Most ridiculous thing I've heard of. I've paid money to take this class - if something comes up and I can't make it... Guess what? I'm an adult. It's MY responsibility. I should not be able to be dropped from a college class for attendance. That's idiotic. If the teacher wants to assign attendance points, fine. My problem if I'm not in class.
Except that to a four year old, a "recommendation" coming from an adult is an order. There is no difference to one of that age. Sure, to an adult there is, but NOT to a four year old.
Silly person, Obama was born in the Republic of Kenya! Never mind that it wasn't known as that until Obama was four years old. But then, why let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy story?
The U.S. government doesn't allow any other company to deliver letter mail. Why? Because it's protecting its monopoly.
I agree with most of your post except this part. I cam completely free to send a letter via any means I choose. UPS, FedEX, DHL, trained pigeon. Doesn't matter. It just happens that the US Postal Service is the most economical and, statistically based on sheer volume, reliable method of doing so.
That's ok. I have Cox as well and, in comparison to other similar services I've had, I like them too. Solid service, reliable speeds, decent pricing, no amazing fiascoes that I know of.
In my market it's either Cox or Quest... I mean Century Link. Ya know - since changing the name of the company erases years and years of shitty product and customer service...
I'd have to argue this. The "Ribbon" interface makes me want to rip my eyes out of their sockets. I LOVE losing that much of my screen real-estate to something that should be in a freakin drop-down menu. Not to mention, somebody else's version of "frequently used tools" may not, and usually isn't, my version. I can't stand the newer versions.
Then again, I use OSS for most of my stuff. When it's free, I bitch a lot less.
If you play it lose with their lives you're not going to have many 'volunteers', and the time between missions will always be increasing
I'd have to go out on a limb here and say... no. Even if their was a 25% failure rate (which is obscene and not within the realm of feasibility) I guarantee that you'd have volunteers lined up to man the missions. Would they be as "highly qualified" as a NASA astronaut or Russian cosmonaut? No. But do they really need to be? The commercialization of space will do the same thing that it has done to every other sector and lower the skill requirements to accomplish tasks. Hell - if things go right they'll be lining colonists up at the gate in the next few decades - and I'll be in line even if I only had a 75% chance of surviving.
I wish I could disagree. I really do, but I can't. This is a state where it's possible to be legally pregnant before having sex. Our Governor had a mental breakdown on TV during the campaign and STILL got elected. McCain lives here.
to take your project home on the airplane. They might end up shutting down the airport for several hours, arresting you, and confiscating your project.
If anybody has a better system to keep bombs, guns, and knives off our airplanes, then write a slashdot artice about it.
Except for that annoying little fact that what the TSA does *doesn't* do what you seem to think it does. You would have to have ignored EVERY outlet of information or news to not realize this.
Right, because things were sooo much better with the robber barons, the "company store", and an overall decrease in the standard of living, just to name a few things.
Money may not have devalued in the same sense as it does today, but when you're working longer and longer hours for less and less pay, is it really any different than working a fixed number of hours for a fixed amount of pay which buys less and less?
The Fed has nothing to do with ending company stores, paying with script, or any of the other stuff you seem to be attributing it with. And most people in the work force today *are* working more and more hours for less and less pay. I know people who, in the same job for years, after counting inflation are actually making LESS than they were when hired. And working the same hours/pay but having money worth less is the exact same thing. It's called inflation, and it's built into the Fed's profit margin... You do realize that the Fed is a privately run FOR PROFIT organization, right?
Ah, Jury Nullification. Something that should happen far more than it does. Many juries are even told that they can't rule on the legality of the law in question - total bullshit, but that's the system we live in.
...that Apple listed dozens of potential design changes that Samsung could make and not infringe.
You mean the things they listed like "non-rectangular screen"? Or maybe the bit about "exagerated bezel width"
The stuff they listed was nonsensical and ridiculous. They basically said that Samsung could have made a tablet as long as it looked nothing like a tablet.
To bad that doesn't happen these days. Today, your amazing inventor would get litigated into the ground by an arsenal of vaguely worded, most likely obvious, and barely related patent war chests. Or, even more likely, since the "invention" was obviously related to his day job work environment, by laws in many states and many many employment agreements, it already belongs to his employing company.
The patent system is broken and tilted towards he who can employ the most lawyers. Your "Once upon a time" story is quaint and may have been the case at one point, it no longer is.
There is a huge difference between cracking the glass and breaking smashing it out. The vast majority of those cracks you see are not all the way through. They are only in a single layer of the glass and don't pass all the way through due to the bonded plastic layer between the layers of glass.
I live in Phoenix, AZ. Over 5 million in the metro area so we are not a rural area by any stretch yet wireless card readers are amazingly rare. When I ran my small business I tried to get a wireless card terminal, it was almost impossible. For some reason the banks had no problem with me having a normal wired terminal, yet they wanted all kinds of extra checks, deposits, and payments for a wireless one. It was nuts.
Ever tried to break windshield glass? It doesn't. That's the whole point of windshield glass. If you watch the videos of rescuers pulling folks out through windshields, the windshield itself has been removed or pried to the side. Smashed, crazed, but still in effectively one piece.
You've solved the dilemma right there. It took NASA *scientists* 15 minutes to do it where it took 51 *bureaucrats*. That is the definition of bureaucracy, the obfuscation of information. Seems they are doing their jobs perfectly.
Heh. MORE rigorous is the opposite of what they want. I kid you not, first day of class we had to do the old, "Stand up, state your name, and why you are in this class" Over half the class is on various sports teams. Four of us were there to fill the requirement for an education major.
No, not majoring in CS. Secondary Education with a Physics emphasis. Going to teach High School Physics. 37 years old and I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up!
unfortunately, level of knowledge is a huge problem. I'm a computer geek - been programming all my life. I'm working on my first degree at the moment and am being forced to take an Intro to Computer Systems. (One of those, "This is a keyboard, This is a document" kind of classes.) I've had SO many after class discussions with the teacher because a lot of the book material is flat out wrong. Granted, they are expecting the students of this class to have never so much as turned on a computer before but still. An answer is wrong, whether you understand the background or not - it is not "most correct for what the student is expected to know"!!!!!
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Um, they take attendance in college now too.
Most ridiculous thing I've heard of. I've paid money to take this class - if something comes up and I can't make it... Guess what? I'm an adult. It's MY responsibility. I should not be able to be dropped from a college class for attendance. That's idiotic. If the teacher wants to assign attendance points, fine. My problem if I'm not in class.
Except that to a four year old, a "recommendation" coming from an adult is an order. There is no difference to one of that age. Sure, to an adult there is, but NOT to a four year old.
Silly person, Obama was born in the Republic of Kenya! Never mind that it wasn't known as that until Obama was four years old. But then, why let facts get in the way of a good conspiracy story?
The U.S. government doesn't allow any other company to deliver letter mail. Why? Because it's protecting its monopoly.
I agree with most of your post except this part. I cam completely free to send a letter via any means I choose. UPS, FedEX, DHL, trained pigeon. Doesn't matter. It just happens that the US Postal Service is the most economical and, statistically based on sheer volume, reliable method of doing so.
That's ok. I have Cox as well and, in comparison to other similar services I've had, I like them too. Solid service, reliable speeds, decent pricing, no amazing fiascoes that I know of.
In my market it's either Cox or Quest... I mean Century Link. Ya know - since changing the name of the company erases years and years of shitty product and customer service...
I'm happy with Cox.
I'd have to argue this. The "Ribbon" interface makes me want to rip my eyes out of their sockets. I LOVE losing that much of my screen real-estate to something that should be in a freakin drop-down menu. Not to mention, somebody else's version of "frequently used tools" may not, and usually isn't, my version. I can't stand the newer versions.
Then again, I use OSS for most of my stuff. When it's free, I bitch a lot less.
Yeah! Someone needs to invent Shipstones!
If you play it lose with their lives you're not going to have many 'volunteers', and the time between missions will always be increasing
I'd have to go out on a limb here and say... no. Even if their was a 25% failure rate (which is obscene and not within the realm of feasibility) I guarantee that you'd have volunteers lined up to man the missions. Would they be as "highly qualified" as a NASA astronaut or Russian cosmonaut? No. But do they really need to be? The commercialization of space will do the same thing that it has done to every other sector and lower the skill requirements to accomplish tasks. Hell - if things go right they'll be lining colonists up at the gate in the next few decades - and I'll be in line even if I only had a 75% chance of surviving.
I wish I could disagree. I really do, but I can't. This is a state where it's possible to be legally pregnant before having sex. Our Governor had a mental breakdown on TV during the campaign and STILL got elected. McCain lives here.
Canada? At least there you'll get the treatment eventually. 4-5 hour waits with an empty ER are pretty common in my city. Phoenix, AZ
to take your project home on the airplane. They might end up shutting down the airport for several hours, arresting you, and confiscating your project.
Or you could, I don't know... Not use Google services. Wow - revolutionary idea, huh?
If anybody has a better system to keep bombs, guns, and knives off our airplanes, then write a slashdot artice about it.
Except for that annoying little fact that what the TSA does *doesn't* do what you seem to think it does. You would have to have ignored EVERY outlet of information or news to not realize this.
Right, because things were sooo much better with the robber barons, the "company store", and an overall decrease in the standard of living, just to name a few things.
Money may not have devalued in the same sense as it does today, but when you're working longer and longer hours for less and less pay, is it really any different than working a fixed number of hours for a fixed amount of pay which buys less and less?
The Fed has nothing to do with ending company stores, paying with script, or any of the other stuff you seem to be attributing it with. And most people in the work force today *are* working more and more hours for less and less pay. I know people who, in the same job for years, after counting inflation are actually making LESS than they were when hired. And working the same hours/pay but having money worth less is the exact same thing. It's called inflation, and it's built into the Fed's profit margin... You do realize that the Fed is a privately run FOR PROFIT organization, right?
Ah, Jury Nullification. Something that should happen far more than it does. Many juries are even told that they can't rule on the legality of the law in question - total bullshit, but that's the system we live in.
...that Apple listed dozens of potential design changes that Samsung could make and not infringe.
You mean the things they listed like "non-rectangular screen"?
Or maybe the bit about "exagerated bezel width"
The stuff they listed was nonsensical and ridiculous. They basically said that Samsung could have made a tablet as long as it looked nothing like a tablet.
To bad that doesn't happen these days. Today, your amazing inventor would get litigated into the ground by an arsenal of vaguely worded, most likely obvious, and barely related patent war chests. Or, even more likely, since the "invention" was obviously related to his day job work environment, by laws in many states and many many employment agreements, it already belongs to his employing company.
The patent system is broken and tilted towards he who can employ the most lawyers. Your "Once upon a time" story is quaint and may have been the case at one point, it no longer is.
There is a huge difference between cracking the glass and breaking smashing it out. The vast majority of those cracks you see are not all the way through. They are only in a single layer of the glass and don't pass all the way through due to the bonded plastic layer between the layers of glass.
I live in Phoenix, AZ. Over 5 million in the metro area so we are not a rural area by any stretch yet wireless card readers are amazingly rare. When I ran my small business I tried to get a wireless card terminal, it was almost impossible. For some reason the banks had no problem with me having a normal wired terminal, yet they wanted all kinds of extra checks, deposits, and payments for a wireless one. It was nuts.
Ever tried to break windshield glass? It doesn't. That's the whole point of windshield glass. If you watch the videos of rescuers pulling folks out through windshields, the windshield itself has been removed or pried to the side. Smashed, crazed, but still in effectively one piece.
If your 10 year old doesn't ALREADY understand the number line, you have failed. Hell, if your 6 year old doesn't understand it, you've failed.
You've solved the dilemma right there. It took NASA *scientists* 15 minutes to do it where it took 51 *bureaucrats*. That is the definition of bureaucracy, the obfuscation of information. Seems they are doing their jobs perfectly.
Heh. MORE rigorous is the opposite of what they want. I kid you not, first day of class we had to do the old, "Stand up, state your name, and why you are in this class" Over half the class is on various sports teams. Four of us were there to fill the requirement for an education major.
No, not majoring in CS. Secondary Education with a Physics emphasis. Going to teach High School Physics. 37 years old and I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up!
unfortunately, level of knowledge is a huge problem. I'm a computer geek - been programming all my life. I'm working on my first degree at the moment and am being forced to take an Intro to Computer Systems. (One of those, "This is a keyboard, This is a document" kind of classes.) I've had SO many after class discussions with the teacher because a lot of the book material is flat out wrong. Granted, they are expecting the students of this class to have never so much as turned on a computer before but still. An answer is wrong, whether you understand the background or not - it is not "most correct for what the student is expected to know"!!!!!