Any "island of stability" super-heavy elements would find novel uses in chemistry (the very high distance of the outer valences from the neucleus would most probably make them very electropositive, though the potential for "very very inert" super-heavy elements also exists, which would make them useful in other ways.) The intense mass energy in them would make for some interesting experiments involving neutron capture and proton exposure. Depending on the behavior of the isotope in question, it could make a very useful radiation shielding material.
Assuming of course, such island of stability isotopes exist outside of bizzare cases where gravity holds them together. (Like neutron stars)
Then again, you can't beat the novelty of a 100kg weight the size of a golfball sitting on your desk either.:D
A formula is more useful, given the innate variability with paint.
The thickness of the film varies between brands and types of paint, so the coverage in square meters/liter will be variable.
A formula that incorporates these variables, and how many coats you need for the desired effect will tell you *exactly* how much paint you need, regardless of paint type, as long as you plug in the values.
Contrary to your opinion, algebra can save you a considerable amount of time finding such answers, and save you money in terms of wasted gas driving to and from the hardware store, and in cans of unused mixed paint.
Likewise, you can use it to determine how many 2x4s you will need to build that deck, and how many nails it will take. How many cans of water sealer you will need. A whole host of things.
Or, you could just be a troll, plug your ears and go "nuh uh! You iz dumbz if you use algebra for that! Derp!" Like you are now. Let me know how that turns out for you whe you need to build something.
The understanding of the simple physics of simple machines would benefit greatly from basic algebra.
Eg, calculating torque to RPM change over an arbitrary gear ratio, or how much energy is needed to push a 1kg weight with a 1 meter lever.
Granted, these would only ever be interesting or useful to people who like to build things, but I can't begin to state how grateful I am to have been exposed to algebra.
I agree though, the typical scenarios created to sell algebra textbooks (rather, the problems shown in said books) are horrible, unnantural contrivances.
For some things, like "i", (sqrt of -1), I still haven't found a useful application outside of complex physics and formal mathematical proofs. It's a very unintuitive concept. Sure, if you want to calculate the mass of a tachyon its a fun thing, but seriously....
But simple algebra? If nothing else, it helps you disassociate your values, and see the raw algorithm. The numbers can change, but what gets done to them does not. That is a very useful piece of learning.
The reall issue here is not "math is hard yo, and nones o' dis shit gonna get used nohow teach." But rather "all students need to be treated the same."
Not all students are the same. How you teach students shouldn't be cookie cutter. Some would take to algebra like ducks to water. Denying them that is a crime against mankind. Others would rather perform a self-clitorectomy with broken glass. Forcing them to endure is also unreasonable.
As a cultue, we are so afraid of segregating our children's education, because some of us feel threatened by the percieved successes of others. (Not enough that I succeed, others must fail.) Rather than own up to our owm mediocrities, we denounce them, and enforce a fiction that causes real pathologies.
Redhat and mandrake waaaay back in the day. Decided linux just wasn't mature enough as a desktop OS. (When it required a kernel recompile to add support for genuine soundblaster hardware, and accellerated support for ati video, I decided it wasn't for me.)
Lately, Ubuntu and Debian. Ubuntu was better before switching to unity. Its a bloated, unnecessarily overworked (but glitter encrusted) turd of a UI. I prefer gnome classic over unity any day.
The removal of the need to recompile the kernel just to add a network card, or change the video card in modern linuxes is a real boon, but linux still has issues with driver support. I understand the lack of financial resources, and lack of seriousness concerning support from OEMs, but still.. walking into a store and picking a wifi card/dongle that will work without fiddling is a real crapshoot. You have to preemptively enter the store with a hrdware whitelist if you want ease of installation and use under linux.
It has gotten a lot better tha it was in the 90s, but desktop linux still has growing to do.
At least the industry leaders have stopped innovating on user experience, and instead have started implementing obtrusive crap like HDCP playback for media interests. The more they focus their efforts on public bads, the more time linux has to mature while they sleep.
Computers should do what their users want them to do. Not bend over backward to frustrate the user with use restrictions. As long as linux focuses on goods and not bads, it's a clear tortoise and hare situation.
Break the library cache into several sections. In the first section, make a single literary work, in every world language. (We wouldn't be able to read ancient egyptian without the rossetta stone.) Do this using the "image in crystal" colimated laser etching technique. (See for instance, this image of the eifel tower.) do this with a.5in thick "slab" of crystal. This is exhibit #1 in the cache. It is intended to help future historians form a base of translation for the language used in the archive cache's texts.
Exhibit #2 uses the base language used for the cache to describe and depict the tools needed to extract the digital data from the main archives, stored in exhibit #3. These are etched using the same technique. Personal notes for the historians to read should go in this exhibit as well.
Exhibit #3 contains the rank and file of digital data encoded clear crystal slabs, carefully packed in a geologically stable, inert substance. Like say, powdered talc. This will protect the archive from shatter based damage.
If the future historians can't figure it out from that, there isn't much else you can do for them.
No. You would have to exterminate *all* life on the planet to comply with such a law. Microbes copy themselves like clockwork. The dna in living things goes through a rythmic dance as cells divide, being copied as it goes...
No, to fully enforce such a law, the earth will have to be made to resemble venus or mars. No living things, not even microbes, could be allowed to remain.
In this case, it would be more, "areas with high solar absorption emit more local IR light, creating lots of small updraft high pressure cells. When the front moves in, it goes *around* the cells, whenever possible."
You can FEEL the IR being re-emitted from a dry field of wheat or corn. It's sufficient that you can feel 'bumps' in small fixed wing craft flying over dry fields, as you enter and leave these local cells.
Are you sure? Last I heard the RIAA was simply pocketing the money, and using it to fuel lawsuits. As far as I know, the actual artists get dick. Raw dick. Up the ass.
*gets asbestos suit on, affixes thermally resistant aluminum tape hat*
By that reasoning, it could be stated "I don't feel sorry for 'civilians' working for the financial entities behind the abuses in our country"
Just thought I should point that out. The twin tower destruction plan was a strategic one, as well as a terrorist attack. Bin Laden may have been an assfuck, but he wasn't a completely stupid one. He chose the trade center because it was a symbol of american led international business activity; something he directly associated with the continuing problems he saw in his part of the world.
The (suspected) muslims in this thead are right: the problem is the US's insatiable desire to control foriegn markets to hold up a faulted domestic business model. That model? "Cheap energy and heavy consumerism are A-OK, and need to continue forever, no matter what the price."
Want to see the hate in the middle east dry up? Multilateral withdrawl of all financial and military interests in the middle east by *all* western powers.
They will exhaust their resources, and poof... dry up and blow away.
The US won't get as many terrorists, we won't have to keep killing brown people, and things will be way better politically.
Oh, but then it would cost you 10$/gal to fill your hummer?
If summer dryness (drought) continues to be a recurring theme (a la, climate change), then switching to a different crop on a different growing season could alleviate problems, but not for this year. You can't feed animals IOUs.
My sister and I are planning a winter buckwheat graze crop for her goats, followed by tillage, and a second planting as an eary spring crop.
Grain prices should be out of control by then though. I would expect surplus elmer's glue, and various other animal products in the near term as growers and owners liquidate and tighten belts, followed by extreme price premiums from supply scarcities.
Seed grain next year will be expensive. I'd suggest getting it now while you can.
(Caveat, I live right next to drought stricken corn fields)
The problem with the drought, is three-fold, and soil dryness is only one of them.
1) soil dryness. Irrigation helps in mild drought conditions to alleviate this.
2) prolonged air and soil dryness changes the specific heat of the air and soil. This causes normal solar isolescence to stop being gently warming and beneficial, to being glaring, and root scorching. Hot, dry soil and hot, dry air wither the corn crop even under CONTINOUOUS irrigation.
3) the change in ambient temperatures associated with droughts causes localized fronts to form over agricultural areas, which discourages rain. Even if it does rain in the upper atmosphere, it can completely evaporate before hitting the ground. In addition to that, the cells themselves actively diminish conditions required for rainfall.
Even blasting the ground 24/7 in the most horrible, water-table depleting fashion imaginable would not have saved this year's corn crop.
The point in contention was "political activism that makes persistent movements", vs political activism that gets together, drink, agues, and passes out on the floor every week.
Alcohol for some would allow them momentary repreive from the oppressive reality they would otherwise find sufficietly insufferable as to seek reformations and changes.
There are only 2 datapoints I directly can observe, which is woefully insufficient. I would love to see additional points of data on this subject matter.
But, I strongly suspect that there is a correlation between the availability of inexpensive mood altering substances, like alcohol, and the amount of bullshit that the average working person will be willing to endure.
Look at the prohibition era in the US; crime and criminality were rampant, and so was outright civil disobedience. Activism by juries in courtrooms were at stellar highs.
Now, we have "the cheapest beer in the world" (pun intended), and our citizenry is reluctant to raise a finger against even clearly horrendous civil liberty violations, like the recent "indefinate detainment" legislation.
I would like to see research comparing effective availability of alcohol and other drugs with the rates of political activism.
Since this is for LEATHER, and not for food or medical use, I could easily see this scaling to a very large scale.
Think of it in these terms:
You take a skin sample from a cow. You chemically alter the living cells, so that they become "HeLa-Like" basal cell carcinoma. Puree, add to vegetable based growth medium, heat gently, and stir continuously. Inject the cell "paste" into an injection mold, pretreated with some additional synthetic hormones. Wait 7 days Decant, steam, cut, and tan.
Without question. When planning a network you need answers to lots of questions that your bosses don't want to/simply cannot answer, like "how many users will be on this segment, and what will they be doing?", combined with the thought of "how many users will be added within the next 10 years, and how will their use case change over that time?"
Usually, you get an answer along the lines of "I dunno" at best and "that's what I hired you for" at worst.
This is what leads to quite a few incorrect assumptions during topology planning that come back to haunt you in horrible, horrible ways down the line, and cause many generations of incumbant administrators to curse you with their dying breaths.
I am not in any way deriding that level of difficulty. Merely pointing out that such difficlty is far greater than "click the bolded B icon to turn on bold."
Subnet planning, collision domain planning, and building topology planning are considerably more technical.
... I *was* a kid at the time. That was the point. This was close to 20 years ago, in the 90s. I don't list them, especially now.
I no longer work in any IT related disciplines, I am a CAD draftsman. It ca be dull and drudgery at times, but that is true of any job. Not having to answer questions because "you're a computer guy, right?" Is well worth it, as is the radically reduced levels of stress.
It would be nonsense to claim those certs on a resume.
It wasn't nonsense to claim them when I was 18. For the submitter, who has been in the industry previously, A+, Network+, and CCNA would be wastes of money and time as well, since vocationally he should have become proficient already, and the cert means nothing. They however, less rediculous than the MS office requirement, for exactly the same reasons. Expecting somebody that has likely *already* been supporting office users vocationally to take an intro to office class is not just silly, it is minbogglingly mindshatteringly silly.
I believe that was the submitter's point, in addition to the obvious that computers are not glorified typewriters.
Yes, it is less intense than a 4 year CS or Math degree, where you learn things like mathematical theory, and get exposed to much more advanced problems.
Submitter specifically mentioned an associate degree. I took classes in said associate degree not because I wanted the degree, but because I was interested in the cert training. (The school offered discounted cert testing as part of the course.)
The point was that those benchwarmer classes were leaps and bounds moe "technical" than "how to change the font to bold in MS Word."
Specifically, that AS degree was for a computer support role. That's why the intro to computing was more "wordprocessing", and less "computational theory", which would have been more sensible. (You know, things like "introduction to turing machines", and things like the difference between harvard and von-neuman architectures.)
I am pretty sure it was more on topic than your shit smearing attempt. --no offense intended.
When I was taking courses for my associate degree for information technology, I had to take a similar bullshit course for MS Orifice.. er.. Office.
I asked several of the school administrators why such a clearly nonsense class was required for (what at the time) was a fairly hard-core curriculum featuring CISCO CCNA certification training, A+&Network+ cert training, Novell Netware cert training, Database Programming, and general programming courseware.
The answer, was that they had been pressured into it, because of requirements for in-house tech staff to be more than just proficient with MS's offerings, but be sufficiently fluent in the packages that they can provide quick and rapid responces to support questions from less technical office workers.
Essentially, they need/want you to be able to "help" the vacuous "office marys" out there tha can't quite remember how to use the mail/merge feature, despite using it EVERY SINGLE DAY.
(Compare, that would be like a programmer not remembering how to use a macro, or how to call a library, THAT THEY WROTE, and use every day-- and need a programming specialist to help them debug their output... because of their abysmal level of incompetence.)
Really, in that light, the requirement to have MS's office suite s an intro level class makes sense, in a horrible and twisted way.
More sense would be to have a competency test for office workers, but that would exclude a considerable number of office staff that are employed due to nepotism. Instead, and expensive support network is required to ensure that such employees are halfass productive.
OWS was also the subject of a fairly successful smear campaign to malign the protestors as a bunch of lazy whiners, who wanted free stuff, as opposed to angry and disenfranchised people demanding culpability of the persons responsible for the financial meltdown.
There were quite a few people frm both sides of the political spectrum in OWS, which the media capitalized on. The leftwing focused more on the social aspects, and the rightwing focused more on the financial. This was presented by the media as a heterogenous group without specific charges, who were protesting nebulously. The effectiveness of this slanted coverage is evident by the language used elsewhere in this thread.
It could fall under the second part of the slogan: "news that matters."
Deteriorating political conditions in and between Russia and the rest of the world, as Russia makes the dive deeper back down the rabbithole of communist dictatorial govt and secrecy, can have far-reaching implications internationally.
Take for instance, the "strained" relations between Russia and the USA, concerning the strategic missile installations being installed in the middle eastern puppet states. A fully dictator led Russia under Putin could herald a return to cold-war aggression between the USA and Russia.
We narrowly escaped nuclear armagheddon last time, because the USA was more financially prosperous, and won by attrition.
Seen the state of USA's financial prosperity lately? I wouldn't bet on that outcome for part II.
"We want change!" "What do you want?" "We want resolution on $Economic/Regional_Issue!"
Where $Economic/Regional_Issue is a hugely disparate, often contradictory laundry list of intractible demands.
Things like "no more bailouts!" And "bail out student loans!"
The problem was that the OWS crowd could not agree on much beyond "the status quo is unacceptable!". As such, they could not *agree* on a short list. The overall demands from all the actors in the protests were untenable.
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Any "island of stability" super-heavy elements would find novel uses in chemistry (the very high distance of the outer valences from the neucleus would most probably make them very electropositive, though the potential for "very very inert" super-heavy elements also exists, which would make them useful in other ways.) The intense mass energy in them would make for some interesting experiments involving neutron capture and proton exposure. Depending on the behavior of the isotope in question, it could make a very useful radiation shielding material.
Assuming of course, such island of stability isotopes exist outside of bizzare cases where gravity holds them together. (Like neutron stars)
Then again, you can't beat the novelty of a 100kg weight the size of a golfball sitting on your desk either. :D
A formula is more useful, given the innate variability with paint.
The thickness of the film varies between brands and types of paint, so the coverage in square meters/liter will be variable.
A formula that incorporates these variables, and how many coats you need for the desired effect will tell you *exactly* how much paint you need, regardless of paint type, as long as you plug in the values.
Contrary to your opinion, algebra can save you a considerable amount of time finding such answers, and save you money in terms of wasted gas driving to and from the hardware store, and in cans of unused mixed paint.
Likewise, you can use it to determine how many 2x4s you will need to build that deck, and how many nails it will take. How many cans of water sealer you will need. A whole host of things.
Or, you could just be a troll, plug your ears and go "nuh uh! You iz dumbz if you use algebra for that! Derp!" Like you are now. Let me know how that turns out for you whe you need to build something.
The understanding of the simple physics of simple machines would benefit greatly from basic algebra.
Eg, calculating torque to RPM change over an arbitrary gear ratio, or how much energy is needed to push a 1kg weight with a 1 meter lever.
Granted, these would only ever be interesting or useful to people who like to build things, but I can't begin to state how grateful I am to have been exposed to algebra.
I agree though, the typical scenarios created to sell algebra textbooks (rather, the problems shown in said books) are horrible, unnantural contrivances.
For some things, like "i", (sqrt of -1), I still haven't found a useful application outside of complex physics and formal mathematical proofs. It's a very unintuitive concept. Sure, if you want to calculate the mass of a tachyon its a fun thing, but seriously....
But simple algebra? If nothing else, it helps you disassociate your values, and see the raw algorithm. The numbers can change, but what gets done to them does not. That is a very useful piece of learning.
The reall issue here is not "math is hard yo, and nones o' dis shit gonna get used nohow teach." But rather "all students need to be treated the same."
Not all students are the same. How you teach students shouldn't be cookie cutter. Some would take to algebra like ducks to water. Denying them that is a crime against mankind. Others would rather perform a self-clitorectomy with broken glass. Forcing them to endure is also unreasonable.
As a cultue, we are so afraid of segregating our children's education, because some of us feel threatened by the percieved successes of others. (Not enough that I succeed, others must fail.) Rather than own up to our owm mediocrities, we denounce them, and enforce a fiction that causes real pathologies.
This is one of them.
Aside from the obvious ones in engineering, where few kids will participate...
There is the issue of "how much paint will I need to paint my house?"
Doing the math will save you money.
Redhat and mandrake waaaay back in the day. Decided linux just wasn't mature enough as a desktop OS. (When it required a kernel recompile to add support for genuine soundblaster hardware, and accellerated support for ati video, I decided it wasn't for me.)
Lately, Ubuntu and Debian. Ubuntu was better before switching to unity. Its a bloated, unnecessarily overworked (but glitter encrusted) turd of a UI. I prefer gnome classic over unity any day.
The removal of the need to recompile the kernel just to add a network card, or change the video card in modern linuxes is a real boon, but linux still has issues with driver support. I understand the lack of financial resources, and lack of seriousness concerning support from OEMs, but still.. walking into a store and picking a wifi card/dongle that will work without fiddling is a real crapshoot. You have to preemptively enter the store with a hrdware whitelist if you want ease of installation and use under linux.
It has gotten a lot better tha it was in the 90s, but desktop linux still has growing to do.
At least the industry leaders have stopped innovating on user experience, and instead have started implementing obtrusive crap like HDCP playback for media interests. The more they focus their efforts on public bads, the more time linux has to mature while they sleep.
Computers should do what their users want them to do. Not bend over backward to frustrate the user with use restrictions. As long as linux focuses on goods and not bads, it's a clear tortoise and hare situation.
This is easily accomplished.
Break the library cache into several sections. .5in thick "slab" of crystal. This is exhibit #1 in the cache. It is intended to help future historians form a base of translation for the language used in the archive cache's texts.
In the first section, make a single literary work, in every world language. (We wouldn't be able to read ancient egyptian without the rossetta stone.) Do this using the "image in crystal" colimated laser etching technique. (See for instance, this image of the eifel tower.) do this with a
Exhibit #2 uses the base language used for the cache to describe and depict the tools needed to extract the digital data from the main archives, stored in exhibit #3. These are etched using the same technique. Personal notes for the historians to read should go in this exhibit as well.
Exhibit #3 contains the rank and file of digital data encoded clear crystal slabs, carefully packed in a geologically stable, inert substance. Like say, powdered talc. This will protect the archive from shatter based damage.
If the future historians can't figure it out from that, there isn't much else you can do for them.
No. You would have to exterminate *all* life on the planet to comply with such a law. Microbes copy themselves like clockwork. The dna in living things goes through a rythmic dance as cells divide, being copied as it goes...
No, to fully enforce such a law, the earth will have to be made to resemble venus or mars. No living things, not even microbes, could be allowed to remain.
In this case, it would be more, "areas with high solar absorption emit more local IR light, creating lots of small updraft high pressure cells. When the front moves in, it goes *around* the cells, whenever possible."
You can FEEL the IR being re-emitted from a dry field of wheat or corn. It's sufficient that you can feel 'bumps' in small fixed wing craft flying over dry fields, as you enter and leave these local cells.
The rain doesn't follow the plow. It avoids it.
Can't somebody just firebomb the HQs of these asshats? This sort of shit is getting into the "gonna create domestic terrorists" arena.
Seriously. Over collections of 3 to 6mb files?
At RIAA prices, how many dollars per electron is that?
Are you sure? Last I heard the RIAA was simply pocketing the money, and using it to fuel lawsuits. As far as I know, the actual artists get dick. Raw dick. Up the ass.
*gets asbestos suit on, affixes thermally resistant aluminum tape hat*
By that reasoning, it could be stated "I don't feel sorry for 'civilians' working for the financial entities behind the abuses in our country"
Just thought I should point that out. The twin tower destruction plan was a strategic one, as well as a terrorist attack. Bin Laden may have been an assfuck, but he wasn't a completely stupid one. He chose the trade center because it was a symbol of american led international business activity; something he directly associated with the continuing problems he saw in his part of the world.
The (suspected) muslims in this thead are right: the problem is the US's insatiable desire to control foriegn markets to hold up a faulted domestic business model. That model? "Cheap energy and heavy consumerism are A-OK, and need to continue forever, no matter what the price."
Want to see the hate in the middle east dry up? Multilateral withdrawl of all financial and military interests in the middle east by *all* western powers.
They will exhaust their resources, and poof... dry up and blow away.
The US won't get as many terrorists, we won't have to keep killing brown people, and things will be way better politically.
Oh, but then it would cost you 10$/gal to fill your hummer?
What a shame.
If summer dryness (drought) continues to be a recurring theme (a la, climate change), then switching to a different crop on a different growing season could alleviate problems, but not for this year. You can't feed animals IOUs.
My sister and I are planning a winter buckwheat graze crop for her goats, followed by tillage, and a second planting as an eary spring crop.
Grain prices should be out of control by then though. I would expect surplus elmer's glue, and various other animal products in the near term as growers and owners liquidate and tighten belts, followed by extreme price premiums from supply scarcities.
Seed grain next year will be expensive. I'd suggest getting it now while you can.
Oo Ooh! I know!
(Caveat, I live right next to drought stricken corn fields)
The problem with the drought, is three-fold, and soil dryness is only one of them.
1) soil dryness. Irrigation helps in mild drought conditions to alleviate this.
2) prolonged air and soil dryness changes the specific heat of the air and soil. This causes normal solar isolescence to stop being gently warming and beneficial, to being glaring, and root scorching. Hot, dry soil and hot, dry air wither the corn crop even under CONTINOUOUS irrigation.
3) the change in ambient temperatures associated with droughts causes localized fronts to form over agricultural areas, which discourages rain. Even if it does rain in the upper atmosphere, it can completely evaporate before hitting the ground. In addition to that, the cells themselves actively diminish conditions required for rainfall.
Even blasting the ground 24/7 in the most horrible, water-table depleting fashion imaginable would not have saved this year's corn crop.
The point in contention was "political activism that makes persistent movements", vs political activism that gets together, drink, agues, and passes out on the floor every week.
Alcohol for some would allow them momentary repreive from the oppressive reality they would otherwise find sufficietly insufferable as to seek reformations and changes.
There are only 2 datapoints I directly can observe, which is woefully insufficient. I would love to see additional points of data on this subject matter.
Again though, just a hunch.
Good to hear, but there is no shortage of abusive legislation here in the states. That one was merely well known about.
But, I strongly suspect that there is a correlation between the availability of inexpensive mood altering substances, like alcohol, and the amount of bullshit that the average working person will be willing to endure.
Look at the prohibition era in the US; crime and criminality were rampant, and so was outright civil disobedience. Activism by juries in courtrooms were at stellar highs.
Now, we have "the cheapest beer in the world" (pun intended), and our citizenry is reluctant to raise a finger against even clearly horrendous civil liberty violations, like the recent "indefinate detainment" legislation.
I would like to see research comparing effective availability of alcohol and other drugs with the rates of political activism.
Mind you, its just a hunch.
Since this is for LEATHER, and not for food or medical use, I could easily see this scaling to a very large scale.
Think of it in these terms:
You take a skin sample from a cow.
You chemically alter the living cells, so that they become "HeLa-Like" basal cell carcinoma.
Puree, add to vegetable based growth medium, heat gently, and stir continuously.
Inject the cell "paste" into an injection mold, pretreated with some additional synthetic hormones.
Wait 7 days
Decant, steam, cut, and tan.
(I too have lifetime certs. :D I was very quick to get it before the. A+ 2000 paradigm activated.)
Without question. When planning a network you need answers to lots of questions that your bosses don't want to /simply cannot answer, like "how many users will be on this segment, and what will they be doing?", combined with the thought of "how many users will be added within the next 10 years, and how will their use case change over that time?"
Usually, you get an answer along the lines of "I dunno" at best and "that's what I hired you for" at worst.
This is what leads to quite a few incorrect assumptions during topology planning that come back to haunt you in horrible, horrible ways down the line, and cause many generations of incumbant administrators to curse you with their dying breaths.
I am not in any way deriding that level of difficulty. Merely pointing out that such difficlty is far greater than "click the bolded B icon to turn on bold."
Subnet planning, collision domain planning, and building topology planning are considerably more technical.
... I *was* a kid at the time. That was the point. This was close to 20 years ago, in the 90s. I don't list them, especially now.
I no longer work in any IT related disciplines, I am a CAD draftsman. It ca be dull and drudgery at times, but that is true of any job. Not having to answer questions because "you're a computer guy, right?" Is well worth it, as is the radically reduced levels of stress.
It would be nonsense to claim those certs on a resume.
It wasn't nonsense to claim them when I was 18. For the submitter, who has been in the industry previously, A+, Network+, and CCNA would be wastes of money and time as well, since vocationally he should have become proficient already, and the cert means nothing. They however, less rediculous than the MS office requirement, for exactly the same reasons. Expecting somebody that has likely *already* been supporting office users vocationally to take an intro to office class is not just silly, it is minbogglingly mindshatteringly silly.
I believe that was the submitter's point, in addition to the obvious that computers are not glorified typewriters.
Yes, it is less intense than a 4 year CS or Math degree, where you learn things like mathematical theory, and get exposed to much more advanced problems.
Submitter specifically mentioned an associate degree. I took classes in said associate degree not because I wanted the degree, but because I was interested in the cert training. (The school offered discounted cert testing as part of the course.)
The point was that those benchwarmer classes were leaps and bounds moe "technical" than "how to change the font to bold in MS Word."
Specifically, that AS degree was for a computer support role. That's why the intro to computing was more "wordprocessing", and less "computational theory", which would have been more sensible. (You know, things like "introduction to turing machines", and things like the difference between harvard and von-neuman architectures.)
I am pretty sure it was more on topic than your shit smearing attempt. --no offense intended.
When I was taking courses for my associate degree for information technology, I had to take a similar bullshit course for MS Orifice.. er.. Office.
I asked several of the school administrators why such a clearly nonsense class was required for (what at the time) was a fairly hard-core curriculum featuring CISCO CCNA certification training, A+&Network+ cert training, Novell Netware cert training, Database Programming, and general programming courseware.
The answer, was that they had been pressured into it, because of requirements for in-house tech staff to be more than just proficient with MS's offerings, but be sufficiently fluent in the packages that they can provide quick and rapid responces to support questions from less technical office workers.
Essentially, they need/want you to be able to "help" the vacuous "office marys" out there tha can't quite remember how to use the mail/merge feature, despite using it EVERY SINGLE DAY.
(Compare, that would be like a programmer not remembering how to use a macro, or how to call a library, THAT THEY WROTE, and use every day-- and need a programming specialist to help them debug their output... because of their abysmal level of incompetence.)
Really, in that light, the requirement to have MS's office suite s an intro level class makes sense, in a horrible and twisted way.
More sense would be to have a competency test for office workers, but that would exclude a considerable number of office staff that are employed due to nepotism. Instead, and expensive support network is required to ensure that such employees are halfass productive.
OWS was also the subject of a fairly successful smear campaign to malign the protestors as a bunch of lazy whiners, who wanted free stuff, as opposed to angry and disenfranchised people demanding culpability of the persons responsible for the financial meltdown.
There were quite a few people frm both sides of the political spectrum in OWS, which the media capitalized on. The leftwing focused more on the social aspects, and the rightwing focused more on the financial. This was presented by the media as a heterogenous group without specific charges, who were protesting nebulously. The effectiveness of this slanted coverage is evident by the language used elsewhere in this thread.
It could fall under the second part of the slogan: "news that matters."
Deteriorating political conditions in and between Russia and the rest of the world, as Russia makes the dive deeper back down the rabbithole of communist dictatorial govt and secrecy, can have far-reaching implications internationally.
Take for instance, the "strained" relations between Russia and the USA, concerning the strategic missile installations being installed in the middle eastern puppet states. A fully dictator led Russia under Putin could herald a return to cold-war aggression between the USA and Russia.
We narrowly escaped nuclear armagheddon last time, because the USA was more financially prosperous, and won by attrition.
Seen the state of USA's financial prosperity lately? I wouldn't bet on that outcome for part II.
It was more like:
"We want change!"
"What do you want?"
"We want resolution on $Economic/Regional_Issue!"
Where $Economic/Regional_Issue is a hugely disparate, often contradictory laundry list of intractible demands.
Things like "no more bailouts!" And "bail out student loans!"
The problem was that the OWS crowd could not agree on much beyond "the status quo is unacceptable!". As such, they could not *agree* on a short list. The overall demands from all the actors in the protests were untenable.