I paid a hell of a lot into social security. I get a mailing every few months (or once a year?) that tells me how much I'll make. It is a bit confusing but I collect a small salary from a business that I actually own. I'm still paying Social Security. I want to say that it is somewhere around $2500/mo, or will be if I wait. I doubt that I'll actually file for it but it's an option.
If I do file for it then I'll likely funnel it into the Maine Chapter of the ACLU. I can not actually envision a world where I'd need Social Security benefits. Well, not realistically. Yes, it's a good place to be and I appreciate having had the good fortune to be in this position. If there's a point where I need financial assistance then there's a lot of people who are going to be more needy than I - I'd suggest attending to them first.
It's not just American. Most of us, across the globe, are unable to see (or admit) how good we have it. We don't see what resources we have as being so - because we're used to them. Most of us think our lives are tough and that our challenges are insurmountable. Many of us lack motivation because we are not destitute and have never known true hunger.
Really, I think it should be almost mandatory for people to travel. By travel, I sure as hell don't mean tourist destinations. I mean going places where you hire a local guide and when you ask why it's so expensive he tells you that it's because he's going to hire a half dozen of his friends to provide an armed escort.
And eventually you'll figure out what authority means. The sooner you learn, the easier your life will be. Why learn? Well, not everyone who deems themselves an authority figure is actually an authority. Some folks you can tell to go pound sand - and get away with it. Others? Not so much. That depends on the situation, of course.
Yes you can. I'm not even sure why you'd say so? It's fairly straight forward. Click on the button to manage the proxy. If you use Linux, you just start it with a switch. I'm pretty sure there are extensions to do it for you if it's too complex.
They don't actually have their own money. In order to pay it, they'll have to use our money to do so. That counts them printing more or loaning more. We have to make up for what is printed.
Hell, it'd be cheaper just to bomb the hell out the "other countries" you mentioned and just take their shit.
I've seen you post before. You're a fucking lunatic - and I mean that in a good way. I seem to recall that the last time you wrote (that I noticed) you lamented having to write it all anew sometime in the 80s or early 90s and were thinking that you might have to do it again but didn't have enough time left on the planet to do so. You need an apostle to hand it off to when you're dead and gone. The world thrives on lunatics.
Because you clicked on update, a variety of agreements, accepted a EULA (after indicating you'd read it), and then rebooted the system several times to ensure all the updates were done?
No, Windows 10 doesn't install without user intervention.
Alright, presume that I echoed their sentiment - as I *do* echo their sentiment.
Am I a shill?
Linux kgiii-desktop-9 4.2.0-32-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 26 02:21:44 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
(It's actually Lubuntu, they skipped changing the name. I'm too lazy to fix it. Note the time, it's off by an hour. I'm accessing the box via remote. Locally it is Lubuntu as well.)
I use Lubuntu. However, I'm grateful that Microsoft exists. It's really hard to say this but much of what we're able to enjoy today is because of the influences Microsoft has had. For better or worse, they're one of the primary reasons that we have it as good as we do. We can argue over things would have been different without them but that's the point - it would have been different.
No, I don't want Microsoft to go away. I want Microsoft to get better. They have enabled/driven so much and inspired so many - even if they inspired hate and gave someone reason to create an open source alternative. What they have done has resulted in trillions of dollars in economic activity over the years. They helped make the device you're using as affordable as it is.
No, not go away but better. Better would be good. They seem to, for the most part, be headed in a better direction. Then again, I'm not really a rabid hater of anything nor fan of anything. I'm not really a zealot or anything. It's obvious that you've a different view, I respect that. I just disagree in preferring their demise. And yes, yes I am well aware of what Microsoft has done, is doing, and can accurately judge the veracity of the complaints levied at them. All that and I still don't want Microsoft gone from the scene - much like I don't want Apple gone.
I had to scroll back up. This comment bugged me. You're looking for an absolute, or I'm misreading your text.
But, it comes down to something more philosophical. So, as is often the case with me, that leads to a novella. However, you've been pretty good lately so I'll spare you the novella.
If we skip the middle of my intended response, we end up with: That entirely depends on the goal. What is your goal? Is it education, to what level, in preparation of, and to what ends? Pardon anything not covered within that scope, add to it as you wish. It's largely rhetoric but I'm certainly open to answer(s).
Is the goal to teach? If so, at some point, where is it worth giving instruction? Is the goal preparation for the future? If so, then for what reason do we impose restrictions - in today's society?
Those mostly come out of my original question, the one that I skipped, which is; "Who has the motivation to do their exam for them and where did they get that motivation?"
If the answer is the more obvious, which is for money, then is it not a lesson to teach the kids to bargain for services? The wealthier are far more likely to be able to afford competent aid. In the future, they'll very likely to be in a position where they're employing someone in some capacity.
I promised to keep this short, and I will... However, this isn't just so much a question for this moment in time but for the future and our future needs as a society. Let us keep in mind what the scholastic process is actually geared for and let us also keep in mind that the needs of the days of its creation (or even our time of passage) are quite different than what they are now and what they might be in just a short while.
Would we not be better served, and more robust a people, if we taught to a level (the lines of which are open to interpretation) if we actually enabled the kids by teaching them how to not just learn but how to get the results they need?
Having communicated with you enough, I can presume this isn't a subject to be overly biased about. I'd made it to the bottom of the thread before returning to answer/respond. Indeed, I do not even know the answers to my own questions. I can speculate. I imagine that all you can do is speculate and point to whichever bits of history defend your view - whatever that view may be.
It is not meant as a pejorative when I say that you're usually rather "progressive" in nature and you're very consistent in those regards. Thus, I'm kind of surprised by your response and wonder if you've given it any thought. It seems, shall we say, rushed and almost diametrically opposed to some of what you say but, at the same time, it's still consistent with other views you've shared.
I'm thinking that this message is as clear as mud but I'll send it along anyhow. It's some food for thought. I can elaborate if needed, I'm mostly just curious.
I'm not sure you should be speaking about logic. The term you should realize after looking at what you wrote is a non-sequitur. It does not follow that making a student do something that is not unlawful is akin to making a student do something that is unlawful. In other words, coercing them to give up their phone is not the same as coercing them to have unlawful sex.
You didn't actually take any formal courses on critical thinking, did you?
It's not entirely unknown. Or at least i can vouch for something similar. If you let me read the book and, maybe, do a practice exam (where I can see the answers) I can generally pass a test in any given subject. I can't retain it. I can't recount it to you a year later. It is like it stays in RAM until it is no longer needed.
I test very well. I am not a smart person. On paper it might look like I am a smart person. I am not. I actually have to work really hard if I want to retain something or I have to use it very frequently if I want to retain it. For short-term stuff? I can pound a textbook into me pretty quickly and pass the exams with a > 70%. I won't understand it at anything other than a superficial level.
Perhaps the other person is exaggerating their abilities and confusing it for being intelligent? Perhaps they're making it up? Perhaps they're telling the truth? I have no idea but I'm a bit similar. It's why I'm often cautious in my speech. "I'm not sure but I seem to recall that it was _____." The difference between the poster above and myself is that I don't think that it makes me intelligent. I think it's the exact opposite. Stuff is hard pressed to be put into long-term storage but I have plenty of RAM, so to speak.
I hold a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics. Needless to say, I've taken some pretty rough tests.
Some of the more difficult ones were from a professor who gave *every* test as a take-home test. Yup. You could not only take it home but there was no in-class time set to take the test. You were encouraged to work on it with your peers. Except, not one of the tests had the same questions on it. None of them (for as hard as we looked) were repeats of questions from exams from prior years.
*sighs* I did fairly well. It was a hell of a lot of work for everyone involved but worth it. It has been some 30+ years but I still retain a goodly amount of it - though it's rather useless for me today. The thing is, he'd been a professor for nearly 30 years when I had him. As near as we could tell, not one question was identical to another - ever.
But, absolutely... We were encouraged to work with each other, use any resources we could, and to do the work outside of class.
No, those are assumed and are there by extension of the "Zero Tolerance" policies. They didn't forget, you're just not up with your jargon. It's like "Those People." No need to be specific, we know who "Those People" are.
Of course you are and of course you will, snowflake.
No, you'll pitch a fit when you're shit is taken and your parents have to come deal with your irresponsible behavior. *snip* (That part was too mean.)
Remember, you're unique, just like everybody else. You're gonna be in for a rude awakening when you enter the adult world. If you learn it now, practice it now, then you'll find it's a hell of a lot easier to cope when you've no other choice but to accept that yes, yes that other person *IS* "the boss of you."
I'm thinking modeling with numerous disparate inputs into a dedicated array with multiple I/O ports. It's still going to hit the bottleneck but you can probably push and pull pretty fast - multiples of these would have been a godsend back in the day where the disk was the bottleneck and not the bus. Now, the bus is in the way and that's improving, slowly. This sits right there almost on the board. You should be able to slam it with multiple I/O and be able to (reasonably) get a decent bi-directional data stream.
Stuff like this makes my testicles wiggle as I'd have loved shit like this in about, say, 1998. Well, it'd have been much to fast and I'm not sure it would have had anything to plug into but you get the idea.
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I paid a hell of a lot into social security. I get a mailing every few months (or once a year?) that tells me how much I'll make. It is a bit confusing but I collect a small salary from a business that I actually own. I'm still paying Social Security. I want to say that it is somewhere around $2500/mo, or will be if I wait. I doubt that I'll actually file for it but it's an option.
If I do file for it then I'll likely funnel it into the Maine Chapter of the ACLU. I can not actually envision a world where I'd need Social Security benefits. Well, not realistically. Yes, it's a good place to be and I appreciate having had the good fortune to be in this position. If there's a point where I need financial assistance then there's a lot of people who are going to be more needy than I - I'd suggest attending to them first.
Not me, I'll be jumping up and down on the desk saying, "I wanna kill, kill, I wanna kill!"
It's not just American. Most of us, across the globe, are unable to see (or admit) how good we have it. We don't see what resources we have as being so - because we're used to them. Most of us think our lives are tough and that our challenges are insurmountable. Many of us lack motivation because we are not destitute and have never known true hunger.
Really, I think it should be almost mandatory for people to travel. By travel, I sure as hell don't mean tourist destinations. I mean going places where you hire a local guide and when you ask why it's so expensive he tells you that it's because he's going to hire a half dozen of his friends to provide an armed escort.
Seeing as your signature asks for polite correction, I'd have (probably) changed your second sentence to:
"In away, you're right."
"You're right, in a way, the field of..." is also good. It's probably the preferred method.
And eventually you'll figure out what authority means. The sooner you learn, the easier your life will be. Why learn? Well, not everyone who deems themselves an authority figure is actually an authority. Some folks you can tell to go pound sand - and get away with it. Others? Not so much. That depends on the situation, of course.
I don't use Skype (or even know how to) but email is an option.
Yes you can. I'm not even sure why you'd say so? It's fairly straight forward. Click on the button to manage the proxy. If you use Linux, you just start it with a switch. I'm pretty sure there are extensions to do it for you if it's too complex.
They don't actually have their own money. In order to pay it, they'll have to use our money to do so. That counts them printing more or loaning more. We have to make up for what is printed.
Hell, it'd be cheaper just to bomb the hell out the "other countries" you mentioned and just take their shit.
You probably forgot to hit the show all comments button. I've done it myself. Well, more accurately, I've lost my own posts that way.
You completely missed their first sentence? They only wrote *TWO* sentences! Not sure if serious.
https://www.sba.gov/content/wo...
I'm pretty sure that is copypasta from another thread. The 'fleshlight' typo kind of gives it away.
I've seen you post before. You're a fucking lunatic - and I mean that in a good way. I seem to recall that the last time you wrote (that I noticed) you lamented having to write it all anew sometime in the 80s or early 90s and were thinking that you might have to do it again but didn't have enough time left on the planet to do so. You need an apostle to hand it off to when you're dead and gone. The world thrives on lunatics.
Because you clicked on update, a variety of agreements, accepted a EULA (after indicating you'd read it), and then rebooted the system several times to ensure all the updates were done?
No, Windows 10 doesn't install without user intervention.
Alright, presume that I echoed their sentiment - as I *do* echo their sentiment.
Am I a shill?
Linux kgiii-desktop-9 4.2.0-32-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Feb 26 02:21:44 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
(It's actually Lubuntu, they skipped changing the name. I'm too lazy to fix it. Note the time, it's off by an hour. I'm accessing the box via remote. Locally it is Lubuntu as well.)
I use Lubuntu. However, I'm grateful that Microsoft exists. It's really hard to say this but much of what we're able to enjoy today is because of the influences Microsoft has had. For better or worse, they're one of the primary reasons that we have it as good as we do. We can argue over things would have been different without them but that's the point - it would have been different.
No, I don't want Microsoft to go away. I want Microsoft to get better. They have enabled/driven so much and inspired so many - even if they inspired hate and gave someone reason to create an open source alternative. What they have done has resulted in trillions of dollars in economic activity over the years. They helped make the device you're using as affordable as it is.
No, not go away but better. Better would be good. They seem to, for the most part, be headed in a better direction. Then again, I'm not really a rabid hater of anything nor fan of anything. I'm not really a zealot or anything. It's obvious that you've a different view, I respect that. I just disagree in preferring their demise. And yes, yes I am well aware of what Microsoft has done, is doing, and can accurately judge the veracity of the complaints levied at them. All that and I still don't want Microsoft gone from the scene - much like I don't want Apple gone.
I had to scroll back up. This comment bugged me. You're looking for an absolute, or I'm misreading your text.
But, it comes down to something more philosophical. So, as is often the case with me, that leads to a novella. However, you've been pretty good lately so I'll spare you the novella.
If we skip the middle of my intended response, we end up with: That entirely depends on the goal. What is your goal? Is it education, to what level, in preparation of, and to what ends? Pardon anything not covered within that scope, add to it as you wish. It's largely rhetoric but I'm certainly open to answer(s).
Is the goal to teach? If so, at some point, where is it worth giving instruction? Is the goal preparation for the future? If so, then for what reason do we impose restrictions - in today's society?
Those mostly come out of my original question, the one that I skipped, which is; "Who has the motivation to do their exam for them and where did they get that motivation?"
If the answer is the more obvious, which is for money, then is it not a lesson to teach the kids to bargain for services? The wealthier are far more likely to be able to afford competent aid. In the future, they'll very likely to be in a position where they're employing someone in some capacity.
I promised to keep this short, and I will... However, this isn't just so much a question for this moment in time but for the future and our future needs as a society. Let us keep in mind what the scholastic process is actually geared for and let us also keep in mind that the needs of the days of its creation (or even our time of passage) are quite different than what they are now and what they might be in just a short while.
Would we not be better served, and more robust a people, if we taught to a level (the lines of which are open to interpretation) if we actually enabled the kids by teaching them how to not just learn but how to get the results they need?
Having communicated with you enough, I can presume this isn't a subject to be overly biased about. I'd made it to the bottom of the thread before returning to answer/respond. Indeed, I do not even know the answers to my own questions. I can speculate. I imagine that all you can do is speculate and point to whichever bits of history defend your view - whatever that view may be.
It is not meant as a pejorative when I say that you're usually rather "progressive" in nature and you're very consistent in those regards. Thus, I'm kind of surprised by your response and wonder if you've given it any thought. It seems, shall we say, rushed and almost diametrically opposed to some of what you say but, at the same time, it's still consistent with other views you've shared.
I'm thinking that this message is as clear as mud but I'll send it along anyhow. It's some food for thought. I can elaborate if needed, I'm mostly just curious.
Nothing they wrote is misspelled. Perhaps you meant a grammar-checker?
I'm not sure you should be speaking about logic. The term you should realize after looking at what you wrote is a non-sequitur. It does not follow that making a student do something that is not unlawful is akin to making a student do something that is unlawful. In other words, coercing them to give up their phone is not the same as coercing them to have unlawful sex.
You didn't actually take any formal courses on critical thinking, did you?
It's not entirely unknown. Or at least i can vouch for something similar. If you let me read the book and, maybe, do a practice exam (where I can see the answers) I can generally pass a test in any given subject. I can't retain it. I can't recount it to you a year later. It is like it stays in RAM until it is no longer needed.
I test very well. I am not a smart person. On paper it might look like I am a smart person. I am not. I actually have to work really hard if I want to retain something or I have to use it very frequently if I want to retain it. For short-term stuff? I can pound a textbook into me pretty quickly and pass the exams with a > 70%. I won't understand it at anything other than a superficial level.
Perhaps the other person is exaggerating their abilities and confusing it for being intelligent? Perhaps they're making it up? Perhaps they're telling the truth? I have no idea but I'm a bit similar. It's why I'm often cautious in my speech. "I'm not sure but I seem to recall that it was _____." The difference between the poster above and myself is that I don't think that it makes me intelligent. I think it's the exact opposite. Stuff is hard pressed to be put into long-term storage but I have plenty of RAM, so to speak.
I hold a Ph.D in Applied Mathematics. Needless to say, I've taken some pretty rough tests.
Some of the more difficult ones were from a professor who gave *every* test as a take-home test. Yup. You could not only take it home but there was no in-class time set to take the test. You were encouraged to work on it with your peers. Except, not one of the tests had the same questions on it. None of them (for as hard as we looked) were repeats of questions from exams from prior years.
*sighs* I did fairly well. It was a hell of a lot of work for everyone involved but worth it. It has been some 30+ years but I still retain a goodly amount of it - though it's rather useless for me today. The thing is, he'd been a professor for nearly 30 years when I had him. As near as we could tell, not one question was identical to another - ever.
But, absolutely... We were encouraged to work with each other, use any resources we could, and to do the work outside of class.
No, those are assumed and are there by extension of the "Zero Tolerance" policies. They didn't forget, you're just not up with your jargon. It's like "Those People." No need to be specific, we know who "Those People" are.
Of course you are and of course you will, snowflake.
No, you'll pitch a fit when you're shit is taken and your parents have to come deal with your irresponsible behavior. *snip* (That part was too mean.)
Remember, you're unique, just like everybody else. You're gonna be in for a rude awakening when you enter the adult world. If you learn it now, practice it now, then you'll find it's a hell of a lot easier to cope when you've no other choice but to accept that yes, yes that other person *IS* "the boss of you."
Just wait until augmented reality hits in undetectable wearables such as contacts that have network capacity and OCR.
I'm thinking modeling with numerous disparate inputs into a dedicated array with multiple I/O ports. It's still going to hit the bottleneck but you can probably push and pull pretty fast - multiples of these would have been a godsend back in the day where the disk was the bottleneck and not the bus. Now, the bus is in the way and that's improving, slowly. This sits right there almost on the board. You should be able to slam it with multiple I/O and be able to (reasonably) get a decent bi-directional data stream.
Stuff like this makes my testicles wiggle as I'd have loved shit like this in about, say, 1998. Well, it'd have been much to fast and I'm not sure it would have had anything to plug into but you get the idea.