If you are currnetly looking for work then it is important that you cut all ties to any charity organizations that you might work\volunteer for with ties poor people, ex-drug addicts, the homeless or the mentally ill. These people may have a bad credit score and if you are associated with them then you will never get a job.
Fill in entertaining bullshit when they ask you personal questions. They think I'm a gay Black Christian Libertarian who wants legal pot and likes chinchillas.
I have a Great Grandfather that died in WW2, do you think anyone in my family complains that everyother video game title out there centers on this conflict? How about games where you could be the Germans? I don't here a whole lot of gripping from Fox News about them. I don't get why this person wouldn't want her sons story, and the stories of all of the soldiers over there from every other country, to be told to the world in a form that the youth will acctually pay attention to.
The free exercise of religion is sufficient reason on it's own for organ donation to be an opt-in affair.
And The Seperation Of Church And State is sufficient reason on it's own to invalidate your argument. It's a checkbox, if you don't want to dontae your organs it takes two sweeps of the pencil. I'm glad NYS is doing this because after spending 2 hrs at the DMV between the senior citizen that has just soiled his pants, and the women yelling at her kids through her cell phone, the last thing I am thinking about is helping other people but then I leave and regret not changing my organ donor status because in the end it's the right thing to do.
I'm not sure where you're from, but here in the states we don't "grade on a curve" in primary school. Therfore a C isn't average, its indicative of the percentage of the material you've grasped (C being 70%-79%). So no one HAS to fall below this mark, necessarily. If however you do, I don't see it as unreasonable that you would have to take the class again until you do. This is basic stuff. We shouldn't be moving children up the ranks if they're only grasping half of what they're being taught. Yet we are: parents don't want poor dumb Johnny's feeling's hurt because he's stupid so in some school districts the parents can actually override the instructors decision to have a student repeat a grade level.
That's fair but I argue that a reasonable course should be designed around an average persons ability to retain 70%-79% of what is taught, along with doing enough work to support this impression, which is what makes a grade of 'C' average to me. So you state that people should be denied the standard of employment they deserve in life because they are forced, by the states requirements and the lack of options avalible at their school to take classes like "Modern Art" and "Home Economics"? Which in my opinion only exist to give the Jack-Hats that teach them a job. These filler classes are one reason that I support D's as passing grades. Another is that I have seen otherwise intelligent people who have trouble with one aspect of a class get killed on their report card because that one item happend to occupy two of the four quarters in that year but only made up 10% of the exam (This happens a lot in math). Let those who only coast by do so, they won't make it once they are out of High School and nothing you do while they are kids will change this so why bend the system to hell and back just to point out what we will all eventually know. The sollution for them is to offer adult education when they finally get their act together and realise their mistakes.
I never understood this, if a student is substandard then they are substandard. If this superintendent knew what the definition of average was he would realise that, by definition, some students HAVE to fall below a 'C' mark. Teaching everybody to a minimum standard is a very noble cause but it isn't possible for everyone you teach to live up to that standard; so instead we end up with these bitter drop-outs who are essentially labled as unemployable just because they can't tell you what the capital of Nebraska is.
We're talking about Oregon here, you know the state. The one that's virtually half desert, so your water would evaporate, and half Rainforest (exaggeration I know) so pumping water becomes redundent http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/pcpn/or.gif. In this case batteries aren't pretty or effeicent but ther might be the best choice.
Am I the only one that is surprized that this technology is being tested in the country that has the most androgynous dressing + acting people in the world? I mean I know that I'm conceeded but these guys have REALLY got selfconfidence!
Remember when Jeff Moss had his talk cancelled, or Kim Zetter? All it did was make people salivate to read thier presentation when they released it online at a later date. The last thing you want to do to this demographic is tell them the info is "too dangerous (see awesome) for them to hear. It will be everywhere with in the week.
This is exactley right, in the precious words of my 18 months old neice "Hahaha, you can't tell me no."
No because there is also the slightley lesser charge of Interfearing with Police Authoriry which quite literally means anything you do can and will be used against you to make these charges stick in a court of law
Ambiguous Statement != Clever Puzzle
Statisticians != Mathematicians
You should never have a scenario where you can say "I did the math perfectly but I might still be wrong".
I live in Buffalos NY and our CITY has been backrupt for awhile now. They got assigned a control board from ??? by ???, I didn't vote for any of those retards, who don't allow them to spend anything but then they whine and cry like little kids until they get what they want anyway. They close down parks and the such (although a state wouldn't be responsible for that anyway) and spend what ever money they can pry out of the control board for project A on special interest project B anyway. So basically you get less services and pay more taxes and nothing else changes.
This basically means we're staying in Afghanistan indefinitely. Even worse, in the end the only ones who will benefit are the corporations. The taxpayers and the government will never see any of that money.
Who do you think works for the corporations? Answer: The taxpayers.
Also, do you think mining is going to be a nonprofit organization? They'll pay taxes to the government.
This is great news because this could help wipe out Afghanistan's poverty, the actual biggest obstacle to a functioning government.
But you see in order to mine these resources to establish a functioning government we need a functioning government. So no, the OP is right we won't see a dime.
These guys are right of course, the problem is with the economy and that your job skills landed you where you are. But if your company isn't growing at a rate that would afford you a raise this close to launch of a new product then get the F* out now! At least start networking or entertaining other options, mention the idea of changing jobs and possibley moving to your significant other and kids if they are old enough. Now is the time to prepare for plan B not when they tell you "Hey guys we're sorry, we took our shot and we missed" and if they say "Sure you can have a small raise" then you know that things will be ok for a little while longer no harm done.
Dude, we're talking about software developers no one wants to see that. Now you're going to get some responses from people who are the programmers that work out at the gym for 20+ hours a week, I have one in my office he's stronger then a bull but still built like a software developer.
Think of being able to buy your own domain name and use simple software such as Posterous to build a profile page
What a great idea! We could post what we're doing, where we are and what our plans for the next day could be! This sounds like it needs a snazy new name. Let's think hard about this hmmm... I know we should take the words LOG and WEB and combine them into BLOG! Yet another great and origional idea from Wired Magazine. Honestly how do you still trick people into subscribing to you?
Here is how I guess passwords for users. 1st I pretend that I am a completly useless moron and type the first thing that comes to mind if I were that person. 2nd If that doesn't work I pretend that I have a highschool education and try it again. 3rd failing that I look around the desk for a post-it note with the password on it. I don't get it people act like I'm some kind of mystic when I guess their password, and I lose a little more hope for mankinds future.
E.g., they chose to have guns and explosives and helicopters, which actually was at the expense of losing some purists who'd have preferred a more Dark Ages kinda setting where the highest tech is maybe a crossbow. (Heck, much as I'm otherwise for SF, I'd prefer to keep medieval stuff medieval, if it had to be medieval in the first place.)
E.g., to make medieval fantasy fans happier, you have to make strictly SF fans a lot less interested in the game. And, again, you can't please everyone. You can't make a game that's high fantasy with elves and horses _and_ SF with warp drives and tricorders, because you'll just annoy both groups instead of catering to both. (Though using SF as a backstory for a medieval game sometimes works.)
So what then, you mean to say Warhammer 40K will never have an MMORPG? That makes me a very sad panda.
I disagree with eldavojohn. Dr. Hawkings logic is simple, first ask how advanced a civilization would have to be in order to reach another habitable planet. Then ask how long it would take us as a species to reach that point. Make the assumption that any intelligent life would have simular difficulties reaching this evolutionary\technilogical point and that it would take them the close to the same amount of time. What would our planet look like at this point in time? What would we do as a species at this point? The answer is pretty clear, our planet will be dead and wouldn't be far behind. Although it would be "cool" to meet alien life and interact with it we wouldn't assume that it was our time and just die out without a war.
As for all this talk about nukes. I don't think they would use them given our very limited ability to fight in space. There is a reason that we sign treaties to ban space-to-ground weapons and that is the potential to wipe out entire armys in seconds. Joe Shmo the soldier doesn't carry anything to shoot back at a satillite, his armor\artillary\air support are all focused on providing ground and maybe air cover, but nothing to shoot back at a space battleship.
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If you are currnetly looking for work then it is important that you cut all ties to any charity organizations that you might work\volunteer for with ties poor people, ex-drug addicts, the homeless or the mentally ill. These people may have a bad credit score and if you are associated with them then you will never get a job.
Nine days?? I think I would walk home. Even if its 50 miles, that could be covered in nine days.I mean holy shit, wtf is the problem over there?
Well for starters it's a nation full of asian drivers! Ba-dum-pa! Someone was going to say it.
Fill in entertaining bullshit when they ask you personal questions. They think I'm a gay Black Christian Libertarian who wants legal pot and likes chinchillas.
Yeah but we all think this about you
I have a Great Grandfather that died in WW2, do you think anyone in my family complains that everyother video game title out there centers on this conflict? How about games where you could be the Germans? I don't here a whole lot of gripping from Fox News about them. I don't get why this person wouldn't want her sons story, and the stories of all of the soldiers over there from every other country, to be told to the world in a form that the youth will acctually pay attention to.
The free exercise of religion is sufficient reason on it's own for organ donation to be an opt-in affair.
And The Seperation Of Church And State is sufficient reason on it's own to invalidate your argument. It's a checkbox, if you don't want to dontae your organs it takes two sweeps of the pencil. I'm glad NYS is doing this because after spending 2 hrs at the DMV between the senior citizen that has just soiled his pants, and the women yelling at her kids through her cell phone, the last thing I am thinking about is helping other people but then I leave and regret not changing my organ donor status because in the end it's the right thing to do.
I'm not sure where you're from, but here in the states we don't "grade on a curve" in primary school. Therfore a C isn't average, its indicative of the percentage of the material you've grasped (C being 70%-79%). So no one HAS to fall below this mark, necessarily. If however you do, I don't see it as unreasonable that you would have to take the class again until you do. This is basic stuff. We shouldn't be moving children up the ranks if they're only grasping half of what they're being taught. Yet we are: parents don't want poor dumb Johnny's feeling's hurt because he's stupid so in some school districts the parents can actually override the instructors decision to have a student repeat a grade level.
That's fair but I argue that a reasonable course should be designed around an average persons ability to retain 70%-79% of what is taught, along with doing enough work to support this impression, which is what makes a grade of 'C' average to me. So you state that people should be denied the standard of employment they deserve in life because they are forced, by the states requirements and the lack of options avalible at their school to take classes like "Modern Art" and "Home Economics"? Which in my opinion only exist to give the Jack-Hats that teach them a job. These filler classes are one reason that I support D's as passing grades. Another is that I have seen otherwise intelligent people who have trouble with one aspect of a class get killed on their report card because that one item happend to occupy two of the four quarters in that year but only made up 10% of the exam (This happens a lot in math). Let those who only coast by do so, they won't make it once they are out of High School and nothing you do while they are kids will change this so why bend the system to hell and back just to point out what we will all eventually know. The sollution for them is to offer adult education when they finally get their act together and realise their mistakes.
I never understood this, if a student is substandard then they are substandard. If this superintendent knew what the definition of average was he would realise that, by definition, some students HAVE to fall below a 'C' mark. Teaching everybody to a minimum standard is a very noble cause but it isn't possible for everyone you teach to live up to that standard; so instead we end up with these bitter drop-outs who are essentially labled as unemployable just because they can't tell you what the capital of Nebraska is.
We're talking about Oregon here, you know the state. The one that's virtually half desert, so your water would evaporate, and half Rainforest (exaggeration I know) so pumping water becomes redundent http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/pcpn/or.gif. In this case batteries aren't pretty or effeicent but ther might be the best choice.
Am I the only one that is surprized that this technology is being tested in the country that has the most androgynous dressing + acting people in the world? I mean I know that I'm conceeded but these guys have REALLY got selfconfidence!
Remember when Jeff Moss had his talk cancelled, or Kim Zetter? All it did was make people salivate to read thier presentation when they released it online at a later date. The last thing you want to do to this demographic is tell them the info is "too dangerous (see awesome) for them to hear. It will be everywhere with in the week.
This is exactley right, in the precious words of my 18 months old neice "Hahaha, you can't tell me no."
No because there is also the slightley lesser charge of Interfearing with Police Authoriry which quite literally means anything you do can and will be used against you to make these charges stick in a court of law
Ambiguous Statement != Clever Puzzle Statisticians != Mathematicians You should never have a scenario where you can say "I did the math perfectly but I might still be wrong".
I live in Buffalos NY and our CITY has been backrupt for awhile now. They got assigned a control board from ??? by ???, I didn't vote for any of those retards, who don't allow them to spend anything but then they whine and cry like little kids until they get what they want anyway. They close down parks and the such (although a state wouldn't be responsible for that anyway) and spend what ever money they can pry out of the control board for project A on special interest project B anyway. So basically you get less services and pay more taxes and nothing else changes.
This basically means we're staying in Afghanistan indefinitely. Even worse, in the end the only ones who will benefit are the corporations. The taxpayers and the government will never see any of that money.
Who do you think works for the corporations? Answer: The taxpayers.
Also, do you think mining is going to be a nonprofit organization? They'll pay taxes to the government.
This is great news because this could help wipe out Afghanistan's poverty, the actual biggest obstacle to a functioning government.
But you see in order to mine these resources to establish a functioning government we need a functioning government. So no, the OP is right we won't see a dime.
These guys are right of course, the problem is with the economy and that your job skills landed you where you are. But if your company isn't growing at a rate that would afford you a raise this close to launch of a new product then get the F* out now! At least start networking or entertaining other options, mention the idea of changing jobs and possibley moving to your significant other and kids if they are old enough. Now is the time to prepare for plan B not when they tell you "Hey guys we're sorry, we took our shot and we missed" and if they say "Sure you can have a small raise" then you know that things will be ok for a little while longer no harm done.
Are they releasing these "odds" to the public while betting against them?
Uh no. "Majoritarian" although a word, is something that news channels dredged up. The common use word in Political science is "Populist".
just underwear?
Dude, we're talking about software developers no one wants to see that. Now you're going to get some responses from people who are the programmers that work out at the gym for 20+ hours a week, I have one in my office he's stronger then a bull but still built like a software developer.
Think of being able to buy your own domain name and use simple software such as Posterous to build a profile page
What a great idea! We could post what we're doing, where we are and what our plans for the next day could be! This sounds like it needs a snazy new name. Let's think hard about this hmmm... I know we should take the words LOG and WEB and combine them into BLOG! Yet another great and origional idea from Wired Magazine. Honestly how do you still trick people into subscribing to you?
In Australia a petty criminal will be armed with a knife, not a firearm.
That's not a knife.
That's a knife!
Dude, that's not a knife that's a spoon!
Here is how I guess passwords for users. 1st I pretend that I am a completly useless moron and type the first thing that comes to mind if I were that person. 2nd If that doesn't work I pretend that I have a highschool education and try it again. 3rd failing that I look around the desk for a post-it note with the password on it. I don't get it people act like I'm some kind of mystic when I guess their password, and I lose a little more hope for mankinds future.
E.g., they chose to have guns and explosives and helicopters, which actually was at the expense of losing some purists who'd have preferred a more Dark Ages kinda setting where the highest tech is maybe a crossbow. (Heck, much as I'm otherwise for SF, I'd prefer to keep medieval stuff medieval, if it had to be medieval in the first place.)
E.g., to make medieval fantasy fans happier, you have to make strictly SF fans a lot less interested in the game. And, again, you can't please everyone. You can't make a game that's high fantasy with elves and horses _and_ SF with warp drives and tricorders, because you'll just annoy both groups instead of catering to both. (Though using SF as a backstory for a medieval game sometimes works.)
So what then, you mean to say Warhammer 40K will never have an MMORPG? That makes me a very sad panda.
Why haven't you been modded 5 Insightful yet? Really this point is too good to pass up, even with regulation in place this is impossible to monitor.
I disagree with eldavojohn. Dr. Hawkings logic is simple, first ask how advanced a civilization would have to be in order to reach another habitable planet. Then ask how long it would take us as a species to reach that point. Make the assumption that any intelligent life would have simular difficulties reaching this evolutionary\technilogical point and that it would take them the close to the same amount of time. What would our planet look like at this point in time? What would we do as a species at this point? The answer is pretty clear, our planet will be dead and wouldn't be far behind. Although it would be "cool" to meet alien life and interact with it we wouldn't assume that it was our time and just die out without a war.
As for all this talk about nukes. I don't think they would use them given our very limited ability to fight in space. There is a reason that we sign treaties to ban space-to-ground weapons and that is the potential to wipe out entire armys in seconds. Joe Shmo the soldier doesn't carry anything to shoot back at a satillite, his armor\artillary\air support are all focused on providing ground and maybe air cover, but nothing to shoot back at a space battleship.
Only one closet full? Pfft, lightweight. Come back when you have a real collection!