except that the average length of service in the Senate is almost 13 years. Byrd has been in there since 1959!
Source: CRS Report for 110th Congress
I'm confused, if you don't live in the city, and there's an $8.4m cost to the city taxpayer (your words), how exactly are you paying for it? Aren't the city taxpayers paying, and not you?
In any case, claiming you can't vote the guy out because you don't live in the city isn't a valid argument. No one is stopping you from moving somewhere where you can cast your vote.
No doubt. When I was into amateur radios in the '70s and '80s, their products were always known for quality, durability and reliability. Anyone who owned a Motorola hand-held knew that, if you were being mugged, you could probably beat your attacker down with your radio and then still be able to use it to call for help.
Hell, my 1st-gen razor has fallen off my hip while i was riding my motorcycle and it's still kicking ass.
So long!
egad, i'd give anything for a "+infinity, hilarious" right now...
although i'm not familiar w/ the 3rd party tool mentioned in the link you provided, i assume it has something to do w/ putting the data into a format that the COPY command can read, correct?
if that's the case, it sounds like it's the tool and not postgresql having the problem. i can't remember ever having a problem using COPY to load bulk data, even when moving data from an old distribution (7.x) to a new one (8.x). i've always found pg_dump -a to work well.
well, i take that back somewhat. sometimes when moving from a 7.x to 8.x version, dumping high-ascii chars won't import if the 8.x db is utf-8. nine times out of 10 it's because someone copied-and-pasted from a word document and all the autoformatted double quotes, apostrophies and such won't import, causing the restore to shit the bed. in those cases it's hard to find the bad data if you're using COPY (which pg_dump -a uses) to restore. instead i'll use pg_dump -D, because the actual line that fails will be spit out in the error message. of course, that also defeats the bulk-loading speed.
just wait until you're out in the business world, you'll be amazed at how many different pieces of data need to be managed. it goes way beyond name, address, phone and email. on the surface it does sound like poor design and something that's probably impossible to normalize, but i have seen it (and more) in my day.
i second your sentiments. i have never had even a blip with postgresql, so i'm interested in knowing what happened as well.
i think you're comparing apples and oranges here. you'd need to compare how hard it is to live on minimum wage in mumbai, if they have such a thing. differences in cost of living in other countries has to do with a lot of factors and i'm not quite certain trying to make a linear comparison without including the effect of these factors is possible.
you're right, getting a college education is no guarantee you'll find a good job (by good i mean wrt pay, not necessarily working conditions), but you'll have a much better leg-up than the high-school graduate who's looking for a job too.
if that's the case, then a minimum wage worker would have to do what i did for a while - work 2 jobs, get a roommate, and go to college. no one is stopping you from bettering yourself. it may take 10 years instead of 4 (as it did for me), but i graduated without any loans to repay and found companies were willing to pay me about 4-5 times more than i was used to making.
is someone preventing you from moving closer to where you work? or finding a cheaper place to live? just because you're renting doesn't mean you're in debt.
what's most disturbing about this is forbes magazine just named monsanto company of the year.
i can go one better - an attorney client has on his business cards name@laywers.com. except that the correct domain is lawyer.com. so every time he gives out a card he takes a pen and scratches out the 's'. yeah, that looks professional.