Not to mention that the removal of the new deal and systematic attack on labor has made sure that the benefirts of that productivity has gone to mostly the top.01%.
George Jetson, on the famous cartoon show, used to complain how long the 3 day work weeks were! Everyone that put in work was supposed to benefit. It isn't working out that way.
As technology replaces jobs, look for more crime. It will be the new industry. When you need to survive, and there are no jobs, and begging does not bring in enough money, there are few choices. -- Live from the handouts of family is one, and crime is the other. Religion wont help you, because its not there to stop you, it is there for repentance.
The farm equipment replacement cycle is around 1 machine every 20 years. True new technology is appearing for Industrial farming. But then, the jobs left are menial, -- fruit pickers, vegetable pickers, etc.
And most farming in warm climates is for two cycles of planting per year. Not many labour resources in that, is there?
I am sick and tired of Luddites that claim robots will steal all the jobs.
Jobs are not a limited resource. Jobs are dependent on things we need to get done.
Once upon the time 100% of jobs were focused on getting food. Hunting and gathering became full time work when population was high. Once farming came around, it freed up some people to do other things. They did not suddenly become lazy do-nothing people. Instead they took up lower priority tasks, and turned them into full time jobs.
Things like clothing manufacturing, which used to be done in your spare time, turned into full industries. New products like shoes, alcohol, luxuries etc. were created.
The question is, are there still things we need to do, but have not been able to afford? The answer to that is YES. We have education, science, space exploration, green technologies, and a host of other things that we has decided would be nice, but we simply don't have the manpower to do.
We will not run out of jobs, instead we will do things that we can not even imagine today. Anymore than a hunter/gatherer could imagine someone would be paid to sell food at a basketball game.
I turned to writing slashdot reponses and to doing Sudoku puzzles.
There is no decrease since contributions have always been non-paid (from the perspective of the linux foundation). The joke was that as an unemployed developer, one must have a certain irrational fondness for the kernel in order to devote time to it as opposed to actually looking for paid work.
As sibling mentioned, I suspect that the majority of unpaid contributors (that is, folks who contribute without being paid to do so by an employer) are indeed college students. Hell, Linux itself was originally written when Linus was an unpaid college student (with a strong distaste for Minix, and who could blame the guy), so it's not as if the argument has no merit. Other sources of unpaid contributions would be retired devs who want to keep their brains sharp, or junior devs who get paid to write other stuff, but want to build up their resume without a degree or waiting to get years of experience (because let's face it: a kid whose resume says "I am an active contributor to the Linux Kernel - here's the URL listing my approved commits" is going to get a fuckload of notice by the hiring manager in a Linux/UNIX-oriented dev shop.)
Some of us developers are 70+ in years. We are retired and can invest time in code writing. We do this so that we stay out of the wife's bubble.
Average sales price of a new car in 2013 was $31,762. Apparently a lot of people have that kind of money to buy a car.
Cars are manufactured today with some very good reliability. Instead of a 3 year lease, where you are also putting money up-front, one buys the car with a car loan. The cost of ownership is much lower than the lease cost. Most car loans are around 7% or less. Instead of 3 years, the car can be kept for 10. My car, for example, is a 2000 model. It is fuel economic, has A/C and has not cost me more than $1000 per year in maintenance (batteries, oil changes, tires, and repairs). Furthermore, my insurance is way way lower than what it would be if I had to add that fee to protect the lease vehicle.
Further to the above, we often are able to rent a new vehicle for the weekend from any of the big 3 car rental agencies at under $50.00 per weekend. We take this rental vehicle to enjoy the new car ride, and to drive some long distances. We have had one week deals for as low as $16.00 per day on a 10day rental. So why lease? I am waiting for the all electric car to be fully debugged and that means 2 years after market introduction. Still, I will weekend lease a car for the reasons described previously
Average sales price of a new car in 2013 was $31,762. Apparently a lot of people have that kind of money to buy a car.
Cars are manufactured today with some very good reliability. Instead of a 3 year lease, where you are also putting money up-front, one buys the car with a car loan. The cost of ownership is much lower than the lease cost. Most car loans are around 7% or less. Instead of 3 years, the car can be kept for 10. My car, for example, is a 2000 model. It is fuel economic, has A/C and has not cost me more than $1000 per year in maintenance (batteries, oil changes, tires, and repairs). Furthermore, my insurance is way way lower than what it would be if I had to add that fee to protect the lease vehicle.
I do quite a bit of posting, sometimes I am exhibiting stupidity, other times I have appropriate comments. By the way, I worked in senior positions in IT for 55 years, was active until a year ago, and now enjoy responding to slashdot comments. I do so because I have the time to think out a response, because many of my friends have died, I am not yet ready to spend my morning in the coffee shops talking to the other retirees about solving the worlds problems. I am 74, and I have opinions that are valid, based on my experience.
Many responders within slashdot are in their 20s and are still mentally immature in their responses. Others show and enjoyable to read response to some articles. I just follow the example of life "small vocabularies equals small minds"
I don't see this as any different than Apple pay at some point. If this would help officers obtain validity of the license faster, this might be a benefit.
I don't think this should be a requirement for Iowa drivers, but a perk of driving in Iowa.
The downside that I can think of is that in many areas of Iowa I don't care to carry a smartphone because the lack of coverage there kills batteries.
System would have to be world wide. In some countries tourists show passports, and car rental requires a scannable driver's license.
Is there too much smartness that is extremely marginal in benefits? I have a need for smart technology for my home heating system. And it does not need smart phone interface.
Situation and Challenge. Home with circulating hot water heating system. It is heated with a boiler that has an outdoor sensor. Circulating water temperature is inversely proportional to difference in outdoor temperature and 20C (68F). At -5C or 15F, water temp is at 160F. Max upper limit on water temperature is 170F.
In the house today there is a bang-bang(on/off) "7 individual day" programmable thermostat for user defined 4 programs per day. The thermostat can be set to 1.5 hrs anticipation for heating or cooling, and also turn on immediately (electric heat/cool) not more than 5 on/off cycles per hour (gas heat). Time constants are long -- two hours to heat the home by 2C degrees.
We use a 3C setback for nights and when we are at work. But the control system is crude. For example, I would like a higher circulating water temperature based on the difference between room temperature and the thermostat temperature setting, taking into account the outdoor temperature. And as the house temp rises close to the thermostat setting, the circulating water temperature could become less hot. A crude proportional (self learning) controller is desired. The system has one and only one zone. Some home systems have two zones (north and south side of interior of the building).
Potential savings The heating bill is approximately $3600/yr. With the setback thermostat, I was able to drop that cost to $3000/yr. I would really like to lower it to $2500/yr, thus my thoughts about potentially using the raspberry system for control along with a smarter thermostat (or just thermistor to replace the thermostat, and manage the heating from the raspberry system. The raspberry must have a clock that continues to operate during power failures. If this controller, can be implemented at low cost, it would be a fun project and could even become a product for the world market.
Its an issue If they hire a less qualified woman over a more qualified male just because she's a woman. Thats exactly what programs like this encourage.
Should more women enter technology? Sure. Is anyone stopping them? NO. Is it outside the realm of possibility that less women are interested in the technology sector than men? NO. I have a lot of female friends. I grew up with 2 sisters and no brothers so I have more female friends than male. Only one of them has any interest in technology and ive asked why..ive asked if they were ever discouraged from any stem field and they all said no, they just WERENT INTERESTED.
The one who's into technology works in a robotics lab. She loves it and has never has any issues with the men around her.
This whole current pushing of this nonsense no women in tech is going to turn and bite the sector in the ass. You can't force interest and if you start lowering the bar to meet hiring quotas thats not only unfair to everyone else its also a great way to lower quality output.
I think you are wrong... Given a woman, or a black woman, with qualifications, and given the ratio of people of colour in the population, discrimination would be the refusal to hire said qualified skilled women. And while some women go into engineering, not all that do go to IT. In our community, some of the best construction engineers are "woman". Our local condo housing project was designed by a "she" and she got it right.
I've repeated this numerous times, and I'll repeat it again: Few people are interested in actual justice. Most of them just want somebody that they can publicly rail against for the sole purpose of making themselves feel righteous. It has nothing to do with righting any wrong.
It's not just the police, the prison guards, or the judges that are guilty of it. It's a systemic problem. Some of the worst bullies I've seen are those who target supposed bullies.
Prisons are "For profit institutions". What another way to extend a prisoner's stay and another few dollars of revenue.
Indeed. And our apartment was raising the rent by $150. So we found a house, and are now paying $100 less (after mortgage and escrow) each month, plus the enjoyment of simple things like being able to paint or remodel, and plant a garden or have a bonfire in the back yard. Seems like a solid choice despite the social contract.
And what's your commuting costs for you and your partner?
There are plenty of products in the audiophile industry that can match or exceed this in craziness level. I wouldn't be surprised to see a glorifying review of this in a hi-fi magazine.
The biggest vendor of the Snake Oil (Monster Cables) in my city are Best Buy and Future Shop. (Both owned by Best Buy). Best Buy, in promoting these $3.00 cables for $40 to $100, are just after your wallet.
I would say that if the cables and accessories are overpriced, that all the rest, the laptops and computers, and now fridges, stoves, washing machines and whatever, are priced according to the example.
Our dollar store had 6 foot (2 meter) HDMI cables for $3.00. I also bought a 5megapixal webcam, high resolution wired mouse, and more PC stuff for $3.00 each. A wired keyboard for $10.00 I post this so you could appreciate the markups that the big-box stores add.
Free electricity means that the poor can purchase food with the equivalent. And probably, given the situation in Greece, most of the electric bills have not been paid due to poverty. (Buy food or medicine before buying electricity).
A previous posting assumed that all electricity comes from burning coal or fuel. Ours comes from damed water and turbines. It is transported to use with (I am told) 120kv three phase lines)
And in France they have €20/month for unlimited calling, unlimited text, and 3GB of 4G data. We are getting RIPPED OFF here in the USA.
For $30/mo I have nation wide calling and 6 gigs of data per month. And I feel we are getting ripped off. (I had to already own the phone or purchase one of the provider's new phones)
Forgot, roaming was extra. But for $10.00, I get North America wide monthly roaming, and for double that amount, Outside North America to some other countries (Europe, etc.) Mostly though, I use wifi and a wifi based phone application when roaming.
And in France they have €20/month for unlimited calling, unlimited text, and 3GB of 4G data. We are getting RIPPED OFF here in the USA.
For $30/mo I have nation wide calling and 6 gigs of data per month. And I feel we are getting ripped off. (I had to already own the phone or purchase one of the provider's new phones)
Is this two factor authentication? My bank has a list of 8 questions I provided to which I alone know the one word answer. When I log into my account, or do an online visa transaction, I am transferred to their security routine. I may be asked my data of birth, and randomly one of my questions for an answer that I provided. As I stated I alone know the answer. If my responses are correct, its an OK to accept my access or VISA transaction.
Off topic. In Canada our debit and credit cards have the integrated chip since the late 1990's. We are shocked when we visited an American Casino this past month, and noted they did not as yet have support for such a system. I had to swipe the card, which was a true backward step, as far as security is concerned. In a way this is the other two factor authentication. I hold the card. Eventually, banks will demand Desktops with smart card readers for online shopping, or verification of your caller id.
Hell, my wife told me a story, she was a new undergrad at MIT and the new residents in the dorm were hanging out in the lounge getting to know one another. They got on the topic of foreign languages since there were a lot of kids from other countries or who had traveled fairly extensively, and when one boy was asked how many languages he knew, he replied, "computer, or other?" which drew lambasting from his fellow nerds at arguably one of the nerdiest universities in the world.
Computer languages are not interpersonal communication languages, and they should not be treated as such. That doesn't mean that I necessarily agree with the foreign language requirements for college admittance (ie, if EVERYONE is supposed to go to college at a given school whether they actually should or not, then foreign language is taught to the lowest-common-denominator and no one learns it well) but treating things that aren't spoken or written human languages as such is stupid.
I live in Montreal. Came here after age 40 from Englishville (Toronto Ontario). At that time Montreal was 60/40 French Engilsh in ratio. Today it is 80/20. I decided to immerse myself into the French language, which took me three years to really be comfortable. Comfortable means, understanding and laughing at jokes and participating in meetings and thinking in French.
My own children are bilingual as are my grandchildren. The grandchildren's public school program was for 4 years of French immersion -- all teaching in French, except gym, recess and lunch hour). Thereafter, it is half day in French, and a half day English.
At home we watch TV in either language and speak English to each other. There is a benefit to the brain to having a second or third language. I cannot say exactly what it is, but I think it is because French/Spanish is a Latin Language, we have to think differently. And in being faced with technical problems, I quickly think of alternative technical solutions and consequences to problems. Is it because of the second language? I think so. But jokingly, my work associates say my proposals are presented faster in time than an I/O interrupt. And the proposals are solid solutions.
Eliminating a second language is in my opinion, narrowing your brilliance, your ability to think "out of the box", to broaden your knowledge, and most of all, to realize that there is no exclusivity on intelligence. Those second and third language students have a thinking and comprehension advantage over the unilingual individual.
That's amazing. What an amazing story. Get this out to the scientific community pronto, they've been pissing about doing studies of tens of thousands of people for decades, but fuck that, because you got sick a bit as a kid and now that you haven't been vaccinated you don't get sick. So yeah let's chuck the vaccines, based on what you think you experienced.
TLDR anecdotes count for precisely fuck-all.
Certain vaccines should be compulsary. Polio, Measles, diphtheria the Poxes. If your kid does not have any of those he should not be allowed in schools or where he is in contact with healthy kids.
I would heartily recommend you consider the action/adventure education that is the public school system.
Coddling, though still an individual option, is generally better for the parents than the children.
Re homeschooling. One concern I would have (I am now a grandfather), is the social skills and intermixing with other kids. As well, the recess, lunch hour and after school playing to burn energy. Home school children miss the interaction that is part of our healthy being.
I believe that the homeschooled child may have difficulty in adult years with interaction, or even with understanding his/her own children. If you were always isolated for learning around adults without other children around, you will have difficulty understanding how your child thinks. I would think that one should only do homeschooling if and only if there is a health problem.
There an efficient car engine for reduced fuel consumption. This helps with with cheap travel. Instead of This engine helps with cheap travel.
I also hate the written
There are five cars to choose from, Why not "There are five cars from which to choose"? The former is ok for spoken text. Change the cars to cereals and choose to be eat and we get There are 5 cereals to eat from. vs There are 5 cereals from which to eat. Am I out of sync? "Do not end a sentence with a preposition rule" is no longer to be observed?
Actually, I think it has more to do with the state telling parents what shots their kids must receive. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all about vaccinations and feel that anti-vaxers are idiots, but I'm a little leery of government making health decisions for my kids. If the government can tell your kids what vaccinations they must receive, what's next? Can they tell parents what to feed them? Can the government mandate what TV shows kids are allowed to or must watch? Can government force kids to read certain books or attend certain functions? Where do you draw the line? Once you draw that line, why can't it be crossed or moved?
Measles is making a comeback. If your kid is not vaccinated against it, don't bring him to school. We don't want it. Deaths from measles is pretty high. Ditto for polio, ditto for many other illnesses such as whooping cough, meningitis.
Anti-vacciners are jeapordizing the population around them, as these anti's become the distributors of serious illnesses. Keep those kids out of schools.
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Not to mention that the removal of the new deal and systematic attack on labor has made sure that the benefirts of that productivity has gone to mostly the top .01%.
George Jetson, on the famous cartoon show, used to complain how long the 3 day work weeks were! Everyone that put in work was supposed to benefit. It isn't working out that way.
As technology replaces jobs, look for more crime. It will be the new industry. When you need to survive, and there are no jobs, and begging does not bring in enough money, there are few choices. -- Live from the handouts of family is one, and crime is the other. Religion wont help you, because its not there to stop you, it is there for repentance.
The farm equipment replacement cycle is around 1 machine every 20 years. True new technology is appearing for Industrial farming. But then, the jobs left are menial, -- fruit pickers, vegetable pickers, etc.
And most farming in warm climates is for two cycles of planting per year. Not many labour resources in that, is there?
All it can do is change the work you do.
I am sick and tired of Luddites that claim robots will steal all the jobs.
Jobs are not a limited resource. Jobs are dependent on things we need to get done.
Once upon the time 100% of jobs were focused on getting food. Hunting and gathering became full time work when population was high. Once farming came around, it freed up some people to do other things. They did not suddenly become lazy do-nothing people. Instead they took up lower priority tasks, and turned them into full time jobs.
Things like clothing manufacturing, which used to be done in your spare time, turned into full industries. New products like shoes, alcohol, luxuries etc. were created.
The question is, are there still things we need to do, but have not been able to afford? The answer to that is YES. We have education, science, space exploration, green technologies, and a host of other things that we has decided would be nice, but we simply don't have the manpower to do.
We will not run out of jobs, instead we will do things that we can not even imagine today. Anymore than a hunter/gatherer could imagine someone would be paid to sell food at a basketball game.
I turned to writing slashdot reponses and to doing Sudoku puzzles.
There is no decrease since contributions have always been non-paid (from the perspective of the linux foundation). The joke was that as an unemployed developer, one must have a certain irrational fondness for the kernel in order to devote time to it as opposed to actually looking for paid work.
As sibling mentioned, I suspect that the majority of unpaid contributors (that is, folks who contribute without being paid to do so by an employer) are indeed college students. Hell, Linux itself was originally written when Linus was an unpaid college student (with a strong distaste for Minix, and who could blame the guy), so it's not as if the argument has no merit. Other sources of unpaid contributions would be retired devs who want to keep their brains sharp, or junior devs who get paid to write other stuff, but want to build up their resume without a degree or waiting to get years of experience (because let's face it: a kid whose resume says "I am an active contributor to the Linux Kernel - here's the URL listing my approved commits" is going to get a fuckload of notice by the hiring manager in a Linux/UNIX-oriented dev shop.)
Some of us developers are 70+ in years. We are retired and can invest time in code writing. We do this so that we stay out of the wife's bubble.
Average sales price of a new car in 2013 was $31,762. Apparently a lot of people have that kind of money to buy a car.
Cars are manufactured today with some very good reliability. Instead of a 3 year lease, where you are also putting money up-front, one buys the car with a car loan. The cost of ownership is much lower than the lease cost. Most car loans are around 7% or less. Instead of 3 years, the car can be kept for 10. My car, for example, is a 2000 model. It is fuel economic, has A/C and has not cost me more than $1000 per year in maintenance (batteries, oil changes, tires, and repairs). Furthermore, my insurance is way way lower than what it would be if I had to add that fee to protect the lease vehicle.
Further to the above, we often are able to rent a new vehicle for the weekend from any of the big 3 car rental agencies at under $50.00 per weekend. We take this rental vehicle to enjoy the new car ride, and to drive some long distances. We have had one week deals for as low as $16.00 per day on a 10day rental.
So why lease? I am waiting for the all electric car to be fully debugged and that means 2 years after market introduction. Still, I will weekend lease a car for the reasons described previously
Average sales price of a new car in 2013 was $31,762. Apparently a lot of people have that kind of money to buy a car.
Cars are manufactured today with some very good reliability. Instead of a 3 year lease, where you are also putting money up-front, one buys the car with a car loan. The cost of ownership is much lower than the lease cost. Most car loans are around 7% or less. Instead of 3 years, the car can be kept for 10. My car, for example, is a 2000 model. It is fuel economic, has A/C and has not cost me more than $1000 per year in maintenance (batteries, oil changes, tires, and repairs). Furthermore, my insurance is way way lower than what it would be if I had to add that fee to protect the lease vehicle.
I do quite a bit of posting, sometimes I am exhibiting stupidity, other times I have appropriate comments. By the way, I worked in senior positions in IT for 55 years, was active until a year ago, and now enjoy responding to slashdot comments. I do so because I have the time to think out a response, because many of my friends have died, I am not yet ready to spend my morning in the coffee shops talking to the other retirees about solving the worlds problems. I am 74, and I have opinions that are valid, based on my experience.
Many responders within slashdot are in their 20s and are still mentally immature in their responses. Others show and enjoyable to read response to some articles. I just follow the example of life "small vocabularies equals small minds"
I don't see this as any different than Apple pay at some point. If this would help officers obtain validity of the license faster, this might be a benefit.
I don't think this should be a requirement for Iowa drivers, but a perk of driving in Iowa.
The downside that I can think of is that in many areas of Iowa I don't care to carry a smartphone because the lack of coverage there kills batteries.
System would have to be world wide. In some countries tourists show passports, and car rental requires a scannable driver's license.
Is there too much smartness that is extremely marginal in benefits? I have a need for smart technology for my home heating system. And it does not need smart phone interface.
Situation and Challenge.
Home with circulating hot water heating system. It is heated with a boiler that has an outdoor sensor. Circulating water temperature is inversely proportional to difference in outdoor temperature and 20C (68F). At -5C or 15F, water temp is at 160F. Max upper limit on water temperature is 170F.
In the house today there is a bang-bang(on/off) "7 individual day" programmable thermostat for user defined 4 programs per day. The thermostat can be set to 1.5 hrs anticipation for heating or cooling, and also turn on immediately (electric heat/cool) not more than 5 on/off cycles per hour (gas heat). Time constants are long -- two hours to heat the home by 2C degrees.
We use a 3C setback for nights and when we are at work. But the control system is crude. For example, I would like a higher circulating water temperature based on the difference between room temperature and the thermostat temperature setting, taking into account the outdoor temperature. And as the house temp rises close to the thermostat setting, the circulating water temperature could become less hot. A crude proportional (self learning) controller is desired. The system has one and only one zone. Some home systems have two zones (north and south side of interior of the building).
Potential savings
The heating bill is approximately $3600/yr. With the setback thermostat, I was able to drop that cost to $3000/yr. I would really like to lower it to $2500/yr, thus my thoughts about potentially using the raspberry system for control along with a smarter thermostat (or just thermistor to replace the thermostat, and manage the heating from the raspberry system. The raspberry must have a clock that continues to operate during power failures.
If this controller, can be implemented at low cost, it would be a fun project and could even become a product for the world market.
Its an issue If they hire a less qualified woman over a more qualified male just because she's a woman. Thats exactly what programs like this encourage.
Should more women enter technology? Sure. Is anyone stopping them? NO. Is it outside the realm of possibility that less women are interested in the technology sector than men? NO. I have a lot of female friends. I grew up with 2 sisters and no brothers so I have more female friends than male. Only one of them has any interest in technology and ive asked why..ive asked if they were ever discouraged from any stem field and they all said no, they just WERENT INTERESTED.
The one who's into technology works in a robotics lab. She loves it and has never has any issues with the men around her.
This whole current pushing of this nonsense no women in tech is going to turn and bite the sector in the ass. You can't force interest and if you start lowering the bar to meet hiring quotas thats not only unfair to everyone else its also a great way to lower quality output.
I think you are wrong... Given a woman, or a black woman, with qualifications, and given the ratio of people of colour in the population, discrimination would be the refusal to hire said qualified skilled women. And while some women go into engineering, not all that do go to IT. In our community, some of the best construction engineers are "woman". Our local condo housing project was designed by a "she" and she got it right.
pkzip the result after using rotr 13 or more advanced character rotation rule.
Society needs its demons.
I've repeated this numerous times, and I'll repeat it again: Few people are interested in actual justice. Most of them just want somebody that they can publicly rail against for the sole purpose of making themselves feel righteous. It has nothing to do with righting any wrong.
It's not just the police, the prison guards, or the judges that are guilty of it. It's a systemic problem. Some of the worst bullies I've seen are those who target supposed bullies.
Prisons are "For profit institutions". What another way to extend a prisoner's stay and another few dollars of revenue.
I just love COBOL's Alter clause. I use it everywhere to confuse the support people
Indeed. And our apartment was raising the rent by $150. So we found a house, and are now paying $100 less (after mortgage and escrow) each month, plus the enjoyment of simple things like being able to paint or remodel, and plant a garden or have a bonfire in the back yard. Seems like a solid choice despite the social contract.
And what's your commuting costs for you and your partner?
There are plenty of products in the audiophile industry that can match or exceed this in craziness level. I wouldn't be surprised to see a glorifying review of this in a hi-fi magazine.
The biggest vendor of the Snake Oil (Monster Cables) in my city are Best Buy and Future Shop. (Both owned by Best Buy). Best Buy, in promoting these $3.00 cables for $40 to $100, are just after your wallet.
I would say that if the cables and accessories are overpriced, that all the rest, the laptops and computers, and now fridges, stoves, washing machines and whatever, are priced according to the example.
Our dollar store had 6 foot (2 meter) HDMI cables for $3.00. I also bought a 5megapixal webcam, high resolution wired mouse, and more PC stuff for $3.00 each. A wired keyboard for $10.00 I post this so you could appreciate the markups that the big-box stores add.
It's as close to out-of-the-box as I've found.
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/la...
And this one too
http://mirror.yandex.ru/fedora...
Free electricity means that the poor can purchase food with the equivalent. And probably, given the situation in Greece, most of the electric bills have not been paid due to poverty. (Buy food or medicine before buying electricity).
A previous posting assumed that all electricity comes from burning coal or fuel. Ours comes from damed water and turbines. It is transported to use with (I am told) 120kv three phase lines)
And in France they have €20/month for unlimited calling, unlimited text, and 3GB of 4G data. We are getting RIPPED OFF here in the USA.
For $30/mo I have nation wide calling and 6 gigs of data per month. And I feel we are getting ripped off. (I had to already own the phone or purchase one of the provider's new phones)
Forgot, roaming was extra. But for $10.00, I get North America wide monthly roaming, and for double that amount, Outside North America to some other countries (Europe, etc.) Mostly though, I use wifi and a wifi based phone application when roaming.
And in France they have €20/month for unlimited calling, unlimited text, and 3GB of 4G data. We are getting RIPPED OFF here in the USA.
For $30/mo I have nation wide calling and 6 gigs of data per month. And I feel we are getting ripped off. (I had to already own the phone or purchase one of the provider's new phones)
Is this two factor authentication? My bank has a list of 8 questions I provided to which I alone know the one word answer. When I log into my account, or do an online visa transaction, I am transferred to their security routine. I may be asked my data of birth, and randomly one of my questions for an answer that I provided. As I stated I alone know the answer. If my responses are correct, its an OK to accept my access or VISA transaction.
Off topic.
In Canada our debit and credit cards have the integrated chip since the late 1990's. We are shocked when we visited an American Casino this past month, and noted they did not as yet have support for such a system. I had to swipe the card, which was a true backward step, as far as security is concerned. In a way this is the other two factor authentication. I hold the card. Eventually, banks will demand Desktops with smart card readers for online shopping, or verification of your caller id.
Hell, my wife told me a story, she was a new undergrad at MIT and the new residents in the dorm were hanging out in the lounge getting to know one another. They got on the topic of foreign languages since there were a lot of kids from other countries or who had traveled fairly extensively, and when one boy was asked how many languages he knew, he replied, "computer, or other?" which drew lambasting from his fellow nerds at arguably one of the nerdiest universities in the world.
Computer languages are not interpersonal communication languages, and they should not be treated as such. That doesn't mean that I necessarily agree with the foreign language requirements for college admittance (ie, if EVERYONE is supposed to go to college at a given school whether they actually should or not, then foreign language is taught to the lowest-common-denominator and no one learns it well) but treating things that aren't spoken or written human languages as such is stupid.
I live in Montreal. Came here after age 40 from Englishville (Toronto Ontario). At that time Montreal was 60/40 French Engilsh in ratio. Today it is 80/20. I decided to immerse myself into the French language, which took me three years to really be comfortable. Comfortable means, understanding and laughing at jokes and participating in meetings and thinking in French.
My own children are bilingual as are my grandchildren. The grandchildren's public school program was for 4 years of French immersion -- all teaching in French, except gym, recess and lunch hour). Thereafter, it is half day in French, and a half day English.
At home we watch TV in either language and speak English to each other.
There is a benefit to the brain to having a second or third language. I cannot say exactly what it is, but I think it is because French/Spanish is a Latin Language, we have to think differently. And in being faced with technical problems, I quickly think of alternative technical solutions and consequences to problems. Is it because of the second language? I think so. But jokingly, my work associates say my proposals are presented faster in time than an I/O interrupt. And the proposals are solid solutions.
Eliminating a second language is in my opinion, narrowing your brilliance, your ability to think "out of the box", to broaden your knowledge, and most of all, to realize that there is no exclusivity on intelligence. Those second and third language students have a thinking and comprehension advantage over the unilingual individual.
That's amazing. What an amazing story. Get this out to the scientific community pronto, they've been pissing about doing studies of tens of thousands of people for decades, but fuck that, because you got sick a bit as a kid and now that you haven't been vaccinated you don't get sick. So yeah let's chuck the vaccines, based on what you think you experienced.
TLDR anecdotes count for precisely fuck-all.
Certain vaccines should be compulsary. Polio, Measles, diphtheria the Poxes. If your kid does not have any of those he should not be allowed in schools or where he is in contact with healthy kids.
Want a vaccine for the flu, thats not the same.
I would heartily recommend you consider the action/adventure education that is the public school system.
Coddling, though still an individual option, is generally better for the parents than the children.
Re homeschooling. One concern I would have (I am now a grandfather), is the social skills and intermixing with other kids. As well, the recess, lunch hour and after school playing to burn energy. Home school children miss the interaction that is part of our healthy being.
I believe that the homeschooled child may have difficulty in adult years with interaction, or even with understanding his/her own children. If you were always isolated for learning around adults without other children around, you will have difficulty understanding how your child thinks. I would think that one should only do homeschooling if and only if there is a health problem.
I get annoyed with sentences containing "this".
There an efficient car engine for reduced fuel consumption. This helps with with cheap travel. Instead of This engine helps with cheap travel.
I also hate the written
There are five cars to choose from, Why not "There are five cars from which to choose"? The former is ok for spoken text.
Change the cars to cereals and choose to be eat and we get
There are 5 cereals to eat from. vs There are 5 cereals from which to eat. Am I out of sync? "Do not end a sentence with a preposition rule" is no longer to be observed?
Actually, I think it has more to do with the state telling parents what shots their kids must receive.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all about vaccinations and feel that anti-vaxers are idiots, but I'm a little leery of government making health decisions for my kids. If the government can tell your kids what vaccinations they must receive, what's next? Can they tell parents what to feed them? Can the government mandate what TV shows kids are allowed to or must watch? Can government force kids to read certain books or attend certain functions? Where do you draw the line? Once you draw that line, why can't it be crossed or moved?
Measles is making a comeback. If your kid is not vaccinated against it, don't bring him to school. We don't want it. Deaths from measles is pretty high.
Ditto for polio, ditto for many other illnesses such as whooping cough, meningitis.
Anti-vacciners are jeapordizing the population around them, as these anti's become the distributors of serious illnesses. Keep those kids out of schools.