Why crack a fortified home, when an unfortified one is available? A lot of the rationale behind this sort of thing is that it makes your home look a lot less vulnerable than the home next door. Unless the bad guys have a reason to break into this particular home, they'll be greatly encouraged to just go elsewhere.
I couldn't agree with you more!
Most of the people emulating the habits of the elites have no idea why they're even doing what they're doing. The people taking these precautions for real have tens if not hundreds of billions of reasons why a "murderous gang" (NLP anyone?) might want to get at them... they might not be "ashamed of their success" (i.e shitting on people) but they're not stupid either... I'm all for hard work and reaping what one sews, but it's quite obvious that many of these folks have reaped waaaaaay more than what they have sewn. If one believes in the murderous gang meme, it's pretty safe to infer that they also believe in Terrorists who just want to kill us because they hate our way of life, Bloodthirsty Gangbangers (ironically ran by the police in most places with gang problems..) who kill indiscriminately, The tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus. This is obviously a poor attempt to distribute the issues of a few people to the masses. Home invasion does happen, but the odds are so low, most people need not modify their architecture to compensate for this. All that being said; when I build a house, best believe it will be zombie proof! HUNTING SEASON OPENS SOON..........
vote? have you taken a look at the 500+ dead people that voted in the SC Primary? or the discrepencies in the Iowa Caucus? what about the debacle of 2000 or Ohio in 2004? To quote Mr Jay Electronica: "Regardless who you vote for If the mind don't grow And the poverty line don’t go But the dope keep coming And the tv keep flashing images of a sports car Then you bound for a coke war The meek get clowned by the coke law The sheep get drowned in the folklore Then lulled to sleep by Tom Brokaw What a pity, the hope on a politician's tongue Never ever trickles down the city"
Ironically enough, I think that a transition can be made without firing a shot; the people that we speak of are cowardly and weak. They rely on underlings for their food, water, shelter and lifestyle. Without their fake incentive program, they'd die in a month. The game can't go on if enough people refuse to play.
Now, they are killing him with artificial praise. It's like the moneylenders in the Temple, now selling "Jesus Slept Here" t-shirts.
+1 on that. Not much different from what happens to other proponents of peace and unity. I'm Pretty sure Ghandi wouldn't have wanted his likeness on the 100 rupee bill in India, yet it is..
if you read the headline, it doesn't match the quote at all - what he's saying is that while the technology is great and makes life more convienent, the product doesn't help create jobs in the American Job sector. I think this is a valid point. i don't think he's being xenophobic or technophobic, but pointing out the fact that our country doesn't produce much of anything anymore. Whoever came up with the headline, shame on you for the title, but THANKS for including the quote for clarification.
great! now we can pay triple or four tines as much for a service thats available in rural villages in france and the UK . america has shit internet for a country thats supposedly so well off. wake me up when 105Mbs is bundled with phone and television. for 40 or 50 bucks a month. oh , and comcast can eat a fat one.
I use a mac every day, and I can second that the filesystem sucks dog nuts - (journaling my ass!) have lost two one TB Drives to HFS+ and I also hate the fact that Adobe products and some other major products REFUSE to install on case sensitive HFS+ drives (had to jump through some hoops but made it work) and I also agree about the mousing and half-ass keyboard shortcuts- have the double wrist braces to show for it (well actually that's baseball AND bad typing/ mousing posture) That all being said, I still like the interface (once you hack it up just a bit) and the BSD utilities, albeit a crude mix-match. I spent much of my college (1.0) years haunched over a dell laptop running Linux ssh'ing and running X to connect to the labs over at Harvey Mudd where I took CS. once I found out P=NP ain't for me, I found audio engineering which seems the perfect blend of computer skills while interfacing with intriguing personalities, at least for me. OS9 was always a joke to me, but AT THE TIME OS X was the closest I could get to blending the *nix experience with a coherent GUI. Somewhere along the line, Apple quit giving a shit about serious Audio/Video people and decided to focus on ipods and the like. During this time Hardware upgrades to the Mac as well as serious (desktop) OS development slowed to almost a stop, forcing many serious Media Pros to jump ship (many of my video professors who do work outside of teaching use PC's running AVID or ADOBE Premiere) because of lack of support for modern graphics technologies amongst other things. Apple may have turned the corner on this with the introduction of Thunderbolt, but this is yet to be seen. lack of non mac filesystem support in os X is also a big pain in the crotch, especially since it would be trivial to do zfs and ntfs successfully and NTFS support (including writing to it! ) is soreley missed in the audio production side of things. It's 2011, there's really no excuse as to why I still can't write safely to my NTFS partitions without fear of severe data corruption (yeah I know Microsoft didn't document how to write to the filesystem) . So why do I stay with the Mac? Logic and ProTools which I use every day. PS, will Microsoft and Apple please agree on a protocol to share files across the network? smb sucks on macs and afp support on Windows is the same. at least then Macs can play in mac world and PC's in PC Land while sharing files without names being too long or your network shared drive being full of.ds_store files and other.bullshit
I'm just wondering what the hell is wrong with the intense nuclear reaction a mere 93 million miles away from us, what it's too far away? Anyone who has ever tried growing plants under regular light bulbs knows this one: when the bulb gets too close to the plant IT KILLS THE PLANT. Has anyone considered all the radiation that comes off the sun that gets filtered out by our atmosphere? yeah let's create that planet-side !! why not just use the perfectly viable energy source that wakes our asses up every morning? considering that enough energy gets dumped on our planet every day to power our lives for years just makes it seem like we're not utilizing what's literally smacking us in the face very well.
"The Secure features a fingerprint scanner and a thermal sensor 'so that the finger alone, detached from the body, will still not give access to the memory stick's contents." I'm sure that if someone went through the trouble of removing the finger to access the Secure Pro, then they'd go through the trouble of warming the dead finger up so that they could have access. seems kinda gimmicky to me...
damn, I was about to ask the same thing- Why try and play Creator, when we have perfectly good creation that has already been created that doesn't cost as much as a car? where is Johnny Appleseed when you need him?
"a lot of good people [worked] insanely long hours [on this game] that was butchered by outside sources.'.... One of the [developers] made a post on the official forums saying they were 'effectively stabbed in the back,' and that much of the funding was filtered to the bureaucracy"
wow, if this wasn't talking about a video game, I would almost think they were talking about the real Army!
SCENARIO #1: Take one teacher. Put her in a classroom of Japanese-American kids or Hungarian-American kids. They will do well because they are committed to learning.
SCENARIO #2: Put that same teacher in a classroom of African-American kids from Oakland, California. The kids will do poorly because African-American culture rejects learning -- and rejects Western culture in general.
In scenario #2, the teacher would be fired as a "bad" teacher. In scenario #1, the same teacher would get a bonus for producing such accomplished students.
Is there any reasonable and objective way to determine a teacher's performance that is independent of the students in her classroom?
It's a shame you will be modded troll for this due to perceived racism against african-americans, despite raising a very valuable point. Guess that's why you went AC, I don't blame ya.
no you both won't be modded as trolls, just as shortsighted jingoist biggots.
now if you would have taken the African from in front of it and just said american culture rejects learning, then you might have had a point-- case and point, the absolute drivel that you just allowed to pass between the gap between your ears that obvioiusly passes for thought in your book, and through autonomic movement alone miraculusly passed from said empty space to your fingertips where it ended up on slashdot-- do us all a favor take the satelite dish off the cave you live in because you're clogging up the airwaves with your prehistoric excuse for intelligence.
As far as rejecting western culture, a culture that revolves around taking what you want, killing whoever gets in the way, god said it's ok, sex, drugs, and rock n roll (ok rock n roll is awesome for a cultural basis but follow along anyway) anyone with a brain would reject the poor excuse for a/an (mis)education that is talked down to most kids, not just African-Americans as you indicate, but all children that are put through pre-prison as I like to refer to our public school system as. To say that African-American culture rejects learning and western culture in general indicates to me that you're indoctrinated so deeply and ignorantly in western culture that you obviously are another proud product of our public education system, an anonymous coward-- thanks for serving as case and point, at least you know your life's purpose has been served so feel free to jump off the nearest bridge at this point so we can reduce our carbon footprint as a nation;-)
"dding to the brain drain is a problem with slow US visa processing, since last November or so, that has been driving desirable students and scientists out of the country. "
well if this holds true, then there should be plenty of room in the masters and phd programs for good ol' americans, wait, the average american public school student isn't prepared for college nevermind a masters or phd progam? the only higher level education that is still dominated by american students is law? oh.
-my point is that there needs to be a very concentrated effort to improve lower levels of education in this country so that they can even qualify as a "desireable" student! I really don't think that that's gonna happen because this economy revolves around the ignorance and inaction of others.
I think oscommerce chain reaction edition should work well for you. They set up the packages for you, and they offer hosting options. you can also get some assistance and an idea of what it could look like at musica360.com The owner is a really nice guy and helped me a lot when I was working on a simular project. good luck!
Period. My father works for a major carrier, and he's flat out told me and I have personally experienced, that if someone buys a one-way ticket, it raises a red flag. If you don't check any luggage, it raises a flag. If your name is a close match to the 'watch' list, it raises a red flag. Yes there might be some 'random' searches, but many of them are conducted as a result of a profile that was established soon after 9-11. This even applies to buddy pass riders, and family of airline employees. Since I've been profiled because of my race since second grade (told my parents I was a behavioral problem and should be in a Behavioral Handicapped class, even though I hardly spoke in class), stopped by police numerous times for no other reason than DWB (a special F-U goes out to the Claremont, CA police), and in general thought to be up to no good if I'm in the 'wrong' place at the 'wrong' time, all I can say to the rest of the population that thought that it was at one time exempt from being profiled for whatever reasons, welcome to reality(tm).
Look, maybe this doesn't happen to folks very often, but as someone who doesn't currently own a cellphone and uses public transportation and payphones quite a bit it is a valid scenario:
you're stuck somewhere and the last bus has already run it's route. It's cold or rainy and you've already walked five to ten miles and are feeling really tired/hungry and like the world doesn't give two shits about you. you're down to your last fifty cents and you've decided to call one of your so-called friends that you think is most likely to help you out. you dial the number hoping, praying that they'll pick up, and the call goes directly to voicemail, robbing you of the last bit of money that you have. My current life situation has helped to put things in a maybe 'unique' perspective, but I think that we just need to develop systems or just learn ourselves to handle unwanted calls in a humane, yet stern manner making it clear that solicitous repeated calls are unwanted, yet leaving the line open for our friends and family that might be on payphones or in unusual situations and in dire need of our help.
"how kum city folk haf ter dew all kinda ex-per-I-ments befur they realiiize commun sense? "
Science is a great thing, but it seems as if some folks rely on it for every aspect of their lives. do we really have to 'create' an environment for ourselves that is every day proving to be more wholistically deficient everyday, and re-test every little aspect of the world around us just to find out that what was naturally provided is really great at it's seemingly intended purpose of sustaning us along with all other life? I'm not saying that science isn't a great and wonderful thing, but it seems as if as a species, we don't respect the system that has been provided as good enough. It's funny that we then are so shocked when adverse effects to 'snubbing'and isolating ourselves from nature are discovered.
Rap music glorifies violence and death, and its treatment of the relationships between the sexes is repulsive
--where did you get that from, a book? You sound like a page out of some dumb misinformed newsperson's journal true there are songs out there that do glorify violence and death, but so are there in other generes of music. And just like other generes of music, it has some very, very bright spots too. I listen to just about everything (sans country) and have my favorites in all of these generes. But just like rap, most of the utter SHIT that crawls it's way into the "MAINSTREAM" is not that great. It usually represents some uniform theme that every other song that crawled into the "main(shit)stream" does, and is ususallly of the same wack quality. I've actually did my part and LISTENED to the other stuff that I once considered crap, and was suprised to find LOTS of music with redeeming and even entertaining qualities. have you?
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I'm with my man on this one. The imagery of rap that you all have displayed is proof that perceptions are drasticly skewed. It's like this insane circle that someone has formed for the benefit of profitability --little jimmy sees the 6 o'clock news talking about the "intrensic" violence contained in "Gangsta" rap --he goes and picks up the album that he saw on the news --he takes everything LITERALLY that he hears on the album like it's the gospel or someething and turns into an overnight wanna-be thug.
Now I bet that you all thought that little jimmy was white, but he could be black, latino, chineese or whatever. I've seen it happen all over the place. what these kids missed (or what they overly related to) is that the song that they were ignorantly bobbing their heads to was a song of loss of a homie (a friend) over some bullshit. the tale was brilliantly entertaining (as shown by the bobbing of the heads) but over their little heads. Now little Jimmy feels like he can take over the world and bust a cap in anybody's ass that comes his way. Little does he know that he has just stepped into the shoes of the homey that died on the album who thought that his shit didn't stink either. It's a circle I tell you, and keeping open minds and open eyes as to what's going on is the only answer
--"if you curse a hair on your head, you curse yourself" and this holds true in this case as well. if you make generalizations about a subject and it only applies to a small percentage of a population, then you are inadvertantly making generalizations about the group of people who participate. I'm not really mad at the parody(if that's what it was supposed to be) I'm just mad at how ignorant it was. at least if you make a parody, make it good.
Yes, I know there is rap music from the Roots, Common, Lauryn Hill, etc. that is uplifting but these are exceptions to the rule and not the norm. And even then they still do not define our culture but are simply just songs some of us listen to at the moment.
--you need to understand an underlying difference that you aren't making
RAP MUSIC is a genre that has been unduly and unjustly by many people labeled as GANGSTER and for those people who are semi-literate. this is a LABEL. True there are those people who choose to portray an image of impoverished ignorance but most of them do this because it sells. They don't want to be in the ghetto any more than me or the next person, but that image sells like f****'n hotcakes! I mean white folks, black folks, they eat it up. This is a problem in our JOINT society, where depictions of poverty, violence, and drugs are seen as entertainment.
Hip Hop is a culture that involves rapping, free-styling, dancing, and having a good-ass time. it doesn't have shit to do with butin' a cap in yo' ass. That's obviously what you've seen on tv, and that's what you've taken as fact. get off your ass and observe for yourself! take into account that one scene that you may happen upon doesn't represent hip hop as a whole. Some critical thinking is definately in order here..
"You know sometimes I really wonder what things would be like if the slave trade had never occurred. The U.S and Carribean would be far far different. But would the situation still be the same in Africa?"
-Your statement was rather tasteless and tactless, but yet you bring up a point. True the US and Carribean would be different--
-underdeveloped since the slaves built much of the infrastructure in these countries,
-undercultured-- the people of african decent who came over in the slave trade have in many ways formed the basis of much of american culture through food, music, art, and literature .
-understaffed -- well massa wasn't getting off his fat ass to pick the f****'n cotton
-unwealthy -- see "understaffed"
True Africa has it's own set of problems, but to me it looks as if you've read a fucking pamphlet and decided that you have enough info to make an intelligent decision on what's really going on in ALL parts of Africa. SURVEY SAYS--- bzzz!!! Oh I'm sorry anonymous, but that's the wrong fucking answer! shoulda just kept your mouth shut eh? coulda walked out with some dignity, but you just had to open your ignorance-infested mouth. The fact of the matter is that Africa first of all is a CONTINENT. there are a lot (over 45) different countries in Africa. It's not the fucking states, and yeah, there's a lot of baaaad shit happening over there. but it's still one of the most beautiful continents in the world with more mysteries and keys to all of our joint pasts than any other place in the world. Our very own country is Disease ridden (Greed, HIV, Tuberculosis) war ridden ( gang warfare, drug wars, political warfare) famine ridden( the famine of ignorance that threatans to grasp this country by the balls if it already hasn't) and yes! we evan have warlords who kill their own population on a daily basis for money and power. Our little girls practice self-mutilation by exposing themselves to the mutilated images of self that our society chooses to portray (overly -skinny models, rampant promiscuity as a norm, looks over intelligence) and buy whole-heartedly into these ideals as a norm. No knife is involved, but I believe that the scars run deeper.
--Do not curse the splint in another man's eye without removing the log from your own...
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The twomobile.com people were just trying to draw a parallel. for you guys to sit back from your computers and disrespect a culture and an artform that you clearly don't understand is crass, and even more low class than the people that you're insulting. first of all, pop culture and hip hop culture are two different things. pop culture is what you get after big record companies sink their money-lubed hooks into the artist. What you see on MTV and hear on #include is mostly crap. The main reason that they portray that "Ghetto" image is because that's what sells. That's what some suit has told him or her that they want to see more of. On the other hand, some artist have a message to relay or a story ot tell, and many times it does come from the ghetto because that's what they know and that's where they come from. If you listen to an evolving artist, many of them have to drop the "ghetto" pretenses because they aren't affiliated with that shit anymore. They have kids to feed and they aren't kids anymore themselves. They grow up. The same thing is true in othere generes of music and you're an idiot if you don't recognize it. I have heard a lot of other types of music(Metal, Country) and actively LISTEN to others (Hip Hop, Alternative, Trance, House, Jungle). The Game stays the same (talented kids trying to make it while the COMPANY uses them to make as much money before they're out of style) but the players change as you cross these different Generes. I'm a hip-hop head till I die, but even I see that it would benefit us all to take a look at what's really goin' on instead of bashing what we truly don't understand. Bottom line is this Music is a Business. Hip Hop is a business. Linux is becoming a business. It's up to the Linux community to shape the path of the business so that fewer people feel like they have to sell out to feel like they've made it. For a true Hip Hop artist, rapping is a first love. For a true programmer, programming is a first love. True the article didn't present the parallel in the best light, but the link is far from tenuous. Long live Linux Long live Hip Hop
firewire really shouldn't die because it has such potential. Imagine a computer with only usb and firewire connections.. the usb would be great for low bandwith connections such as keyboards, joysticks, mice, etc, and the firewire would connect harddrives, scanners, and other high bandwith devices to the bus. No Irq's to worry about (except system devices) and all plug & play. shame on intel for not adopting this technology
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Why crack a fortified home, when an unfortified one is available? A lot of the rationale behind this sort of thing is that it makes your home look a lot less vulnerable than the home next door. Unless the bad guys have a reason to break into this particular home, they'll be greatly encouraged to just go elsewhere.
I couldn't agree with you more!
Most of the people emulating the habits of the elites have no idea why they're even doing what they're doing. The people taking these precautions for real have tens if not hundreds of billions of reasons why a "murderous gang" (NLP anyone?) might want to get at them... they might not be "ashamed of their success" (i.e shitting on people) but they're not stupid either... I'm all for hard work and reaping what one sews, but it's quite obvious that many of these folks have reaped waaaaaay more than what they have sewn. If one believes in the murderous gang meme, it's pretty safe to infer that they also believe in Terrorists who just want to kill us because they hate our way of life, Bloodthirsty Gangbangers (ironically ran by the police in most places with gang problems..) who kill indiscriminately, The tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny, and Santa Claus. This is obviously a poor attempt to distribute the issues of a few people to the masses. Home invasion does happen, but the odds are so low, most people need not modify their architecture to compensate for this. All that being said; when I build a house, best believe it will be zombie proof! HUNTING SEASON OPENS SOON..........
vote? have you taken a look at the 500+ dead people that voted in the SC Primary? or the discrepencies in the Iowa Caucus? what about the debacle of 2000 or Ohio in 2004? To quote Mr Jay Electronica:
"Regardless who you vote for
If the mind don't grow
And the poverty line don’t go
But the dope keep coming
And the tv keep flashing images of a sports car
Then you bound for a coke war
The meek get clowned by the coke law
The sheep get drowned in the folklore
Then lulled to sleep by Tom Brokaw
What a pity, the hope on a politician's tongue
Never ever trickles down the city"
Ironically enough, I think that a transition can be made without firing a shot; the people that we speak of are cowardly and weak. They rely on underlings for their food, water, shelter and lifestyle. Without their fake incentive program, they'd die in a month. The game can't go on if enough people refuse to play.
Now, they are killing him with artificial praise. It's like the moneylenders in the Temple, now selling "Jesus Slept Here" t-shirts.
+1 on that. Not much different from what happens to other proponents of peace and unity. I'm Pretty sure Ghandi wouldn't have wanted his likeness on the 100 rupee bill in India, yet it is..
if you read the headline, it doesn't match the quote at all - what he's saying is that while the technology is great and makes life more convienent, the product doesn't help create jobs in the American Job sector. I think this is a valid point. i don't think he's being xenophobic or technophobic, but pointing out the fact that our country doesn't produce much of anything anymore. Whoever came up with the headline, shame on you for the title, but THANKS for including the quote for clarification.
great! now we can pay triple or four tines as much for a service thats available in rural villages in france and the UK . america has shit internet for a country thats supposedly so well off. wake me up when 105Mbs is bundled with phone and television. for 40 or 50 bucks a month. oh , and comcast can eat a fat one.
I use a mac every day, and I can second that the filesystem sucks dog nuts - (journaling my ass!) have lost two one TB Drives to HFS+ and I also hate the fact that Adobe products and some other major products REFUSE to install on case sensitive HFS+ drives (had to jump through some hoops but made it work) and I also agree about the mousing and half-ass keyboard shortcuts- have the double wrist braces to show for it (well actually that's baseball AND bad typing/ mousing posture) That all being said, I still like the interface (once you hack it up just a bit) and the BSD utilities, albeit a crude mix-match. I spent much of my college (1.0) years haunched over a dell laptop running Linux ssh'ing and running X to connect to the labs over at Harvey Mudd where I took CS. once I found out P=NP ain't for me, I found audio engineering which seems the perfect blend of computer skills while interfacing with intriguing personalities, at least for me. OS9 was always a joke to me, but AT THE TIME OS X was the closest I could get to blending the *nix experience with a coherent GUI. Somewhere along the line, Apple quit giving a shit about serious Audio/Video people and decided to focus on ipods and the like. During this time Hardware upgrades to the Mac as well as serious (desktop) OS development slowed to almost a stop, forcing many serious Media Pros to jump ship (many of my video professors who do work outside of teaching use PC's running AVID or ADOBE Premiere) because of lack of support for modern graphics technologies amongst other things. Apple may have turned the corner on this with the introduction of Thunderbolt, but this is yet to be seen. lack of non mac filesystem support in os X is also a big pain in the crotch, especially since it would be trivial to do zfs and ntfs successfully and NTFS support (including writing to it! ) is soreley missed in the audio production side of things. It's 2011, there's really no excuse as to why I still can't write safely to my NTFS partitions without fear of severe data corruption (yeah I know Microsoft didn't document how to write to the filesystem) . So why do I stay with the Mac? Logic and ProTools which I use every day. .ds_store files and other .bullshit
PS, will Microsoft and Apple please agree on a protocol to share files across the network? smb sucks on macs and afp support on Windows is the same. at least then Macs can play in mac world and PC's in PC Land while sharing files without names being too long or your network shared drive being full of
I'm just wondering what the hell is wrong with the intense nuclear reaction a mere 93 million miles away from us, what it's too far away? Anyone who has ever tried growing plants under regular light bulbs knows this one: when the bulb gets too close to the plant IT KILLS THE PLANT. Has anyone considered all the radiation that comes off the sun that gets filtered out by our atmosphere? yeah let's create that planet-side !! why not just use the perfectly viable energy source that wakes our asses up every morning? considering that enough energy gets dumped on our planet every day to power our lives for years just makes it seem like we're not utilizing what's literally smacking us in the face very well.
"The Secure features a fingerprint scanner and a thermal sensor 'so that the finger alone, detached from the body, will still not give access to the memory stick's contents."
I'm sure that if someone went through the trouble of removing the finger to access the Secure Pro, then they'd go through the trouble of warming the dead finger up so that they could have access. seems kinda gimmicky to me...
I really don't care what they cut, can I get some RECENT Dr Who here in the states??? Please?!
damn, I was about to ask the same thing- Why try and play Creator, when we have perfectly good creation that has already been created that doesn't cost as much as a car? where is Johnny Appleseed when you need him?
"a lot of good people [worked] insanely long hours [on this game] that was butchered by outside sources.' .... One of the [developers] made a post on the official forums saying they were 'effectively stabbed in the back,' and that much of the funding was filtered to the bureaucracy"
wow, if this wasn't talking about a video game, I would almost think they were talking about the real Army!
SCENARIO #1: Take one teacher. Put her in a classroom of Japanese-American kids or Hungarian-American kids. They will do well because they are committed to learning.
SCENARIO #2: Put that same teacher in a classroom of African-American kids from Oakland, California. The kids will do poorly because African-American culture rejects learning -- and rejects Western culture in general.
In scenario #2, the teacher would be fired as a "bad" teacher. In scenario #1, the same teacher would get a bonus for producing such accomplished students.
Is there any reasonable and objective way to determine a teacher's performance that is independent of the students in her classroom?
It's a shame you will be modded troll for this due to perceived racism against african-americans, despite raising a very valuable point. Guess that's why you went AC, I don't blame ya.
no you both won't be modded as trolls, just as shortsighted jingoist biggots. ;-)
now if you would have taken the African from in front of it and just said american culture rejects learning, then you might have had a point-- case and point, the absolute drivel that you just allowed to pass between the gap between your ears that obvioiusly passes for thought in your book, and through autonomic movement alone miraculusly passed from said empty space to your fingertips where it ended up on slashdot--
do us all a favor take the satelite dish off the cave you live in because you're clogging up the airwaves with your prehistoric excuse for intelligence.
As far as rejecting western culture, a culture that revolves around taking what you want, killing whoever gets in the way, god said it's ok, sex, drugs, and rock n roll (ok rock n roll is awesome for a cultural basis but follow along anyway) anyone with a brain would reject the poor excuse for a/an (mis)education that is talked down to most kids, not just African-Americans as you indicate, but all children that are put through pre-prison as I like to refer to our public school system as.
To say that African-American culture rejects learning and western culture in general indicates to me that you're indoctrinated so deeply and ignorantly in western culture that you obviously are another proud product of our public education system, an anonymous coward-- thanks for serving as case and point, at least you know your life's purpose has been served so feel free to jump off the nearest bridge at this point so we can reduce our carbon footprint as a nation
"dding to the brain drain is a problem with slow US visa processing, since last November or so, that has been driving desirable students and scientists out of the country. "
well if this holds true, then there should be plenty of room in the masters and phd programs for good ol' americans, wait, the average american public school student isn't prepared for college nevermind a masters or phd progam? the only higher level education that is still dominated by american students is law? oh.
-my point is that there needs to be a very concentrated effort to improve lower levels of education in this country so that they can even qualify as a "desireable" student!
I really don't think that that's gonna happen because this economy revolves around the ignorance and inaction of others.
I think oscommerce chain reaction edition should work well for you. They set up the packages for you, and they offer hosting options. you can also get some assistance and an idea of what it could look like at musica360.com The owner is a really nice guy and helped me a lot when I was working on a simular project. good luck!
Period. My father works for a major carrier, and he's flat out told me and I have personally experienced, that if someone buys a one-way ticket, it raises a red flag. If you don't check any luggage, it raises a flag. If your name is a close match to the 'watch' list, it raises a red flag. Yes there might be some 'random' searches, but many of them are conducted as a result of a profile that was established soon after 9-11. This even applies to buddy pass riders, and family of airline employees. Since I've been profiled because of my race since second grade (told my parents I was a behavioral problem and should be in a Behavioral Handicapped class, even though I hardly spoke in class), stopped by police numerous times for no other reason than DWB (a special F-U goes out to the Claremont, CA police), and in general thought to be up to no good if I'm in the 'wrong' place at the 'wrong' time, all I can say to the rest of the population that thought that it was at one time exempt from being profiled for whatever reasons, welcome to reality(tm).
Look, maybe this doesn't happen to folks very often, but as someone who doesn't currently own a cellphone and uses public transportation and payphones quite a bit it is a valid scenario:
you're stuck somewhere and the last bus has already run it's route. It's cold or rainy and you've already walked five to ten miles and are feeling really tired/hungry and like the world doesn't give two shits about you. you're down to your last fifty cents and you've decided to call one of your so-called friends that you think is most likely to help you out. you dial the number hoping, praying that they'll pick up, and the call goes directly to voicemail, robbing you of the last bit of money that you have. My current life situation has helped to put things in a maybe 'unique' perspective, but I think that we just need to develop systems or just learn ourselves to handle unwanted calls in a humane, yet stern manner making it clear that solicitous repeated calls are unwanted, yet leaving the line open for our friends and family that might be on payphones or in unusual situations and in dire need of our help.
"how kum city folk haf ter dew all kinda ex-per-I-ments befur they realiiize commun sense? "
Science is a great thing, but it seems as if some folks rely on it for every aspect of their lives. do we really have to 'create' an environment for ourselves that is every day proving to be more wholistically deficient everyday, and re-test every little aspect of the world around us just to find out that what was naturally provided is really great at it's seemingly intended purpose of sustaning us along with all other life? I'm not saying that science isn't a great and wonderful thing, but it seems as if as a species, we don't respect the system that has been provided as good enough. It's funny that we then are so shocked when adverse effects to 'snubbing'and isolating ourselves from nature are discovered.
--what's up with the "grits" allusion?
Rap music glorifies violence and death, and its treatment of the relationships between the sexes is repulsive
--where did you get that from, a book? You sound like a page out of some dumb misinformed newsperson's journal true there are songs out there that do glorify violence and death, but so are there in other generes of music. And just like other generes of music, it has some very, very bright spots too. I listen to just about everything (sans country) and have my favorites in all of these generes. But just like rap, most of the utter SHIT that crawls it's way into the "MAINSTREAM" is not that great. It usually represents some uniform theme that every other song that crawled into the "main(shit)stream" does, and is ususallly of the same wack quality. I've actually did my part and LISTENED to the other stuff that I once considered crap, and was suprised to find LOTS of music with redeeming and even entertaining qualities. have you?
I'm with my man on this one. The imagery of rap that you all have displayed is proof that perceptions are drasticly skewed. It's like this insane circle that someone has formed for the benefit of profitability
--little jimmy sees the 6 o'clock news talking about the "intrensic" violence contained in "Gangsta" rap
--he goes and picks up the album that he saw on the news
--he takes everything LITERALLY that he hears on the album like it's the gospel or someething and turns into an overnight wanna-be thug.
Now I bet that you all thought that little jimmy was white, but he could be black, latino, chineese or whatever. I've seen it happen all over the place. what these kids missed (or what they overly related to) is that the song that they were ignorantly bobbing their heads to was a song of loss of a homie (a friend) over some bullshit. the tale was brilliantly entertaining (as shown by the bobbing of the heads) but over their little heads. Now little Jimmy feels like he can take over the world and bust a cap in anybody's ass that comes his way. Little does he know that he has just stepped into the shoes of the homey that died on the album who thought that his shit didn't stink either. It's a circle I tell you, and keeping open minds and open eyes as to what's going on is the only answer
--"if you curse a hair on your head, you curse yourself" and this holds true in this case as well. if you make generalizations about a subject and it only applies to a small percentage of a population, then you are inadvertantly making generalizations about the group of people who participate. I'm not really mad at the parody(if that's what it was supposed to be) I'm just mad at how ignorant it was. at least if you make a parody, make it good.
Yes, I know there is rap music from the Roots, Common, Lauryn Hill, etc. that is uplifting but these are exceptions to the rule and not the norm. And even then they still do not define our culture but are simply just songs some of us listen to at the moment.
--you need to understand an underlying difference that you aren't making
RAP MUSIC is a genre that has been unduly and unjustly by many people labeled as GANGSTER and for those people who are semi-literate. this is a LABEL. True there are those people who choose to portray an image of impoverished ignorance but most of them do this because it sells. They don't want to be in the ghetto any more than me or the next person, but that image sells like f****'n hotcakes! I mean white folks, black folks, they eat it up. This is a problem in our JOINT society, where depictions of poverty, violence, and drugs are seen as entertainment.
Hip Hop is a culture that involves rapping, free-styling, dancing, and having a good-ass time. it doesn't have shit to do with butin' a cap in yo' ass. That's obviously what you've seen on tv, and that's what you've taken as fact. get off your ass and observe for yourself! take into account that one scene that you may happen upon doesn't represent hip hop as a whole. Some critical thinking is definately in order here..
"You know sometimes I really wonder what things would be like if the slave trade had never occurred. The U.S and Carribean would be far far different. But would the situation still be the same in Africa?"
-Your statement was rather tasteless and tactless, but yet you bring up a point. True the US and Carribean would be different--
-underdeveloped since the slaves built much of the infrastructure in these countries,
-undercultured-- the people of african decent who came over in the slave trade have in many ways formed the basis of much of american culture through food, music, art, and literature .
-understaffed -- well massa wasn't getting off his fat ass to pick the f****'n cotton
-unwealthy -- see "understaffed"
True Africa has it's own set of problems, but to me it looks as if you've read a fucking pamphlet and decided that you have enough info to make an intelligent decision on what's really going on in ALL parts of Africa. SURVEY SAYS--- bzzz!!! Oh I'm sorry anonymous, but that's the wrong fucking answer! shoulda just kept your mouth shut eh? coulda walked out with some dignity, but you just had to open your ignorance-infested mouth. The fact of the matter is that Africa first of all is a CONTINENT. there are a lot (over 45) different countries in Africa. It's not the fucking states, and yeah, there's a lot of baaaad shit happening over there. but it's still one of the most beautiful continents in the world with more mysteries and keys to all of our joint pasts than any other place in the world. Our very own country is Disease ridden (Greed, HIV, Tuberculosis) war ridden ( gang warfare, drug wars, political warfare) famine ridden( the famine of ignorance that threatans to grasp this country by the balls if it already hasn't) and yes! we evan have warlords who kill their own population on a daily basis for money and power. Our little girls practice self-mutilation by exposing themselves to the mutilated images of self that our society chooses to portray (overly -skinny models, rampant promiscuity as a norm, looks over intelligence) and buy whole-heartedly into these ideals as a norm. No knife is involved, but I believe that the scars run deeper.
--Do not curse the splint in another man's eye without removing the log from your own...
The twomobile.com people were just trying to draw a parallel. for you guys to sit back from your computers and disrespect a culture and an artform that you clearly don't understand is crass, and even more low class than the people that you're insulting. first of all, pop culture and hip hop culture are two different things. pop culture is what you get after big record companies sink their money-lubed hooks into the artist. What you see on MTV and hear on #include is mostly crap. The main reason that they portray that "Ghetto" image is because that's what sells. That's what some suit has told him or her that they want to see more of. On the other hand, some artist have a message to relay or a story ot tell, and many times it does come from the ghetto because that's what they know and that's where they come from. If you listen to an evolving artist, many of them have to drop the "ghetto" pretenses because they aren't affiliated with that shit anymore. They have kids to feed and they aren't kids anymore themselves. They grow up. The same thing is true in othere generes of music and you're an idiot if you don't recognize it. I have heard a lot of other types of music(Metal, Country) and actively LISTEN to others (Hip Hop, Alternative, Trance, House, Jungle). The Game stays the same (talented kids trying to make it while the COMPANY uses them to make as much money before they're out of style) but the players change as you cross these different Generes. I'm a hip-hop head till I die, but even I see that it would benefit us all to take a look at what's really goin' on instead of bashing what we truly don't understand. Bottom line is this Music is a Business. Hip Hop is a business. Linux is becoming a business. It's up to the Linux community to shape the path of the business so that fewer people feel like they have to sell out to feel like they've made it. For a true Hip Hop artist, rapping is a first love. For a true programmer, programming is a first love. True the article didn't present the parallel in the best light, but the link is far from tenuous. Long live Linux Long live Hip Hop
firewire really shouldn't die because it has such potential. Imagine a computer with only usb and firewire connections.. the usb would be great for low bandwith connections such as keyboards, joysticks, mice, etc, and the firewire would connect harddrives, scanners, and other high bandwith devices to the bus. No Irq's to worry about (except system devices) and all plug & play. shame on intel for not adopting this technology