>"What did this guy expect to find for employment?"
Government employment competitions - at least in Canada - place a large emphasis on formal education. Having a degree in something - anything - will give you an advantage over someone applying for the same job without the formal education - even if they trump you in experience.
For that kind of money you could work for a couple of years and comfortably retire in Atlantic Canada - and spend more quality time with your family.:)
As a hobbyist musician, I agree that technology certainly has an effect on music production and creation.
However, to answer your question - " How many charting pop songs over five minutes long that aren't novelty tunes can you think of?"
A few:
Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix
I heard it through the grapevine - CCR
I can do anything for love (but won't do that) - Meatloaf
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Inna Gadda Da Vida - Max Webster
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Hotel California - The Eagles
American Pie - Don Maclean
Paradise City - Guns n' Roses
Interestingly, these are all older songs.
It would seem that longer (hit) songs are more a thing of the past - at least as far as commercial music goes.
I think shorter songs are more popular these days because of radio airplay than anything else. Many bands still write long songs, you just aren't as likely to hear them on the radio or see them in a top 40 list.
I enjoy reading most of the documentation associated with OSS. Not only is it informative, but there is usually a little technical humour thrown in as well.
The worst documentation, imho, are usually the instructions that come with products that have "some assembly required". Sometimes there are no English instructions; or very, very poor chinese-to-english translations or pictures that don't make sense or are inaccurate or erroneous in some way.
On the bright side, it's extra practice for problem solving skills.
COBOL - While outdated, is still used by many large corporations. It is rarely taught in schools anymore and the syntax is quite cryptic (imho) compared to more modern languages (such as looping, fuction calls, type casting, etc. in C++ or javascript, for example).
Specializing in COBOL could be a niche that is quite lucrative. Some of the largest fortune 500 companies - including big oil companies - still have crucial systems running COBOL applications on them.
If programming in such a bizarre language doesn't drive you to pull all of your hair out in frustration it just might be for you!
This has been going on for a long time - although it was not called "torture", but "research".
Here in Canada, the CIA funded Dr. Ewan Cameron's "psychic driving" experiments under the MKULTRA program.
Dr. Cameron was also the head of both the American and World Psychiatric associations.
"Patients" were given treatments such as electroshock, LSD, drug-induced comas, etc., although many of the patients were there for anxiety or depression and did not consent to these types of treatments. Cameron essentially turned his patients into vegetables who suffered from amnesia and forgot how to talk or dress themselves. Some did not remember family members and forgot how to use the bathroom by themselves.
Many of the surviving victims were eventually given small financial settlements, and the Canadian government and CIA were essentially absolved of any wrong doing as a result.
The Fifth Estate productions produced an excellent movie based on Dr. Cameron and his experiments, entitled The Sleep Room".
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>"What did this guy expect to find for employment?"
Government employment competitions - at least in Canada - place a large emphasis on formal education. Having a degree in something - anything - will give you an advantage over someone applying for the same job without the formal education - even if they trump you in experience.
"...Fucktard..."
Sometimes it seems like the academic standard for literacy is degenerating to levels only seen in the movie Idiocracy.
+1 if I had points...
+1
*projects
"Unless we start a geoengineering project to remove CO2 from the atmosphere..."
Or we stop harmful deforestation products and continue to plant many, many trees.
"G+ is awesome. No friends use it..."
Aren't friends the whole point of social media?
Google plus sucks. Not nearly as bad as Facebook, but it still sucks.
If you want a real social network you can always go old school - get out of the house and make some friends.
Western governments pay people to troll as well.
Just read the comments section of any mainstream news media site. It's pretty obvious.
"making approx 210k a year after bonus."
:)
For that kind of money you could work for a couple of years and comfortably retire in Atlantic Canada - and spend more quality time with your family.
I'd like to see how this car drives itself with the challenges presented on an episode of "Canada's Worst Driver".
As a hobbyist musician, I agree that technology certainly has an effect on music production and creation.
However, to answer your question - " How many charting pop songs over five minutes long that aren't novelty tunes can you think of?"
A few:
Voodoo Chile - Jimi Hendrix
I heard it through the grapevine - CCR
I can do anything for love (but won't do that) - Meatloaf
Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
Inna Gadda Da Vida - Max Webster
Like a Rolling Stone - Bob Dylan
Hotel California - The Eagles
American Pie - Don Maclean
Paradise City - Guns n' Roses
Interestingly, these are all older songs.
It would seem that longer (hit) songs are more a thing of the past - at least as far as commercial music goes.
I think shorter songs are more popular these days because of radio airplay than anything else. Many bands still write long songs, you just aren't as likely to hear them on the radio or see them in a top 40 list.
No advertising.
I enjoy reading most of the documentation associated with OSS. Not only is it informative, but there is usually a little technical humour thrown in as well.
The worst documentation, imho, are usually the instructions that come with products that have "some assembly required". Sometimes there are no English instructions; or very, very poor chinese-to-english translations or pictures that don't make sense or are inaccurate or erroneous in some way.
On the bright side, it's extra practice for problem solving skills.
"You cannot change the law without public support."
...unless your name is "Bush" or you are the NSA.
Actually, they don't change the laws; they ignore them. Nevermind.
Not sure if this counts, but electro-mechanical devices such as a shake flashlight would probably still work.
"Can we call you a "Global Warming Denialist" instead?"
No, you can keep that title all to yourself, thanks.
"Climate Change Deniers"
Seriously? What a stupid term! Are there really people out there who actually DENY that the climate is changing?
As I understand it, the contention is over WHAT is causing the climate to change, not whether or not it is changing.
Any company that insists on tracking you 24/7 is not worth working for, imho.
The company knows that the phone is in her possession, and that she is responsible for it. That's all they need to know.
If the phone gets lost/stolen/damaged, it is her responsibility to replace it.
COBOL - While outdated, is still used by many large corporations. It is rarely taught in schools anymore and the syntax is quite cryptic (imho) compared to more modern languages (such as looping, fuction calls, type casting, etc. in C++ or javascript, for example).
:)
Specializing in COBOL could be a niche that is quite lucrative. Some of the largest fortune 500 companies - including big oil companies - still have crucial systems running COBOL applications on them.
If programming in such a bizarre language doesn't drive you to pull all of your hair out in frustration it just might be for you!
Or maybe just for bald people in general.
This has been going on for a long time - although it was not called "torture", but "research".
Here in Canada, the CIA funded Dr. Ewan Cameron's "psychic driving" experiments under the MKULTRA program.
Dr. Cameron was also the head of both the American and World Psychiatric associations.
"Patients" were given treatments such as electroshock, LSD, drug-induced comas, etc., although many of the patients were there for anxiety or depression and did not consent to these types of treatments. Cameron essentially turned his patients into vegetables who suffered from amnesia and forgot how to talk or dress themselves. Some did not remember family members and forgot how to use the bathroom by themselves.
Many of the surviving victims were eventually given small financial settlements, and the Canadian government and CIA were essentially absolved of any wrong doing as a result.
The Fifth Estate productions produced an excellent movie based on Dr. Cameron and his experiments, entitled The Sleep Room".
You can watch it online here.
Perhaps something like The Iran Contra Affair
Linux would be a refreshing change. And updates are free!
Well said! :)
Rocky: "Hey, what's the meaning of this?"
Agent: "Military intelligence. That phrase mean anything to you?"
Rocky: "It sounds like a contradiction of terms."