because there are bragging rights involved in saying that your company had work done offshore, too. It's the same sort of thing, "our company has more japanese than yours".
What's wrong with that? They work hard, they have great food, they make l33t cart00nz, gadgets & cell phones and they're cute.
Keep in mind, though, those ancient laws were to -protect- their adherants, since suitable technology for safely perserving the meats had not been invented. Basic memetics. Can't pass on the ideas if all your followers are dead. If you trace back the relegious percicution of homosexuality, you find its the same sort of thing, tight reproductive rules had to be formed to keep the dwindling population alive in the face of persecution.
Well, now that technology or the overpopulation condition does not call for more babies are here to allow those forbidden acts, why don't those religions take notice and amend their "laws"?
But again, religions are not particularly noted for evolving...
I remember when the first talk of web-based shops were on the cards. They were saying it was the 'High Street' stores that would lose profits and business...
Remember the story about the shopping mall who prohibited stores from posting URLs???
Now I will have to send away for that tiger penis balm that is guaranteed to make me hung like a stallion and sexually attractive to women.
Jeeeesus. Like if penis size was an indication of virility. Orientals have teeny-weeenies, yet they are the most numerous race on earth.
A slut I know tells me that, even though oriental men have mini-weenies, they are super-hard, and they can sustain terrific erections guaranteed to make scream the most frigid or loose broad.
She also had plenty of blacks. Huge weenies, as one can expect. Except that they are quite soft (but not so soft as to preclude penetration - fortunately).
Also, if you live in Washington State, we just built a new stadium for the Seattle SeaHawks. Since they didnt sell as many season tickets, they are yanking all games but ONE from tv. Half the state is over 4 hours away, they wont drive 8 hours total to see a game, but you still pay the taxes. (And still pay off the old stadium thats been torn down...)
Boy are people in Washington State a bunch of suckers. suckers!!! suckers!!! suckers!!! suckers!!! suckers!!! suckers!!! suckers!!! suckers!!! suckers!!!
Moral: Companies pay millions of dollars because they think they work. That does not in fact mean that they work. Entire industries have spent decades or more laboring under shared misconceptions. In the case of advertising, the measurement tools are so coarse and the data pool so vast, I think very little is demonstrable of cause-and-effect.
Remember the 1970's Coke commercial, where you had a big extended family singing under a christmas tree? It did bring tears out of rocks, and won countless awards.
It also disn't work. Coke sales kept plumetting after that award-winning ad.
The fact is that the Madison Avenue Snake-Oil-Brigade is just a bunch of back-patting gang of old chums who make their client believe they need their services; which is the use of advertising anyways: it makes your client believe he needs your services.
After all, if he really did need your service, he'd come to you even if you don't advertise, right?
Don't think that some sort of morality would prevent this from happening, either. Time travel is an incredibly powerful weapon; consider what a knife to the throat of the infant Hitler would have done to history, and how many people would leap at the chance, consequences be damned. All it would take is one person to do so...at any time in the next many billion years.
Someone else would have taken his place. Read Poul Anderson's Time Patrol.
A = A XOR B
B = A XOR B
A = A XOR B
My data structures professor showed us that on the first day of class. That got my respect.
No wonder he's a teacher; only a teacher would gloat at a "clever" stupid trick like that; in a production environment, he'd be the first one to be shot, 'cause such kind of "clever" code is exactly why there are so many bugs in software nowadays, 'cause not all programmers will "get it".
Faudrait que j'arrête de me tenir avec des polytechniciens qui sont sortis (le mot "gradué" me fait rire) dans les années 60-70...:):):):):)
(Pourtant, Les Dossiers du Canard étaient bien formels à propos de la bonne de chambre et du chauffeur... - à moins que le chauffeur soit de la maison "Rentre Avec Tes Pieds"...)
Doesn't the disc on Voyager feature an introduction by then UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim giving greetings from Earth?
How odd that the first human voice any aliens who could work the disc will hear is the voice of a former Nazi alleged to have taken part in war crime atrocities in the then Yugoslavia...
It's not worse than aliens contacting earth by sending them back the 1936 TV programme with Adolf Hitler at the opening ceremony of the Berlin games.
In France schools like Ecole Polytechnique [polytechnique.edu], Ecole Centrale [www.ecp.fr] or Ecole des Mines [ensmp.fr] have been doing that for 200 years, with a total output of around 1000 "renaissance engineers" (ingenieur generaliste) per year. In French companies these diplomas usually make you start your career as a supervisor/manager in the industry, in consulting firms or financial services.
Not so fast... Grandes Écoles graduates cannot go work for the private sector like that. They have to work for the State for a good while and then, they may be released to work for the private sector. After all, if the State pays for their top-notch education (the crème de la crème Polytechnique students have maids and chauffeured limos), they have to expect some payback...
Watching Thunderbirds as a kid made me believe I wanted to be an engineer. My father, a well-respected artist, sure was keen to the idea, as he first wanted to be one, but was honourably discharged from military college and told he should go to fine arts school.
When I was expelled from school at 16, I got myself jobs in computers, where I was still under the delusion I wanted to work with science and technology. Of course, no way I could be an engineer anymore.
Being raised by an artist exposed me to all sorts of humanities stuff; but it would not really pay-off for about 20 years.
Then I met an engineer for the first time. I was totally dismayed at the utter lack of depth of the character, the extremely closed mind that had not the slightest interest outside the guy's profession, namely calculating the strength of beams going into a building.
I was glad I didn't pursue an engineering education!
Over the years, I interacted professionnally with many engineers, even at one point having two of them under my orders; only a few of those dispelled the initial notion I had of meeting my first one.
Then I worked several years with my father, who was making very-high quality books, and plenty of those were for a major museum. It is at this moment that I cursed myself for wanting to be an engineer, because I understood that I should have become an artist.
Meanwhile, the son of a friend I have known as a kid was growing up, and entered the engineering program of a very good university, of which he graduated with flying colours; two weeks later, he got himself a job, and bought himself a swift sportscar, in which he killed himself several hours later. Six years of engineering school down the crapper.
However, working in art edition circles, as interesting as it was, wasn't very computer-oriented, and it made me miss the OOP "revolution", which took me several years to catch-up; I was fortunate at that time to be hired to work on Internet connectivity just as the Internet was starting to "exist" in the public mind. Needless to say, my previous "artistic" dabblings came handy when some of the company's clients started to want websites...
Then I landed a job of IT manager for a small consulting company who provide turnkey museums all over the world; we are currently working on several projects, the largest of which is a new museum for the Smithsonian, in Washington.
Needless to say, this kind of work calls for a pretty multidisciplinary team. My past exposure to arts and design impressed my bosses enough to have me involved with every design team for several museums.
As you can guess, this makes for quite interesting meetings ("Okay, how should we put-up the Pterodon skeleton?" - "How can we mount those 80 aquariums to achieve maximum visibility?" - "Is it possible to have that subway mockup vibrate so it feels like it is running on the line?") or requests ("Hey, can you find me a planetarium?" - "I need a cable-car and a monorail"). You can guess that I am not ready to let go of that job...
I do not think I could have such an interesting job if I only had straight technical training; exposure to Humanities definitely broaden interests, and allows one to see the big picture and understand how various disciplines interact.
Hardware *** HAS *** to be open. Doing otherwise spells inevitable doom. Look at apple and IBM. Apple used to be totally open, when all it made was the Apple ][. You could get the circuit diagrams, and the manual actually had the commented assembly code of the ROMs. Tinkerers were actually encouraged to build special harware which was easy to make, thanks to pre-decoded peripheral slots. The Apple ]['s market share was quite impressive.
IBM did the same with it's PC; you could get the actual circuit diagrams, as well as the assembly code listing of the BIOS. You know, of course, how much market share IBM has.
Then Apple got greedy with is totally closed Macintrash. And it got the resulting market share it deserves, thanks to a bunch of computer ignoramuses who are brainwashed into the apple religion.
It's not legal because you say it is. Please point me to the law that says you can legally download mp3s from napster and share them with friends. Oh and the law that says teh same for library cds as well.
Sure! here it is. I can copy whatever I want, no matter how I do it for my private study.
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But again, religions are not particularly noted for evolving...
A slut I know tells me that, even though oriental men have mini-weenies, they are super-hard, and they can sustain terrific erections guaranteed to make scream the most frigid or loose broad.
She also had plenty of blacks. Huge weenies, as one can expect. Except that they are quite soft (but not so soft as to preclude penetration - fortunately).
It also disn't work. Coke sales kept plumetting after that award-winning ad.
The fact is that the Madison Avenue Snake-Oil-Brigade is just a bunch of back-patting gang of old chums who make their client believe they need their services; which is the use of advertising anyways: it makes your client believe he needs your services.
After all, if he really did need your service, he'd come to you even if you don't advertise, right?
A State-owned TV that is paid for by the taxpayers. This works fine where it exists (outside of the USA).
All you need are mob connections.
Harry! Wher'd'ya want the computer????
I guess they are called "pi" menus, due to their round nature and 3,1415926535...
So, will PERL programs will now be able to be written in XML and appear more logical and well-structured???
I wonder if the routers will freeze more often. But of course not! They will use Linux, and so will be perfectly at home!
(Pourtant, Les Dossiers du Canard étaient bien formels à propos de la bonne de chambre et du chauffeur... - à moins que le chauffeur soit de la maison "Rentre Avec Tes Pieds"...)
Isn't it rather "Hello to all intelligent life forms everywere, and to everyone else, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys"????
When I was expelled from school at 16, I got myself jobs in computers, where I was still under the delusion I wanted to work with science and technology. Of course, no way I could be an engineer anymore.
Being raised by an artist exposed me to all sorts of humanities stuff; but it would not really pay-off for about 20 years.
Then I met an engineer for the first time. I was totally dismayed at the utter lack of depth of the character, the extremely closed mind that had not the slightest interest outside the guy's profession, namely calculating the strength of beams going into a building.
I was glad I didn't pursue an engineering education!
Over the years, I interacted professionnally with many engineers, even at one point having two of them under my orders; only a few of those dispelled the initial notion I had of meeting my first one.
Then I worked several years with my father, who was making very-high quality books, and plenty of those were for a major museum. It is at this moment that I cursed myself for wanting to be an engineer, because I understood that I should have become an artist.
Meanwhile, the son of a friend I have known as a kid was growing up, and entered the engineering program of a very good university, of which he graduated with flying colours; two weeks later, he got himself a job, and bought himself a swift sportscar, in which he killed himself several hours later. Six years of engineering school down the crapper.
However, working in art edition circles, as interesting as it was, wasn't very computer-oriented, and it made me miss the OOP "revolution", which took me several years to catch-up; I was fortunate at that time to be hired to work on Internet connectivity just as the Internet was starting to "exist" in the public mind. Needless to say, my previous "artistic" dabblings came handy when some of the company's clients started to want websites...
Then I landed a job of IT manager for a small consulting company who provide turnkey museums all over the world; we are currently working on several projects, the largest of which is a new museum for the Smithsonian, in Washington.
Needless to say, this kind of work calls for a pretty multidisciplinary team. My past exposure to arts and design impressed my bosses enough to have me involved with every design team for several museums.
As you can guess, this makes for quite interesting meetings ("Okay, how should we put-up the Pterodon skeleton?" - "How can we mount those 80 aquariums to achieve maximum visibility?" - "Is it possible to have that subway mockup vibrate so it feels like it is running on the line?") or requests ("Hey, can you find me a planetarium?" - "I need a cable-car and a monorail"). You can guess that I am not ready to let go of that job...
I do not think I could have such an interesting job if I only had straight technical training; exposure to Humanities definitely broaden interests, and allows one to see the big picture and understand how various disciplines interact.
IBM did the same with it's PC; you could get the actual circuit diagrams, as well as the assembly code listing of the BIOS. You know, of course, how much market share IBM has.
Then Apple got greedy with is totally closed Macintrash. And it got the resulting market share it deserves, thanks to a bunch of computer ignoramuses who are brainwashed into the apple religion.