Separate out the cost from the vacation. Education and Medicine are the next two industries to plummet. A Business education should basically cost only $5000 because it's just books, lectures, and an honesty test. Give each kid his allowance of 25 office hours per semester or something to ask the serious questions that aren't in the lectures.
Those long vacations have another name: "Sabbatical". I believe they'd be better split into separate weeks, but the Summer Job thing has its merits. People grovel for 3 days of vaction at work.
"For 2 minutes and seventeen seconds, we all blacked out..." "We didn't black out sir, we were... in the future!" "What did you see?" "It was too horrible to talk about." "Come on honey... What was it?" "I was STILL at the release party!"
"Meh, I could hack into some poor kid's school laptop, but that's not gonna make his school do anything about it, so why bother. I think I'll go level up."
I'd point to the Non-Zero Return part of ROI when it ships. Someone can spend a month doing a.01 release to clean up the ugliness after it sells as a free update.
You mean well, but you must not know of a couple techniques.
The AC below you had the clue to your puzzle - it's listening to the other people that sinks everything.
If someone authorizes you to work in a bloc because Something Must Get Done, you can then tap the music to boost your productivity. My productivity goes up some 20-25% doing that.
The thing is - for me at least it works precisely and only on songs you like and know extremely well.
To my mind this is the greatest intersection between fun and learning.
Tell the kids: "Try to simulate anything. What would you do?"
Suppose they say "Let's make Jurassic Park!"
Get some stock graphics they can move around for a day and then start putting in the conditions. "You wanna play T Rex? He eats a lot. If you stay in your territory you've razed he'll starve."
"The little animals can hide under stuff".
"The weather is changing. Now this is why warm blooded animals have the advantage. Your T Rex is slow!!"
It takes say only 1 night for the Teacher to put in a condition, and then the kids have to find the new equilibrium.
Can't Nastyware authors detect which ISP you have? Presuming so, it just leads to another Phish attack. Combined with the completely abusive recordings their LEGIT tech support has, you get this:
"Hello, this is ________. Your account details need to be updated because we think you have malware on your computer. Have you rebooted your computer? Rebooting your computer can help remove local events in a browser that are slowing your machine down. Once you have rebooted your computer, stay on the line and an account operative will update your account details........
"Hello yes? This is ____. Yes, we need to update your account. Can you verify your login name and password yes? Thank you for your patience while we hose your account and your credit....."
We keep assuming that we want world-class important fellas going up. Then we fret over safety. Meanwhile per a post above, we fret about health care.
Let's take non-critical terminally ill folks, train them for 3 months on a simulator, and send them along! Send them at 50-per-batch. I'm positive the hardware should be way lower, maybe $100 million, then divided by a much bigger people load.
"It can't be that hard" if we've had 40 years to improve on 1969 tech. Just build a big-a$$ box that itself can serve as a structural block, triple-bulkhead it, Quad-redundant cheap engines, then make sure 5 of the 50 fellas are WhipperSnappers who can fly it. It's not supposed to come back. You leave it there on the moon. Next one lands beside it. It's Space-Tetris.
"And then, of course, you have those who say that the "creation in six days" is not to be taken literally. "
If you can get your friendly neighborhood creationist to allow for this, that's the compromise I can usually live with for conversation. Replacing "day" which we are now pretty fierce calling 24 hours with "day" from "In *MY* day we didn't have lawns, we had to assemble the biocarbon molecules for each blade of grass by hand", then "life in six eras (days)" is fine.
Life IS pretty neat, so sometimes it is pretty comfy to think of a Deist force that guided life that doesn't "talk personally" to people. Most of where ultra-orthodox religion gets stuck is in superlatives of God as Perfect. Replace that with "Pretty Blessed Good" and all the arguments melt away. ("Gee, we're not sure what $Deity was thinking when ___ allowed Down's Syndrome to happen, but ___ is still Blessed Good so I'll worship ____ anyway."
Some of them behaved with excessive enthusiasm, and then couldn't be bothered to breathe. Others turned their back on Disney and struck out in a protest for independent Rodent rights.
Can people be their own copyrights? "You, JW Smythe, born ____ at ____ time at _____ location" are a unique work. Copyright applies the moment a New Work comes into existence. The penalty for *infringing* on your identity is $1.2 Million!!
I think the credit score hit from "lost card" is the ugly part. Yes they'll shut it down etc, but then they tag you with a Scarlet Letter that can take years to get rid of.
p.s. re: your sig, I hate the index too. I ran a drive reader that saves to a text file, then any of the wordprocessors can slam through that and find the items. Index can't stand my style of batch&archive because all those broken links makes it grumpy.
You may not be able to. Douglas Hofstadter says that that and other awarenesses might be self-emergent. So attempts to block it might result in some spectacular bugs.
P.s. I have some ideas on this. You can email me if you want to start some thrashing on the topic. But ultimately nothing is unbeatable... just how hard to break vs. how lazy the general populace is.
Actually, I see the general trend towards copying but not as much "claiming". Except fragments of webpages, wholesale ripoffs get slammed pretty hard by the net collective.
Now you didn't get into derivative works. I have no interest at all a claiming your exact item as my own. What I do like to do is do ugly hacks to songs. At worst you might catch me being lazy forgetting to tag your name in the metadata, but you won't find me claiming the original.
This decade is seriously becoming a game with all the types of rules we used to play for fun 10-15-20-25 years ago.
Does anyone else notice that a Patent Turbo-Troll who offers to report you to a legal thug, deliberately making data easy to steal, and "descrubbing" anonymous data all in the same few HOURS?
Come on gang, that's the TimeTwister Combo from MTG.
RIAA got grumpy because record data (songs) was "easy to (infringe)". Phish emails are... (your verb here) your digital data from the less savvy types.
Someone appoint Richard Garfield as Special Consultant to the President so when stupid new "calls for X" show up on he President's desk, Garfield can take a 30 minute look at it and abuse the hell out of it so bad that it makes Goatse looks like a Victorian Picnic.
You're pretty good, but in fact when the phone rings I start WACHING the blinky lights on the phone console and compare them to the number of voices talking to guage if someone's on their cell in the other room.
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Nah, there's better IT for that out there.
Just open up your national database and run Reports/Entertainment/Personal/Discreet Range=YourCity Conditions/Add/#STD=0 OK/OK/ Print to File.
Separate out the cost from the vacation. Education and Medicine are the next two industries to plummet. A Business education should basically cost only $5000 because it's just books, lectures, and an honesty test. Give each kid his allowance of 25 office hours per semester or something to ask the serious questions that aren't in the lectures.
Those long vacations have another name: "Sabbatical". I believe they'd be better split into separate weeks, but the Summer Job thing has its merits. People grovel for 3 days of vaction at work.
"Revenge of the Nerds".
Give nerd a bodyguard allowance of $1000 so that any jerk jock will get vaporized. Then their motivation will be just fine.
Oh, you wanted money? Call it Think Of The Nerd.
I'm a very sensitive clod. All the jocks told me so.
I assumed that you had figured how to view it remotely through a proxy layer. I cut grass too, so I'd still be on your lawn.
It's the new episode from Brannon Braga!
http://www.hulu.com/watch/97929/flashforward-no-more-good-days
"For 2 minutes and seventeen seconds, we all blacked out..." ... in the future!"
"We didn't black out sir, we were
"What did you see?"
"It was too horrible to talk about."
"Come on honey... What was it?"
"I was STILL at the release party!"
Security Through Apathy FTW!!
"Meh, I could hack into some poor kid's school laptop, but that's not gonna make his school do anything about it, so why bother. I think I'll go level up."
I'd point to the Non-Zero Return part of ROI when it ships. Someone can spend a month doing a .01 release to clean up the ugliness after it sells as a free update.
You mean well, but you must not know of a couple techniques.
The AC below you had the clue to your puzzle - it's listening to the other people that sinks everything.
If someone authorizes you to work in a bloc because Something Must Get Done, you can then tap the music to boost your productivity.
My productivity goes up some 20-25% doing that.
The thing is - for me at least it works precisely and only on songs you like and know extremely well.
To my mind this is the greatest intersection between fun and learning.
Tell the kids: "Try to simulate anything. What would you do?"
Suppose they say "Let's make Jurassic Park!"
Get some stock graphics they can move around for a day and then start putting in the conditions. "You wanna play T Rex? He eats a lot. If you stay in your territory you've razed he'll starve."
"The little animals can hide under stuff".
"The weather is changing. Now this is why warm blooded animals have the advantage. Your T Rex is slow!!"
It takes say only 1 night for the Teacher to put in a condition, and then the kids have to find the new equilibrium.
Legal Trouble? Hahaha!
MS: "Here's $10,000"
"Okay, no more trouble!"
Can't Nastyware authors detect which ISP you have? Presuming so, it just leads to another Phish attack. Combined with the completely abusive recordings their LEGIT tech support has, you get this:
"Hello, this is ________. Your account details need to be updated because we think you have malware on your computer. Have you rebooted your computer? Rebooting your computer can help remove local events in a browser that are slowing your machine down. Once you have rebooted your computer, stay on the line and an account operative will update your account details. .... ...
"Hello yes? This is ____. Yes, we need to update your account. Can you verify your login name and password yes? Thank you for your patience while we hose your account and your credit. ...."
"Sickonauts"!
We keep assuming that we want world-class important fellas going up. Then we fret over safety. Meanwhile per a post above, we fret about health care.
Let's take non-critical terminally ill folks, train them for 3 months on a simulator, and send them along! Send them at 50-per-batch. I'm positive the hardware should be way lower, maybe $100 million, then divided by a much bigger people load.
"It can't be that hard" if we've had 40 years to improve on 1969 tech. Just build a big-a$$ box that itself can serve as a structural block, triple-bulkhead it, Quad-redundant cheap engines, then make sure 5 of the 50 fellas are WhipperSnappers who can fly it. It's not supposed to come back. You leave it there on the moon. Next one lands beside it. It's Space-Tetris.
"And then, of course, you have those who say that the "creation in six days" is not to be taken literally. "
If you can get your friendly neighborhood creationist to allow for this, that's the compromise I can usually live with for conversation. Replacing "day" which we are now pretty fierce calling 24 hours with "day" from "In *MY* day we didn't have lawns, we had to assemble the biocarbon molecules for each blade of grass by hand", then "life in six eras (days)" is fine.
Life IS pretty neat, so sometimes it is pretty comfy to think of a Deist force that guided life that doesn't "talk personally" to people. Most of where ultra-orthodox religion gets stuck is in superlatives of God as Perfect. Replace that with "Pretty Blessed Good" and all the arguments melt away. ("Gee, we're not sure what $Deity was thinking when ___ allowed Down's Syndrome to happen, but ___ is still Blessed Good so I'll worship ____ anyway."
Some of them behaved with excessive enthusiasm, and then couldn't be bothered to breathe.
Others turned their back on Disney and struck out in a protest for independent Rodent rights.
(Meme)I like your ideas and I want to hear more about your weekly. (/Meme)
Can people be their own copyrights?
"You, JW Smythe, born ____ at ____ time at _____ location" are a unique work. Copyright applies the moment a New Work comes into existence. The penalty for *infringing* on your identity is $1.2 Million!!
I don't think the cost is the money alone.
I think the credit score hit from "lost card" is the ugly part. Yes they'll shut it down etc, but then they tag you with a Scarlet Letter that can take years to get rid of.
p.s. re: your sig, I hate the index too.
I ran a drive reader that saves to a text file, then any of the wordprocessors can slam through that and find the items. Index can't stand my style of batch&archive because all those broken links makes it grumpy.
"Cut Off Air Supply (like Netscape)."
Do they have agreements with Gordon Russell and Russell Hitchcock as well ??!!!
You may not be able to. Douglas Hofstadter says that that and other awarenesses might be self-emergent. So attempts to block it might result in some spectacular bugs.
But is it Sufficiently Innovative and Non-Obvious?
P.s. I have some ideas on this. You can email me if you want to start some thrashing on the topic. But ultimately nothing is unbeatable... just how hard to break vs. how lazy the general populace is.
Actually, I see the general trend towards copying but not as much "claiming". Except fragments of webpages, wholesale ripoffs get slammed pretty hard by the net collective.
Now you didn't get into derivative works. I have no interest at all a claiming your exact item as my own. What I do like to do is do ugly hacks to songs. At worst you might catch me being lazy forgetting to tag your name in the metadata, but you won't find me claiming the original.
This decade is seriously becoming a game with all the types of rules we used to play for fun 10-15-20-25 years ago.
Does anyone else notice that a Patent Turbo-Troll who offers to report you to a legal thug, deliberately making data easy to steal, and "descrubbing" anonymous data all in the same few HOURS?
Come on gang, that's the TimeTwister Combo from MTG.
RIAA got grumpy because record data (songs) was "easy to (infringe)". Phish emails are ... (your verb here) your digital data from the less savvy types.
Someone appoint Richard Garfield as Special Consultant to the President so when stupid new "calls for X" show up on he President's desk, Garfield can take a 30 minute look at it and abuse the hell out of it so bad that it makes Goatse looks like a Victorian Picnic.
You're pretty good, but in fact when the phone rings I start WACHING the blinky lights on the phone console and compare them to the number of voices talking to guage if someone's on their cell in the other room.
P.S. Daniel Tammet is Da Bird's Chirp.