Robelius

Immigrants are a self-selecting group. The barriers you have to cross leave the most motivated individuals/families capable of coming here. The immigrating generation, at least from my experience, come with the intention of setting up their children with better possibilities. Their lives revolve around making their kids hard workers in school, which transfers over into their character.

There's a joke in my community between the younger generation that we all had two choices after high school. You could choose to be a lawyer or doctor. If your parents were kind, then you could be an engineer.

The red/orange might of been the effects of a volcano. Just speculating though, since it wouldn't explain the lack of ash.

The Windows beep is usually from a speaker connected to your motherboard. There is no speaker located on the majority of keyboards, meaning no beeps.

It's not ridiculous to think words would begin to get deleted, but it is ridiculous to say some government organization would sit there and watch him type to remove some content. Why would any organization spying on him make it so obvious, and pointless. If he wanted to hide it from them he would just go to another computer.

I run into this self'deleting in words once a month. I have no idea how I activate it, but when i type it deletes what's in front of it. It's a frustrating feature that I haven't defeated, but I don't think the government is watching my computer, seeing what I type on Hacker News.

As far as I know they are not competitive with each other. They are small enough that they don't effect one another.

Yes! God forbid someone isn't as cynical about the government! I mean obviously regulators that are regulating the cabs are interested in making the government a profit to ensure that the gov is the most profitable organiza....wait a second. Oh yah, the governments role is to provide for the common welfare of this nation. Silly me.

I was following this story for about a week now. SF was extremely conflicted because they want to be tech friendly, but at the same time taxis are a huge moneymaker. There are also unanswered questions about safety and liability in case of car accidents. If the city did want more taxi cabs though, they would allow more. There are many cab companies waiting for the chance to expand. Also, the article doesn't say it (I only skimmed it though so I may of missed it), but the tech companies were issues warnings to cease their actions. I can't find a source to back it up though. Only heard it on NPR while driving.

Took me less than five minutes. I knew all of my information except for my Driver ID #. I'm guessing he had to search for his information.

I was just at my library trying to get a form, but they were out. Great surprise to find this link on my return.

Does this remind anyone else of Good Will Hunting?

Wow. Thanks for letting me know they are based in Sebastopol. I live 15 minutes from the office. Might try and check it out.

I'm from Santa Rosa. I only think about Sebastopol when I have to pass by it on the Highway ;) Anyways, like veidr just said, Sonic is a great ISP. I've tried several times to try and get Sonic in my house to replace Comcast, but without luck.

But it is the psychological effect of having a strong currency being substituted with a weaker currency that will lessen consumption. Economics is more of the psychology of the consumer than anything else, at least in my opinion.

Since Greece accepted the new bailout they will have to cut government employment, and employee salaries. And since a large number of Greeks are government employees, the result will be less spending. Less spending leads to a weaker economy.

If they choose to o back to their old currency, the drachma, their currency would be weak. A weak currency would lead to less spending, which leads to a weaker economy.

It's almost laughable, either way they would be, well you know. I feel sorry for the politicians right now.

I'm glad that the Russian Government did not bail out of this project in the end, and instead decided to see it through. I only wish more tax dollars were spent towards research, rather than fighting.

I was thinking the exact same thing when I was watching it.

There is something that I have not seen in any SOPA argument, something that should stick out in this written work on Chinese censorship....our ability to vote. "don_chow" talks about how oppressive the Chinese government. The comments then go into how Congress is attempting to restrict the American people, when it is the opposite. We are restricting ourselves.

I cannot speak on a case by case, but it's hard to argue against the idea that most Americans do not vote. We turn on the TV to CNN, Fox, MSNBC, or whatever you chose. We hear people debate on an issue with the majority in the small debate arguing in your viewpoint. All people do after that is yell at the TV saying "YHA!" then go to bed. We do not take action.

We let the law makers do their job, but when they don't do something we agree with we talk about how bad they are. Then the next big story comes the following week and we are then talking about that. We don't take a stand and speak with what law makers truly care about, our vote.

Law makers create these laws to get lobbiest dollars so that they can run for reelection. However, they wouldn't do these kinds of things if they knew that they won't get that end result, the vote which in turn gives a reelection. If they knew that the electorate within their district or state would put in the effort to research representative/senators then Congress wouldn't try to pass something like this.

The unfortunate truth is that our representative/senators are right. They know that we take little to know action. SOPA is an extremely rare case where the American people actually get up and get involved in government. I agree that SOPA must be stopped, but I also believe that SOPA would not even be here if the American people did their job in the first place and got involved. We can send our men and women around the world to let other nations have the right to vote, yet we can't walk across the street to do it ourselves.

The ironic thing is, the majority of people who do agree with what I say will say "YHA!" and continue surfing the web. Sorry if my thoughts are unorganized, but I am extremely tired and have a headache. I know I am missing a lot of issues I want to hit, but I can get to them in another comment :)

I find this to be quite hilarious. I just came back from a movie at my school called "Race To Nowhere" that touches on the issue. I then participated in a 45 minute discussion with members of my community, including my principal and other staff at my school. I was going to go onto Hacker News and make a very detailed thread on the topic....but someone stole my thunder. I will be back over the weekend to discuss this. I obviously can't leave with just this post since it's a pretty low quality post. So here it is:

We must shift the focus of education back to education. It is ridiculous to believe that a single letter can show how much work a student put in to learn the content. A "C" can be given to a student who puts in their best effort but just can't remember when to use a semi colleen. Yet an "A" can be given to a student who crams for the test the night before, yet can't think critically on any subject.

We must rethink our approach to education, and shift it back to education, rather than to that test at the end of the year.

Most articles, if not all, have a layer of influence from the writer. Even something as simple as a top 10 list includes some bias. The bias exists in what the writer excludes and includes in the article. Even what I'm writing right now has some bias in it. Instead of saying "Even something such as a top 10 list" I said "Even something as simple as a top 10 list".

I am interested in seeing how they collected their data. If "25% said they would be using Google+ more often" then that implies that more than 25% of the 2000 teens surveyed have used Google+. That seems a bit to high for me considering out of the 1800 people in my high school only two people(twins, other then myself, have even used Google+. The majority in my school (Yes, gross over generalization)that uses Facebook don't even like it. The only reason they use it is because they wan't to socialize with their friends, but know of no other way to communicate through a network (Sorry MySpace). In other words, the only reason people use Facebook is because everyone uses Facebook. I hope you can see the fallacy in that.

I do see Google+ slowly taking away from Facebook's hold on teenagers, but I cannot see a complete transition from Facebook to Google+ happening. Perhaps a small group of teens that go into the world of Google+ with an exponential growth, similar with MySpace and Facebook. I see the beginning process being similar, but not a complete end of teenagers on Facebook, but rather just a slightly lower activity level as people use both Google+ and Facebook, or solely use the former.

P.S. How did 14-17 year olds even get a hold of a Google+ account when you have to be 18 or older =P

P.S.S. How was this comment. This is my first comment on Hacker News. Hope this was a quality post.