"Fact: Overly conservative parents object to books that they consider "pornographic" or "anti-religious." (see: Ender's Game) Fact: Overly liberal parents object to books that they consider too "racist" or "insensitive." (see: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)"
Amazing how carefree and indifferent to things we were. Then we became parents and the bottom fell out on everything we believed before. How the mighty fall in their hypocrisy.
"For the large majority of the unemployed, who haven't grown up there, it looks like tossing most of your life away for $20/hour."
I live in the same region. It is tossing your life away for $20/hour. Actually it's about $15/hour or less after taxes.
It doesn't matter if it's cheap to live here since it won't stay cheap for long after the people move in(been through this) and $20/hour is still utter garbage for high-risk work. Out here services suck, social support is a joke, and competitive income doesn't exist. I'll just throw in the view of hundreds of miles of flat nothing along with tornado hell doesn't ring well for people's positive outlook.
Let's not forget the high cost of just moving here and adjusting to all that nothing and other social losses which isn't figured into the initial first year and not compensated for. The initial pay is for the financially desperate who physically qualify and have a lot of crazy in them.
"Sorry to burst the bubble, but it took Americans a couple of decades before they mastered fully automated docking. The Chinese accomplished this on their very first attempt."
It's very easy to do something when everyone else already has and you have access to all their mistakes. The chinese also have access to evolved technology and experience now to make things happen right as opposed to 50 years ago when the US and Russia were doing it all for the first time ever and developing and running the tech out of the seat of their pants. The chinese aren't doing anything that hasn't been done by the rest of us decades ago.
"Wouldn't it be hilarious if some passenger planes flew into some large office blocks in the only country which has ever used nuclear weapons, what a hoot!
As if one thing had anything at all to do with the other... Somehow, "fuck-wit" just doesn't seem adequate in this case."
No, he's right. When I was in the army in the late 1980's we did joke about commercial assets, including airliners, being used as weapons. The idea was viewed with contempt since it seemed most terrorists wanted to live regardless of whatever they got out of the terrorist act. Most concern was on large military engagements from other powers and not on individual isolated attacks. Suicide attacks had been used very rarely and not on a large scale against the US so the end view was no one was crazy enough to directly attack a country with a nuclear stockpile that could destroy the entire world several times over. It was also viewed as self-defeating as anyone doing so and their supporters would be rendered extinct the next day by both sides just to keep the peace.
"This way they don't have to ask, they just stop working."
And what about babysitters calling the parents about their kids medical level accident, sister/brother/parents injury and need for blood donation or permission for care. Just because it's not an emergency to the theater or public doesn't mean it isn't one. Those people also paid good money for full-time phone access. What right does it give the theater to remove it. The simple fix is to not to go to the theater and let them loose out on the income from people that would otherwise go. Of course I also mean no public money(grants, tax breaks, loans, supports) of any kind either.
"If you've got an issue with a particular person talking on her phone,"
If you don't like it, stop listening. The only control you have is of yourself. Don't like someone talking, then stop listening/snooping into their life. Don't be an arrogant jerk and harass them.
"if everyone else is trying to sleep on the bus/ train and you are loudly using your cell phone about an obviously nonurgent matter (your sister's crazy marriage, your kid's report card, your dog's diet, etc.) then you deserve to be jammed, with my full support, and with the support of everyone else trying to get some shuteye"
An who the hell are you to determine when someone can use their phone? Buses/trains are not bedrooms, sleep in your bed, not on the bus. Don't like someone talking, wear earplugs. If you haven't noticed buses/trains are not the quietest places and phone feedback makes it easy to think your not speaking loud enough. Buses and trains are public congregation points like any other and people have the freedom to speak/entertain themselves as they please. Don't like it, drive your own car. Personally, I hope these jamming pricks run into people with detectors, and forget jail just a good ass whipping should do and then a technology ban.
"I'm no fan of some of the shit Occupy has pulled -- in particular, squatting on public land in such a way that it reduces the value the public can get out of it."
Hate to tell you but Occupy is the public. So they have every right to squat on public land. This is part of the value the public gets out of it.
All he has to do is get married and have some kids. His life will still be empty but he'll be to busy trying to keep out of bankruptcy to notice.
"The children were all plotting snug in their beds, while the wife's constant whining was splitting his head." - Al Bundy -- twas the night before christmas --- Married with Children
"I worked for a company where I build a system that outputted a report that went to all the management up to the VP of the company. I was the only one that had access to the server and I had all the passwords. A couple weeks after they laid me off,...They actually had the nerve to call me and ask if I would give them the passwords and help them fix it. I laughed and told them I would for $1000/hr. They never got the system working again."
""But good going, burning bridges like that. Makes it easier for the professionals to find new jobs when they want one.""
Sounds like the company burned the bridge. They hung themselves by not requiring documentation and keeping support. Then being to cheap to correct their mistake. Besides, I wouldn't want a recommendation from a company like that as the next would probably be the same.
"Damn Angelina Jolie for showing her tits and making that lame movie memorable!"
What?!! She had tits back then? I'll have to review my copy but I don't remember seeing any tits in it especially hers.
Besides if you want to blame someone, blame that jackass president of ours Ronald Reagan for misusing it to sell some computer crime law. I remember a lot of the propaganda used to sell that laws' passage to the public in the 1980's including fake computer crimes. No "b" movie could do the damage that a sitting "b" president and a corrupt administration could do.
Then he's no liberal. If you look around the stubborn ones are the "my way or no way" republicans. The liberals and the centrists are the ones that have been giving ground the last 18 years. That's why the country is so fucked up with a constitution that's a joke and a dysfunctional regulatory system allowing public to be raped by corporations.
"if you don't bother to vote you have abandoned your right to have an opinion. "
Bullshit, it just means you have no confidence in the current system to voice your opinion. When public confidence goes so low and anger gets high enough the system is abolished, often violently. Start worrying "system".
How many times has Rumblefish done this to other artists who just didn't challenge it before this guy? Even if the content is fair use how many got taken down? This could get ugly quick since there obviously isn't any human review. Time to start checking since it's automated you can be sure it's happened more than once.
Yes, they are. They are paid via subsidies like tax breaks(child exemptions, marriage breaks) and incentive increases due to children, grants, parent specific services (public schools), etc. If you don't want to be a public employee get off the public tit then stop taking child friendly tax breaks, using public schools, etc.
Public employees are still citizens of this country entitled to all rights therein including privacy. Otherwise let's put your evaluations to the public test.
Personally, I think all public officials records should be public but it doesn't make much sense below the political level as it can just make their jobs or lives harder if not impossible thereby driving needed people from those positions. If we're going to torture lower level employees this much maybe we should pay them more and give them more support funds instead of seeing it go to the top end.
"I genuinely doubt you can shift blame away from the teacher in a classroom of students doing poorly, year after year of classrooms."
Poor areas go on year after year, parental indifference goes on year after year, culture clashes go on year after year. The kids grow up all through that constant reinforcement of bad traits and everyone expects a teacher with an hour access to a kid per day is going to make a difference against all that. Let's not forget we expect teachers to be essentially parents without any authority but with all the responsibility while paying them crap and making their lives hell. Don't forget administrators determine where the money goes, not teachers. Which explains why teachers often have to pay for setting up their own classrooms.
Funny, I don't see anyone elses evaluations being made public. I guess teachers don't have the same rights as the rest of us.
I know, let's abolish the schools altogether. With the internet there's really no need for these giant baby sitting/social clubs anyway. Have parents teach their spawn at home. The bitching would go away instantly if parents actually had to take full care and responsibility for their kids behavior/cost/education/welfare and were held accountable for it. Currently, they're not held accountable, as evidenced by various tax breaks, grants, public education, etc.
If we have to have schools let's get them back to education centers instead of the babysitting/social clubs they are now.
"Have the government do its constitutionally limited roles and be very careful in expanding its scope."
Right, didn't we have that in the 1900's?
There's a reason it's mostly not like that anymore. The US was a shithole for everyone but the rich. Corporations(Rockafeller, Carnegie, etc) did what ever they wanted with government to weak to do anything. At least, when it wasn't completely corrupt(tammany hall). How about reviewing history before spouting already tried BS. Been there, done that. It won't work the way you think it will.
Now if we could just get rid of the Fed, that era can be closed.
"The "GNU" prefix adds nothing unless you explicitely mean Linux flavours that use the GNU code and excluding all other flavours of Linux. Which is not the case here."
Um which linux flavors are those that don't use GNU code?
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"Fact: Overly conservative parents object to books that they consider "pornographic" or "anti-religious." (see: Ender's Game)
Fact: Overly liberal parents object to books that they consider too "racist" or "insensitive." (see: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)"
Amazing how carefree and indifferent to things we were. Then we became parents and the bottom fell out on everything we believed before. How the mighty fall in their hypocrisy.
"For the large majority of the unemployed, who haven't grown up there, it looks like tossing most of your life away for $20/hour."
I live in the same region. It is tossing your life away for $20/hour. Actually it's about $15/hour or less after taxes.
It doesn't matter if it's cheap to live here since it won't stay cheap for long after the people move in(been through this) and $20/hour is still utter garbage for high-risk work. Out here services suck, social support is a joke, and competitive income doesn't exist. I'll just throw in the view of hundreds of miles of flat nothing along with tornado hell doesn't ring well for people's positive outlook.
Let's not forget the high cost of just moving here and adjusting to all that nothing and other social losses which isn't figured into the initial first year and not compensated for. The initial pay is for the financially desperate who physically qualify and have a lot of crazy in them.
"Sorry to burst the bubble, but it took Americans a couple of decades before they mastered fully automated docking. The Chinese accomplished this on their very first attempt."
It's very easy to do something when everyone else already has and you have access to all their mistakes. The chinese also have access to evolved technology and experience now to make things happen right as opposed to 50 years ago when the US and Russia were doing it all for the first time ever and developing and running the tech out of the seat of their pants. The chinese aren't doing anything that hasn't been done by the rest of us decades ago.
"get Android to run on it,"
Forget android!! I want to see FreeBSD/Plan9/Inferno on it.
Oh and by the way it was quite hilarious.
I got catholic++ and turbo but of all the relatively bad languages out there which one(s) in your opinion fits Zombie M?
"Wouldn't it be hilarious if some passenger planes flew into some large office blocks in the only country which has ever used nuclear weapons, what a hoot!
As if one thing had anything at all to do with the other...
Somehow, "fuck-wit" just doesn't seem adequate in this case."
No, he's right. When I was in the army in the late 1980's we did joke about commercial assets, including airliners, being used as weapons. The idea was viewed with contempt since it seemed most terrorists wanted to live regardless of whatever they got out of the terrorist act. Most concern was on large military engagements from other powers and not on individual isolated attacks. Suicide attacks had been used very rarely and not on a large scale against the US so the end view was no one was crazy enough to directly attack a country with a nuclear stockpile that could destroy the entire world several times over. It was also viewed as self-defeating as anyone doing so and their supporters would be rendered extinct the next day by both sides just to keep the peace.
"This way they don't have to ask, they just stop working."
And what about babysitters calling the parents about their kids medical level accident, sister/brother/parents injury and need for blood donation or permission for care. Just because it's not an emergency to the theater or public doesn't mean it isn't one. Those people also paid good money for full-time phone access. What right does it give the theater to remove it. The simple fix is to not to go to the theater and let them loose out on the income from people that would otherwise go. Of course I also mean no public money(grants, tax breaks, loans, supports) of any kind either.
"If you've got an issue with a particular person talking on her phone,"
If you don't like it, stop listening. The only control you have is of yourself. Don't like someone talking, then stop listening/snooping into their life. Don't be an arrogant jerk and harass them.
"if everyone else is trying to sleep on the bus/ train and you are loudly using your cell phone about an obviously nonurgent matter (your sister's crazy marriage, your kid's report card, your dog's diet, etc.) then you deserve to be jammed, with my full support, and with the support of everyone else trying to get some shuteye"
An who the hell are you to determine when someone can use their phone? Buses/trains are not bedrooms, sleep in your bed, not on the bus. Don't like someone talking, wear earplugs. If you haven't noticed buses/trains are not the quietest places and phone feedback makes it easy to think your not speaking loud enough. Buses and trains are public congregation points like any other and people have the freedom to speak/entertain themselves as they please. Don't like it, drive your own car. Personally, I hope these jamming pricks run into people with detectors, and forget jail just a good ass whipping should do and then a technology ban.
"Yet, they haven't shot at anyone."
Yes, Iran just gives support via money, intelligence, and weapons to others to do the shooting and bombing.
"Stop that fucking nonsense, ok?"
You stop the fucking nonsense.
"I'm no fan of some of the shit Occupy has pulled -- in particular, squatting on public land in such a way that it reduces the value the public can get out of it."
Hate to tell you but Occupy is the public. So they have every right to squat on public land. This is part of the value the public gets out of it.
"He should confront that emptiness."
All he has to do is get married and have some kids. His life will still be empty but he'll be to busy trying to keep out of bankruptcy to notice.
"The children were all plotting snug in their beds, while the wife's constant whining was splitting his head." - Al Bundy -- twas the night before christmas --- Married with Children
"I worked for a company where I build a system that outputted a report that went to all the management up to the VP of the company. I was the only one that had access to the server and I had all the passwords. A couple weeks after they laid me off, ...They actually had the nerve to call me and ask if I would give them the passwords and help them fix it. I laughed and told them I would for $1000/hr. They never got the system working again."
""But good going, burning bridges like that. Makes it easier for the professionals to find new jobs when they want one.""
Sounds like the company burned the bridge. They hung themselves by not requiring documentation and keeping support. Then being to cheap to correct their mistake. Besides, I wouldn't want a recommendation from a company like that as the next would probably be the same.
"Damn Angelina Jolie for showing her tits and making that lame movie memorable!"
What?!! She had tits back then? I'll have to review my copy but I don't remember seeing any tits in it especially hers.
Besides if you want to blame someone, blame that jackass president of ours Ronald Reagan for misusing it to sell some computer crime law. I remember a lot of the propaganda used to sell that laws' passage to the public in the 1980's including fake computer crimes. No "b" movie could do the damage that a sitting "b" president and a corrupt administration could do.
Man, the younger set and history.
"Dude refuses to give an inch"
Then he's no liberal. If you look around the stubborn ones are the "my way or no way" republicans. The liberals and the centrists are the ones that have been giving ground the last 18 years. That's why the country is so fucked up with a constitution that's a joke and a dysfunctional regulatory system allowing public to be raped by corporations.
"if you don't bother to vote you have abandoned your right to have an opinion. "
Bullshit, it just means you have no confidence in the current system to voice your opinion. When public confidence goes so low and anger gets high enough the system is abolished, often violently. Start worrying "system".
As lawyers are part of the apparatus of law then do it for free as a public service.
How many times has Rumblefish done this to other artists who just didn't challenge it before this guy? Even if the content is fair use how many got taken down? This could get ugly quick since there obviously isn't any human review. Time to start checking since it's automated you can be sure it's happened more than once.
"Fox News."
They would know as the biggest purveyors of "at the moment" fiction and fantasy around. Science fiction has more credibility than Fox News.
"Parents are not public employees."
Yes, they are. They are paid via subsidies like tax breaks(child exemptions, marriage breaks) and incentive increases due to children, grants, parent specific services (public schools), etc. If you don't want to be a public employee get off the public tit then stop taking child friendly tax breaks, using public schools, etc.
Public employees are still citizens of this country entitled to all rights therein including privacy. Otherwise let's put your evaluations to the public test.
Personally, I think all public officials records should be public but it doesn't make much sense below the political level as it can just make their jobs or lives harder if not impossible thereby driving needed people from those positions. If we're going to torture lower level employees this much maybe we should pay them more and give them more support funds instead of seeing it go to the top end.
"I genuinely doubt you can shift blame away from the teacher in a classroom of students doing poorly, year after year of classrooms."
Poor areas go on year after year, parental indifference goes on year after year, culture clashes go on year after year. The kids grow up all through that constant reinforcement of bad traits and everyone expects a teacher with an hour access to a kid per day is going to make a difference against all that. Let's not forget we expect teachers to be essentially parents without any authority but with all the responsibility while paying them crap and making their lives hell. Don't forget administrators determine where the money goes, not teachers. Which explains why teachers often have to pay for setting up their own classrooms.
Funny, I don't see anyone elses evaluations being made public. I guess teachers don't have the same rights as the rest of us.
I know, let's abolish the schools altogether. With the internet there's really no need for these giant baby sitting/social clubs anyway. Have parents teach their spawn at home. The bitching would go away instantly if parents actually had to take full care and responsibility for their kids behavior/cost/education/welfare and were held accountable for it. Currently, they're not held accountable, as evidenced by various tax breaks, grants, public education, etc.
If we have to have schools let's get them back to education centers instead of the babysitting/social clubs they are now.
"how about voting for federal legislators who will address the problem"
Because there aren't any. If there were and had any chance, they'd be destroyed.
"Have the government do its constitutionally limited roles and be very careful in expanding its scope."
Right, didn't we have that in the 1900's?
There's a reason it's mostly not like that anymore. The US was a shithole for everyone but the rich. Corporations(Rockafeller, Carnegie, etc) did what ever they wanted with government to weak to do anything. At least, when it wasn't completely corrupt(tammany hall). How about reviewing history before spouting already tried BS. Been there, done that. It won't work the way you think it will.
Now if we could just get rid of the Fed, that era can be closed.
"The "GNU" prefix adds nothing unless you explicitely mean Linux flavours that use the GNU code and excluding all other flavours of Linux. Which is not the case here."
Um which linux flavors are those that don't use GNU code?