what *is* the point of teaching something that does not have a practical application in life?
The devil is in the details there (what does one consider "practical"), but the basic story is that a background in Liberal Arts topics like History, Literature, etc. provides a cultural education that can be applied in numerous fields.
That and the fact that teenagers think they know what they want, but typically have just enough sense in their heads to make themselves dangerous. Core curriculi are best left in the hands of professionals.
THERE IS NO FUCKING POINT IN MAKING STUDENTS PRISONERS DURING THE LUNCH PERIOD. I don't know what it is about K-12 education that makes teachers and administrators such complete control freaks, but whatever it is, it's sure gotten to you. Worst of all, the teachers in my school *are* allowed to leave during the lunch break. What message does *that* send to kids?
They are adults, you are children, and given the current legal climate, the school has liability concerns should students take off during lunch and get run over in traffic.
Thinking outside American borders for a moment, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see a death penalty for hacking come down in China within the next few years...
The interesting part about this whole discussion is how people think how outlandish the idea of a death penalty for hacking is. I'd be willing to bet, however, that within the next 5 years, we'll see just such a thing.
In China.
They have no problem executing people over corruption and fraud, and extending that to hacking activities is a very small step.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a death penalty for hacking in places like China within the next few years. They have no problem executing people for commercial fraud involving as little as a few thousand dollars, so extending those penalties to hacking isn't a big stretch for them.
Productivity gains is where workers have to work longer hour for less money and produce more products/outcomes. Productivity gains has nothing to do with developing new technology or buying latest technology, machinery, hardware or even software, because industry cannot incur such costs to their bottom line. If industry did invest in such areas it would not achieve the mystical productivity gains.
This isn't a criticism of language, it's just pissing and moaning. Well-applied technology can lead to more efficient business processes, and productivity gains can certainly result. I recently visited an old employer of mine - for my last project there we had installed a new WMS (Warehouse Management System) with barcode scanners, and today they ship the amount of product, at higher levels of performance, with 90-100 employees rather than 150 previously.
There's plenty of room to attack the use of language in corporate environments today, but this is a pretty lame effort. They obviously need to reengineer their value proposition to maximally leverage their core competencies, relative to an integrated understanding of their customer base's unrealized profit potential...
I would suggest faithless (because no one could truthfully commit such acts in the name of any God)
Thousands of years of human history would seem to contradict this. Think the Inquisition, the Crusades, countless Protestand vs. Catholic wars in Europe, Hindu/Buddhist conflicts in India, and Sunni/Shiite violence in more recent times. For (far too) many people, their belief in God allows them to dehumanize those who don't share their beliefs, making just about anything fair game.
Dictators everywhere will love your rules 2 and 2A - giving them free license to do whatever they want within their borders without fear of international intervention.
What you're saying may happen in individual cases, but overall the expectation for each worker would increase. If there's a shortage of labor, then by definition there's too much work for too few people, and in the short-term, increased hours is the most likely scenario...
1) There's nothing that says that a shortage in IT workers should result in an improvement in working conditions (defined in your post as a reduction in working hours). In fact, if there is a shortage of workers, the expectations for hours worked individually should increase, not decrease. Nobody's going to say "gee, Jenkins, we're so happy to have one of the few available experts on our staff that we want you to go home at 4:00 every day."
2) Washington rarely fixes shortages of jobs by, for example, creating more government jobs. The interests of Washington are not aligned with the hopes and aspirations of middle America.
I really doubt that the hopes and aspirations of middle America have much to do with government-created jobs!
3) Shutting our markets off to countries which you don't approve of hurts both sides of the relationship. Trade isn't a zero-sum game even if dealing with a "non-free" partner.
One comment I heard on NPR this morning mentioned that quite often, a splinter group with a new name is formed for specific operations, so it's not out of the question to have a new name pop up like this. The coordinated timing of the attacks certainly seems to be an Al Qaeda hallmark. The anarchists who have protested WTO and G8 meetings have typically attacked property, not people.
And regarding casualties, the rescue workers have focused on the injured first, and haven't pulled the dead out of the tunnel yet. Those numbers will surely climb in the hours ahead.
You have to wonder about the quality of the data involved here, given lines like:
0.04 Can a fantasy beast can utter juniper bushes? 0.04 can you speak russian? 0.04 Will answer number 7 actually give you cheese? 0.04 Does an hour consist of 30 minutes?
The deterrent effect will likely take quite a few examples like this one before it takes hold amongst the script kiddies, so I say throw the book at him, and send him to a prison which only offers online access via a 2400 baud modem on a Windows 3.1 machine.
It's funny how most Americans just don't understand how much of the world perceives us as a religious country, as much so as many Middle Eastern nations.
I don't agree that it was a disgruntled Christian that ripped it off - it was an envious Linus user
So does Torvalds actually come over and help users out? I don't care much about OS's, but I sure do have a bunch of landscaping and home repairs jobs that could use attention...
One thing that can help tremendously, while not costing a ton, is to build in power and network access into the conference room table. Ours here has tabs that flip up, providing easy access for laptop-toting meeting attendees.
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what *is* the point of teaching something that does not have a practical application in life?
The devil is in the details there (what does one consider "practical"), but the basic story is that a background in Liberal Arts topics like History, Literature, etc. provides a cultural education that can be applied in numerous fields.
That and the fact that teenagers think they know what they want, but typically have just enough sense in their heads to make themselves dangerous. Core curriculi are best left in the hands of professionals.
THERE IS NO FUCKING POINT IN MAKING STUDENTS PRISONERS DURING THE LUNCH PERIOD. I don't know what it is about K-12 education that makes teachers and administrators such complete control freaks, but whatever it is, it's sure gotten to you. Worst of all, the teachers in my school *are* allowed to leave during the lunch break. What message does *that* send to kids?
They are adults, you are children, and given the current legal climate, the school has liability concerns should students take off during lunch and get run over in traffic.
Thinking outside American borders for a moment, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to see a death penalty for hacking come down in China within the next few years...
The interesting part about this whole discussion is how people think how outlandish the idea of a death penalty for hacking is. I'd be willing to bet, however, that within the next 5 years, we'll see just such a thing.
In China.
They have no problem executing people over corruption and fraud, and extending that to hacking activities is a very small step.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a death penalty for hacking in places like China within the next few years. They have no problem executing people for commercial fraud involving as little as a few thousand dollars, so extending those penalties to hacking isn't a big stretch for them.
and while you are at it, look for the right way of writting it also.
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In a startling development, /. has run today's story just last week.
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Almost the same title, too.
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Productivity gains is where workers have to work longer hour for less money and produce more products/outcomes. Productivity gains has nothing to do with developing new technology or buying latest technology, machinery, hardware or even software, because industry cannot incur such costs to their bottom line. If industry did invest in such areas it would not achieve the mystical productivity gains.
This isn't a criticism of language, it's just pissing and moaning. Well-applied technology can lead to more efficient business processes, and productivity gains can certainly result. I recently visited an old employer of mine - for my last project there we had installed a new WMS (Warehouse Management System) with barcode scanners, and today they ship the amount of product, at higher levels of performance, with 90-100 employees rather than 150 previously.
There's plenty of room to attack the use of language in corporate environments today, but this is a pretty lame effort. They obviously need to reengineer their value proposition to maximally leverage their core competencies, relative to an integrated understanding of their customer base's unrealized profit potential...
Oops, my mistake - you could actually correct that in two different ways:
Hindu/Muslim conflict in India, or
Hindu/Buddhist conflict in Sri Lanka.
Here's an interesting list of current religious hot spots.
I would suggest faithless (because no one could truthfully commit such acts in the name of any God)
Thousands of years of human history would seem to contradict this. Think the Inquisition, the Crusades, countless Protestand vs. Catholic wars in Europe, Hindu/Buddhist conflicts in India, and Sunni/Shiite violence in more recent times. For (far too) many people, their belief in God allows them to dehumanize those who don't share their beliefs, making just about anything fair game.
Dictators everywhere will love your rules 2 and 2A - giving them free license to do whatever they want within their borders without fear of international intervention.
What you're saying may happen in individual cases, but overall the expectation for each worker would increase. If there's a shortage of labor, then by definition there's too much work for too few people, and in the short-term, increased hours is the most likely scenario...
OK, Mr. Troll, I'll bite:
1) There's nothing that says that a shortage in IT workers should result in an improvement in working conditions (defined in your post as a reduction in working hours). In fact, if there is a shortage of workers, the expectations for hours worked individually should increase, not decrease. Nobody's going to say "gee, Jenkins, we're so happy to have one of the few available experts on our staff that we want you to go home at 4:00 every day."
2) Washington rarely fixes shortages of jobs by, for example, creating more government jobs. The interests of Washington are not aligned with the hopes and aspirations of middle America.
I really doubt that the hopes and aspirations of middle America have much to do with government-created jobs!
3) Shutting our markets off to countries which you don't approve of hurts both sides of the relationship. Trade isn't a zero-sum game even if dealing with a "non-free" partner.
"I'm here to preach and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum..."
One comment I heard on NPR this morning mentioned that quite often, a splinter group with a new name is formed for specific operations, so it's not out of the question to have a new name pop up like this. The coordinated timing of the attacks certainly seems to be an Al Qaeda hallmark. The anarchists who have protested WTO and G8 meetings have typically attacked property, not people.
And regarding casualties, the rescue workers have focused on the injured first, and haven't pulled the dead out of the tunnel yet. Those numbers will surely climb in the hours ahead.
Wouldn't false be 0.00??? Also, some of those don't even form logical statements that are worth assigning a probability too.
I assume the 0.04 is because one validator gave a smart-ass response, which could skew the data, wouldn't it?
You have to wonder about the quality of the data involved here, given lines like:
0.04 Can a fantasy beast can utter juniper bushes?
0.04 can you speak russian?
0.04 Will answer number 7 actually give you cheese?
0.04 Does an hour consist of 30 minutes?
I thought they didn't want our money this time around, just our voices to call for political change.
Jeez, when some people give up their morning cup of coffee to save the world, they get really cranky...
The deterrent effect will likely take quite a few examples like this one before it takes hold amongst the script kiddies, so I say throw the book at him, and send him to a prison which only offers online access via a 2400 baud modem on a Windows 3.1 machine.
The horror... the horror...
You mean like these nut jobs (err... concerned citizens), who are threatening to sue the school system here in suburban Indianapolis?
It's funny how most Americans just don't understand how much of the world perceives us as a religious country, as much so as many Middle Eastern nations.
I don't agree that it was a disgruntled Christian that ripped it off - it was an envious Linus user
So does Torvalds actually come over and help users out? I don't care much about OS's, but I sure do have a bunch of landscaping and home repairs jobs that could use attention...
Nethack.
That leads to another (totally offtopic) point. Is anything ever a panacea for anything?
It seems like whenever the word panacea is used, it's in the context of "such-and-such is no panacea..."
Mega Bullshit.
The nature of humans is to argue over the nature of humans.
Think about it...
I work for a Swedish manufacturing company with operations around the world, and we use wooden crates for shipping all the time...
One thing that can help tremendously, while not costing a ton, is to build in power and network access into the conference room table. Ours here has tabs that flip up, providing easy access for laptop-toting meeting attendees.