So much code is unnecessary too; it's only there because a customer thinks they need a certain feature, or added as a check-off box for features that no one actually uses but makes you different from the competition, and so forth. Necessary for sales, necessary to keep upper management happy, but ultimately doesn't really add any real value.
Oh and don't forget all those asserts and error checks that will never kick off because the real errors you'll find in the field won't be tested for.
And if a clerk refuses to recognize straight marriage? Refuses to recognize interracial marriage? Refuses to recognize marriage of anyone not done in a church of the proper denomination? If someone's beliefs get in the way of doing their job then they need a new job. A vegan shouldn't work in a butcher shop.
They don't have to recognize gay marriage, the job does not require that. The job only requires that they process the paperwork. Of all the sins listed in all the religious texts, they pick this one to get all uppity about.
Trump didn't send anyone over to push those rights when they were hashing out the Republican party platform this week. So the platform is even more anti-LGBT than last convention despite their "leader" supposedly being pro LGBT. So either Trump is somewhat apathetic about the whole thing or more likely he's just clueless about how political parties operate and didn't know it was part of his responsibility. Which makes me wonder how he'd actually run a country if he's messing up the simple stuff.
It's easy to get cheap labor. What's hard is getting good labor. If you've got an important project then it helps to have good people on it instead of going about it half assed with the cheapest bodies you can get. Though if it's just rote IT grunt work web application touch up then go for it. But if you need quality work done you need quality workers.
I do see lots of older contract workers in Silicon Valley. Often it's just their choice, they can get more money that way (especially if a spouse has a family health insurance plan), it's flexible, etc. It's probably easier to get hired that way, and I've never seen a contractor being formally interviewed, sometimes you don't even see them ever walk in the door or talk with the project members. I wouldn't do it myself, I can barely keep track of my finances as it is much less have to deal with the extra burden of being my own HR and I like having weekends free.
The thing with healthcare is that some level of care gets provided whether the patient can pay or not. So that raises costs overall. Also not getting healthcare makes other people less healthy. Opting out of the system screws it up for everone else. A reform was needed, we got one though it had flaws, and yet people complain about being required to pay for insurance. But America is still in a individualist oriented mindset, as in it's all about me and everyone else can go screw themselves.
Yes the two party system is screwed up. But it wasn't designed to be that way, it just happened due to the nature of the rules set up and the environment it takes place in. Winner takes all, lack of communication, complexity of understanding the issues, etc. So where other countries might have a coalition that takes place after a general election, we have coalitions that are formed during the primary elections which naturally end up being dominated by extremists and true believers in their party and not by moderate voices.
And Trump doesn't really run businesses, he mostly invests in them, lends his name, etc. How the country will be run if he's president is a complete unknown at the moment because it all will depend upon who he gets in the cabinet, the people who might actually know how to run things (if we're lucky). With Hillary everyone has a pretty good idea of what names might be in the cabinet and actually deciding policy, and we know if we like or dislike them, but with Trump everything is a huge unknown (huuuuuge).
They're in the equivalent of the industrial revolution, using lots and lots of unskilled labor migrating off of farms into cities to do menial and dangerous jobs. The robots will replace some of them but not all of them. We're also in an era very different from the industrial revolution where lots of manufacturing can not be done by humans as the parts are too small to work with and the tolerances too demanding.
Well the summary makes no clarification on what "Pascal based" actually means. Is it a new processor, fab process, developer methodology, or was it just manufactured under high atmospheric pressure? Turns out it's an architecture only used at Nvidia - in other words it's a marketing name which is utterly meaningless.
You really only need the dry storage. Bread is very good at this as long as it's dry weather and you kept the mold off while it still had moisture. Meat is more difficult to get to last but the same principle applies.
I don't think that by itself that doing the equivalent of money laundering is illegal. It's only when it's done to help mask a crime or avoid taxes that it becomes criminal. Though rules will certainly vary country to country. However almost no one goes to all the trouble of laundering money when there's not a crime involved because it's not free.
That's not all of Sharia. Remember the Old Testament prescribes stoning for adultery. Most Jews and Christians don't follow that though. Likewise someone can follow Sharia without adopting all of the hadiths and fatwas out there, even though they follow most parts of it like Ramadan, not eating pork, giving to charities, not accepting interest payments, etc.
Right. There is a problem with Wahabis, same as there's a problem with some Christian groups. That doesn't mean you can use those groups to blame the entire religions. The Wahabis are kooks, but powerful enough that the Saudi leadership doesn't want to offend them. Similarly some evangelical groups are kooks, but powerful enough that politicians in the US don't want to offend them.
You need to learn some history. Palestine was a land with mostly Arabs and a large and significant Jewish minority. Then the Palestineans were forcibly ejected from their own land. The first world mostly supported this because they were still in a colonialist mindset where they thought it was ok to draw lines on a map from the other side of the globe and declare what was or was not a new sovereign state. The reason they want the land back is because they used to live there for centuries, not because they're bigoted against Jews. Just because the Palestineans were Arabs does not mean they have much in common with other Arab countries or communities, they were pretty much looked down upon as an ethnic group by other Arab countries.
There are parts where the confederacy still seems to exis and populations who act like it's still there. For instance in recent history we had the segregationists. We've got former Ku Klux Klan members in congress (from both parties) because there was a time when it was considered the problem thing to do if you were up and coming in politics in the South.
I'm not trying to draw any moral equivalencies but to reject the opposite view - that Palestineans are pure evil and Israelis have never done anything wrong and have zero culpability. Which is absurd because Israel has gone out of its way to torpedo peace processes, and continues to build illegal settlements.
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So much code is unnecessary too; it's only there because a customer thinks they need a certain feature, or added as a check-off box for features that no one actually uses but makes you different from the competition, and so forth. Necessary for sales, necessary to keep upper management happy, but ultimately doesn't really add any real value.
Oh and don't forget all those asserts and error checks that will never kick off because the real errors you'll find in the field won't be tested for.
And if a clerk refuses to recognize straight marriage? Refuses to recognize interracial marriage? Refuses to recognize marriage of anyone not done in a church of the proper denomination? If someone's beliefs get in the way of doing their job then they need a new job. A vegan shouldn't work in a butcher shop.
They don't have to recognize gay marriage, the job does not require that. The job only requires that they process the paperwork. Of all the sins listed in all the religious texts, they pick this one to get all uppity about.
Both are right. He's personally against abortion but is not for legislation against it.
Trump didn't send anyone over to push those rights when they were hashing out the Republican party platform this week. So the platform is even more anti-LGBT than last convention despite their "leader" supposedly being pro LGBT. So either Trump is somewhat apathetic about the whole thing or more likely he's just clueless about how political parties operate and didn't know it was part of his responsibility. Which makes me wonder how he'd actually run a country if he's messing up the simple stuff.
It's not Trump's strong point either.
It's easy to get cheap labor. What's hard is getting good labor. If you've got an important project then it helps to have good people on it instead of going about it half assed with the cheapest bodies you can get. Though if it's just rote IT grunt work web application touch up then go for it. But if you need quality work done you need quality workers.
I do see lots of older contract workers in Silicon Valley. Often it's just their choice, they can get more money that way (especially if a spouse has a family health insurance plan), it's flexible, etc. It's probably easier to get hired that way, and I've never seen a contractor being formally interviewed, sometimes you don't even see them ever walk in the door or talk with the project members. I wouldn't do it myself, I can barely keep track of my finances as it is much less have to deal with the extra burden of being my own HR and I like having weekends free.
The thing with healthcare is that some level of care gets provided whether the patient can pay or not. So that raises costs overall. Also not getting healthcare makes other people less healthy. Opting out of the system screws it up for everone else. A reform was needed, we got one though it had flaws, and yet people complain about being required to pay for insurance. But America is still in a individualist oriented mindset, as in it's all about me and everyone else can go screw themselves.
Yes the two party system is screwed up. But it wasn't designed to be that way, it just happened due to the nature of the rules set up and the environment it takes place in. Winner takes all, lack of communication, complexity of understanding the issues, etc. So where other countries might have a coalition that takes place after a general election, we have coalitions that are formed during the primary elections which naturally end up being dominated by extremists and true believers in their party and not by moderate voices.
And Trump doesn't really run businesses, he mostly invests in them, lends his name, etc. How the country will be run if he's president is a complete unknown at the moment because it all will depend upon who he gets in the cabinet, the people who might actually know how to run things (if we're lucky). With Hillary everyone has a pretty good idea of what names might be in the cabinet and actually deciding policy, and we know if we like or dislike them, but with Trump everything is a huge unknown (huuuuuge).
It'll be huuuuge! And luxurious. Just like Atlantic City.
This is an intrusion into the free market!!
Hippocracy? Doesn't that mean a government run by horses?
They're in the equivalent of the industrial revolution, using lots and lots of unskilled labor migrating off of farms into cities to do menial and dangerous jobs. The robots will replace some of them but not all of them. We're also in an era very different from the industrial revolution where lots of manufacturing can not be done by humans as the parts are too small to work with and the tolerances too demanding.
You're supposed to cheer and chant, not listen and think.
Well the summary makes no clarification on what "Pascal based" actually means. Is it a new processor, fab process, developer methodology, or was it just manufactured under high atmospheric pressure? Turns out it's an architecture only used at Nvidia - in other words it's a marketing name which is utterly meaningless.
You really only need the dry storage. Bread is very good at this as long as it's dry weather and you kept the mold off while it still had moisture. Meat is more difficult to get to last but the same principle applies.
Beware the long finger of the law!
I don't think that by itself that doing the equivalent of money laundering is illegal. It's only when it's done to help mask a crime or avoid taxes that it becomes criminal. Though rules will certainly vary country to country. However almost no one goes to all the trouble of laundering money when there's not a crime involved because it's not free.
It is clear that the Telecoms certainly don't know the needs of the people.
That's not all of Sharia. Remember the Old Testament prescribes stoning for adultery. Most Jews and Christians don't follow that though. Likewise someone can follow Sharia without adopting all of the hadiths and fatwas out there, even though they follow most parts of it like Ramadan, not eating pork, giving to charities, not accepting interest payments, etc.
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I can remember the anniversary like it was only yesterday.
Look up what Sharia law is. You seem to think it's some sort of evil thing, a conspiracy against non-Muslims, that it supercedes national laws, etc.
Right. There is a problem with Wahabis, same as there's a problem with some Christian groups. That doesn't mean you can use those groups to blame the entire religions. The Wahabis are kooks, but powerful enough that the Saudi leadership doesn't want to offend them. Similarly some evangelical groups are kooks, but powerful enough that politicians in the US don't want to offend them.
You need to learn some history. Palestine was a land with mostly Arabs and a large and significant Jewish minority. Then the Palestineans were forcibly ejected from their own land. The first world mostly supported this because they were still in a colonialist mindset where they thought it was ok to draw lines on a map from the other side of the globe and declare what was or was not a new sovereign state. The reason they want the land back is because they used to live there for centuries, not because they're bigoted against Jews. Just because the Palestineans were Arabs does not mean they have much in common with other Arab countries or communities, they were pretty much looked down upon as an ethnic group by other Arab countries.
There are parts where the confederacy still seems to exis and populations who act like it's still there. For instance in recent history we had the segregationists. We've got former Ku Klux Klan members in congress (from both parties) because there was a time when it was considered the problem thing to do if you were up and coming in politics in the South.
I'm not trying to draw any moral equivalencies but to reject the opposite view - that Palestineans are pure evil and Israelis have never done anything wrong and have zero culpability. Which is absurd because Israel has gone out of its way to torpedo peace processes, and continues to build illegal settlements.