Like the other day, i was interviewing for a job and i said, "Well you know i did all the coding for Amazon.com right? but you see i can't show any of it to you because of the non-disclosure agreement"
For some reason i still haven't gotten a call back...
but seriously, probably spanish is the way to go if your living in the United States, as much as i hate to admit it
It is truely unfortunate, however, that we are stuck with this dilemma of having so many languages. What benefit is it to society for there to be 50 words that all mean the same thing? In my ridiculous utopian world we would all vote on a language and then all learn to speak it. Of course my vote would be for one of those click-pop languages from South Africa. I figure they would be the best for translating binary data
Yes there are of course other circumstances here, the thing is the ruling here has wide implications that will affect other cases which do not necessarily have the same circumstances. This woman should clearly be punished, but not for the act of using a fake name. She should be punished because she influenced someone else to commit a crime (suicide is a criminal offense, i think) that's it. and even that is questionable.
Yes, a little known fact about all apple upgrades is the cool-aid that it comes with. Researchers and the FDA have yet to evaluate the constitution of this watery drink mix, but all who have drank it swear that its worth the price.
But seriously guys, i'd love to try your new shiny computers, but you have to realize, that as a PC user, I can upgrade my system (as i just did) for about $200 (talking about a desktop here) in order for me to even consider using a mac i have to for over at lease six times as much just to get a base model.
Sorry, but i need to pay my rent as well.
Ha! you think so? I read an article a while back about this guy who wrote an algorithm that writes romance novels so i figure one that paints masterpieces is just around the corner
Welcome Michelangelo version 2.0!
But don't worry, when the robots take over we'll all be made into slaves anyhow. Hows that for job security?
I do not assume that America is the "apogee of human civilization" but it is the place where i happen to live right now, and i like it.
And those who chose to live differently than me are welcome to do so, however we are more and more becoming a global society which means that we will all be competing directly for the same resources
The Chinese method is clearly more efficient than our own and they will undoubtedly win the global economic war which is currently being waged. One of our defenses against this is to try and make them more like us, show their people what they could have so that they may ask for more (and in turn make them less efficient, effectively leveling the playing field).
Time for a history lesson:
For hundreds of years (if not thousands) China has regarded itself as the center of the world, the further away you were from China, the more worthless you were. It was for these reasons that they would export far more than they would allow in. This was destructive to the economies of the rest of the world so in order to fight back we (the west) have always looked for ways to get our products/influence into china. the opium wars in the 1800's were a perfect example of this. It is China's own arrogance that makes us act the way the way that we do.
The west see's China as an invading army of merchants ready to undercut their prices to the point of running us out of business. It's only natural for us to fight against this.
What does this have to do with the Olympics? not sure, perhaps it will do as i said and make them desire our culture, or maybe it will just make them hate their own government by illustrating their opulant disregard for the public well-being. Anything which serves the purpose of reducing their isolation from the rest of the world is good in my book.
Ok so maybe i put it in simplistic terms, but i am not so nieve to believe that they will just "get all starry eyed" and fall in love with our culture. Nevertheless i still think its a good thing that these games are happening and here are my reasons
1: Yes you are correct there are bigger issues in the lives of most people in china, such as making a living, but should that be the case? isn't it true that it is our desire to want free time that we try to work less? perhaps these games will make them want the same thing as well.
2: Yes i'm sure the chinese don't like their government but they hate us even more. Why should they like us? for crying out loud we spent most of the past 200 years screwing them over, getting their country addicted to opium, standing back and doing nothing while japan raped and pillaged their country. I guess my thought here is that any kind of interaction with them that isn't of a destructive nature would have to be seen as better than what we have been doing, and that is a good thing.
And no, i don't think they are brainwashed at all, given the choice they would probably freely choose communism, and that is all well and fine with me, but it's not the way i chose to live
The thing that sucks about it is that with their system they will totally kill us in the world marketplace, what is better than having a bunch of workers that don't get paid much and don't ask for anything? Their are two ways to compete with them, either become like them, or make them more like us, I chose the latter, because i like my freedom.
It's not that the Olympics games themselves will actually lead to anything, it's that in order for them to take place China will have to expose itself to western culture in a way that it hasn't previously. Millions of people in China will see their first glimpse of the outside world through these games and that is what could lead to significant change in the country.
As Americans, we look at China and say "well why don't they want freedom?" The reality is that they don't even have a concept of what our type of freedom is, for them it's probably something to be feared because that's what they have been told. But the more that the people are exposed to the western world the more they may realize what it is that they are missing out on
i see this is my opportunity to put my crazy idea out there.
So i was noticing that you can by land out in the middle of nowhere for real cheap, the only problems: no water and no power. My idea solves both
first dig a well down to whatever underground water source there is (if there is any), then you get a series of magnifying glasses in an array around the opening to redirect their light down into the hole, boiling the water. the rest is obvious, put a few turbines in to generate electricity and collect the condensation for a clean water supply
Thats what i heard, (but i couldn't remember the atomic number)
I think this one is the one that allows for magical flying dragons though, I could be wrong
I realize your right of course, i'm just venting my anger because i was recently forced to switch to their horrible sucky cable service.
Heck i'd invest in Satan himself if he promised a good return of investment.
Because he's a friggin police officer! last i heard, Time warner wasn't in charge of maintaining the peace or fighting crime, so even if he was the best dang police officer they ever dealt with i still wouldn't see a reason to hire him.
This smells like a payoff to me. and i hope Time Warner goes down
Anyone who's not an idiot realises the lack of value with monster cables. and its a friggin RCA cord for god sakes, they're all pretty much the same.
what a bunch of duchbags
Yeah the viewing angle thing would piss me off, I have never actually seen one of these but i take your word for it. I was mainly referring to the amount of colors it can display
I find this ironic because i just had an interview at the company that makes apples website. I had to make a test website, and one of the things i heard before making the site was that sometimes (especially with apple) they will want the layout to be "Pixel Perfect"
It's a good thing i didn't have one of those screens because it would have been impossible.
But in reality, who really cares? It's like when they were coming out with gold-plated cds with super-high fidelity yada yada, here we are 10 years later and we are all happy to listen to our relatively crappy mp3's. Just because the technology is better doesn't mean that it's more useful.
Sure it's about people downloading music for free, but guess what? thats what we are going to have to deal with. The internet is changing the business model for everyone. the open source movement for software (for instance) is the same idea. The fact is information is now free, period dot the end. whatever it is be it software, music , books, someone is going to figure out how to distribute it for free and the only way people will willingly pay for it is if they feel that the price is reasonable and they actually want to do it of their own will because they think its the right thing to do.
Personally i think it's a good thing. as a musician, i get equal access to the media and weather i am successful or not is entirely dependent on if i can actually make good music, and as a consumer i am just as likely to find a Britney Spears song as a I am to find some guy in his garage playing a musical saw.
If thats the definition for a religion then scientology definitely fits the bill.
I speak as a person who was raised by scientologists but has considered them to be one of the most evil institutions i have ever had contact with.
It's a shame because some of the ideas behind the "religion" are not bad. If the organization weren't hell-bent on bankrupting every member just so that you might have a chance at reaching spiritual enlightenment then it might be something i would subscribe to.
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Like the other day, i was interviewing for a job and i said, "Well you know i did all the coding for Amazon.com right? but you see i can't show any of it to you because of the non-disclosure agreement"
For some reason i still haven't gotten a call back...
or PHP or Java?
but seriously, probably spanish is the way to go if your living in the United States, as much as i hate to admit it
It is truely unfortunate, however, that we are stuck with this dilemma of having so many languages. What benefit is it to society for there to be 50 words that all mean the same thing? In my ridiculous utopian world we would all vote on a language and then all learn to speak it. Of course my vote would be for one of those click-pop languages from South Africa. I figure they would be the best for translating binary data
If the prosecutor has such a wide latitude of what to charge someone with, then why doesn't he choose something that actually makes sense?
Yes there are of course other circumstances here, the thing is the ruling here has wide implications that will affect other cases which do not necessarily have the same circumstances. This woman should clearly be punished, but not for the act of using a fake name. She should be punished because she influenced someone else to commit a crime (suicide is a criminal offense, i think) that's it. and even that is questionable.
Yes, a little known fact about all apple upgrades is the cool-aid that it comes with. Researchers and the FDA have yet to evaluate the constitution of this watery drink mix, but all who have drank it swear that its worth the price. But seriously guys, i'd love to try your new shiny computers, but you have to realize, that as a PC user, I can upgrade my system (as i just did) for about $200 (talking about a desktop here) in order for me to even consider using a mac i have to for over at lease six times as much just to get a base model. Sorry, but i need to pay my rent as well.
I totally agree
Internet Explorer is simply the best tool ever (for downloading Firefox) i wouldn't even think of using anything else
Wait... what was the question?
Ha! you think so? I read an article a while back about this guy who wrote an algorithm that writes romance novels so i figure one that paints masterpieces is just around the corner
Welcome Michelangelo version 2.0!
But don't worry, when the robots take over we'll all be made into slaves anyhow. Hows that for job security?
I'd be a hit at the next rave i can tell you that for sure!
I bow before your obvious superiority in WWII knowledge, I'm more into ancient history
The only comment i have is regarding your last line "The best way to help the Chinese become free, is to help them economically."
I totally agree... will not having the Olympics in China be a boon to their economy?
BTW, have a smoke dang it! never trust a quitter
probably true.
That does make me wonder however, if there is a connection at all between the '80 Olympics and the eventual fall of the Soviet Union
I do not assume that America is the "apogee of human civilization" but it is the place where i happen to live right now, and i like it.
And those who chose to live differently than me are welcome to do so, however we are more and more becoming a global society which means that we will all be competing directly for the same resources
The Chinese method is clearly more efficient than our own and they will undoubtedly win the global economic war which is currently being waged. One of our defenses against this is to try and make them more like us, show their people what they could have so that they may ask for more (and in turn make them less efficient, effectively leveling the playing field).
Time for a history lesson:
For hundreds of years (if not thousands) China has regarded itself as the center of the world, the further away you were from China, the more worthless you were. It was for these reasons that they would export far more than they would allow in. This was destructive to the economies of the rest of the world so in order to fight back we (the west) have always looked for ways to get our products/influence into china. the opium wars in the 1800's were a perfect example of this. It is China's own arrogance that makes us act the way the way that we do.
The west see's China as an invading army of merchants ready to undercut their prices to the point of running us out of business. It's only natural for us to fight against this.
What does this have to do with the Olympics? not sure, perhaps it will do as i said and make them desire our culture, or maybe it will just make them hate their own government by illustrating their opulant disregard for the public well-being. Anything which serves the purpose of reducing their isolation from the rest of the world is good in my book.
Ok so maybe i put it in simplistic terms, but i am not so nieve to believe that they will just "get all starry eyed" and fall in love with our culture. Nevertheless i still think its a good thing that these games are happening and here are my reasons
1: Yes you are correct there are bigger issues in the lives of most people in china, such as making a living, but should that be the case? isn't it true that it is our desire to want free time that we try to work less? perhaps these games will make them want the same thing as well.
2: Yes i'm sure the chinese don't like their government but they hate us even more. Why should they like us? for crying out loud we spent most of the past 200 years screwing them over, getting their country addicted to opium, standing back and doing nothing while japan raped and pillaged their country. I guess my thought here is that any kind of interaction with them that isn't of a destructive nature would have to be seen as better than what we have been doing, and that is a good thing.
And no, i don't think they are brainwashed at all, given the choice they would probably freely choose communism, and that is all well and fine with me, but it's not the way i chose to live
The thing that sucks about it is that with their system they will totally kill us in the world marketplace, what is better than having a bunch of workers that don't get paid much and don't ask for anything? Their are two ways to compete with them, either become like them, or make them more like us, I chose the latter, because i like my freedom.
It's not that the Olympics games themselves will actually lead to anything, it's that in order for them to take place China will have to expose itself to western culture in a way that it hasn't previously. Millions of people in China will see their first glimpse of the outside world through these games and that is what could lead to significant change in the country.
As Americans, we look at China and say "well why don't they want freedom?" The reality is that they don't even have a concept of what our type of freedom is, for them it's probably something to be feared because that's what they have been told. But the more that the people are exposed to the western world the more they may realize what it is that they are missing out on
i see this is my opportunity to put my crazy idea out there.
So i was noticing that you can by land out in the middle of nowhere for real cheap, the only problems: no water and no power. My idea solves both
first dig a well down to whatever underground water source there is (if there is any), then you get a series of magnifying glasses in an array around the opening to redirect their light down into the hole, boiling the water. the rest is obvious, put a few turbines in to generate electricity and collect the condensation for a clean water supply
Problem solved!
Thats what i heard, (but i couldn't remember the atomic number) I think this one is the one that allows for magical flying dragons though, I could be wrong
I realize your right of course, i'm just venting my anger because i was recently forced to switch to their horrible sucky cable service. Heck i'd invest in Satan himself if he promised a good return of investment.
Because he's a friggin police officer! last i heard, Time warner wasn't in charge of maintaining the peace or fighting crime, so even if he was the best dang police officer they ever dealt with i still wouldn't see a reason to hire him. This smells like a payoff to me. and i hope Time Warner goes down
Anyone who's not an idiot realises the lack of value with monster cables. and its a friggin RCA cord for god sakes, they're all pretty much the same. what a bunch of duchbags
Yeah the viewing angle thing would piss me off, I have never actually seen one of these but i take your word for it. I was mainly referring to the amount of colors it can display
I find this ironic because i just had an interview at the company that makes apples website. I had to make a test website, and one of the things i heard before making the site was that sometimes (especially with apple) they will want the layout to be "Pixel Perfect"
It's a good thing i didn't have one of those screens because it would have been impossible.
But in reality, who really cares? It's like when they were coming out with gold-plated cds with super-high fidelity yada yada, here we are 10 years later and we are all happy to listen to our relatively crappy mp3's. Just because the technology is better doesn't mean that it's more useful.
Sure it's about people downloading music for free, but guess what? thats what we are going to have to deal with. The internet is changing the business model for everyone. the open source movement for software (for instance) is the same idea. The fact is information is now free, period dot the end. whatever it is be it software, music , books, someone is going to figure out how to distribute it for free and the only way people will willingly pay for it is if they feel that the price is reasonable and they actually want to do it of their own will because they think its the right thing to do.
Personally i think it's a good thing. as a musician, i get equal access to the media and weather i am successful or not is entirely dependent on if i can actually make good music, and as a consumer i am just as likely to find a Britney Spears song as a I am to find some guy in his garage playing a musical saw.
If thats the definition for a religion then scientology definitely fits the bill. I speak as a person who was raised by scientologists but has considered them to be one of the most evil institutions i have ever had contact with. It's a shame because some of the ideas behind the "religion" are not bad. If the organization weren't hell-bent on bankrupting every member just so that you might have a chance at reaching spiritual enlightenment then it might be something i would subscribe to.