Nice troll. Oh, and you're full of shit - you made the whole thing up. OK, maybe it's what you wanted to say. See, no cynical geek has the balls to actually say what he thinks because he knows that everybody around him will just laugh at him and call him an asshole. And that's terribly destructive to the fragile psyche of the self-centered cynical geek. So, they just go around telling their friends (and posting on/.) what they would have said if they would have had a solid brass pair. But instead of saying that they would have told that Marine off, they tell their buddies that they did tell the Marine off. Oh, and that they used their double black belt ju-jitsu/karate/kung-fu/anime martial arts move and left him bleeding on the floor.
Yeah, you want to be the cynical elite, but when you're pale, fat and unemployed and living in your mother's basement, it's tough for you to have a strong sense of a positive self image. We all know that posting your tripe on/. helps you out, so we understand. You're special in that way.
Have you checked the fees? I did not overstate them.
Well, speaking for myself, when I sell one of my amplifiers in a fixed price listing for $85.00 plus $5.00 shipping, the insertion fee is $2.40 and the final value fee is $2.96. That's 6.3%. PayPal then charges $2.91 or 3.2%. That's not particularly outrageous. That's less than a 10% commission on the entire transaction.
And when I sell the amplifiers in a regular auction, the insertion fee drops to $0.60 - Ebay's take drops to 4.4%.
People have been claiming that liberty has been dying a lot longer than Netcraft has been saying the same thing about BSD, but both are still doing quite well in the US. Seems to me that Cliff just got trolled.
I could live very comfortably on $25K/year income. Is that rich?
Dunno - but you're very good at weasel words. I could live very comfortably on $30K/year, but I make over $100K/year. That seems rich to me. How 'bout you?
You can do it at the university from which I graduated (Boise State University), but only if you're academically prepared when you get there and you come ready to work your butt off. I wasn't academically prepared, so it took me an extra semester, plus classes every summer. I also worked part time all four and a half years, full time in the summer. And in the middle of it, I got married. Pretty much the only thing that saved me, I think, is that I spent 10 years in the Navy before that, so I learned how to sleep anywhere. Oh, and all my partying was behind me.
The 6000 SUX wasn't a Ford. It was, well, an SUX 6000. And, allegedly, a jab at the Pontiac 6000, but beats me why that would be. The police cars were Ford Tauruses and the production company bought them - Ford didn't provide them. Later, for the TV show, Ford participated. But in the movie, Paul Verhoven picked the Ford Taurus because he liked the look.
An engineer who makes one mistake, even if it is not fatal, will lose his license. Why is that? Because said mistakes cannot be tolerated.
Were that the case, there would be no Professional Engineers. The mistake must rise to the level of "gross negligence" as defined by state law - and a complaint must be filed. And even then, license revokation is only one of many penalties available.
People, even engineers, make mistakes all the time.
Actually, Lewis wrote that The Chronicles of Narnia were not allegorical, in the sense that there was not a one-for-one representation of biblical characters with characters in the books. This is the same sense that Tolkien used when he said that Lord of the Rings was not allegorical to the events of the early to mid 20th century.
The stories are fables or parables. They have parallels with the situations that many people want to associate them with, and intentionally so. But they are not simply a retelling of those situations - they are variations on a theme and, as such, can be connected with many other variations on the theme of good versus evil.
Sure, you can see Aslan as Jesus and Edmund as the humanity Jesus redeemed. You can see the White Witch as the Serpent. Maybe that's not what Lewis was attempting to do, but the beauty of a morality story is that the reader or viewer can make whatever interpretation of that story they wish. So, if Aslan represents Jesus' death and resurrection to some, that's OK, regardless of what Lewis intended. But there's more of a story there than just that, particularly as the rest of the novels unfold.
I never said it was a left versus right issue. Why do you assume I meant it that way? Interesting.
Because of this:
Just curious: do you also support the forced resignations of O'Reilly, Coulter, and the other pundits (including some on the left, I just can't recall the names right now)?...Dean is no where near as lunatic as O'Reilly or Linmaugh.
I'm pretty middle of the road, probably a little right of center. I'm sure that Rush Limbaugh would castigate me for being a fence sitter. But Howard Dean is no centrist. Of course he's definitely no Michael Moore, either.
He wasn't forced to resign. I guess that it's easy to see it as a left versus right clash, but if you look past the rhetoric, it was a department chair getting caught being an ass and putting a black mark on his university. He stepped down as department chair.
As far as pundits on the left, try Al Franken and Howard Dean. They froth at the mouth as much as O'Reilly and Limbaugh.
Something very similar happened to me in a previous job. I made a mistake that cost the company several thousand dollars and had the potential to alienate a good customer. I told my boss what I did and we decided what to do to fix it. His boss wanted me fired. My boss' response was to tell her that the way that he saw it, the company had just provided me with several thousand dollars worth of training and he wasn't about to throw that investment away.
I guess it worked out - my boss retired a year or so later and I got his job. And it's a lesson that I've never forgotten (and, fortunately, only had to use once).
How many huge engineering projects have we undertaken in the last 3 decades on the scale of the Three Gorges Dam in China, or the twin towers at Kuala Lumpur?
Oh, we've got the resources to do the job. But there will never be a Three Gorges Dam type project in the US because the environmental lobby will never let it happen. The towers in Kuala Lumpur - not until the US is land-poor, which will be a long time from now. The US got out of the skyscraper as a symbol of power a long time ago, the Freedom Tower notwithstanding.
The tide is turning already, and Indian engineers are going back home. The cost of living in the USA is utterly outrageous...
Maybe on the east and west coasts, but not where I live - none of the ex-pat engineers who work at my company (Fortune 500 with over 20,000 employees) are making a rush to leave the country. Sure, if you want to live where it's expensive, you may find that you're in a pinch, but it's not just engineers that feel the pinch, it's everyone!
As for "our team", the foreign engineers that are here aren't here to stay. They're saving up their US Dollars while they're still worth more than Rupees (for the same reason that dot-com stocks were worth so much--it's a bubble), and they're going to take all that cash and move back to India when they have enough.
Obviously you have a different view than I do. Mine is from the people who work with me. Probably 40% are Indian, Pakistani or Nepalese and none of them have any plans of going "home". A few are working to become US citizens, the rest are happy to have a green card or H1B and stay here. Sure, they could get an engineering job back in their home country, but standard of living and quality of life are two different things. The running joke is the myth of the Indian engineer who always plans to move back home but never quite makes it.
And as far as companies not paying engineers enough to keep them in the field, that just doesn't stand up to what I've seen at my company and from what I've heard from others at their companies. At my company, we have a hard time finding qualified engineers at all, regardless of where they come from. The pay and benefits are good, above the national average for degree and experience, but the talent pool is rather small. I guess that there are plenty of engineers out there, but maybe not so many good engineers - at least not by my company's standards. Finding one makes it worth the extraordinary hassle that it takes to go through all the immigration rigamarole to bring in a non US citizen.
By the way, when I say "engineer", I mean "electrical engineer". Dunno about any other discipline.
I, for one, do not know what 'paredon' means. I googled it and came up with a surf camp in Guatamala...
You didn't look very hard. El Paredón (The Wall) is in La Cabaña, the fortress in Cuba, where Guevera would administer the bullet to the back of the neck to his, um, enemies.
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$28,000,000,000 is more than a tiny fraction.
Nice troll. Oh, and you're full of shit - you made the whole thing up. OK, maybe it's what you wanted to say. See, no cynical geek has the balls to actually say what he thinks because he knows that everybody around him will just laugh at him and call him an asshole. And that's terribly destructive to the fragile psyche of the self-centered cynical geek. So, they just go around telling their friends (and posting on /.) what they would have said if they would have had a solid brass pair. But instead of saying that they would have told that Marine off, they tell their buddies that they did tell the Marine off. Oh, and that they used their double black belt ju-jitsu/karate/kung-fu/anime martial arts move and left him bleeding on the floor.
/. helps you out, so we understand. You're special in that way.
Yeah, you want to be the cynical elite, but when you're pale, fat and unemployed and living in your mother's basement, it's tough for you to have a strong sense of a positive self image. We all know that posting your tripe on
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Dude, make your own list and get over it.
So it's still being used for training the U.S. military?
Yep, because everybody knows that all middle eastern countries look the same. Saudi Arabia, Iraq, what's the difference?
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Amen! Oh, and you got screwed by the mods...
Have you checked the fees? I did not overstate them.
Well, speaking for myself, when I sell one of my amplifiers in a fixed price listing for $85.00 plus $5.00 shipping, the insertion fee is $2.40 and the final value fee is $2.96. That's 6.3%. PayPal then charges $2.91 or 3.2%. That's not particularly outrageous. That's less than a 10% commission on the entire transaction.
And when I sell the amplifiers in a regular auction, the insertion fee drops to $0.60 - Ebay's take drops to 4.4%.
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People have been claiming that liberty has been dying a lot longer than Netcraft has been saying the same thing about BSD, but both are still doing quite well in the US. Seems to me that Cliff just got trolled.
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I could live very comfortably on $25K/year income. Is that rich?
Dunno - but you're very good at weasel words. I could live very comfortably on $30K/year, but I make over $100K/year. That seems rich to me. How 'bout you?
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You can do it at the university from which I graduated (Boise State University), but only if you're academically prepared when you get there and you come ready to work your butt off. I wasn't academically prepared, so it took me an extra semester, plus classes every summer. I also worked part time all four and a half years, full time in the summer. And in the middle of it, I got married. Pretty much the only thing that saved me, I think, is that I spent 10 years in the Navy before that, so I learned how to sleep anywhere. Oh, and all my partying was behind me.
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The best that you can assume is that it's been a problem for somebody, not necessarily them.
Oh no, I'm being a TV pedant...help me!
The 6000 SUX wasn't a Ford. It was, well, an SUX 6000. And, allegedly, a jab at the Pontiac 6000, but beats me why that would be. The police cars were Ford Tauruses and the production company bought them - Ford didn't provide them. Later, for the TV show, Ford participated. But in the movie, Paul Verhoven picked the Ford Taurus because he liked the look.
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An engineer who makes one mistake, even if it is not fatal, will lose his license. Why is that? Because said mistakes cannot be tolerated.
Were that the case, there would be no Professional Engineers. The mistake must rise to the level of "gross negligence" as defined by state law - and a complaint must be filed. And even then, license revokation is only one of many penalties available.
People, even engineers, make mistakes all the time.
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Actually, Lewis wrote that The Chronicles of Narnia were not allegorical, in the sense that there was not a one-for-one representation of biblical characters with characters in the books. This is the same sense that Tolkien used when he said that Lord of the Rings was not allegorical to the events of the early to mid 20th century.
The stories are fables or parables. They have parallels with the situations that many people want to associate them with, and intentionally so. But they are not simply a retelling of those situations - they are variations on a theme and, as such, can be connected with many other variations on the theme of good versus evil.
Sure, you can see Aslan as Jesus and Edmund as the humanity Jesus redeemed. You can see the White Witch as the Serpent. Maybe that's not what Lewis was attempting to do, but the beauty of a morality story is that the reader or viewer can make whatever interpretation of that story they wish. So, if Aslan represents Jesus' death and resurrection to some, that's OK, regardless of what Lewis intended. But there's more of a story there than just that, particularly as the rest of the novels unfold.
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Maybe it's the "Somebody's making money from the Internet and it's not me" mentality. Remember, on /., business is bad (except for Google).
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...it'd be like football on crack
Wasn't that the XFL's tagline?
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I never said it was a left versus right issue. Why do you assume I meant it that way? Interesting.
...Dean is no where near as lunatic as O'Reilly or Linmaugh.
Because of this:
Just curious: do you also support the forced resignations of O'Reilly, Coulter, and the other pundits (including some on the left, I just can't recall the names right now)?
I'm pretty middle of the road, probably a little right of center. I'm sure that Rush Limbaugh would castigate me for being a fence sitter. But Howard Dean is no centrist. Of course he's definitely no Michael Moore, either.
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He wasn't forced to resign. I guess that it's easy to see it as a left versus right clash, but if you look past the rhetoric, it was a department chair getting caught being an ass and putting a black mark on his university. He stepped down as department chair.
As far as pundits on the left, try Al Franken and Howard Dean. They froth at the mouth as much as O'Reilly and Limbaugh.
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harumph
Your calculator scares me.
Something very similar happened to me in a previous job. I made a mistake that cost the company several thousand dollars and had the potential to alienate a good customer. I told my boss what I did and we decided what to do to fix it. His boss wanted me fired. My boss' response was to tell her that the way that he saw it, the company had just provided me with several thousand dollars worth of training and he wasn't about to throw that investment away.
I guess it worked out - my boss retired a year or so later and I got his job. And it's a lesson that I've never forgotten (and, fortunately, only had to use once).
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How many huge engineering projects have we undertaken in the last 3 decades on the scale of the Three Gorges Dam in China, or the twin towers at Kuala Lumpur?
Oh, we've got the resources to do the job. But there will never be a Three Gorges Dam type project in the US because the environmental lobby will never let it happen. The towers in Kuala Lumpur - not until the US is land-poor, which will be a long time from now. The US got out of the skyscraper as a symbol of power a long time ago, the Freedom Tower notwithstanding.
The tide is turning already, and Indian engineers are going back home. The cost of living in the USA is utterly outrageous...
Maybe on the east and west coasts, but not where I live - none of the ex-pat engineers who work at my company (Fortune 500 with over 20,000 employees) are making a rush to leave the country. Sure, if you want to live where it's expensive, you may find that you're in a pinch, but it's not just engineers that feel the pinch, it's everyone!
As for "our team", the foreign engineers that are here aren't here to stay. They're saving up their US Dollars while they're still worth more than Rupees (for the same reason that dot-com stocks were worth so much--it's a bubble), and they're going to take all that cash and move back to India when they have enough.
Obviously you have a different view than I do. Mine is from the people who work with me. Probably 40% are Indian, Pakistani or Nepalese and none of them have any plans of going "home". A few are working to become US citizens, the rest are happy to have a green card or H1B and stay here. Sure, they could get an engineering job back in their home country, but standard of living and quality of life are two different things. The running joke is the myth of the Indian engineer who always plans to move back home but never quite makes it.
And as far as companies not paying engineers enough to keep them in the field, that just doesn't stand up to what I've seen at my company and from what I've heard from others at their companies. At my company, we have a hard time finding qualified engineers at all, regardless of where they come from. The pay and benefits are good, above the national average for degree and experience, but the talent pool is rather small. I guess that there are plenty of engineers out there, but maybe not so many good engineers - at least not by my company's standards. Finding one makes it worth the extraordinary hassle that it takes to go through all the immigration rigamarole to bring in a non US citizen.
By the way, when I say "engineer", I mean "electrical engineer". Dunno about any other discipline.
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Just wait until the Post investigates Buzzwordgate. Then you'll be sorry!
A three word troll...and it got an insightful mod! Well done, my friend!
It was not until the end of 38 that Hitler started doing what he is known for today.
Only because prior to 1938 he did not have the means. Maybe you didn't mean to infer otherwise, but the guy was a bad apple well before then.
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I, for one, do not know what 'paredon' means. I googled it and came up with a surf camp in Guatamala...
You didn't look very hard. El Paredón (The Wall) is in La Cabaña, the fortress in Cuba, where Guevera would administer the bullet to the back of the neck to his, um, enemies.
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