Comments for Jim Stitzel

Comment on Take a Break by Jim

Jim — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:09:33 +0000

A few. My traffic isn’t nearly as high as it was a few years ago when I was doing more writing on writing.

Comment on Take a Break by Samuel Bono

Samuel Bono — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:07:01 +0000

So, if I may ask. How many people actually read this blog?

Comment on Configuring Texmaker USB With MiKTeX Portable by Jim

Jim — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 20:20:32 +0000

Hi, Raphael, I can’t replicate the problem, so I’m not really sure how to advise you. My best guess at this point is that you may need to change your paths to absolute paths so that your LaTeX editor can find everything. Relative paths can sometimes be a little dicey. Try making that change and see if it makes a difference.

Comment on Configuring Texmaker USB With MiKTeX Portable by Raphael

Raphael — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:21:24 +0000

Hi, I’m getting an error when using ps2pdf. It’s returning an error message saying that “mgs.exe” is not regonizable as an internal or external command. Could you help me please?
Thaks a lot

Comment on Parenting Advice and Child Safety by Samuel Bono

Samuel Bono — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:46:13 +0000

Alright. Alright. I’m not a father, so I suppose this isn’t really my area of expertise. Maybe I’ll feel differently one day.

Comment on Parenting Advice and Child Safety by Jim

Jim — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:26:39 +0000

Well, there’s a big different between ‘safe’ and ‘pampered’ in my book. I do think it’s possible to do the former without also resorting to the latter. I mean, I’m not paranoid about protecting my daughter from absolutely every little bad thing that can happen to her. That is, after all, just a tad crazy. But by the same token, if I can minimize and be pro-active about the dangers I know of, I think I’d be a bad parent if I didn’t try to protect her from as much of that as possible.

Comment on Parenting Advice and Child Safety by Samuel Bono

Samuel Bono — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:14:28 +0000

You’re not over-thinking it. I agree with your main argument, but I think you misinterpret the opposing argument. I don’t think these ‘parents’ are trying to put their kids in harms way, that’s a silly thing to say; I think instead that they do not wish to have pampered children, which in my opinion is reasonable if a little misguided.

Comment on OWS Makes a Point — and It’s Not Necesarily the One You Think by Jim

Jim — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:36:39 +0000

Sangheilioz » It’s not the use of force that I object to, necessarily. In some cases I’m sure it was warranted and necessary. But in a number of the cases I’ve seen reported (Oakland, for example), the use of force was way excessive, and it seems like no one in authority cares enough to do anything about it. I dunno—maybe the use of batons and pepper spray is considered fair use in peaceful protest, however legal or illegal the protest may be. It just seems to me, though, that in many of those cases, there should have been a better way. Maybe I’m just naive…

Comment on OWS Makes a Point — and It’s Not Necesarily the One You Think by Sangheilioz

Sangheilioz — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:04:44 +0000

The thing is, I’ve yet to find a report where the police were totally unprovoked. While I agree that in a lot of cases their execution of orders is overzealous, if not downright brutal, but the orders themselves are well-founded.

For example, at UC Davis, Police pepper-sprayed kids blocking their path when they were removing tents from the campus AFTER THE PROTESTORS HAD BEEN WARNED THE TENTS WOULD BE REMOVED. The protestors had the “no camping on campus” policy waived the first night they were there. Then they were warned that they had until 3:00 PM to remove the tents or they would be forcibly removed by the police. This warning was given to them twice.

At 3:30 PM, police in riot gear came to remove the tents and arrested a few of the protestors. The rest of them linked arms in a circle around officers to prevent exit. Because they were participating in the obstruction of lawful activity, I believe the police were right to use force to get them to move. I don’t approve of the amount of force they used, but the concept was justified.

The problem with reports of police brutality are that they focus solely on the actions of the police, and disregard the illegal or uncooperative behavior of those the police are exerting force against that necessitated police action in the first place. If a person is warned there will be consequences for their actions, and they do not cease to act, then police action against them is justified. But that’s not the kind of story that will get ratings, so you won’t hear or see that aspect from a media outlet…

Comment on What It Means To Be A Nerd by What It Means To Be A Nerd | cpengr

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