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Christianity provides, among other things, a valuable heuristic for maintaining a stable civilization. Many of the "smart" guys are busy inflicting various tragedies of the commons on the world around them and tearing down whatever is necessary in order for those individuals to climb to the top of the dung heap. In the meantime, a large percentage of the population continues on with the basic necessities of work, food, babies, and education that keep society running, using an ethical framework that has more-or-less worked for thousands of years.
Yes, there is an unfortunate religious nut fringe in the US, but using religion as an inverse intelligence marker is disingenuous. It suggests a very poor grasp of the subject.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty...
Recognize these words? Your words are significantly at odds with the high standards set forth at the founding of the United States of America. You should think about that for a bit.
If you're spending money at starbucks and investing in a 401k, then you are not at the bottom. Entitled comments like this show 100% why the wealthy -just don't get- the situation they're in. When people tell mattack2 that they are starving, his response is, "Let them eat cake!"
US stops trading with China and nets a bunch of crappy low-wage jobs making things the chinese currently make for cheap.
Price in US market for certain goods goes up because US has labor laws and minimum wage, which result in more expensive products. Consumers get poorer because they can no longer buy cheap plastic toys and baby food with lead additives.
Therefore US loses jobs? This does not follow. Your argument fails and you're trying to hide your BS logic in a wall of BS text. Are you running republican?
The "good guys" aren't the only ones who can file FOIA requests. If the database is government property, then if you pay the filing fee pretty much anyone is entitled to a copy.
All private aircraft owners and operators are exempt from most of the DHS security theater. If you've got your own plane, pretty much nobody cares if you bring a bomb on board. There are also airports that tend to be very lax regarding customs for small planes.
I should also note that using them as servants and cheap labour was a step -up- from their previous status (especially as they started gaining legal protections throughout the 18th century).
And during the early first century, which is the relevant point for my comment, children were considered infants until about 7 years of age, in large part due to high mortality up to that age. After that, they were betrothed, and at 12 likely to be either married off or apprenticed -- basically as soon as they hit puberty. (Modern children actually hit puberty earlier due to a combination of better diet and exposure to chemicals).
I had at least one professor, and possibly two, in the CS department who definitely seemed to think that teaching was the sort of job one held until one could find a real job.
I routinely pay my rent using cash, as I typically sub-let a room from a private party and don't use cheques. So every month I pull 500-750 in cash out of my account, and I've never had a teller bat an eye. You do have to actually walk into the bank to do that, though; the ATM's typically cap out at less than that.
Most mental illnesses ARE caused by someone's body producing a chemical imbalance. Take depression, for example. Nobody's going to argue that being suicidally depressed is normal behavior, and rather than give otherwise healthy people drugs to kill themselves with, we give them drugs to treat their depression by restoring the chemical balance in their brain.
The whole point of gender norms is that they are essential for the long-term health of the society to which they apply; it's ok if a small percent of people diverge from them, but as that percentage grows the host society starts to suffer for it.
It's not just the unborn, it's children in general. Much as people love to hate on Jesus, one of his revolutionary concepts was that children are sacred ("What you do to the least of these, you do to me"); prior to that, children were generally considered disposable because half of them weren't going to make it to adulthood anyhow.
I can't comment on the lib arts program, but having just graduated a CS program at CSUB, I can say that many of the teachers were from China and Russia, even in the crunchier departments like CS and physics. I suspect it is cheaper to hire communist professors who got their degree in the second world, and while many of these people are very competent in their chosen fields, they often have ideals that are at odds with what mainstream America would consider "normal".
Rather assign political commissars to make sure the classes are sufficiently American enough, I suggest the schools should simply shell out the extra 10k/year or whatever it is to hire Americans rather than H1B's.
Do you like to eat? I know I like to eat. Disregarding for a moment the cost of pseudo-food that provides calories and sugar substitutes(if that), the cost of food in this country has been steadily rising even as most other costs have stagnated or declined.
One big reason for that is that the US food production economy is predicated on paying illegal "migrant" workers for hard physical labor involved in food production. If you are a US citizen, you are probably too fat and weak, with insufficient stamina to meet the minimum physical requirements of the job. If you "build a wall" to keep these people out, that directly impacts your ability to buy groceries.
Sadly, they usually send half or more of this money to Mexico where it goes a lot further than it does in the US; then they keep the rest tax-free and let their wives and kids benefit from the US social systems because they "have no income."
TL;DR you couldn't be more wrong AC, and I hope you learn that someday before it's too late.
Since smiling at the camera distorts your features enough to fool facial recognition, if you smile at the camera, you might be a terrorist.
And since you're a terrorist, you will be held without trial at Guantanamo Federal, indefinitely. Just like the other terrorists that DHS can't prove are a threat. This is, unfortunately, still ongoing.
I'm a graduating college student with no experience in Cobol, although I am familiar with half a dozen other languages. Honestly, if some bank were to email me right now with a job to maintain and upgrade their 50-year-old cobol code I'd be up for the challenge.
Totally offtopic, Rockdoctor, but your sig has convinced me I ought to one day get a pet dinosaur. Do you know offhand which living family is closest to dromaeosauridae?
If you are right around the corner from a Tesla, the safest thing to do is cede it right of way, even if it's your turn to go. Especially if you are in a big-rig or truck.
Just on the offchance that you're asking in good faith, a drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle. The FAA is generally looking at regulating the larger ones (I don't recall offhand what the cutoff size is). If you make a paper airplane and chuck it over someone's fence, that's a drone but it's not big enough to interest the FAA. If you add a camera and a couple motors to your paper airplane it continues to be a drone. If you buy a $1500 quad-copter, that's also a drone and you may need to fill out paperwork with the FAA. If you take a standard 2-seater helicopter, and rig a robot pilot for it with no passengers, that is also a drone. I have no idea whether it's still a drone if a passenger gets in but I suspect it is.
Having a fiduciary duty to make a profit does not extend to or excuse a violation of law, or asking others to violate law. That's what you "fiduciary duty" people seem not to get; that duty does not supercede law, ethics or morality in any way.
Stop making excuses for the sociopaths making the world a worse place for your kids to live, and stop holding their actions up as a paradigm that you and everyone else should follow. Seriously. Just stop.
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Software engineer looking for work in Seattle. 4 year degree from CSU Bakersfield in computer information systems, 3 years of industry experience. Looking for competitive market rates. My email is the first seven letters of my user name at "gee" mail. Resume available on request.
Christianity provides, among other things, a valuable heuristic for maintaining a stable civilization. Many of the "smart" guys are busy inflicting various tragedies of the commons on the world around them and tearing down whatever is necessary in order for those individuals to climb to the top of the dung heap. In the meantime, a large percentage of the population continues on with the basic necessities of work, food, babies, and education that keep society running, using an ethical framework that has more-or-less worked for thousands of years.
Yes, there is an unfortunate religious nut fringe in the US, but using religion as an inverse intelligence marker is disingenuous. It suggests a very poor grasp of the subject.
He may or may not have done terrible things to cats, you don't really know until you open the box.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...
Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty...
Recognize these words? Your words are significantly at odds with the high standards set forth at the founding of the United States of America. You should think about that for a bit.
If you're spending money at starbucks and investing in a 401k, then you are not at the bottom. Entitled comments like this show 100% why the wealthy -just don't get- the situation they're in. When people tell mattack2 that they are starving, his response is, "Let them eat cake!"
Don't think your logic parses, Bluefox.
US stops trading with China and nets a bunch of crappy low-wage jobs making things the chinese currently make for cheap.
Price in US market for certain goods goes up because US has labor laws and minimum wage, which result in more expensive products. Consumers get poorer because they can no longer buy cheap plastic toys and baby food with lead additives.
Therefore US loses jobs? This does not follow. Your argument fails and you're trying to hide your BS logic in a wall of BS text. Are you running republican?
It's not shooting the squirrels that's hard, it's filtering all the false positives when your mom does the bury-the-nuts thing.
The "good guys" aren't the only ones who can file FOIA requests. If the database is government property, then if you pay the filing fee pretty much anyone is entitled to a copy.
All private aircraft owners and operators are exempt from most of the DHS security theater. If you've got your own plane, pretty much nobody cares if you bring a bomb on board. There are also airports that tend to be very lax regarding customs for small planes.
Going to have to call bullshit on your bullshit. Here's a wiki article for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I should also note that using them as servants and cheap labour was a step -up- from their previous status (especially as they started gaining legal protections throughout the 18th century).
Here's another article that goes into more depth: http://www.thefinertimes.com/M...
And during the early first century, which is the relevant point for my comment, children were considered infants until about 7 years of age, in large part due to high mortality up to that age. After that, they were betrothed, and at 12 likely to be either married off or apprenticed -- basically as soon as they hit puberty. (Modern children actually hit puberty earlier due to a combination of better diet and exposure to chemicals).
And here's a scholarly treatise for you: http://www.academia.edu/100468...
Finally, just because some figure thinks up a significant idea, that doesn't mean that idea will be adopted right away...or ever.
Enjoy!
I had at least one professor, and possibly two, in the CS department who definitely seemed to think that teaching was the sort of job one held until one could find a real job.
I routinely pay my rent using cash, as I typically sub-let a room from a private party and don't use cheques. So every month I pull 500-750 in cash out of my account, and I've never had a teller bat an eye. You do have to actually walk into the bank to do that, though; the ATM's typically cap out at less than that.
Most mental illnesses ARE caused by someone's body producing a chemical imbalance. Take depression, for example. Nobody's going to argue that being suicidally depressed is normal behavior, and rather than give otherwise healthy people drugs to kill themselves with, we give them drugs to treat their depression by restoring the chemical balance in their brain.
The whole point of gender norms is that they are essential for the long-term health of the society to which they apply; it's ok if a small percent of people diverge from them, but as that percentage grows the host society starts to suffer for it.
That's only true if you think Jesus was white and God was a he. Spoiler alert: Jesus probably looked just like a Muslim imam.
It's not just the unborn, it's children in general. Much as people love to hate on Jesus, one of his revolutionary concepts was that children are sacred ("What you do to the least of these, you do to me"); prior to that, children were generally considered disposable because half of them weren't going to make it to adulthood anyhow.
I can't comment on the lib arts program, but having just graduated a CS program at CSUB, I can say that many of the teachers were from China and Russia, even in the crunchier departments like CS and physics. I suspect it is cheaper to hire communist professors who got their degree in the second world, and while many of these people are very competent in their chosen fields, they often have ideals that are at odds with what mainstream America would consider "normal".
Rather assign political commissars to make sure the classes are sufficiently American enough, I suggest the schools should simply shell out the extra 10k/year or whatever it is to hire Americans rather than H1B's.
He's practicing for the trip to Mars. He can prove he's got extensive experience at the most important part of the job.
Do you like to eat? I know I like to eat. Disregarding for a moment the cost of pseudo-food that provides calories and sugar substitutes(if that), the cost of food in this country has been steadily rising even as most other costs have stagnated or declined. One big reason for that is that the US food production economy is predicated on paying illegal "migrant" workers for hard physical labor involved in food production. If you are a US citizen, you are probably too fat and weak, with insufficient stamina to meet the minimum physical requirements of the job. If you "build a wall" to keep these people out, that directly impacts your ability to buy groceries. Sadly, they usually send half or more of this money to Mexico where it goes a lot further than it does in the US; then they keep the rest tax-free and let their wives and kids benefit from the US social systems because they "have no income." TL;DR you couldn't be more wrong AC, and I hope you learn that someday before it's too late.
Since smiling at the camera distorts your features enough to fool facial recognition, if you smile at the camera, you might be a terrorist. And since you're a terrorist, you will be held without trial at Guantanamo Federal, indefinitely. Just like the other terrorists that DHS can't prove are a threat. This is, unfortunately, still ongoing.
If you know anyone who is actually hiring, I am looking for a job. Point me at em and I'll send them my resume.
I'm a graduating college student with no experience in Cobol, although I am familiar with half a dozen other languages. Honestly, if some bank were to email me right now with a job to maintain and upgrade their 50-year-old cobol code I'd be up for the challenge.
Totally offtopic, Rockdoctor, but your sig has convinced me I ought to one day get a pet dinosaur. Do you know offhand which living family is closest to dromaeosauridae?
If you are right around the corner from a Tesla, the safest thing to do is cede it right of way, even if it's your turn to go. Especially if you are in a big-rig or truck.
Just on the offchance that you're asking in good faith, a drone is an unmanned aerial vehicle. The FAA is generally looking at regulating the larger ones (I don't recall offhand what the cutoff size is). If you make a paper airplane and chuck it over someone's fence, that's a drone but it's not big enough to interest the FAA. If you add a camera and a couple motors to your paper airplane it continues to be a drone. If you buy a $1500 quad-copter, that's also a drone and you may need to fill out paperwork with the FAA. If you take a standard 2-seater helicopter, and rig a robot pilot for it with no passengers, that is also a drone. I have no idea whether it's still a drone if a passenger gets in but I suspect it is.
Hope that helps.
Having a fiduciary duty to make a profit does not extend to or excuse a violation of law, or asking others to violate law. That's what you "fiduciary duty" people seem not to get; that duty does not supercede law, ethics or morality in any way. Stop making excuses for the sociopaths making the world a worse place for your kids to live, and stop holding their actions up as a paradigm that you and everyone else should follow. Seriously. Just stop.