I got the "web developer" certificate over two years ago; it was a sad waste of $1,700. I found numerous errors in every course, and had to patiently explain the error several times to my "mentor" before he finally realized what was wrong. I wonder if they've ever corrected the errors.
And then the certificate itself is just a drab printout. I would have done better to fire up GIMP and make my own. Very disappointing.
Indeed, in Connecticut my 11-year-old 7th grader was interviewed briefly by a school psychologist. When asked to draw himself, he did so acceptably. When asked if this image had a girlfriend, he replied, rather startled, "of course not!". The psychologist concluded from this that the boy "had an emotional bias against women" and needed counseling.
A few years later, in high school, a group of other boys physically assaulted him, sat on him, and tried to force him to look at pornographic photos they had.
To put his attitude in perspective, one of his brothers became a father at 18, and at 19 was jailed for "molesting" a willing 15-year-old, and now has 5 children by 3 different women, two divorced. His other brother has 3 children by 2 women, and has never been married.
A while ago I saw an online site for purchasing wired office chairs that recorded every movement... "A fidgeting employee is not a productive employee" was actually part of the text.
um... not exactly. A man caught raping an unmarried girl had to treat her like a wife, except he couldn't divorce her, and a man caught raping a married woman was to be executed. Nowhere is anything said about Lot's offer being pleasing. If you read the whole story, Lot had a lot of faults. And his incestuous offspring became tribes that caused no end of trouble for the Israelites later on. The point being... there is no point, it's supposed to be history, warts and all. Lot was just the best of a bad...er, lot and was given special consideration because of his relationship with Abraham.
Actually, this would be like a US soldier who once raped an Iraqi woman who was visiting the US being arrested by Iraqi authorities now that he is in Iraq. If one wishes to equate facilitating gambling with rape.
I remember TV commercials with a guy in a white coat, a stethoscope around his neck, a pointer in hand, and a board with some kind of graph, pointing out on the graph how brand x of cigarettes lowered blood pressure by more percentage points than brand y. At the time, I was being hospitalized regularly for asthma, until I came very close to dying and my parents finally quit smoking.
Back in 1966 I was doing research for a high school English term paper on advertising. Then I found out that a few years earlier, the tobacco industry had spent $2,000,000 on advertising, which in those days was astronomical. So I ended up doing my paper on tobacco and the tobacco industry. I got an A+ on the paper, and my English teacher quite smoking...for a month.
Perhaps not, but cats are more likely to get rabies, especially stray or feral cats.
Also cats carry a rather nasty brain parasite, spread in their crap, which can cause miscarriage and mental retardation in the case of a pregnant woman getting infected. It also has some interesting behavior modification effects. It's estimated that at least half of the people in the world are infected. Got a sandbox for your kids to play in? A garden you like to work in? You're also providing all those roaming cats with a toilet and most likely you and your kids are infected.
Not to mention spreading fleas and ticks all over the neighborhood until your kids can't play in the yard either because of the infestation or because of the spraying you had to do to try to get rid of it.
You may not have eyestrain now, but as you get older you need brighter light for reading and other close work.
As far as normal room lighting, the amount of light can have a noticeable effect on mood. Certain forms of depression, as well as some child behavior issues, can be alleviated with regular exposure to adequate levels of light.
Why is cast iron unacceptable? It's practically indestructible, easy to clean (if you season it properly in the beginning), holds heat, and leaches beneficial trace amounts of iron into the food. I've been cooking with cast iron for 40 years, on gas and electric, and wouldn't use anything else if you paid me to.
No, it's more in terms of how much detergent you use in the wash. The instructions on the detergent package always suggest twice as much as you actually need to get the clothes clean. The excess detergent is what makes the clothes stiff. There's a reason why diaper services rinse 7 times. The average washing machine rinses three times at most.
There is, more importantly for religious concerns, the fact that a pig eats anything. Including dead diseased animals. Free-ranging pigs will dig up and eat the corpses from graves. And yes, pigs can smell a dead body six feet or more underground, and that funny-looking snout is an excellent digging tool; pigs are considered better than dogs for finding rare and valuable truffle mushrooms, which grow underground.
While modern farming methods and meat handling may reduce or even eliminate these issues in pork, ancient or primitive cultures did not have access to modern methods. The meat of a pig was quite likely to be very unclean, if not outright causing disease in the eater.
Driving a herd of pigs into a cemetary was considered an excellent method of forcing a hidden enemy into the open, as they would naturally be frantic to keep the pigs from uprooting and eating their dead. It was also a way to show contempt for one's enemies. One step away from ritual cannibalism. My pig eats your dead, and I eat the pig.
So are they also going to close little league fields? That's where Jimmy Rice got stalked, and the killer picked him up at his school bus stop. Are they going to shut down school buses?
This has always been the case. I spent a good deal of time re-formating and re-installing Windows95 on client's computers, with Norton Anti-Virus, repeatedly, because their child overrode the antivirus warnings because they wanted to play the games they got on burnt CDs from their friends, CDs loaded with Chernobyl and other viruses. Even though I charged full non-waranty rates for such work if Norton was installed, I still got the same machines back every few months. Every time the parents were angry with ME, as if somehow I could stop the child from hitting the "C" key when the warning came up. Usually the CD was still in the drive. If the kid was there, the parents would glare or yell at the kid, and the kid would be more upset that I would break their CD and trash it. They couldn't understand that the Norton wouldn't keep the computer from getting infected if it warned them and they click "Continue".
I thought that meant that he's just not interested in the "latest-greatest", only upgrading as absolutely necessary when what he's using now is no longer supported. I still use 98 to check IE's rendering of my web pages, and will probably have to upgrade to whatever will support IE 7 when it comes out. If I didn't develop for the Web, I wouldn't have Windows at all.
Way back in 1967 I was writing my Junior year term paper on the advertising industry. Then I found out that the tobacco industry had spent over $100,000 on advertising, which was in those days a big deal. I switched my topic to the tobacco industry. Got an A+ and my English teacher quit smoking for a month. So marketing does work. How many teenagers do you know who think smoking is cool? About as many clueless lusers who think Windows is cool. (not to in any way compare the harm of smoking with using Windows, just to illustrate the power of marketing)
Really? hmmm...Eclipse. Gimp. OpenOffice, SQL Ledger... Actually, the only reason people NEED Windows apps is because of vendor lock-in, prorietary file types and such. Or games. And a dedicated game machine will do much better for that.
The only reason I don't put Linux on my single PC is because I have to have a Windows installation to check IE's mangling of my web designs.
You sound like my sister-in-law who didn't know how to take care of her new car, and after more than a year of heavy driving bitched about what a piece of junk it was; she's never changed the oil or did a tune-up or anything at all except put cheap gas in it, and then she wondered why it broke down. Even a toaster needs to get the crumbs cleaned out of it occasionally. I suppose you would just complain about it and buy a new one instead. I've lost count of the number of friends whose sewing machines I've "fixed" by oiling and cleaning the lint out of the feed dogs!
Kind of dumb to blame a machine for your own ignorance.
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When I still used Wintel boxes, I put those on my toilet.
I got the "web developer" certificate over two years ago; it was a sad waste of $1,700. I found numerous errors in every course, and had to patiently explain the error several times to my "mentor" before he finally realized what was wrong. I wonder if they've ever corrected the errors.
And then the certificate itself is just a drab printout. I would have done better to fire up GIMP and make my own. Very disappointing.
Indeed, in Connecticut my 11-year-old 7th grader was interviewed briefly by a school psychologist. When asked to draw himself, he did so acceptably. When asked if this image had a girlfriend, he replied, rather startled, "of course not!". The psychologist concluded from this that the boy "had an emotional bias against women" and needed counseling.
A few years later, in high school, a group of other boys physically assaulted him, sat on him, and tried to force him to look at pornographic photos they had.
To put his attitude in perspective, one of his brothers became a father at 18, and at 19 was jailed for "molesting" a willing 15-year-old, and now has 5 children by 3 different women, two divorced. His other brother has 3 children by 2 women, and has never been married.
A while ago I saw an online site for purchasing wired office chairs that recorded every movement... "A fidgeting employee is not a productive employee" was actually part of the text.
um... not exactly. A man caught raping an unmarried girl had to treat her like a wife, except he couldn't divorce her, and a man caught raping a married woman was to be executed. Nowhere is anything said about Lot's offer being pleasing. If you read the whole story, Lot had a lot of faults. And his incestuous offspring became tribes that caused no end of trouble for the Israelites later on. The point being... there is no point, it's supposed to be history, warts and all. Lot was just the best of a bad ...er, lot and was given special consideration because of his relationship with Abraham.
Actually, this would be like a US soldier who once raped an Iraqi woman who was visiting the US being arrested by Iraqi authorities now that he is in Iraq. If one wishes to equate facilitating gambling with rape.
I remember TV commercials with a guy in a white coat, a stethoscope around his neck, a pointer in hand, and a board with some kind of graph, pointing out on the graph how brand x of cigarettes lowered blood pressure by more percentage points than brand y. At the time, I was being hospitalized regularly for asthma, until I came very close to dying and my parents finally quit smoking.
Back in 1966 I was doing research for a high school English term paper on advertising. Then I found out that a few years earlier, the tobacco industry had spent $2,000,000 on advertising, which in those days was astronomical. So I ended up doing my paper on tobacco and the tobacco industry. I got an A+ on the paper, and my English teacher quite smoking...for a month.
Perhaps not, but cats are more likely to get rabies, especially stray or feral cats.
Also cats carry a rather nasty brain parasite, spread in their crap, which can cause miscarriage and mental retardation in the case of a pregnant woman getting infected. It also has some interesting behavior modification effects. It's estimated that at least half of the people in the world are infected. Got a sandbox for your kids to play in? A garden you like to work in? You're also providing all those roaming cats with a toilet and most likely you and your kids are infected.
Not to mention spreading fleas and ticks all over the neighborhood until your kids can't play in the yard either because of the infestation or because of the spraying you had to do to try to get rid of it.
Almost as bad as trying to take seriously someone who dosn't know his it's from his its, right?
You may not have eyestrain now, but as you get older you need brighter light for reading and other close work.
As far as normal room lighting, the amount of light can have a noticeable effect on mood. Certain forms of depression, as well as some child behavior issues, can be alleviated with regular exposure to adequate levels of light.
Why is cast iron unacceptable? It's practically indestructible, easy to clean (if you season it properly in the beginning), holds heat, and leaches beneficial trace amounts of iron into the food. I've been cooking with cast iron for 40 years, on gas and electric, and wouldn't use anything else if you paid me to.
No, it's more in terms of how much detergent you use in the wash. The instructions on the detergent package always suggest twice as much as you actually need to get the clothes clean. The excess detergent is what makes the clothes stiff. There's a reason why diaper services rinse 7 times. The average washing machine rinses three times at most.
So you're saying that it's OK that there's a 20% probability that this is some kind of crook using my ID?
Trichinosis is a serious problem unless the animal and the meat are treated properly.
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http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dpd/parasites/trichinos
There is, more importantly for religious concerns, the fact that a pig eats anything. Including dead diseased animals. Free-ranging pigs will dig up and eat the corpses from graves. And yes, pigs can smell a dead body six feet or more underground, and that funny-looking snout is an excellent digging tool; pigs are considered better than dogs for finding rare and valuable truffle mushrooms, which grow underground.
While modern farming methods and meat handling may reduce or even eliminate these issues in pork, ancient or primitive cultures did not have access to modern methods. The meat of a pig was quite likely to be very unclean, if not outright causing disease in the eater.
Driving a herd of pigs into a cemetary was considered an excellent method of forcing a hidden enemy into the open, as they would naturally be frantic to keep the pigs from uprooting and eating their dead. It was also a way to show contempt for one's enemies. One step away from ritual cannibalism. My pig eats your dead, and I eat the pig.
Umm...how about shooting women in the head? Is that better?
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So are they also going to close little league fields? That's where Jimmy Rice got stalked, and the killer picked him up at his school bus stop. Are they going to shut down school buses?
Next up on slashdot from the why-the-fuck dept. "How do I put IE on linux using WINE?"
I'be been wondering about that for some time now. How about Bochs on OS X with Linux and WINE and IE?
After years of chronic suicidal depression, I found out that happiness was just a divorce. YMMV. (this is not a joke, it is the honest truth)
http://www.caldera.com/2005forum/sponsors/
This has always been the case. I spent a good deal of time re-formating and re-installing Windows95 on client's computers, with Norton Anti-Virus, repeatedly, because their child overrode the antivirus warnings because they wanted to play the games they got on burnt CDs from their friends, CDs loaded with Chernobyl and other viruses. Even though I charged full non-waranty rates for such work if Norton was installed, I still got the same machines back every few months. Every time the parents were angry with ME, as if somehow I could stop the child from hitting the "C" key when the warning came up. Usually the CD was still in the drive. If the kid was there, the parents would glare or yell at the kid, and the kid would be more upset that I would break their CD and trash it. They couldn't understand that the Norton wouldn't keep the computer from getting infected if it warned them and they click "Continue".
I thought that meant that he's just not interested in the "latest-greatest", only upgrading as absolutely necessary when what he's using now is no longer supported. I still use 98 to check IE's rendering of my web pages, and will probably have to upgrade to whatever will support IE 7 when it comes out. If I didn't develop for the Web, I wouldn't have Windows at all.
Way back in 1967 I was writing my Junior year term paper on the advertising industry. Then I found out that the tobacco industry had spent over $100,000 on advertising, which was in those days a big deal. I switched my topic to the tobacco industry. Got an A+ and my English teacher quit smoking for a month. So marketing does work. How many teenagers do you know who think smoking is cool? About as many clueless lusers who think Windows is cool. (not to in any way compare the harm of smoking with using Windows, just to illustrate the power of marketing)
What makes this a troll? Looks to me like he's got a good point.
Really? hmmm...Eclipse. Gimp. OpenOffice, SQL Ledger... Actually, the only reason people NEED Windows apps is because of vendor lock-in, prorietary file types and such. Or games. And a dedicated game machine will do much better for that.
The only reason I don't put Linux on my single PC is because I have to have a Windows installation to check IE's mangling of my web designs.
You sound like my sister-in-law who didn't know how to take care of her new car, and after more than a year of heavy driving bitched about what a piece of junk it was; she's never changed the oil or did a tune-up or anything at all except put cheap gas in it, and then she wondered why it broke down. Even a toaster needs to get the crumbs cleaned out of it occasionally. I suppose you would just complain about it and buy a new one instead. I've lost count of the number of friends whose sewing machines I've "fixed" by oiling and cleaning the lint out of the feed dogs!
Kind of dumb to blame a machine for your own ignorance.