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by jmj42 14y ago
I remember that. I don't remember the actor either, but UIUC held all maner of event to celebrate HAL's birth (the movies put his birth as 1992, but it's 1997 in the books). In an interesting twist of fate, my office is in the coordinated
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by jmj42 14y ago
...and get up to change the TV channel In 1990, I was in high school. We moved to a small town near Urbana, IL. I was impressed then, and continue to be today, that Ebert would return to Urbana, Ebert's home town, every year in April (he
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by jmj42 14y ago
Correct. Technically, the contract is voidable by the minor in most cases. There's exceptions, and state rules come into play. For instance, I believe, in CA if a minor misrepresents his/her age, then the contract can not be avoided. In
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by jmj42 14y ago
We just opened a checking account for our 17 y/o daughter. To be specific, the account must be opened in the minors name with a legal parent or guardian as a co-signatory. Either way, you're right. Minors can not, in the United States, ent
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by jmj42 14y ago
Our high school uses tracked curriculum much like described. Math, for instance has 3 tracks: 1. Algebra 9A; Algebra 9B; Algebra 10; Geometry 2. Algebra 9; Algebra 10; Geometry; < various choices> 3. Algebra 10; Geometry; <choi
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by jmj42 14y ago
It seems the "level" of education at a certain grade is highly variable in the United States. I grew up in Michigan, who, at the time, was a leader in education in the States, and I was seeing beginning algebra in 5th and 6th grade. We mo
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by jmj42 14y ago
Agreed. I've had down times (a certain financial disaster and a silicon valley startup comes to mind), and friends and family were there to give us the support, financially and emotionally, we needed to get back on our feet. If I have the
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by jmj42 14y ago
I live in IL, and have had exactly 0 USPS packages go missing. In fact, I take the opposite stance. I prefer USPS, both when receiving and when sending.
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by jmj42 14y ago
Completely unrelated, but I love the "certain pink rock" phrase.
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I disagree as well. My reasons for procrastination tend to fall around artificially creating a high stress situation. You see, I perform very well (very high productivity) under stress, to the extent that high performance may actually be
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by jmj42 14y ago
The same reason you pay sales tax on a car you finance. Just because you are paying for the phone over 2 years does not mean that you get to defer sales tax.
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by jmj42 14y ago
I've not found it difficult to get my kids (2 teenage daughters) to consistently eat healthy foods. Hell, we can't keep fresh fruits and vegetables in the house. A one pound bag of baby carrots lasts about a week, one pound bunch of banan
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by jmj42 14y ago
> As a university, they have no business being in the medical products business. Why? While this line of reasoning might carry some weight if Northwestern were a public university (though I'd still require some convincing), Northwester
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Researchers demonstrate that quantum cryptography can secure the power grid(iti.illinois.edu)
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by jmj42 14y ago
I believe the Windows 8 certification _requires_ that the user be able to disable secure boot on x86.
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Georgia to ban muni broadband if one home in census tract gets 1.5Mbps(arstechnica.com)
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by jmj42 14y ago
I'm not sure the fees are _necessarily_ useless. Banking is a service, and services cost money to provide. I suppose an argument can be made that the fees are higher than they need to be, but then, banks aren't non-profit entities either.
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by jmj42 14y ago
Maybe, but no joy getting state wide franchising in Illinois. In fact, 65 ILCS 5 (Illinois Municipal Code) Section 11-42-11 specifically grants municipalities under 2M people (i.e. the entire state except Chicago) the authority to negotiat
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by jmj42 14y ago
Fun anecdote: Both my home town (Pop. 6,000, central Illinois) as well as my work town (Urbana, IL; Pop. 41,000) have actually had recent success using this line of reasoning. In both cases the cities were looking for improvements in the
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by jmj42 14y ago
> There's zero reason these fat profiteers are still protected businesses. They're simply parasites on the networks the taxpayers paid for. It's interesting that you should mention this. Most cities actually sign contracts with service
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by jmj42 14y ago
Very true, and, to be honest, I'm not advocating for systemd. Though according to the original article this isn't quite the issue that it's claimed to be (I'm not actually familiar enough with systemd to be able to have an opinion on it),
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by jmj42 14y ago
> but given that developer time is a bounded resource, we can't really expect to get both fewer restarts and faster restarts. Your're going to have to clarify, as this statement doesn't make any sense. You're right though. In this inst
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by jmj42 14y ago
> The goal should be to restart less often, not to restart more quickly. No! These are not mutually exclusive. The goal should be to restart less ofter, but restart faster when it is necessary. Systems have to restart. Well run/main
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by jmj42 14y ago
Interestingly, I was introduced to Hugh Laurie by way of Blackadder. When I wan in high school our local public television satiation (WILL) would run episodes of several 1970s and 80s british sitcoms. Among them were Blackadder, Are you be
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by jmj42 14y ago
But that can still be part of the credentialing process. Consider the medical field. A medical degree is only small part of the credentialing process. In addition, you'll usually need an internship, a residency, then board certification
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by jmj42 14y ago
> At the very least, AT&T should be able to sue you for the breach of contract and get their $350 back. That's exactly what they do, except that a lawsuit isn't necessary. It's already part of the contract. Specifically, AT&T
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by jmj42 14y ago
See below. The accounting problem is a far greater challenge that security. Interestingly school information systems are notoriously bad at security, so hitting par won't actually be that hard. Accurate accounting may be a huge challenge
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I've actually thought of proposing such a project for our school district. I'm not sure what we pay our current software, bu my thought was to develop a summer STEM program and give HS students the opportunity to participate is a real proj
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by jmj42 14y ago
But language _is_ an arbitrary construct subject wholly to societal agreement. That's why language evolves over time, why different dialects of a given language develop, etc. Edit: Spelling
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by jmj42 14y ago
>I can appreciate individuals who don't have the capacity to swap context throughout the day, but only when they can be mature enough to explain themselves to me like an adult... But even that is a context switch, and context switching

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