I was afraid they would never finish it. I'm so there. I might need to go twice, once sober and once tripping. Chemically I mean; I'm sure it will be pretty trippy sober as well. I wonder if they'll kick people out for giggling.
I think we see things like this because we are getting the cream of the crop. Whatever your opinion on immigration it's hard to argue that it doesn't take guts, determination and intelligence to cross the border and survive as an illegal. The problems with gangs seems to be a 2nd generation problem, doing too good of a job assimilating into our blighted urban centers.
I think the big part of the problem is as you said, self-esteem. The kids that got stuck making $6/hr at mcdonalds have already been beaten down and don't see themselves ever making something out of themselves. Sure they need to buck up and develop a work ethic, but when many of them go to schools that look like The IT Crowd's dungeon it's hard for me not to feel a little sorry for them. Hell, they get shitty teachers that don't expect shit from them(1 or 2 can undo the work of legions of sincere ones), a shitty infrastructure, a couple shitty classmates looking to get out through the thuglife threatening them, a shitty family life (even the best parents aren't around because they're working three shitty jobs) and naturally you got kids thinking they're shitty. Maybe the top 5% of the class will get scholarships and the rest think they got a lifetime of burger flipping and toilet cleaning ahead of them. And you don't need a diploma for that. If I was in their position, and didn't grow up with a stay at home mom, a father that was home by 6 to read to me, consistently well funded schools and skilled teachers, I'm not sure I would have made it. Yes many of our high schools are screwed, but it's mostly the shit that happens outside of them that makes them hell.
I agree with your point that as we grow as a society these laws become less useful, but I don't think we're there yet. In many neighborhoods at least in my city, housing is controlled by only two or three large companies. If one of these companies decides to discriminate a huge portion of the market disappears for potential tenants. And they have done this. Two years ago, a major apartment complex in my college neighborhood got nailed by the city's fair housing laws for discriminating against students and people of college age. As they should be, as taking a thousand apartments out of the market when it is already tight really does hurt potential tenants.
I'm ashamed to say it, but one of my relatives moved and was pressured by neighbors into not selling to a minority family. That may be one home to that minority family, but if my otherwise decent relative didn't do the right thing, what are the chances they find another person willing to sell a home to them in the same neighborhood. These laws (if enforced) help decent people do what they know is right. If my relative knew the law, he could have shrugged at his neighbors, "I'm not getting sued." He got his comeuppance though, the other bidders fell through and it took months to sell.
Why don't they ever outsource HR or management? Apparently any jello mold with a liberal arts degree is qualified for those positions. As a national policy its rather stupid to offshore everything but management. For the most part management is a low skill job. MBA programs are little more than networking opportunities. A technical superiority is a defensible market position, management not so much. The software industry remains hobbled by corporate tradition. Software development is not a capital intensive endeavor, so why do we still go hat-in-hand to management looking for work. Managers should be coming to our dev teams begging to help. It won't be long before those offshore companies in India figure out that they don't need American management to hire them.
IANAL, but I spend way too much time reading court documents.
Both instances are pretty much boilerplate language. The informed and believe is a way of saying we'll try to prove it in discovery and at trial, a threat basically. Now if defense had denied the accusation it would be saying, "then prove it." "no position to admit or deny that the plaintiff believes something" translates from lawyer into english as "go fuck yourself." Most cases the lawyers file briefs back and forth and a couple months or years later a judge finds one way or the other; they go through the motions. Some lawyers always use "no position to admit or deny", but in this case it looks like a threat: "fuck you, we're going to be a pain in the ass." Sometimes they go through the motions and sometimes they declare war. The gauntlet has been thrown down, and now the RIAA is getting a shitstorm of motions attacking their case even before they've attempted to make it. The key is how to do this without pissing off the judge, while fighting tooth and nail for every bit of leverage possible. The defendant's lawyers in this case look like they are going to make this painful for the RIAA. Good for them.
Once and for all. The powers that be in the linux community need to hit back. Spreading this fud can constitute a RICO violation and civil RICO means triple damages. Ballmer is trying to interfere with the legitimate business of other entities with lies, he's creating massive liability for MSFT. If Ballmer can't prove it, Red Hate et. al. can fuck him up.
about the article is that his wife was the one who told him he got zero votes. She asked him if he had voted for himself to make sure it was wrong....err, someone's going to be sleeping on the couch.
Frankly, I am ignorant in these matters, but I know when someone screws up. And I didn't make myself clear re: Filezilla and Putty. I was the one that installed them. I needed them for work, they used the Filezilla and then proceeded to delete it. They obviously didn't know what Putty was or they would have deleted that as well.
At my school the BS students had to complete a final project. Typically they started it 2nd semester Junior year or summer prior to senior year. I was a BA student(I believe BA students now have to complete one as well), so I'm not sure of all details. Throughout senior year the BS students had to give presentations in suits and ties on their project with faculty and classmates asking questions. This wasn't a thesis, they had to go through each step of the process gantt charts and all. I know I wasn't well prepared with a BA, but most of the BAs werent looking for software development jobs anyway, and if I had taken the co-op/internship opportunities I would have been. I know the BS students found the final project to be a worthwhile experience even though they bitched and moaned their way through it.
go frack yourself. My small employer just got new outsourced techs. Locked down our computers, broke everything, lost two years worth of email, deleted all my apps. All around crappiness. Windows is a chainsaw. The only way to make it "safe" is make sure the gas tank is empty, at which point it's completely useless. Even if they were competent (they deleted Filezilla install after they used it to back up, but left a copy of putty on the desktop?) locking down a computer is useless if you expect technically competent people to use it. If you succeed you have a very expensive word processor.
wow that list is lacking, let me help.
Note: many of these were joint projects with the DoS and CIA back when the DoD DoS and CIA were all on the same page.
Guatemala
Chile
Nicaragua
Cuba
Colombia
Ven--fuck it, we'll just say latin america
democratic Iran
Bosnia
notsodemocratic Iran
Cambodia
Lebanon
Haiti
and billions of dollars in basic equipment, training, and financing to foreign militaries both nation-states and otherwise (the largest arms dealer in the world is the US government government. makes for job security I suppose).
And I'm forgetting many more operations with troops on the ground.
Your commentary on "North Vietnam" is bizarre. Anti-colonial revolutions are always so peaceful and nonviolent. Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist first, communist second.
Panama - after CIA thug Noriega stopped returning phone calls
How many political prisoners are too many? 1? 10? 100? thousands? At what point do you remember where you left your soul? PRC runs political slave labor camps, and now MS is thinking maybe they should have some ethical standards? What a bunch of useful idiots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laogai
Although, you don't really need to hit that link, you just need to know that the "see also" section includes "gulag".
http://www.laogai.org/news/index.php
I might need to buy that BoA domain. I'm closing my accounts with BoA because--well it's too long of a story to get into but it involves them signing me up for credit cards I have not confirmed or even received and when I complained about it I got an email back threatening to report me to security for referring to their website as a webshite. So yes, I am interested in that typo domain, not for phishing or link farming, but as the first wave of my legitimate war on BoA. I think I'll probably for something more like bankofamerica-NoStandards though.
macs dont come with minesweeper or solitaire. The no games on mac thing is a bit of myth. It really only applies to FPS, which I guess is what people call "gaming". I'm gaming most nights, but I guess I don't qualify as a "gamer" because i don't play FPS (with the exception of Wolfenstein which is my current addiction).
Actually there were two, Australia and North America. More felons were sent to North America than Australia, but other people wanted to go to North America as well.
The role of police is to "protect and serve" their masters. The only difference between wolves and sheepdogs in this idiotic analogy is that one already has power over the flock. They are called "public servants" in order to provide some semblance of legitimacy. Some places where the police are actually beholden to the people, "public servants" might apply. Here in the USofA, I have seen enough shit to know who it is they protect and serve.
Umm, not really, sort of, not even close. You don't recall "us" doing much negotiation with them, because it wasn't the United States, it was the EU. After a decade of talks, Libya copped to the bombing of Pan Am 103 and reached a settlement with the victim's families. Gaddafi wanted to do business with the E.U., and the E.U. wanted the $3 billion dollar settlement. Gaddafi had offered to dismantle their weapons program for 4 years before the details were worked out and an agreement was made in 2003. You see, not everything in international relations fits into the attention span of our gold fish in chief. Gaddafi's reputation in the States is quite different from how he is seen elsewhere in the world. While a dictator, he is also seen as a rational statesmen. The Gaddafi family are rather westernized. His children include a pro soccer player, a painter, and his only daughter is a lawyer(Saddam's but a lawyer nonetheless). Gaddafi took power at 27, so he's only 64. Libya has to deal with him quite a bit longer, but it should become a more open society over time.
So to sum it up, "As far as I can tell" was the most illuminating portion of your comment.
Damn that Internet, with its LexisNexis, Factiva, Ebscohost, and government/ngo databases. Why can't everyone travel a couple hundred miles to the one library with the June 1972 edition of the Sheboygan Business Journal? I went to a major university with a decent library, but when I had to write a paper on the politics of Togo, there were 3 (11!) books on Togo in general. None more recent than the late 1980s.
Internet research is my day job. I would much prefer to download a property record in 30 seconds than get on a plane, find the county clerk's office and spend days going through their yellowing and rotten paper records.
Some of my classmates back in the day would try to use wikipedia as a source. That's why we need to teach internet research. 1) Read wikipedia. 2)Now that you know the basics you know which databases to search and what to search for.
Back on topic. My uni has made massive investments in fiber and other capital investments (which sounds great until you realize that great new high tech building doesn't have any profs to teach in it). No censoring, they might have done some traffic shaping but none that I really noticed. They did try to crack down on the biggest abusers. They tracked the biggest hog to a computer science graduate student downloading gigs of movies and mp3s. Discipline was promptly dropped once they found out his thesis was on new media.
People would never consider going to a school that edited profs' handouts in order to save copy paper? Why should students take this bullshit.
I really hate these discussions, but I can't resist.
As a few others have noted, the peak oil theorists can be wrong and we can still be fooked (the only real debate is when, 2007-2030). A billion Chinese, a billion Indians, all wanting to live the Western way and it takes massive increases in capacity to just keep the price of oil stable. I'm not a big protector of the ANWR, but consider that that huge oil field has enough oil to sate just the United States' appetite for oil for 6 months. Just how much oil is left is big question, as we don't even know current reserves (OPEC national quotas are determined by reserves, thus incentive to lie). But we do know that there aren't any Saudi Arabias left. Over the past year or two, a field in the Gulf of Mexico has been confirmed to have 10billion barrelshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4808466 .stm. In 2003,the Saudis claimed reserves of 240 billion. The press likes to trot out big numbers like 10 billion, without mentioning that world daily consumption is also a huge and growing number: 85 million barrels.
I don't have most everyone else's faith that a solution will come a long. Our current options suck. Ethanol, at least when using corn as a feedstock, is dubious at best as the debate still rages whether or not it's energy positive. Biodiesel from vegetable oil, while quickly becoming economical, would result in severe environmental damage. Biodiesel from algae stock is feasible and far more productive than other sources, but is still many years off. It also suffers from the fact that there are no current major stakeholders that would benefit from its development.(coal powered) Electric cars are an option, but a lousy one due to range and other considerations.
All the current and forseeable options are scientific advances, but not economic advances. They are all less productive than cheap oil. Previous societal and technological changes in human history have tended to be because we found something better. This time we're downgrading, and because we depend so heavily on oil, it wont be pretty.
I live in Washington, DC. I see ads for houses out in West Virginia. Some people, probably some of you, have a 4 hour daily commute. $5-10 dollar gasoline/ethanol/biodiesel makes those mcmansions worthless. Not only personally devastating, but devastating to our capital infrastructure. We lose current capital investments and we need to make entire new ones, like public transit and denser cities, just to keep things functioning. Whether its 2007 or 2030, I'm probably going to see it. Kind of worrisome, but also incredibly interesting as an engineer/scientist/nerd.
I took the SAT years ago, and the GRE just a couple months ago. I consider myself a damn good writer, but the SAT and GRE isn't looking for good writing. Given the limited time frame, you have to work from a formula. Introductory paragraph with thesis in first sentence, arguments in middle with strongest arguments first and last, with a concluding paragraph which always starts with "In conclusion..." Combine this with some of the blandest topics known to man, and you get complete sh!t (and a perfect score). When I was in college, I sometimes took an hour to write one sentence of a paper. Inline Nietzsche quotes take time to structure. Complex thinking requires complex writing. Journalists write a couple articles a day, but they're also writing at about an 8th grade reading level. If you want good writing don't put a stressed out high schooler in a classroom with 30 other stressed out people tapping pencils and shuffling feet and tell them that the next hour will determine their future chances of success.
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I was afraid they would never finish it. I'm so there. I might need to go twice, once sober and once tripping. Chemically I mean; I'm sure it will be pretty trippy sober as well. I wonder if they'll kick people out for giggling.
I think we see things like this because we are getting the cream of the crop. Whatever your opinion on immigration it's hard to argue that it doesn't take guts, determination and intelligence to cross the border and survive as an illegal. The problems with gangs seems to be a 2nd generation problem, doing too good of a job assimilating into our blighted urban centers. I think the big part of the problem is as you said, self-esteem. The kids that got stuck making $6/hr at mcdonalds have already been beaten down and don't see themselves ever making something out of themselves. Sure they need to buck up and develop a work ethic, but when many of them go to schools that look like The IT Crowd's dungeon it's hard for me not to feel a little sorry for them. Hell, they get shitty teachers that don't expect shit from them(1 or 2 can undo the work of legions of sincere ones), a shitty infrastructure, a couple shitty classmates looking to get out through the thuglife threatening them, a shitty family life (even the best parents aren't around because they're working three shitty jobs) and naturally you got kids thinking they're shitty. Maybe the top 5% of the class will get scholarships and the rest think they got a lifetime of burger flipping and toilet cleaning ahead of them. And you don't need a diploma for that. If I was in their position, and didn't grow up with a stay at home mom, a father that was home by 6 to read to me, consistently well funded schools and skilled teachers, I'm not sure I would have made it. Yes many of our high schools are screwed, but it's mostly the shit that happens outside of them that makes them hell.
I agree with your point that as we grow as a society these laws become less useful, but I don't think we're there yet. In many neighborhoods at least in my city, housing is controlled by only two or three large companies. If one of these companies decides to discriminate a huge portion of the market disappears for potential tenants. And they have done this. Two years ago, a major apartment complex in my college neighborhood got nailed by the city's fair housing laws for discriminating against students and people of college age. As they should be, as taking a thousand apartments out of the market when it is already tight really does hurt potential tenants. I'm ashamed to say it, but one of my relatives moved and was pressured by neighbors into not selling to a minority family. That may be one home to that minority family, but if my otherwise decent relative didn't do the right thing, what are the chances they find another person willing to sell a home to them in the same neighborhood. These laws (if enforced) help decent people do what they know is right. If my relative knew the law, he could have shrugged at his neighbors, "I'm not getting sued." He got his comeuppance though, the other bidders fell through and it took months to sell.
Why don't they ever outsource HR or management? Apparently any jello mold with a liberal arts degree is qualified for those positions. As a national policy its rather stupid to offshore everything but management. For the most part management is a low skill job. MBA programs are little more than networking opportunities. A technical superiority is a defensible market position, management not so much. The software industry remains hobbled by corporate tradition. Software development is not a capital intensive endeavor, so why do we still go hat-in-hand to management looking for work. Managers should be coming to our dev teams begging to help. It won't be long before those offshore companies in India figure out that they don't need American management to hire them.
IANAL, but I spend way too much time reading court documents. Both instances are pretty much boilerplate language. The informed and believe is a way of saying we'll try to prove it in discovery and at trial, a threat basically. Now if defense had denied the accusation it would be saying, "then prove it." "no position to admit or deny that the plaintiff believes something" translates from lawyer into english as "go fuck yourself." Most cases the lawyers file briefs back and forth and a couple months or years later a judge finds one way or the other; they go through the motions. Some lawyers always use "no position to admit or deny", but in this case it looks like a threat: "fuck you, we're going to be a pain in the ass." Sometimes they go through the motions and sometimes they declare war. The gauntlet has been thrown down, and now the RIAA is getting a shitstorm of motions attacking their case even before they've attempted to make it. The key is how to do this without pissing off the judge, while fighting tooth and nail for every bit of leverage possible. The defendant's lawyers in this case look like they are going to make this painful for the RIAA. Good for them.
Once and for all. The powers that be in the linux community need to hit back. Spreading this fud can constitute a RICO violation and civil RICO means triple damages. Ballmer is trying to interfere with the legitimate business of other entities with lies, he's creating massive liability for MSFT. If Ballmer can't prove it, Red Hate et. al. can fuck him up.
I think this is the first time there's a fud tag but no "notfud".
"I've never heard of a university library that turned away the public."a 16nov16,0,4794591.story?coll=la-home-headlines
UCLA will do more than turn you away, they'll taze your ass!!!
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cellcamer
baseball bat in hand. give me an address and a plane ticket and I'll solve our moral problem.
about the article is that his wife was the one who told him he got zero votes. She asked him if he had voted for himself to make sure it was wrong....err, someone's going to be sleeping on the couch.
Frankly, I am ignorant in these matters, but I know when someone screws up. And I didn't make myself clear re: Filezilla and Putty. I was the one that installed them. I needed them for work, they used the Filezilla and then proceeded to delete it. They obviously didn't know what Putty was or they would have deleted that as well.
At my school the BS students had to complete a final project. Typically they started it 2nd semester Junior year or summer prior to senior year. I was a BA student(I believe BA students now have to complete one as well), so I'm not sure of all details. Throughout senior year the BS students had to give presentations in suits and ties on their project with faculty and classmates asking questions. This wasn't a thesis, they had to go through each step of the process gantt charts and all. I know I wasn't well prepared with a BA, but most of the BAs werent looking for software development jobs anyway, and if I had taken the co-op/internship opportunities I would have been. I know the BS students found the final project to be a worthwhile experience even though they bitched and moaned their way through it.
go frack yourself. My small employer just got new outsourced techs. Locked down our computers, broke everything, lost two years worth of email, deleted all my apps. All around crappiness. Windows is a chainsaw. The only way to make it "safe" is make sure the gas tank is empty, at which point it's completely useless. Even if they were competent (they deleted Filezilla install after they used it to back up, but left a copy of putty on the desktop?) locking down a computer is useless if you expect technically competent people to use it. If you succeed you have a very expensive word processor.
wow that list is lacking, let me help. Note: many of these were joint projects with the DoS and CIA back when the DoD DoS and CIA were all on the same page. Guatemala Chile Nicaragua Cuba Colombia Ven--fuck it, we'll just say latin america democratic Iran Bosnia notsodemocratic Iran Cambodia Lebanon Haiti and billions of dollars in basic equipment, training, and financing to foreign militaries both nation-states and otherwise (the largest arms dealer in the world is the US government government. makes for job security I suppose). And I'm forgetting many more operations with troops on the ground. Your commentary on "North Vietnam" is bizarre. Anti-colonial revolutions are always so peaceful and nonviolent. Ho Chi Minh was a nationalist first, communist second. Panama - after CIA thug Noriega stopped returning phone calls
How many political prisoners are too many? 1? 10? 100? thousands? At what point do you remember where you left your soul? PRC runs political slave labor camps, and now MS is thinking maybe they should have some ethical standards? What a bunch of useful idiots. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laogai Although, you don't really need to hit that link, you just need to know that the "see also" section includes "gulag". http://www.laogai.org/news/index.php
I might need to buy that BoA domain. I'm closing my accounts with BoA because--well it's too long of a story to get into but it involves them signing me up for credit cards I have not confirmed or even received and when I complained about it I got an email back threatening to report me to security for referring to their website as a webshite. So yes, I am interested in that typo domain, not for phishing or link farming, but as the first wave of my legitimate war on BoA. I think I'll probably for something more like bankofamerica-NoStandards though.
macs dont come with minesweeper or solitaire. The no games on mac thing is a bit of myth. It really only applies to FPS, which I guess is what people call "gaming". I'm gaming most nights, but I guess I don't qualify as a "gamer" because i don't play FPS (with the exception of Wolfenstein which is my current addiction).
Actually there were two, Australia and North America. More felons were sent to North America than Australia, but other people wanted to go to North America as well.
The role of police is to "protect and serve" their masters. The only difference between wolves and sheepdogs in this idiotic analogy is that one already has power over the flock. They are called "public servants" in order to provide some semblance of legitimacy. Some places where the police are actually beholden to the people, "public servants" might apply. Here in the USofA, I have seen enough shit to know who it is they protect and serve.
"while others become hostile to the status quo and dedicate their lives to creating havoc."
You make it sound like a bad thing.
Umm, not really, sort of, not even close. You don't recall "us" doing much negotiation with them, because it wasn't the United States, it was the EU. After a decade of talks, Libya copped to the bombing of Pan Am 103 and reached a settlement with the victim's families. Gaddafi wanted to do business with the E.U., and the E.U. wanted the $3 billion dollar settlement. Gaddafi had offered to dismantle their weapons program for 4 years before the details were worked out and an agreement was made in 2003. You see, not everything in international relations fits into the attention span of our gold fish in chief.
Gaddafi's reputation in the States is quite different from how he is seen elsewhere in the world. While a dictator, he is also seen as a rational statesmen. The Gaddafi family are rather westernized. His children include a pro soccer player, a painter, and his only daughter is a lawyer(Saddam's but a lawyer nonetheless). Gaddafi took power at 27, so he's only 64. Libya has to deal with him quite a bit longer, but it should become a more open society over time.
So to sum it up, "As far as I can tell" was the most illuminating portion of your comment.
Damn that Internet, with its LexisNexis, Factiva, Ebscohost, and government/ngo databases. Why can't everyone travel a couple hundred miles to the one library with the June 1972 edition of the Sheboygan Business Journal? I went to a major university with a decent library, but when I had to write a paper on the politics of Togo, there were 3 (11!) books on Togo in general. None more recent than the late 1980s.
Internet research is my day job. I would much prefer to download a property record in 30 seconds than get on a plane, find the county clerk's office and spend days going through their yellowing and rotten paper records.
Some of my classmates back in the day would try to use wikipedia as a source. That's why we need to teach internet research. 1) Read wikipedia. 2)Now that you know the basics you know which databases to search and what to search for.
Back on topic. My uni has made massive investments in fiber and other capital investments (which sounds great until you realize that great new high tech building doesn't have any profs to teach in it). No censoring, they might have done some traffic shaping but none that I really noticed. They did try to crack down on the biggest abusers. They tracked the biggest hog to a computer science graduate student downloading gigs of movies and mp3s. Discipline was promptly dropped once they found out his thesis was on new media.
People would never consider going to a school that edited profs' handouts in order to save copy paper? Why should students take this bullshit.
I really hate these discussions, but I can't resist.6 .stm. In 2003,the Saudis claimed reserves of 240 billion. The press likes to trot out big numbers like 10 billion, without mentioning that world daily consumption is also a huge and growing number: 85 million barrels.
As a few others have noted, the peak oil theorists can be wrong and we can still be fooked (the only real debate is when, 2007-2030). A billion Chinese, a billion Indians, all wanting to live the Western way and it takes massive increases in capacity to just keep the price of oil stable. I'm not a big protector of the ANWR, but consider that that huge oil field has enough oil to sate just the United States' appetite for oil for 6 months. Just how much oil is left is big question, as we don't even know current reserves (OPEC national quotas are determined by reserves, thus incentive to lie). But we do know that there aren't any Saudi Arabias left. Over the past year or two, a field in the Gulf of Mexico has been confirmed to have 10billion barrelshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/480846
I don't have most everyone else's faith that a solution will come a long. Our current options suck. Ethanol, at least when using corn as a feedstock, is dubious at best as the debate still rages whether or not it's energy positive. Biodiesel from vegetable oil, while quickly becoming economical, would result in severe environmental damage. Biodiesel from algae stock is feasible and far more productive than other sources, but is still many years off. It also suffers from the fact that there are no current major stakeholders that would benefit from its development.(coal powered) Electric cars are an option, but a lousy one due to range and other considerations.
All the current and forseeable options are scientific advances, but not economic advances. They are all less productive than cheap oil. Previous societal and technological changes in human history have tended to be because we found something better. This time we're downgrading, and because we depend so heavily on oil, it wont be pretty.
I live in Washington, DC. I see ads for houses out in West Virginia. Some people, probably some of you, have a 4 hour daily commute. $5-10 dollar gasoline/ethanol/biodiesel makes those mcmansions worthless. Not only personally devastating, but devastating to our capital infrastructure. We lose current capital investments and we need to make entire new ones, like public transit and denser cities, just to keep things functioning. Whether its 2007 or 2030, I'm probably going to see it. Kind of worrisome, but also incredibly interesting as an engineer/scientist/nerd.
I took the SAT years ago, and the GRE just a couple months ago. I consider myself a damn good writer, but the SAT and GRE isn't looking for good writing. Given the limited time frame, you have to work from a formula. Introductory paragraph with thesis in first sentence, arguments in middle with strongest arguments first and last, with a concluding paragraph which always starts with "In conclusion..." Combine this with some of the blandest topics known to man, and you get complete sh!t (and a perfect score). When I was in college, I sometimes took an hour to write one sentence of a paper. Inline Nietzsche quotes take time to structure. Complex thinking requires complex writing. Journalists write a couple articles a day, but they're also writing at about an 8th grade reading level. If you want good writing don't put a stressed out high schooler in a classroom with 30 other stressed out people tapping pencils and shuffling feet and tell them that the next hour will determine their future chances of success.
Nonviolent revolution or violent revolution, take your pick. I'm a resident of the District of Columbia, so no, voting isn't an option for me.