The student might not have an internet connection at home. The student might not have a home. The student might have parents who live in a crack house.
Surely we can't leave any part of a child's success up to his/her parents. Kids should live in free dormitories and have supervised visits (maybe they can have TSA agents act as chaparones in their free time) from their 'birth parents.'
Then the Teabaggers complain that "see! Government doesn't work!" even though it was their own corrupt corporate buddies that squandered the money
It's disappointing that people like you carry water so willingly for the Big Government liberals who run the swindle operation in Washington.
The 'big corporate types' tend to support the liberals and big government. General Electric is Obama's big daddy. Those smug fucks in the window offices at your work consistently support the DNC.
If people openly stereotyped blacks or Hispanics in forums like this the way they openly stereotype conservatives and 'tea party members' the screeching about 'racism' would drown the whole discussion out.
You are not talking about the market segment that this program is addressing. This isn't about 'sprawl.' The 'sprawl' communities have broadband in their subdivisions. This is about real rural people.
Back when I knew a bunch of people from North/South Dakota I used to piss them off by just calling it Dakota. I have a 19th century encyclopedia that has a map with the whole chunk of land without the border separating the two parts, and it's all called Dakota. Actually, the Dakota Territory.
Not everybody wants to live a beehive existence in a high-rise apartment building alongside a light rail corridor. Sure, there are powerful advocates of forcing that on most of the populace, but they're the sort of people who we need to make sure never have much political power.
I've run it, but prefer to run NetBSD on my SE/30s. Many of the current progrms out there work with it. And X11 at 1 bit resolution on the tiny compact mac screen.
I just activated XP for the first time, ever, last night.
I bought a used laptop on ebay a few weeks ago, and since it had an XP Home sticker on the bottom with a legit CD Key, I chased down an XP Home OEM CD (actually I just modified the.ini file on an XP Home Retail torrent) because it just felt right to put a 'full legal' copy on the machine. (it shipped from the ebay seller with a Japanese version of XP that was unusable to me)
I've only been using XP at all for about a year and a half now. I stuck with Windows 2000 because I have several legit OEM licenses for that and it always did everything I needed. If I want to run 'current' software, I'd rather use NetBSD anyway.
That kind of gear just needs to be firewalled in good and tight and maintained. Why wouldn't you just archive the full chain-of-software installation media and keep it going? You can still buy about anything you want in hardened industrial-grade hardware, ISA buses and the whole mess, at the kind of high prices that industrial-grade hardware commands.
Microsoft actually did have a competing spreadsheet product in the Visicalc era. It was called Multiplan. I believe I even have a copy of it for Unix installed on my ancient Microsoft Xenix box. Excel didn't pop straight out of nowhere. Nor was Lotus the only spreadsheet in it's era.
Actually, Defense still counts for almost 2/3rds of the federal budget.
Pardon me for interrupting your daddy warbucks hatefest, but a big chunk of defense spending can be effortlessly reclassified as entitlements. Military pay, veterans benefits, etc. It's not all just spent on evile nukes.
Every year for decades, since the 70s, the middle class has gotten poorer,
That is complete and utter bullshit.
Those of us who were around in the 70's remember that most families had one television set, and it was in the living room. There was one stereo in the house, again in the living room. Sis may have gotten a record player for Christmas, but it was her biggest present that year.
The middle class today is chock full of gadgets and toys and stuff that nobody could have imagined in the 70's. In real dollars you may have had a point, but in real wealth, which isn't a bank balance, the middle classes right now are FAR better off than they were several decades ago.
Buffet is a raider who makes his money by scavenging failed and distressed companies. Of COURSE he is in favor of whatever policies will suck all the capital businesses need out of the economy and into the Treasury.
That the left uses Buffet as their poster-boy rich guy to quote and quote and quote isn't surprising at all.
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I didn't like the kids (namely the bullies) on the bus when I went to High School. I rode my bike or walked the two miles to school almost every day.
The student might not have an internet connection at home. The student might not have a home. The student might have parents who live in a crack house.
Surely we can't leave any part of a child's success up to his/her parents. Kids should live in free dormitories and have supervised visits (maybe they can have TSA agents act as chaparones in their free time) from their 'birth parents.'
So now a TSA pat down is equivalent to being molested?
Wow. It took you awhile, but you figured it out finally.
I'm sure people who've actually been molested might take issue with that.
Bingo. You might have noticed, that's the reason this story is here on Slashdot.
No, they do not.
You forgot to mention 'Power: by building a new cadre of unionized public employee voters.'
It's not just corrupt bizznessmen making evile executive decisions. It also involves building a constituency.
Then the Teabaggers complain that "see! Government doesn't work!" even though it was their own corrupt corporate buddies that squandered the money
It's disappointing that people like you carry water so willingly for the Big Government liberals who run the swindle operation in Washington.
The 'big corporate types' tend to support the liberals and big government. General Electric is Obama's big daddy. Those smug fucks in the window offices at your work consistently support the DNC.
If people openly stereotyped blacks or Hispanics in forums like this the way they openly stereotype conservatives and 'tea party members' the screeching about 'racism' would drown the whole discussion out.
You are not talking about the market segment that this program is addressing. This isn't about 'sprawl.' The 'sprawl' communities have broadband in their subdivisions. This is about real rural people.
So are we supposed to vote for the Trotskyites, then?
Citation? I think you just regurgitated a mash-up of what was originally some rather biased history research.
Back when I knew a bunch of people from North/South Dakota I used to piss them off by just calling it Dakota. I have a 19th century encyclopedia that has a map with the whole chunk of land without the border separating the two parts, and it's all called Dakota. Actually, the Dakota Territory.
Not everybody wants to live a beehive existence in a high-rise apartment building alongside a light rail corridor. Sure, there are powerful advocates of forcing that on most of the populace, but they're the sort of people who we need to make sure never have much political power.
If we can't say 'fuck off' to neighbors we don't consider welcome on our property, liberty is doomed.
I bet you live in a place with a "Homeowner's Association."
and good luck.
So, does that mean there's luck in this world you live in?
Jobs' recent success has been at selling pop culture stuff.
What was that thing he said to Scully about spending the rest of his life selling sugar water?
Not that the Steve has a very long 'rest of his life' to worry about. Unless he can keep budding in line for organ transplants, of course....
Steve Jobs may or may not do charity. It's really his business, isn't it?
Selling coke isn't an act of charity. I'm pretty libertarian about the 'war on drugs' thing, so I agree it's nobody else's business, really.
It could be an act of charity, but as far as anybody can tell, he dealt coke mainly to his peers, not to poor people at a reduced price.
That's just your Calvinism manifesting itself. Don't worry about it, it's only mildly pathological.
I've run it, but prefer to run NetBSD on my SE/30s. Many of the current progrms out there work with it. And X11 at 1 bit resolution on the tiny compact mac screen.
I just activated XP for the first time, ever, last night.
I bought a used laptop on ebay a few weeks ago, and since it had an XP Home sticker on the bottom with a legit CD Key, I chased down an XP Home OEM CD (actually I just modified the .ini file on an XP Home Retail torrent) because it just felt right to put a 'full legal' copy on the machine. (it shipped from the ebay seller with a Japanese version of XP that was unusable to me)
I've only been using XP at all for about a year and a half now. I stuck with Windows 2000 because I have several legit OEM licenses for that and it always did everything I needed. If I want to run 'current' software, I'd rather use NetBSD anyway.
That kind of gear just needs to be firewalled in good and tight and maintained. Why wouldn't you just archive the full chain-of-software installation media and keep it going? You can still buy about anything you want in hardened industrial-grade hardware, ISA buses and the whole mess, at the kind of high prices that industrial-grade hardware commands.
Microsoft actually did have a competing spreadsheet product in the Visicalc era. It was called Multiplan. I believe I even have a copy of it for Unix installed on my ancient Microsoft Xenix box. Excel didn't pop straight out of nowhere. Nor was Lotus the only spreadsheet in it's era.
Actually, Defense still counts for almost 2/3rds of the federal budget.
Pardon me for interrupting your daddy warbucks hatefest, but a big chunk of defense spending can be effortlessly reclassified as entitlements. Military pay, veterans benefits, etc. It's not all just spent on evile nukes.
Every year for decades, since the 70s, the middle class has gotten poorer,
That is complete and utter bullshit.
Those of us who were around in the 70's remember that most families had one television set, and it was in the living room. There was one stereo in the house, again in the living room. Sis may have gotten a record player for Christmas, but it was her biggest present that year.
The middle class today is chock full of gadgets and toys and stuff that nobody could have imagined in the 70's. In real dollars you may have had a point, but in real wealth, which isn't a bank balance, the middle classes right now are FAR better off than they were several decades ago.
Buffet is a raider who makes his money by scavenging failed and distressed companies. Of COURSE he is in favor of whatever policies will suck all the capital businesses need out of the economy and into the Treasury.
That the left uses Buffet as their poster-boy rich guy to quote and quote and quote isn't surprising at all.
It's about a half day later, and only crickets so far.
Shake that lint out of your head that's making you hear choppers, dood.
citations?
yelling 'liar liar liar' is grade school tactics.
facts.
put up or shut up.