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Participant[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=scaredyclassic]
seems liek today there is a heavy contingent of people who want to be heavikly armed personally to ward off an oppressive evil govt.
yet i tend to think that of that group, many are proUS military…
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I think that you very accurately put it right there.
It’s within that group that you see parents encouraging their children, just out of high school, to enlist in the military.
It’s a question of culture and education. I doubt any on this board would allow their kids to enlist in the military.
Is there any data on the high schools/zip codes where enlisted military members come from?[/quote]
Complete demonstration of lack of core values – and focus on self serving.I am pro US military. They put their lives on the line. That does not mean that I am pro current commander in chief, nor previous commander in chief. Nor does that mean I approve of congress’s actions. The commander in chief as well as our congress are not putting their lives on the line when they order our military to some action. On the other hand, the members of our military have committed to put their lives on the line to do what has been requested of them, whether it costs them their lives or not. They put their lives and trust that ‘We the People’ are using our vote wisely and not just voting for a party of specific face because we ‘like how they look’ or say what we want to here.
If you don’t like what the military is doing, figure out why they have been ordered to do it (Current MSM is a really poor source. They are more interested in stories that sell and drum up emotion than informing – queue Dire Straits) as well as reflect on who you voted for and why. The military is really only doing what it has been instructed to.
Participant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
[quote=FlyerInHi]Pyrrhic victories.[/quote]
Victory? What victory?[/quote]
And thus the definition of Pyrrhic.Participant[quote=bearishgurl]
…. Further, Judge Treu said, the least effective teachers are disproportionately assigned to schools filled with low-income and minority students. The situation violates those students’ constitutional right to an equal education, he determined….
(emphasis added)
This is SO not the way the union rules are written folks. The teachers with the most seniority get their bids for their next school assignments considered first by order of length of tenure. School assignments year to year have nothing to do with “perceived competency.”[/quote]
From someone who had a parent in LAUSD, and heard, and knows many of the underbody of that system as well as someone who went through a school where a tenured teacher lasted less than a year (school is currently one of top 10 in CA, and was in 1970 as well).. your statement is not completely accurate. The Unions do allow moving tenured teachers to other schools should there be issues. This way Unions can support tenure at the same time prevent problems that would have ended the tenure system instantly. Also note that it is a ‘bid’ by the teacher to teach in that district/school. ‘Award’ is not guaranteed. The choices of location are not entirely the teachers choice and not entirely on seniority. Seniority and Tenure aids in the teachers ability to select. The poor performing tenured teachers end up on the low-income schools because the parents on those schools are seen to be less likely to lawyer up and fight the school district. (And yes, I can come up with names in LAUSD of such teachers, but won’t for legal reasons)NOTE: The ‘movement’ of tenured teachers can be seen if you follow those with ‘questionable’ behavior, up until the time convicted. The tenure made it hard for the district to get rid of them, but areas with parents that were better off were able to force the teachers ‘movement’ to another school, or even district.
Participant[quote=Hatfield][quote=ucodegen]EECE 163 was known for having students ‘camp-in’ on the lab when the University was running it on timeshare Vax11/750, Ridge Pyramid or HP Snake.[/quote]
Hmm, I don’t remember getting on the VAXen was nearly so much an issue as getting on the AT&T 3B2’s which were used for EECS 70 (assembly level programming).[/quote]I remember those POS(s). I had finished EECS 70 by the time the University brought the AT&T 3b2s in. I prefer the old TERAKs that they had when I took it. It was possible to even throw up memory directly to display – bitwise, by properly setting the GAR(Graphics Address Register). It had memory mapped display memory plus a text plane. I even got into messing with the boot-strap code.
[quote=Hatfield]There were probably 150 ppl in the class but only about 40 machines in the two labs. The second time I took that class (not kidding), I ended up changing my sleep cycle around just to be able to get a machine. I’d wake up at 3am, work in the lab till about 9am, then go to classes, study, have dinner, and then go to bed about 7pm.[/quote]Typical oversubscribed, under-supported under-grad course. The other thing I noticed is that final bits of ‘learning’ that were needed to complete the assignment were often given during the last few days before the assignment is due. It created a rush scenario where everyone was panicking to complete the assignment before due-time.
[quote=Hatfield]If I was to give one piece of advice to college students it would be time management. If you have 4 hours to spend on a project that’s worth 5% of your grade, or a midterm that’s worth 25%, spend it on the midterm. Took me a long time to figure that one out. To this day I still have a difficult time of letting go of a project that’s not complete.[/quote]
Proper time-management is important to learn, as well as prioritization. One of the difficulties I had, was letting go of an assignment that was not complete.. but very interesting to work on.Participant[quote=afx114][quote=Hatfield]Nice interview. Also: UCSD Cog Sci, represent! I had no idea.
Go Tritons![/quote]
WTF, I represent UCSD Cog Sci as well. What is it about us?[/quote]Mine was UCSD – EECE/Computer Engineering – Revelle, I actually enjoyed Math 2F.
[quote=Rich Toscano]BTW for any youths reading this, I wouldn’t recommend doing that… switching to a major just bc you think it’s interesting. Unless you are going to go into academia in that topic. But otherwise, I’d recommend optimizing for career/job getting preparation vs. interestingness.[/quote]I switched, partially because it was interesting, partially because I had to put myself through UCSD – on my own dime, no grants. Comp-Eng was the only way I could figure to get a job while putting myself through college at same time. I was originally Physics/Engineering. PS: Loved the Compiler class (EECE 163) – ok, yes I might be ‘demented’.
[quote=Rich Toscano]Glad someone finally found a use for recursion…[/quote]How about lambda functions, particularly self-writing code. It is possible to do that in Lisp.
[quote zk]Huh. That was just like when my wife’s family is over, and I’m listening but they’re speaking Chinese, and suddenly they all laugh.[/quote]EECE 163 was known for having students ‘camp-in’ on the lab when the University was running it on timeshare Vax11/750, Ridge Pyramid or HP Snake. I think at one time, the machine was sdcc13.ucsd.edu. With PCs, that all changed, though you still have to work longer than normal hours to complete the homework assignments. I remember having to queue my compiles for EECS 163. It helped that on the second quarter (163B), I had access to an early Sun Microsystems SunII (Multibus Sun) as well as a Vax11/780 all to myself at night from where I was working.ParticipantI presume that it is an app on Android. There is also an emulator on which you can test and get debug output to a screen. You can also use the dev env to also output back to the dev PC through USB and see the diag messages.
Sounds like the youngster wants the whole solution dropped on their lap so they can declare success w/o any effort.
I don’t consider myself even close to an Android expert.
Participant[quote=spdrun]Also, I’d imagine that terrorists wouldn’t want their dastardly deeds to be blamed on nature, accident, or hobos cooking dinner. Highly sceptical that it is terrorism — far too subtle for al Qaeda.[/quote]Yes and no. If it is a ‘success’ in their eyes, they will lay claim. If it is not, they will take the time to ‘learn and retry’. I suspect that any claims, if they are involved, will occur at the end of the fire season, not during. They want an unprepared and caught unaware opponent. If this is what is going on, it is not the end of it.
ParticipantAlmost looks like we have an arsonist… Interesting that one of the Al Qaeda attack approaches that they ‘considered’ or had in papers discovered with them, is the use of forest/brush fires to ‘burn down the town’. Most of these fires have been upwind of population centers.
ParticipantI suspect the crater will stop on the 3rd day (settlement day), not second. I think there may be more cratering tomorrow, though not as severe as today.
ParticipantDon’t know why you can’t short TWTR, though I suspect some of it may be that you can only short on the ‘ask’ side of the transaction and the market maker likes to sit between bid and ask. The ability to only short on the ‘ask’ side was added as a result of the 2008 crash (new regs). The downward motion looks pretty even.
Might want to get prepared to play the bounce. It is still possible to naked short, but only 3 days till cover instead of the old 6 and beyond. Watch tomorrows(tues) and Wednesdays movement. Be prepared for Dead Cat bounce.
You can also play the ‘options’ side if you can’t short.
BTW, who is your brokerage? Are you affected by the lockup on Twitter (employee, board member, have options covered by lockup).
Added: The inability to short may be because shares are not available to ‘borrow’ to cover/close at end of day.
http://www.foxbusiness.com/investing/2014/01/06/think-twitter-is-good-short-it-might-not-be-so-easy/May 4, 2014 at 4:20 PM in reply to: Nothing like checking your car preparing it for a run and.. #773773ParticipantLooks like you are getting stronger. At least the threads have not pulled out. Torque Wrench.. get one, use one.
Are the threads rusted? If so, spray what is visible with WD-40 or a penetrant lubricant. Sometimes heat cycling helps. I assume you have tools to pull out broken bolts?
PS: Japanese cars don’t handle ‘overtorqueing’ as well as US vehicles.
ParticipantI try to get one hike in every weekend. Helps keep things ‘moving’. Doesn’t have to be a major undertaking, though I hope to be in shape soon to do Vivian Creek Trail.
Participant[quote=flu]But in all seriousness, sounds like the perfect reason to push for CM/release management automation….[/quote]I am beginning to suspect that he does work with one of the more standard software config packages. I suspect he has to be there to ‘force’ the release system should something go wrong on a pushed update. Sounds that they may not have an internal system that they can use for full release testing. Some places go for a minimal set or none at all in terms of equipment for release testing. This results in a ‘scramble’ if something doesn’t go well on an update.
This is something I experienced where I worked previously. I ended going up to Alaska on releases (or other locations). Diff was, I am an engineer not CM. We would ‘backfill’ the SCM system if an emergency patch was needed. We would go to site with full software source on high end notebooks and full dev environment(encrypted boot and source disks if you plan to ask). If update didn’t “go as planned”, mods done to software at site and then CM’d later, followed by doing a baseline extract and compare against source copy of what we installed – after patches.
Participant[quote=harvey]The guys that answered the ads must be completely desperate — or perhaps they are hip to a scene that I did not think really existed.[/quote]I suspect the latter. I knew it existed. I just didn’t know the extent. I wonder of she was at some time, part of that scene. I had no idea that the scene had ‘want ads’ like that.
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