"In what way are they accountable? If you don't like a TSA officer, what can you do? NOTHING."
Wow, you have really gone overboard. Actually you can do a lot.
"I'm not sure in what fantasy you think government workers are less touchable but I hope I at least disabused any readers from believing you." I"m a government worker. 25 years private sector, 6 years Government.
Government is far more accountable, and efficient.
YOU need to wake up to the fact he wants to turn everything over to unregulated corporations.
Do we need a 3rd party? yes. heel a 4th and 5th party! That does not me we should blindly jump on board anyone who shows up as 3rd party. Since you are ignorant of who donate money to them, I don't think it's not too far of a stretch to say you are blindly jumping on his bandwagon simply because it's a new band wagon.
The question is: Have you rapped yourself so emotionally into the Paul's that you won't change your view in light of the new evidence?
"Rand Paul is fighting a good fight. " If by 'Good fight' you mean turn everything over to unregulated corporation that the people have no recourse against.
And if that is your idea of liberty, I suggest you read up on robber barons, and conditions as we moved in o the industrialized age.
Hello. UI have had a great software engineering career. I also like to sit on the sofa playing D&D and eat dorrito's.
Not that I eat dorritos anymore, I'm getting too old.
" If I'm going to spend hours doing anything it had better yield some results. And by results I don't mean blowing up the bad guy with a plasma ray." too bad, thats the best kind of results.
Of course, you are lying. Otherwise you wouldn't post to Slashdot. OTOH, you are an ERP consultant;which are lying plagues upon the IT industry.
Also, it's fallacious to think there are no results from playing computer games. I have friends from around the world, I have had good times with my kids. I have seen sing voice during games has improved my sons speech dramatically.
"You don't need a science degree to be a good designer." I won't say degree, but they need to be well versed in science.
Understanding w=how what you use and design works always helps.
It's like a painter who doesn't bother to understand paint. Sure then could create something, but it will be miuch more richer and diverse if the understand the properties of paint.
Understand the physics and science allows one to design practical and beautiful things.
The world is full of pretty design with no functionality or practicality.
" background in design/user experience." If they study HMI as a field of study, then yes. I have see designed, with years of experience, make useless interface. Simple horrid because they only and some vague perception of how people use computer.
Technology is a stupid word to us ein this context. You know what else involves technology? building road, cooking, service industry.. Everything use 'technology'.
Everyone person i Know, without exception, who know what they wanted to be as a teen is very, very successful at what they chose.
So I advise teens to decide now. Even if they change latter, at least they had a goal as opposed to over analyzing every possible thing and doing nothing.
They love what technology can do, but they have no clue how it works. They're not tech-savvy. They're tech-dependent.
which can e said about anything.
They love what cars can do, but they have no clue how they works. They're not car-savvy. They're car-dependent.
They love what stores can do, but they have no clue how it works. They're not hunter gatherer-savvy. They're store-dependent.
Welcome to how things work. The people who are interested in computers are still interested in computer. And now with so many people wanting apps, that person can make money in a much wider field then, say, 20 years ago.
IN 4th grade('72) we did do simple programming either, yet I have a lucrative career in IT.
By you assertion we wouldn't have any computers because no 4th grader had basic programming until the 90's
"but are rarely presented with the opportunity to understand how Action A leads to Result B." my kids are going through school, and I find that statement to be ridiculously false.
""If you think playing endless hours of Dungeons & Dragons will create a desire to get into the information technology, " Who the fuck ever thought that?
"The free market would have done a much better job." demonstrably false. The US is behind in this are because we removed federal funding for this research. The free market did not step up.
No, the can't. There is exactly no potential that the will become human.
The are the discarded remnants from in vitro fertilization. But due to willful ignorance, and the arrogance to shove that ignorance down everyone's throat, federal funding in the US was cut. Undermining one of the potential biggest medical innovation of all time as well as putting the US innovators 10 years behind.
Please, that model is severely flawed. Plus they show a lack of understanding of the movies they are using for their standard model. And of course using a move where anyone who dies becomes a Zombie regardless off the reason the death is lame.
Not a lame as using any weak ass excuse to talk about zombies, but lame non the less.
Slashdot Mirror
as opposed to 'Making shit up' AC
IRS court as establish procedures, and you have recourse. It's also more efficient. Read up on their budget and project reports.
The solution to 'Bad TSA policy' is not 'No TSA', it's 'Good TSA policy'.
No it is not. It will take you 10s of thousands of dollars and years .
Even easier
Drop the pressure in the passenger area. When the pass out, throw them out of the plane.
Because it would fail. It's just another side of the Libertarian ignorant coin.
IN almost every case. pritizing functions of the government has cause costs to go up, and efficiency to go down.
The government isn't dysfunctional. For the vast amount of projects you never hear about because they are on time, and on budget.
Now the politics have become more and more polorized.
Becasue the TSA actuaklly provides usefull service.
Yes, they have gone overboard. Yes there are some important issues.
The fact of the matter is they do provide a level or protection and determent.
Pre 9/11 TSA with Dogs would be fine.
"In what way are they accountable? If you don't like a TSA officer, what can you do? NOTHING."
Wow, you have really gone overboard. Actually you can do a lot.
"I'm not sure in what fantasy you think government workers are less touchable but I hope I at least disabused any readers from believing you."
I"m a government worker.
25 years private sector, 6 years Government.
Government is far more accountable, and efficient.
Top 5 Contributors, 2007-2012, Campaign Cmte
Alliance Resource Partners
$40,650
Koch Industries
$17,000
Mason Capital Management
$16,800
Murray Energy
$14,613
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Even more:
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YOU need to wake up to the fact he wants to turn everything over to unregulated corporations.
Do we need a 3rd party? yes. heel a 4th and 5th party!
That does not me we should blindly jump on board anyone who shows up as 3rd party. Since you are ignorant of who donate money to them, I don't think it's not too far of a stretch to say you are blindly jumping on his bandwagon simply because it's a new band wagon.
The question is: Have you rapped yourself so emotionally into the Paul's that you won't change your view in light of the new evidence?
"Rand Paul is fighting a good fight. "
If by 'Good fight' you mean turn everything over to unregulated corporation that the people have no recourse against.
And if that is your idea of liberty, I suggest you read up on robber barons, and conditions as we moved in o the industrialized age.
it's will be a lot more expensive, and people won't have any recourse against abuse short of spending 10's of thousand of dollars on a lawyer.
Which you won't be able to do if he gets his tort change pushed through.
Hello.
UI have had a great software engineering career. I also like to sit on the sofa playing D&D and eat dorrito's.
Not that I eat dorritos anymore, I'm getting too old.
" If I'm going to spend hours doing anything it had better yield some results. And by results I don't mean blowing up the bad guy with a plasma ray."
too bad, thats the best kind of results.
Of course, you are lying. Otherwise you wouldn't post to Slashdot. OTOH, you are an ERP consultant;which are lying plagues upon the IT industry.
Also, it's fallacious to think there are no results from playing computer games.
I have friends from around the world, I have had good times with my kids. I have seen sing voice during games has improved my sons speech dramatically.
So it's false to say there are no results.
"You don't need a science degree to be a good designer."
I won't say degree, but they need to be well versed in science.
Understanding w=how what you use and design works always helps.
It's like a painter who doesn't bother to understand paint. Sure then could create something, but it will be miuch more richer and diverse if the understand the properties of paint.
Understand the physics and science allows one to design practical and beautiful things.
The world is full of pretty design with no functionality or practicality.
" background in design/user experience."
If they study HMI as a field of study, then yes. I have see designed, with years of experience, make useless interface. Simple horrid because they only and some vague perception of how people use computer.
Technology is a stupid word to us ein this context.
You know what else involves technology? building road, cooking, service industry.. Everything use 'technology'.
Everyone person i Know, without exception, who know what they wanted to be as a teen is very, very successful at what they chose.
So I advise teens to decide now. Even if they change latter, at least they had a goal as opposed to over analyzing every possible thing and doing nothing.
They love what technology can do, but they have no clue how it works. They're not tech-savvy. They're tech-dependent.
which can e said about anything.
They love what cars can do, but they have no clue how they works. They're not car-savvy. They're car-dependent.
They love what stores can do, but they have no clue how it works. They're not hunter gatherer-savvy. They're store-dependent.
Welcome to how things work. The people who are interested in computers are still interested in computer. And now with so many people wanting apps, that person can make money in a much wider field then, say, 20 years ago.
IN 4th grade('72) we did do simple programming either, yet I have a lucrative career in IT.
By you assertion we wouldn't have any computers because no 4th grader had basic programming until the 90's
"but are rarely presented with the opportunity to understand how Action A leads to Result B."
my kids are going through school, and I find that statement to be ridiculously false.
""If you think playing endless hours of Dungeons & Dragons will create a desire to get into the information technology, "
Who the fuck ever thought that?
"The free market would have done a much better job."
demonstrably false. The US is behind in this are because we removed federal funding for this research. The free market did not step up.
No, the can't. There is exactly no potential that the will become human.
The are the discarded remnants from in vitro fertilization.
But due to willful ignorance, and the arrogance to shove that ignorance down everyone's throat, federal funding in the US was cut. Undermining one of the potential biggest medical innovation of all time as well as putting the US innovators 10 years behind.
You think small.
I want two hearts of a lion. One in my chest, the other hidden somewhere.
Then there will be ranchers who make money slaughtering the animal to recover the vein as well as sell the meat.
However, I think it would be more likely that Pigs would be genetically altered to have the correct kind of vein.
Eventually the protein structure will just be grown or printed on demand
Please, that model is severely flawed. Plus they show a lack of understanding of the movies they are using for their standard model.
And of course using a move where anyone who dies becomes a Zombie regardless off the reason the death is lame.
Not a lame as using any weak ass excuse to talk about zombies, but lame non the less.
Tell me, What is a 'bioweapon'? IS maintaining strains so you can develop treatments creating a bioweapon?