They refer to a Creative Commons pilot program on their website, but it's in Dutch, and the translation is a little hard to understand. Can someone describe what this is about a bit more clearly than Google Translate?
The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction would pretty much keep them in check.
Are you sure about that? Not life-or-death, but at least one official is prepared to terminate a school voucher program over this.
The voucher program, called Act 2, passed, opening the door for god knows how many non-Valarie Hodge's-religion schools that might interfere with her vision of America as a sort of Christian Saudi Arabia. At least one public school district has already filed suit in an attempt to keep the voucher program from being enacted.
I'm more interested in the results that a different kind of voting system would produce, such as how the ability to rank candidates on a ballot would affect campaign strategy and the kinds of people we'd elect.
I don't bat an eye when I see that folks would rather choose welfare or unemployment benefits over indentured servitude. In fact, given the same situation, I believe I'd probably have to choose the same.
It's also a great counterpoint to most science fiction in how it describes outer space as potentially just as messed up and for similar reasons as life on Earth.
I've also found Cory Doctorow's stuff to be pretty accessible, as they refer to settings that would be familiar to an 8-year old American earthbound human. I'd also recommend you and he take turns reading to each other, or have him read the book himself; I think the comprehension differs between listening and reading. In addition, the Narnia series was quite good, and I also fondly remember James and the Giant Peach.
Additional shameless plug: A friend recently self-published his book, Marlowe and the Spacewoman. I've read about half of it and got to a point with a tense action scene. There's a decent amount of social commentary, but I found it very enjoyable and a relatively easy read, perhaps comparable to the reading level of Hunger Games.
Great read -- it doesn't tell the whole story, but works very well as a starting point for humanity's choices as the combination of robotics and computing becomes more capable. It made me watch robot videos in a new light.
This was recommended to me at a technical conference. It's like Magic, but with elements and compounds. Not a formal education, but I think it would be a good way to test the waters regarding his interest and aptitude.
How very true. I think you have to have done customer support recently (within six months) to be mentally grounded in what the day-to-day of is really like. I tell people, "Customer support is where every issue ends up that QA, New Product Development, Sustaining Engineering, and Documentation failed to catch. It's where every corner case goes to die."
I'm not sure it's wholly accurate, but I use it as a starting point for discussing the topic.
But when you think about it, the manufactured kind of drama (brought to you by CNN, Fox News, drudgereport.com, et al) isn't necessarily malicious in and of itself, but only serves to capture eyeballs, thus advertising dollars.
I talked to someone who worked in a small Hollywood production company, and asked him about the preponderance of high-quality heavyweight fictional drama in the 2000's (pardon me if I list these together -- Deadwood, Buffy, Battlestar Galactica, etc). He felt that The Sopranos was the series that led this off, and I have a vague sense that the release of that show corresponded temporally to a change in the color and quantity of synthetic gravitas in both real and fictional mass media.
Was TV content a lot less heavy across the board prior to The Sopranos? Was it coincidence, or did it really change the balance of content, and the news sources you mention are examples of that change?
Anyone trying to put a bill through like this should be able to answer this question first. Preferably in essay form, and then present something comparable to a thesis defense.
Oddly enough, I've been using an Alphasmart Dana -- 2-week battery life on 3 AA batteries, and about $40 used on ebay. Just make sure you IR-beam or sync the data to a computer before the battery runs out or you can lose everything. Working well for me so far for just taking notes. That, plus an audio recorder on the podium works well.
As the relieved father of a young woman who has finally made it into her twenties
Identify target market
I could do with a book about awful stuff happening to horny teenage boys with adams apples and their parents' cars who are always hanging around trying to get daughters to go to parties at the homes of absent parents.
Write a book that can be as bad as a cheap romance novel and still appeal to your target market
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This is the Internet age, after all.
They refer to a Creative Commons pilot program on their website, but it's in Dutch, and the translation is a little hard to understand. Can someone describe what this is about a bit more clearly than Google Translate?
Well, an extremely-low jitter audio signal finally worthy of transfer over your Pear Anjou cables comes to mind right away.
Reposting, but similarly short-sighted even if it's voluntary on the part of the parents at the customer-end of the service.
Well, here's the comic book edition of the whole story, reasonably well-sourced.
The concept of Mutually Assured Destruction would pretty much keep them in check.
Are you sure about that? Not life-or-death, but at least one official is prepared to terminate a school voucher program over this.
The voucher program, called Act 2, passed, opening the door for god knows how many non-Valarie Hodge's-religion schools that might interfere with her vision of America as a sort of Christian Saudi Arabia. At least one public school district has already filed suit in an attempt to keep the voucher program from being enacted.
I'm more interested in the results that a different kind of voting system would produce, such as how the ability to rank candidates on a ballot would affect campaign strategy and the kinds of people we'd elect.
Can you editors please present the article submitted with a decent summary and leave off the inflammatory questions tagged onto the end?
I'm going to guess ... no? But then again, I never studied law.
If you can't measure it, you can't manage it.
Perhaps appropriate in this context, but misquoted.
I don't bat an eye when I see that folks would rather choose welfare or unemployment benefits over indentured servitude. In fact, given the same situation, I believe I'd probably have to choose the same.
Makes you wonder if that will someday come to pass.
It's also a great counterpoint to most science fiction in how it describes outer space as potentially just as messed up and for similar reasons as life on Earth.
The Andre Norton Award for best science fiction for young adults may also be a good starting point.
Additional shameless plug: A friend recently self-published his book, Marlowe and the Spacewoman. I've read about half of it and got to a point with a tense action scene. There's a decent amount of social commentary, but I found it very enjoyable and a relatively easy read, perhaps comparable to the reading level of Hunger Games.
Great read -- it doesn't tell the whole story, but works very well as a starting point for humanity's choices as the combination of robotics and computing becomes more capable. It made me watch robot videos in a new light.
Or sometimes, more insightful ones (read through to the end of the story).
This was recommended to me at a technical conference. It's like Magic, but with elements and compounds. Not a formal education, but I think it would be a good way to test the waters regarding his interest and aptitude.
I'm not sure it's wholly accurate, but I use it as a starting point for discussing the topic.
How funny you should pick the 10% figure.
I bet you'd find drug dealers and others ... make excellent entrepeneurs as well.
You'd think so, right? Apparently, that enterprise is run like any other. The Wire did a decent job of portraying its day-to-day.
But when you think about it, the manufactured kind of drama (brought to you by CNN, Fox News, drudgereport.com, et al) isn't necessarily malicious in and of itself, but only serves to capture eyeballs, thus advertising dollars.
I talked to someone who worked in a small Hollywood production company, and asked him about the preponderance of high-quality heavyweight fictional drama in the 2000's (pardon me if I list these together -- Deadwood, Buffy, Battlestar Galactica, etc). He felt that The Sopranos was the series that led this off, and I have a vague sense that the release of that show corresponded temporally to a change in the color and quantity of synthetic gravitas in both real and fictional mass media.
Was TV content a lot less heavy across the board prior to The Sopranos? Was it coincidence, or did it really change the balance of content, and the news sources you mention are examples of that change?
You thought that was creepy? It looks like Target gets predictive cyberstalking right.
Anyone trying to put a bill through like this should be able to answer this question first. Preferably in essay form, and then present something comparable to a thesis defense.
Oddly enough, I've been using an Alphasmart Dana -- 2-week battery life on 3 AA batteries, and about $40 used on ebay. Just make sure you IR-beam or sync the data to a computer before the battery runs out or you can lose everything. Working well for me so far for just taking notes. That, plus an audio recorder on the podium works well.
As the relieved father of a young woman who has finally made it into her twenties
I could do with a book about awful stuff happening to horny teenage boys with adams apples and their parents' cars who are always hanging around trying to get daughters to go to parties at the homes of absent parents.
I may have to check out these books.
This case happened a while ago; any comparable non-tech companies that have a similar story to tell?